If there are two truths about Southern women, it’s that one, they take up for the people they love, and two, they can deliver the coldest one-liners with the warmest expression. Reba McEntire showed off her ability to do both while defending fellow country icon and Southern lady, Dolly Parton, during a 1996 interview with Tom Snyder. Snyder asked McEntire about her previous statements expressing an interest in acting. (This interview was five years before her hit sitcom, Reba, would debut.) The interviewer suggested that moving into acting might alienate McEntire’s fan base. McEntire tried to respond to the question before Snyder interrupted her, citing Dolly Parton as an example of, as she framed it, a country star who lost fans after transitioning into other areas of entertainment, like film. “I don’t think Dolly would ever leave country,” McEntire said with a smile. “What we really want to do is to just enhance, to entertain more.” McEntire said the goal was to find a movie that can have a corresponding album, as Parton had with 9 To 5. She also added, “I have no intentions of leaving my music base, my fan base. I just want to gather more into it.” Read more below: americansongwriter.com/this-…