After making her debut on the show 25 years ago on Tuesday, the 88-year-old White reminisces on her life while she was working with Rue McClanahan, Bea Arthur, and Estelle Getty on the show.
The Associated Press had an in-depth interview with White and asked her if retirement was an option for her.
“[Retirement] is not a dirty word, I am just enjoying what I am doing,” she said. “If they want me to retire, then stop asking me. Ask and I will say yes unless it is something I really don’t like.”
When White, Arthur, McClanahan, and Getty started working with each other, they all knew that they had chemistry together.
“We all began to look at each other because there wasn’t any first reading feeling about it. It was like we had been working together forever,” she said. “I still get goose bumps thinking about it.”
With all the good chemistry between her and the other cast members, she added that she had to “send up a prayer of thanks for the writing.”
“We can’t do it without the writing. It has to be on the paper. No matter how much credit they try to take, actors can’t do it unless it is on that page and boy was it on that page. To get that kind of writing is such a privilege,” she added.
In the past year and a half, two former Golden Girls passed away. Arthur died in April 2009 and McClanahan died in June 2010.
