April 16, 2025 • 61 mins
Stephen sits down with actress and singer, Bonnie Somerville for an unfiltered conversation full of laughs, truth bombs, and behind-the-scenes tea. They dive deep into all things New York, and Bonnie doesn't hold back when discussing the challenges of dealing with a disastrous leading man on set.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, welcome back to One Bad Movie.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Steven. How you doing. I'm doing okay, there, JJ, how
about yourself?
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Great, I'm great.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Okay, So where's the scripture? I don't have my email here.
We don't need scripts on really seriously, all right, are
you kidding? No, we don't, especially about Bonnie. I know
Bonnie is so off script I.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Wasn't This is another one I wasn't there for so
I got to watch this.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Bonnie was fabulous, she was just y. Yeah it was weird, right, yeah,
it was kind of cool. We had a similar kind
of thespianistic.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Trademark, One Bad Movie espianistic. Thank you for our audience.
For those who don't know, you may remember Bonnie from
The OC friends NYPD Blue.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
She was listen to me, this is gonna sound so bad.
But that's why I'm the host of One Bad Movie.
Most people know already that I have a very interesting
perspective and opinion on entertainment and talent. I won't say
I hated the OC, but I just didn't watch it.
It's just was kind of you know, it was not
my thing. It was not in my algorithm of what
(01:07):
entertained me. Right, But Bonnie was awesome. Yea. So whenever
there's a talent level that elevates a project, I think
that's pretty interesting.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
She elevated the room when she came in for the pod.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, she was.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
And you guys, you guys talked all things New York.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I just connected with Bonnie being kind of old school
in her mentality, very family h just that thing.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Well, my favorite part of the conversation is when you
guys got into working with the same director Andrew.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah. And it's so weird because I just did a
Steel City Con. I went and signed to autographs that's right,
comic con thing, and so it was fabulous nice. The
coolest part the people that not only worked there, but
in the lines. The fans themselves were really sweet and fun.
But the photos they could sign of mine. One of
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them was threesome nice. Andy Fleming's a picture yeah, so
which he wrote and directed. Not an easy thing to do.
And I was just pleasantly surprised at the number of
people that as a comedy genuinely think that title is
a lot of fun. As a Christian now, a lot
of people are like ew Steady Stevie. But that's the
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kind of stories I don't mind telling as a Christian.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Nice Well, I told you my whole story about a
good friend of mine just out of the blue, didn't
even know that you and I were working together, said
have you ever seen Threesome? I said no, and he said, oh,
that is peaked Stephen Balding Man, that is like a
nineties you have to see. He gave me for not
seeing the movie.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
So Steve baldwins Threesomes peeked in the nineties. Thank goodness, No, no, no,
no peaks Stephen Goodness, that's all over.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
No, No, that's not meaning you peaked in the nineties.
Oh that means like that is like the Krem de
la crem of your repertence. Right, Well, enough about that
without further ado, Let's let's get into Bonnie. What a
great episode. And one little tidbit that I learned. I
didn't know that she sang on the Garden State soundtrack,
which they just had a twentieth anniversary concert. She's uber
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suber talented.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Bonnie's kind of like smoking retro, you know what I mean,
from a retro perspective. She is who she is, the
real deal. So nice.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Welcome to one bad movie, all right, without further ado.
This is Bonnie Somerville.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
That's an adult.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Bonnie Crag, fat lips. It's so bad, it's good.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
We see damn.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Place sound guilty, Blesssmas Sunderson. It's so bad, it's good.
One bad.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Twenty years ago, as an actress, my therapist was like,
you do not look at anyone else because I will
You know, I'll short circuit.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
So I don't read that because I'll be like crazy.
You can put that on the air.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I don't get literally if I if I look at
what anyone else is doing, I will kill myself, like
I just it will set comments, no, just like well
why are you doing this? Why is she doing this?
Why am I not doing this? Why did my sugar
cancel it? So I never do that. So I have
a friend who is she's one of those actors. I'm
sure you know they read everything. They're like they know everybody,
they know every producer, they know every.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
I don't want to if you know, just let me work.
I don't want to hear about the other blonde. You
know my no, don't tell me.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
If you knew how much I don't know, you'd be amassed.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
We're the same because no, no, no, I'm I had to
find this out from a friend that the agency went under.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
And even my husband is like, have you heard this?
