“One of my first movies, I was 17 years old, and I was in Tahoe.
“They just trapped me,” Thorne-Smith recalled.
She called her agent, who showed up on the set to support her.

Courtney Thorne-Smith talks working as a teen actress.Rachel Luna/Getty
Thorne-Smith noted that members of the crew later congratulated her on what she had done.
“I’m amazed, actually.
I had that ability at that age.”