A new interview with Linda Schuyler has surfaced! The article mostly focuses on her upcoming high school reunion this weekend. But she also talks a little bit about Degrassi and what keeps her motivated. Here is an excerpt:
“I keep a book in my office called ‘Why I Do What I Do.’ It’s filled with letters and e-mails from kids and parents, which I find quite extraordinary,” she said.
One of the letters is from a parent who threw her son out of the house after learning he was gay. She watched a Degrassi program about a teenager struggling to come to terms with his homosexuality and picked up the phone to reconnect with her son.
“She said thank you so much for such a moving story. It made me pick up the phone and call my son after 10 years,” Schuyler said. “Whenever I doubt if I want to be my own boss anymore, I pick up this book and think ‘now I know why I do what I do, and I love it.'”
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