Speaker 4 (04:51):
And he's not even an actor, and I'm like, I what, no,
because I just can't do it drives me nuts if
I if you know, I learned not to compare myself
because that's the.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Well I have to kind of just keep my ear
to the ground because of family members, right, I just
have to make sure what the children are behaving, so
to speak. You know, it's it's just a weird genetics thing. Move,
move my drink.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Oh okay, sorry, how's that? HELLU?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Then, Jim, I'm gonna hell at you the rest of
this conversation. It's because it's she knows how to hit
the ball back over the net, so to speak. John,
what do you mean?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Hell?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Who's telling I'm going to be me?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Me me?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Because we haven't even started formally with the interview and
already we're having.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
A lovely chanch lovely cha.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yes, yes, well, Bonnie Somerville, welcome to One Bad Movie.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
And you're here. I think you're here kind of because
you heard about it. Yes, through the grape vine.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Yes, which is growing.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Rapidly. Hear about one bad movie. Yeah, and I was
sharing this with you before off camera, before this beginning
of the interview. Uh, that one bad movie is this
happy accident that was kind of birthed out of something unique.
But then before you know the whole backstory, which I'm
gonna get into it in one second. You saw a promo,
a teaser. Yes, what'd you think?
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I thought it was hilarious. I loved it. I thought
it was hysterically funny.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
It's one of my favorite words, hilarious, powerful word, hilarious,
use it lightly.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
But I'm not. I'm not. I'm a funny snob.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
So I wouldn't say hilarious if it wasn't hilarious because
I'm a funny snob.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Trust me, if it's not, it's not funny.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, funny snobbery is is greatly needed.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
So I was listening to an interview driving in a car,
talking to myself, which I I do quite often, and
there was this actor talking promoting a film and it
was lovely and I kind of was listening, listening and listening.
I hear the off stuff. I hear the like kind
of the nail scratch on the chalkboard, so to speak,
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a little bit, and I just was listening to it
just brought me back to when I did a lot
of that circuit stuff, you know, right we're radio round
tables and everything, digital magic carpet, which is fabulous. But
I was listening and I went, boy, forgive me. I
don't mean to be mean when I say this, but
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because I haven't.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Worked in a long time me neither me either. I'm
about it neither.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I'm driving in the car, I'm listening to this radio program,
lovely actor. Everything sounds great, and I went, just like this,
I'm so glad I don't have to do this. I
didn't mean it like mean, I just meant it like
I remember that, and I generally go, wouldn't it just
be a blast for this guy to talk about that
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one crap movie he made? This just however, in the
psychology of my you know.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Like they were being honest and not foolish.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Just just it was a knee jerk thing. I thought,
you know, in the opposite way of thinking. And I went,
you know what I mean because everybody, to myself, I went,
because everybody has, every actor has at least one bad movie,
and then I walked around with one bad movie for
like a day, going could you ask people if they
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wanted to talk about their one bad movie? And I
went like, like literally, kind of like a psycho. I
was like, walking around, This is how I process creatively.
Then I called John, who's the worst. He's the meanest,
most horrible critic ever, but he's super smart. So I
(09:01):
said to him, Hey, man, you know every actor has
one bad movie, and you know, bad movies are kind
of like an opinion, and you know, could I could
you put that in a format that's the truth? Could
you put that in a format for me? And does
that work? And I went because I don't think it works.
I think it's kind of too stupid, it's too upside now,
(09:23):
and it's too if it takes too long to get it.
But then you saw the trailer and you got it.
Welcome to one.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Bad movie, Thank you, happy to be here.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
That's the way I like to approach the comprehension.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
I just like the honesty of it.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
It's like everybody talks about all their success but nobody, well, A,
you can't. You're not allowed to say things that you
really see on sets, because then you'll be you know Blacklist,
You know, we all know all the stuff that, all
the stuff that goes on. Nobody talks about the badge.
They only talk about the success. But it's like I
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love I love the bad I love the like the
backstory and like what did you go through?
Speaker 5 (10:06):
And this this guy was an asshole? And I got
get to.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
That, bunny. Do you have a bad movie?
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Which one of mine?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Oh God, is that where should I start?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Was there kind of a voyage a voyage you entered
into that was a production? Is that you know? Uh?
Remember that thought? Yes, I digressed just for a second.
