Topher Grace shares an exquisite origin story for ‘That ’70s Show’
Actor Topher Grace got his breakthrough with the role of ‘Eric’ in ‘That ’70s Show’.
On the latest episode of PeopleTV’s Couch Surfing, he shared his weird and funny origin story of his acting career, saying, “I had a weird origin story where I was in a high school play, and I was really only in that because I sprained my ankle and I couldn’t be on the tennis team.” Adding further he stated, “I was at a boarding school in New Hampshire and the girl who did the sets, her parents were big-time Hollywood producers and produced That ’70s Show and Third Rock From the Sun.”
When Topher moved to Los Angeles as a USC Freshman, he was invited by a show’s producers to audition for it that then became the famous ‘That ’70s Show’.
He added, “I’d never auditioned for anything in my life,” he recounts. “This is how green I was, they said, ‘Bring a headshot and a resume.’ Ok, I can do a resume because I worked at Dunkin’ Donuts, I worked at Sun Coast video; I know what that looks like…So I brought it, and it was like this terrible resume of jobs I did at the mall and the picture was me and my friends at Six Flags.”
The advice he shares for his younger 19-year old self is to enjoy the process and live in the moment rather than wasting time being scared .
Topher also shares about the research he had to do back then, when he secured Eric’s role. He had to search up on the 70s and the bell bottoms.
He wonders whether today’s kids who are 19, of his age back then, look back at 1998 in the same way that he did.
