See what else Parton and the cast had to say about bringing the family to the small screen… She’s gonna make me look good as a child.” We auditioned several kids and then all of a sudden, here comes little Aly, and she just absolutely blew us away,” Dolly said of Aly’s audition. “She is an amazing little thing. The biggest challenge of all was picking a little girl to play 9-year-old Dolly, and that’s where little Alyvia Alyn Lind came in to the picture. “Finding little Dolly was the one we thought, ‘oh, this is gonna be so hard. And so I had to ask if we could possibly get him.” Next came Parton’s father, Lee, and she already had the perfect person in mind… Ricky Schroder. “He looks like my dad and my dad’s people. “And she sent in an audition tape and we looked at it and said ‘Oh my lord.’ I said, ‘That’s mama!’” What a surprise! Nobody even knew she acted,” Dolly said. Then they found Jennifer Nettles, whom they had no idea acted. “Jennifer Nettles plays my mother. We went through hundreds, literally hundreds, of people,” she explained. The story is so close to Parton that she knew choosing the right people to play her family would be difficult. “It was hard to choose people in the movie. Her upbringing is documented in the new movie, ‘Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors,’ debuting on NBC this Thursday. She grew up one of eight in the rural mountains of Tennessee. She’s had countless hit songs, starred on stage and screen, and even opened her own theme park, Dollywood.īut the successful singer and businesswoman hasn’t always had it easy.
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