Ally McBeal became such a water-cooler show, says Jane Krakowski
Ally McBeal star Jane Krakowski has reflected on the show's global success.
Jane Krakowski can't explain the reasons behind Ally McBeal's success.
The comedy-drama TV series premiered in September 1997 and quickly became a global hit - but Jane, who played Elaine Vassal on the show, struggles to explain Ally McBeal's popularity.
Jane, 57 - who starred on the hit TV show alongside Calista Flockhart, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson and Peter MacNicol - told the Guardian newspaper: "It became such a water-cooler show, and I still don't know the reasonings why certain things took off and certain things didn't."
Jane has enjoyed huge success on stage and screen during the course of her career.
The actress initially dreamed of becoming a ballet dancer, but then "at a certain point, I realised I was not going to be picked for the School of American Ballet".
The setback prompted Jane to reconsider her ambitions and her career path.
She said: "There is no perfection, really. What makes people interesting is their quirks and flaws and singularities. I became very drawn to that, and that's what I look for and celebrate in the characters I'm lucky enough to play."
Meanwhile, Jane previously revealed that she was evicted after finding success on Ally McBeal.
The actress tried to hold on to her rent-controlled apartment in New York for the first year after she joined Ally McBeal because she didn't know how successful the show would be, but she was eventually ordered to leave as her landlords were aware she was living elsewhere.
Speaking to Jesse Tyler Ferguson on his Dinner's on Me podcast, she said: "I remember the first time I came back to the East Coast after Ally McBeal aired because my parents were still here. I'm very close to my family, and I would come back on hiatuses and go see everything I could on Broadway too, you know, see everybody.
"I literally got evicted because I was on Hollywood Field. I had, like, a rent-stabilised apartment on the Upper West Side.
"I tried to keep it the whole first year, and as Ally McBeal got more and more known, I got, like, a certified letter from my landlord's lawyer saying, 'We know you don't live here. We know you're not living here. You need to evict the premises.' And I was like, 'What? How could this even happen?'"
