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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why Rebecca Gayhart Decided to Be Billed as Rebecca Gayhart Dane in Her Return to Acting · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Rebecca Gayhart agreed to her first role in seven years,
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  Speaker 1: returning to a franchise that helped define her early career
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  Speaker 1: with an onstage musical adaptation of Jawbreakers. And she's being
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  Speaker 1: billed under her full name, Rebecca Gayhart Dane.
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  Speaker 2: Which is particularly meaningful because her husband, Eric Dane, passed
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  Speaker 2: away after a battle with ALS earlier this year.
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  Speaker 3: And Rebecca had filed for divorce back in 2018, and
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  Speaker 3: they were separated for years. And while they never got
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  Speaker 3: back together romantically, Rebecca became his dedicated care partner at
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  Speaker 3: the end of his life.
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  Speaker 1: And she and Eric, along with their daughters, remain a
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  Speaker 1: tight-knit family. And she tells ET her daughters are a
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  Speaker 1: big reason she's embracing.
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  Speaker 4: The name Dane.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she says that they're a Dane family, and she
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  Speaker 2: never wants to have a different last name from her kids.
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  Speaker 4: She adds it's also to honor their family and its legacy, Eric.
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  Speaker 1: And Rebecca's Jawbreakers musical made such a splash in its
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  Speaker 1: recent debut in L.A., its run was extended.
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  Speaker 4: That's direct from Hollywood.