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I’m not used to looking up at men at all. “He comes in the green room and he’s a million feet tall - even by my standards.

It was Thomas’ first meeting with Stern at his New York studios that convinced her to do the movie. Reitman said that friction would only make the movie better. One problem: Thomas had listened to Stern’s show and was pretty sure she hated him. Private Parts came to her via Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman, who thought Thomas had what it takes to tackle a Stern movie - not just any movie, but one starring the radio host as himself. and then on comedy features like The Brady Bunch Movie and HBO’s The Late Shift, about the fight to replace Johnny Carson. But it was as a director that Thomas found her calling, first on TV shows like Doogie Howser, M.D. Lucy Bates - a part that won her an Emmy in 1985. Thomas’ path later brought her to Los Angeles, where she landed her breakthrough role on Hill Street Blues, playing Sgt. “I go back to the kitchen and in comes Belushi - BOOM! He’s like, ‘What is wrong with you? There’s theater going on here! … Nobody even laughed at the jokes because they couldn’t see me!'” “I’m taking orders right down in front,” she recalls.

The statuesque Thomas - she stands 6-foot-1 in flats - shared hilarious anecdotes about her start in show business on the podcast, first as a waitress at Chicago’s Second City, where future superstars like John Belushi and Bill Murray were honing their comedy skills. “We would have been such a hot couple, Howard and I! It would have been so good!” But then Beth showed up and ruined everything for me,” Thomas jokes, referring to Stern’s second wife, Beth Ostrosky Stern, whom he married in 2008. “He used to bring his daughters out and we’d get together and do something and that was really fun.

The admission came during the second-season premiere of The Hollywood Reporter‘s podcast It Happened in Hollywood, in which Thomas, 72, recounts the making of the raunchy comedy that turned Stern, 65, into an unlikely movie star while also launching Paul Giamatti’s career. Director Betty Thomas has revealed she still harbors a crush on Howard Stern, whom she directed in the 1997 biopic Private Parts.