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How Gilligan’s Island Star Tina Louise Really Felt About The Show
By WITNEY SEIBOLD
For many years, fans of “Gilligan’s Island” assumed that Tina Louise, who played the glamorous movie star Ginger Grant, hated that she was best-known for the one role.
However, it seems that the actor is at peace with being known as Ginger. In a 2020 interview with the New York Post, Louise confessed she was still very fond of her character.
Louise said, "Never true — I loved doing my part, especially after they really started writing for my character, originally billed as a 'Marilyn Monroe' type of character.”
Although Louise once had concerns about being typecast, she said, “A different director took over and really started to write for my character. [...] I really loved my character."