“It was Jay Sandrich who gave me the definitive clue to Rose Nylund.‘She is not dumb&m
“It was Jay Sandrich who gave me the definitive clue to Rose Nylund. ‘She is not dumb— just totally naive,’ he said. ‘She believes everything she is told and in her innocence, always takes the first meaning of every word.’ What a great measuring stick to give an actress. It not only helped me find Rose, but love her and keep her on her course through the next few years. She didn’t understand sarcasm, so the others could say terrible things, but the words all sounded fine to her. She was so literal in her thinking that if someone said they could eat a horse, she would call the S.P.C.A. But Rose was not weak. She had her own set of rules that made perfect sense, if only to her, and she also had a fierce Nordic temper on occasion.” -Betty White -- source link