While appearing on her husband Ted Danson's 'Where Everybody Knows Your Name' podcast, Mary Steenburgen shared the story of how Jack Nicholson cast her in 1978's 'Goin' South' — her first movie role — ...

Nicholson himself wound up visiting her at the restaurant she worked at in New York City to tell her she had won the role outright. "Jack was sitting there smoking a huge cigar and he goes ...