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Morgan Fowler
Hatteberg's People
Reporter: Larry Hatteberg
| December 3, 2006--All of us search for our own personal dreams. Morgan Fowler has just begun that search. She’s a seventh grader at Wilbur Jr. High. Last week she appeared in a national TV drama. We caught up with her in her acting class |
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It’s the same kind of hat my husband
was wearing when he was killed. That’s
the cheapest hat I ever saw. It
is your fault he’s dead, he’s dead, he’s dead. (crying).”
It is a light years from the stage at
Wilbur Jr. High in Wichita, to a nationally televised Discovery Channel
docu-drama on BTK.
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“He’s chameleon like.”
Morgan, for a few brief appearances played BTK’s daughter.
“I really learned how to portray character and act as if I was that person.”
(Music)
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In teacher Amy Brown’s musical classroom, Morgan is one of many young people whose dreams are the music of their generation.
“That’s really one of the fun things about music, going really higher and lower than what you are used to.”
At home in her room, Morgan uses her closet, as the private space she needs to work on her acting…
“That’s the cheapest hat I ever saw.”
And to bring characters to life from her imagination.
“Even though my door locks, I like to be alone in my own room. I like little spaces. I come down here, go into my closet and put on my costume and start talking to the mirror in my character.”
“I love to read, act, and play music and when I get older I want to sing and write and be a songwriter.” |
At this age anything is possible – but a docudrama on BTK was a serious subject, her dad, Chris Fowler, wanted to give her a chance.
“Of course she’s a ham; she enjoys acting and entertaining so she was really excited about the opportunity to do it so I was real supportive from the beginning.” |
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There is a delightful innocence that young people like Morgan possess, that we adults sometimes forget….
“If I had my own TV show that would be cool….record a CD or two.”
We forget that anything is possible.
“Ok, let’s go.”
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“And you always want to make a kid believe they can do anything. Just keep encouraging and pushing along. Take the good with the bad, but just keep going…that’s the main thing.”
(Music)
“My life seems to go OK most of the time.”
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Larry's Note: All of us have dreams and it’s not easy to make them all come true. Life sometimes gets in the way. For Morgan, and other young people like her, they seem to have a head start. |
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