guess,” said Elle. “Jeremy is like the crossover I mentioned before, he’s done a lot of bit parts in movies and with Troma he’s a star, yet I think he was named the top in triple X box office.”
We stayed in Glendale after the show ‘wrapped’ (as a popular TV character, I finally felt entitled to use the jargon). Dillon had me in talks with several movie producers, which meant that they wanted me to read a script and test for or accept a part in one of them. The one I really wanted to do was Rachel’s remake of Four Faces West. Harrison was slated to play Sheriff Pat Garrett. And I wanted the part of Fay Hollister, which was pretty ambitious in that it was the leading actress role and none of the roles I was being offered came close to being a leading role.
I loved the story. I had read it in high school. Basically the story is about how the old West was inter-related, how enemies became friends against the wilderness. A bank robber on the run stopped to save a family of Mexican farmers who have cholera; he nursed them back to health and caught the disease himself. Pat Garrett helped him regain his health (Fay Hollister was his nurse), took back the money from the robbery and put him on a train out of the New Mexico territory. The movie made an excuse for the robbery, and promoted a love story between the robber and the nurse. To me, the book just captured a part of what the old West must have been like. Nature was the enemy and only through interdependence did outlaws, farmers, lawmen and the rest survive.
The title of the book came from a place called Inscription Rock, near Gallup, New Mexico. A soldier with Coronado carved “Paso por aqui” (“We passed this way”) on the rock. Over more than three and a half centuries, people added their messages to the rock. In its way, it sort of crystallized the diversity and interdependence of the Old West, and that feeling is what Rhodes used to craft his story around.
Having a couple Oscar winners in your corner usually helps a lot in Tinseltown. I was the second player to sign on to the project after Harrison. I did have to do a pretty involved screen test for it though. Apparently, I played Sister Anne Victoria so well that the prospective producers found it hard to believe that I wasn’t a ditz in real life. You’d think that being that good would be a plus, but I learned that typecast ends up being real life. Most people meeting me for the first time fully expected me to be ditzy.
Only about one in five pictures “in development” actually get made, so the scripts continued to make their way through Dillon to me; a whole lot of RomCom. I wanted an actual dramatic role, and Dillon agreed with me. I didn’t want to let Sister Anne Victoria become me; if I was going to be an actress, so be it, but not an actress who makes a career of a single role. In other words, I didn’t want to be an actor like Marion Morrison, who spent his entire life playing John Wayne.
What was taking its toll on me was the fact that I was not working with Peter. I really wanted to be back up in the mountains, getting undressed every day and have someone love me with his mind, his body and his talent.
Just as Christmas was approaching, it all sort of crashed in on me one night.
We slept in the nude and while we weren’t together every night, we made love pretty much every morning; we weren’t what anybody could call celibate. At one point, I just started to cry. It was quiet and I tried to hide it, but he knew.
“What’s the matter?” he asked as he turned me over to face him.
“I miss you.”
“We live together.”
“But we don’t work together anymore and I miss that.”
“You could ask Mom about that. Sometimes she works with Dad; sometimes they go their own ways. They really like working together and try to arrange it whenever they can, but they can’t always. We aren’t done working together; we’re just finishing up some personal projects. You got paid
We stayed in Glendale after the show ‘wrapped’ (as a popular TV character, I finally felt entitled to use the jargon). Dillon had me in talks with several movie producers, which meant that they wanted me to read a script and test for or accept a part in one of them. The one I really wanted to do was Rachel’s remake of Four Faces West. Harrison was slated to play Sheriff Pat Garrett. And I wanted the part of Fay Hollister, which was pretty ambitious in that it was the leading actress role and none of the roles I was being offered came close to being a leading role.
I loved the story. I had read it in high school. Basically the story is about how the old West was inter-related, how enemies became friends against the wilderness. A bank robber on the run stopped to save a family of Mexican farmers who have cholera; he nursed them back to health and caught the disease himself. Pat Garrett helped him regain his health (Fay Hollister was his nurse), took back the money from the robbery and put him on a train out of the New Mexico territory. The movie made an excuse for the robbery, and promoted a love story between the robber and the nurse. To me, the book just captured a part of what the old West must have been like. Nature was the enemy and only through interdependence did outlaws, farmers, lawmen and the rest survive.
The title of the book came from a place called Inscription Rock, near Gallup, New Mexico. A soldier with Coronado carved “Paso por aqui” (“We passed this way”) on the rock. Over more than three and a half centuries, people added their messages to the rock. In its way, it sort of crystallized the diversity and interdependence of the Old West, and that feeling is what Rhodes used to craft his story around.
Having a couple Oscar winners in your corner usually helps a lot in Tinseltown. I was the second player to sign on to the project after Harrison. I did have to do a pretty involved screen test for it though. Apparently, I played Sister Anne Victoria so well that the prospective producers found it hard to believe that I wasn’t a ditz in real life. You’d think that being that good would be a plus, but I learned that typecast ends up being real life. Most people meeting me for the first time fully expected me to be ditzy.
Only about one in five pictures “in development” actually get made, so the scripts continued to make their way through Dillon to me; a whole lot of RomCom. I wanted an actual dramatic role, and Dillon agreed with me. I didn’t want to let Sister Anne Victoria become me; if I was going to be an actress, so be it, but not an actress who makes a career of a single role. In other words, I didn’t want to be an actor like Marion Morrison, who spent his entire life playing John Wayne.
What was taking its toll on me was the fact that I was not working with Peter. I really wanted to be back up in the mountains, getting undressed every day and have someone love me with his mind, his body and his talent.
Just as Christmas was approaching, it all sort of crashed in on me one night.
We slept in the nude and while we weren’t together every night, we made love pretty much every morning; we weren’t what anybody could call celibate. At one point, I just started to cry. It was quiet and I tried to hide it, but he knew.
“What’s the matter?” he asked as he turned me over to face him.
“I miss you.”
“We live together.”
“But we don’t work together anymore and I miss that.”
“You could ask Mom about that. Sometimes she works with Dad; sometimes they go their own ways. They really like working together and try to arrange it whenever they can, but they can’t always. We aren’t done working together; we’re just finishing up some personal projects. You got paid
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