By all accounts, there was no actual in poor health will in the direction of Bujold on the a part of the producers, however that didn’t hold a wierd rumor from circulating that she was whom the leola root was named after.
Or, extra particularly, that it was named after a personality she performed in The Adventures of Pinocchio. As a result of the leola root is so legendarily bitter and nasty, the rumor claimed that this was meant to be an ongoing slight in opposition to the lady who successfully deserted the function of a lifetime.
Nevertheless, there was much less substance to this rumor than there was first rate taste in leola root stew. To start with, the character Bujold performed in that movie was named Leona, not Leola. Second of all, leola root was launched within the 1995 episode “State of Flux,” and Bujold’s movie wouldn’t come out till 1996.