Coif-y Talk

By Russell Patrick Latham
1998

"I had to strip my first day on the show," shudders Laura Wright (Cassie, GUIDING LIGHT), "and I didn't like my hair. I didn't like my makeup. It wasn't anyone's fault - it was my first day! They were trying to make 'smooth curls' with a curling iron. There were two people working on my hair. And it was like, 'Eeew.' It looked horrible. 'Hello? I have curly hair!' Luckily, I had a cowboy hat on for some of it. I'm such a freak - if I don't like my hair, it completely messes up my scenes.

"I was on-set the other day working with Frank [Grillo, Hart]," continues Wright, "and there was a single piece of hair right around my eye that was driving me crazy! There was a fan blowing on the set. When I turned to the fan, I could see the piece of hair moving in my sightline. It was driving me nuts, and it so took me out of the scene. Frank could not believe that this was driving me so crazy. But if I don't feel that my hair looks good, it totally upsets me."

She notes that her pregnancy has also added to the big-hair thing. "My hair just bushes out. I'm getting it cut much more often. The prenatal vitamins really make your hair and nails grow." (Editor's Note: Wright had a baby girl, Lauren Elizabeth, on November 16.) There's not much she can do about it. "My hair does what it does," Wright sighs, adding that surfing the Web has been tough lately. "They are brutal on the Internet. They hate my hair. One person said, 'Cassie's hair looked like worms today.' I think it's funny," chortles Wright, "because half the time, I agree! But my producer likes it down and curly. Cassie is just this tight-jeans wearing big curly-haired chick!"

Does She - or Doesn't She?
Do you color your hair? "How could I not?" howls Wright. "You should read this Internet stuff: 'Did you see Cassie's roots today?' I'm the worst. When someone asks me, 'Is that your natural color?' I'm like, 'Well the bottle says it's natural.' 'Is that your hair color?' 'Well, I paid for it.' See, the problem is that most people get a single process color, and that doesn't take any time. Slap it on the roots, wait 25 minutes, wash it out and it's done. It takes me three hours of sitting still - which is next to impossible for me - to get my highlights done. When do you find three hours?"

Especially at the time of this interview. "Weeks away from delivering your baby, you don't give a s--- about your hair. It's like, whatever,' she teases. "I'm fat!"

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