“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

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.”