Which ‘Goonies’ Star Had $300 in the Bank Before Their Big 2010s Comeback?
Raising Hope really did raise hope for actor Martha Plimpton, whose bank account was down to three digits before she landed her Emmy-nominated part in the Fox sitcom.
In a new interview on Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s Dinner’s on Me podcast, Plimpton revealed that she turned to babysitting during that ebb in her acting career.
“My accountant and I talked,” the Goonies alum said. “He was like, ‘You have $300. Something needs to happen.’”
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So Plimpton posted a Facebook update offering her babysitting services. “At the time, I was friends with this woman, and she almost responded too quickly and too gleefully,” she said with a laugh. “‘I’d love to hire you if you could be in Brooklyn at 6 a.m. on Thursday morning!’ I was like, ‘Sounds good. See you there.’”
Then, however, Hollywood came calling again. “Literally, that week, I found out I had [gotten] Raising Hope,” Plimpton shared.
The comedy series, which ran for four seasons between 2010 and 2014, follows a quirky, working-class family raising the titular baby, the progeny of son Jimmy (Lucas Neff) and a serial killer on death row. Plimpton played matriarch Virginia — earning an Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy nomination in 2011 — and costarred with Garret Dillahunt, Cloris Leachman, Shannon Woodward, and Gregg Binkley on the show.
Plimpton has stayed busy since Raising Hope, starring in the TV shows The Real O’Neals, Generation, Sprung, A Town Called Malice, and Prime Target. Next, she’ll share the screen with Mark Ruffalo in the HBO crime drama Task and with Florence Pugh in the Netflix limited series East of Eden.