ActressSarah Chalke stated that she had an attention-grabbing expertise with a Roseanne fan.
Throughout an look on a February 2026 episode of Jesse Tyler Ferguson‘s podcast, Dinner’s On Me, Chalke famous that she took over the function of Becky Conner-Healy throughout Roseanne‘s sixth season, which premiered in 1993, after Lecy Goranson‘s exit. She recalled being at a Freedom Tibet rally as a school pupil when a Roseanne viewer started heckling her.
“They like yelled at me they usually had been like, ‘I like the primary Becky means higher!’ And I used to be like, ‘Okay. Yeah, she was incredible. I agree. She was nice,'” stated Chalke within the interview.
She stated that the person virtually instantly apologized for his remark.
“Then he got here again and he was like, ‘Hey, I simply need to apologize. I’ve at all times identical to needed to yell at an actor and also you had been right here. And so, I am sorry. And I did not imply it.’ And I used to be like, ‘Oh, okay. Oh, thanks for clarifying,'” stated Chalke through the podcast episode.
As well as, Chalke defined that she was simply 16 when she was forged as Becky. She stated her inexperience allowed her to efficiently movie for Roseanne as a result of she wasn’t absolutely conscious of how high-pressure the job was.
“I believe the one motive that I used to be capable of really even go and do the job was as a result of I used to be so naive and I did not really get it. I imply, I received it just a little bit,” stated the Scrubs actress. “I did not actually get it in the identical means that I’d now. By way of like doubtlessly the strain cooker that that state of affairs was. I believe I did not absolutely comprehend. I believe it is the one motive I used to be really capable of even go and audition and be in that room and be current and have a dialog with them”
Lecy Goranson Defined Why She Left ‘Roseanne’
Goranson, who started enjoying Becky through the first season of Roseanne, defined why she left the collection following season 5 in a 2019 interview onDwell with Kelly and Mark. She shared that she needed to have a traditional school expertise away from the leisure trade. She additionally urged that she felt remoted from friends her age, excluding her Roseanne castmate, Sara Gilbert, as a result of she grew up as a toddler actor.
“I am like a Chicago woman. I like my family and friends. And I like college and I like normalcy,” stated Goranson within the interview.
As well as, she shared that she was capable of give attention to writing and enjoying rugby whereas she studied at Vassar Faculty.
“I needed to learn and write and and discover. And I believe that is the age the place you actually can do it. That is type of what school is for, greater than the diploma. It is that exploratory time of who am I? I simply thought I am not simply the woman from Roseanne. Which is what everybody says, ‘You are that woman from Roseanne.’ I’ve much more to me than that,” stated Goranson within the 2019 interview.
Goranson returned to play Becky for some episodes within the present’s eighth season, per IMDb. As well as, Goranson reprised the function for the spin-off collection, The Conners, which had a seven-season run till 2025.
