It’s been almost 30 years since Mayim Bialik played the younger version of Bette Midler’s C.C. Bloom in “Beaches”. Now, Bialik is re-creating the opening scenes of the tearjerker with former co-star Marcie Leeds, who played the 11-year-old version of Barbara Hershey’s Hillary Essex.
Reunited for the first time since filming “Beaches”, Bialik and Leeds re-created the opening boardwalk scenes of the film.
The ladies also reminisced about their memories on the “Beaches” set.
“I remember you used to do the best Michael Jackson impression…the voice, the dancing.” Leeds tells Bialik. “That was the best memory, just laughing in your dressing room.”
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The reunion didn’t end there. Bialik interviewed Leeds for her personal website, discussing Leeds’ decision to leave acting and pursue a career as a surgeon…but not until after she locked lips with a young Leonardo DiCaprio.
“After ‘Beaches,’ I did an episode of [the 1990 TV show] ‘Parenthood’ with Leonardo DiCaprio,” Leeds remembers. “That was the first time I had kissed anyone and it was actually really heavy and weird for me, so I decided that having to deal with stuff like that was not what I wanted to do. I decided after that to leave acting.”
Now a successful surgeon, Leeds recalls working on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the day she was shot in the head during an appearance in 2011.
“They then brought in a woman dressed in a black dress with this huge thing over her head. They said, ‘This is the congresswoman – she has a gunshot wound to the head.’ And we started resuscitating her, I started asking her if she could move certain limbs and all she was doing was grunting. She couldn’t speak,” Leeds recalls. The Congresswoman would survive her wounds. “That was one very long day of my life,” Leeds says.
