Speak about a troublesome spot!

Suzanne Somers virtually gave up the film function that launched her profession as a result of she couldn’t afford to feed an expired parking meter.

Somers, now 76, tells Web page Six completely that when she arrived at an audition for the destined-to-be-classic 1973 film “American Graffiti,” directed by future “Star Wars” legend George Lucas, “I had no thought who George Lucas was.”

In a roomful of different unknowns, Somers had different issues on her thoughts apart from imminent fame.

“I used to be within the ready room with a bunch of different blondes, and the [audition panel was] working behind,” Somers recalled to us. “I virtually left as a result of my parking meter was working out, and I had no cash to increase it.”

She mentioned that, “the casting assistant requested me to attend, and indicated ‘Mr. Lucas favored my picture.’”

Fortunate for her, Somers took her probabilities with the meter.

“Once I bought within the room to see him, all he mentioned was, ‘Are you able to drive?,’” she recalled of her first assembly with Lucas.

“I mentioned, ‘Sure.’ That was it. I used to be shocked when my agent mentioned I bought the half,” she says.

The teenage flick is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary.

Lucas, now 79, solid Somers as “Blonde in T-Fowl,” her first credited function. Little did she know that the tiny bit-part would later land her the career-making function of Chrissy Snow on the Seventies sitcom, “Three’s Firm.”

In “American Graffiti,” “I solely had three phrases in the complete movie, ‘I like you,’” Somers says. “I practiced all day within the mirror. I waited all evening on set and met the opposite actors – a bunch of no-names,” she laughed, “Little did I do know!”

Somers’ says her small half was made even smaller on the set by Lucas.

“When the time got here to shoot my scenes, I drove round in a white Thunderbird. Now for my massive line! George Lucas mentioned, ‘Simply mouth it,’” she remembers.

“I didn’t even get to say the three phrases! I feel I used to be on display for a complete of 5 seconds… However these 5 seconds gave me my profession.”

After the movie debuted and was nominated for 5 Oscars, “Johnny Carson had me on his present and launched me as ‘the mysterious blonde within the Thunderbird from “American Graffiti.” The producers of ‘Three’s Firm’ noticed me on Carson — and that’s how I bought the audition for Chrissy Snow. The remainder is historical past.”

She starred in 100 episodes of “Three’s Firm from 1977 to 1981, after which went on to star in one other smash sitcom, “Step By Step.”

She lately revealed that she turned down a task as a bunch on “The View,” as a result of she didn’t need to transfer to New York.