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Christine Lakinleft child stardom for life behind the camera, and she’s never been happier.
On the Dec. 27 episode of theFull House Rewindpodcast, Lakin, 45, spoke to hostsDave CoulierandMarla Sokoloffabout her life as a child actress and the winding path that eventually saw her leave it all behind.
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Christine Lakin in 2023.Amy Graves/Getty
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“And weirdly enough, I kept getting nominated for theater choreography, and that got some attention from a couple of other choreographers,” she said. She started assisting other choreographers, and then she started getting called onto sets to “help actors with movement.”
“That just kicked off this other career that I wasn’t really planning on, but I kept saying yes to,” she explained. “So I started choreographing forTrue Blood. I didWestworld. I did90210. I did all kinds of stuff. And then somehow met somebody who called me up and asked me to come doThe Goldbergs.”
She worked on that show for multiple years before she began to feel called to directing. “My life was starting to transition,” she said. “I had justbecome a new momand I just thought to myself, I think I like being behind the camera more than I even like being in front of it, and I like creating things. I like doing the choreography work. I like working collaboratively with writers and directors, and I think maybe that’s the job that I have been angling to do this whole time.”
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She decided to direct as much as she could and eventually, she began directing forThe Goldbergs. She also directed episodes of the show’s spin-off,Schooled, andHigh School Musical: The Musical: The Series.
“It was also really inspiring because I felt like I was finally using all of this knowledge that I had after 25 years and doing the thing that I really loved and that I thought I was really good at,” she said. Having creative vision and control, she said, has been “really satisfying.”
source: people.com
