Linda Gray denies drinking on the Dallas Set
Linda Gray has denied reports suggesting that she and her castmates were durnk during the filming of Dallas in the 1980s.
She insists it would have been impossible to keep to the show's tight schedule if the actores weren't clear-minded.
Gray played the alcoholic wife of scheming oil baron J.R.Ewing in the hit soad and her onscreen husband Larry Hagman revealed earlier this year he drank alcohol on the set to relieve the boredom between shooting the scenes.
His confession has sparked speculation that the actors were all drinking during filming, but Gray insists such behaviour would have been impossible with the tight schedule and heavy workload.
She tells OK! magazine: "That is absolutely not correct. If you drink when you are acting - on a series, where we did 28 shows a year - nothing would get done.
"I'm not an alcoholic. People say, 'Oh, you did a great job of playing an alcoholic. She did it so good, then she must be an alcoholic.' Please, just congratulate me on my acting!"
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