In a recent interview with Deadline, Topher Grace opened up about his career and noted his experience working on “That ’70s Show.” When asked about his “most tortured co-stars,” the actor pointed out that the candidates for that title likely would be Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp because of his inexperience when he was cast as Eric Forman. Grace explained, “I’ll always be sorry to Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp, who played the parents on That ’70s Show. That was literally my first audition, Wilmer [Valderrama] barely spoke English, Laura [Prepon] and Ashton [Kutcher] had never acted, they were models. Now that I have a bunch of years on me, I can see how brave it was for them to choose these kids who had zero experience. It was brave, and kind of smart because we had the time to really learn. And when we learned, we were fresh and ready to learn.”
Because the actors playing the show’s teens were so young, the main seasoned actors were Smith and Rupp, and Grace now apologizes to them every time he sees them because he acknowledges how inexperienced he was when he worked on the beloved series. “The only people who got caught in the middle of that were these wonderful professionals playing our parents,” Grace continued. “Every time I see them now I apologize, not for anything in particular, just because I was so green.”
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