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Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video broke all kinds records nearly 35 years ago. It was the first music video directed by a Hollywood director (John Landis), it was the title track on the highest-selling album of all time, and it cost a half-million dollars, an unheard of amount for a music video at the time. But all of this didn’t matter to the video’s co-star, Ola Ray who was just happy to get the part.

Ray, now 56 and living in Sacramento, Calif., with her teenage daughter, landed the gig after Flashdance actress Jennifer Beals turned it down. She almost didn’t get it after video director John Landis learned she had posed in a 1980 Playboy centerfold. But Jackson didn’t seem to mind her naked past. “He seemed taken by the fact that I was a Playboy model,” Ray said in a 2014 interview.

“The minute I walked into the audition, I knew the part was mine,” she revealed. “I read a few lines, danced to some music, and the rest is history.”

The 13-minute music and dance masterpiece–which the Guinness Book of World Records calls the most successful music video of all time, selling more than 9 million copies–depicts Jackson and Ray on a date. It takes a dark turn when the singer transforms into a werewolf and Ray is seen running from him and screaming the remainder of the video.

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source: BlackDoctor.org

ENTERTAINMENT: OLA RAY: THRILLER 35 YEARS LATER  was originally published on praisecleveland.com