But my brother tells a funny story. My brother Alex
says to me, like, oh yeah, no, it's it's kind
of commonplace. You know, you're do an indie thing. They
promise you this, she signed the contract. You know, it's
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you know, it's love Boat to Fiji is the picture
and your you know, Captain Stewart whatever his name is,
and yes, let's love boat.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
That's how That's how I know. I remember love. I
remember love. I'm not too I'm not too far mind right.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
So Alix says he has had the experience many times
in indie Land where he gets on the love boat.
They come off that, you know, they leave Manhattan, they
get out into the ocean and like all of a sudden,
they start to turn and they're heading towards Staten Island,
you know what I mean. And he's like, but the
script cover says Fiji, and they're like, well, you know,
some things went down and we lost an investor. Yeah,
(11:25):
Staten Island. But I'm fum so is there any void?
Is there any production? You think that? And it doesn't
have to be you know, psycho crazy, someone's dark. I
have so many we're here for a while.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
I have I have a movie. I don't want to
say what it was.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
I have a movie where it was my very first
Indie and it was the lead. It was the star,
and it's shot and I'm you're from Long Island. I'm
from Brooklyn. Most of my mom's one of nine, they
all live on Long Island. So having any job in
New York is obviously was always a big deal for me,
you know what I mean, just because the family could
come in the grandparents cub and it was this India
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I did.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
It was a first offer.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
I got to be the lead, it was the star,
and I was there for three weeks by myself, shooting
in Philly and New York City.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
My grandma was on set. This was grandmother was on
she passed away, but she was an extra.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
She actually was in the background. We walked down Fifth
Avenue and she was in the background and I was there,
and I was so excited. This was like fifteen years ago.
And the producers, lovely guys, came up to me after
I was there and said, we have to talk to you.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
And I was like, oh shit, I'm fired. I'm fired.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
I'm already fired. And they were like, we feel really bad.
And I was like sweating thinking, and they said, the
lead actor, who was more famous than me, who was
on a very successful hit show, he's coming and he
wants to bump you down. He doesn't want you to
be number one. He wants to be number one. On
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the call sheet. You got to be number two. And
I was like, it was my first time ever just
having that moment, and you know, being alone for three
weeks on a set and being.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
And you were how old, thirty.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Five, thirty four to thirty five, but still it was
like my first number one on a movie, and just
the feeling of that happening adjustment. But just even though
I know, look, we're actors, we have ego, I get
you know, you know, you say it doesn't matter, but
when you finally get it kind of matters.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
You know, you tell your family you're.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Like, I made number one, like and so he shows
up and I was completely immediately bumped down to number two,
and the entire energy changed.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
For the next six weeks.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
It was like a it was a completely different job,
do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
So those three weeks, no you even said the name
of the movie yet. No, okay, you haven't said the
name of the actor. Now, so is there another one?
Because that's just incredibly intriguing. Yes, let's just leave that that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Yeah, it was just it was it was just like
a it was just just just.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Having that moment like I'm number one. No, I think
I was, No, I was younger than thirty.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
But then when he shows it, just the whole movie,
the whole experience went like.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Deep, you know what I mean, most definitely.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Taking the boat to you think.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
You're going to and then different different situations where.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
It's like, but who does that though?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
If you're really successful and this one young younger actor
gets a change.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Who shows up.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
I just I'll never forget. I would never do that
to somebody. I would never I would be like, yeah,
let them take the let them take the win. It's
a little stupid movie, you know, thirty grand forty whatever
it was.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Why would you why would you go, hey, listen, I
want to change the call sheet?
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Like do you not have like like like like a
like like a life. I mean, it was just like
the guy has a multi millionaire and I'm like, it's
just like, wait a second, you know, I just think
like those those kind of things to me are like
a bad movie experience, you know, yes, absolutely emotionally whole thing.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
So I've had you've had that, well, you know, I've
been number two on the call sheet many times, h
and kind of in that hierarchy.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Yeah, but it's that I've been number two, three, four, ten.
It's it's starting off as one and you're.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Just like, oh my.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
God, you know, just actress, think actress, think I'm one,
you know that stupid thing, which we learned later on
it really doesn't matter who cares.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
But when I have it for the first time, you're
like yes, and then someone shows up and they're.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Like yeah, not so much, right, It's just like, yeah,
that was just like then the vibration for six weeks
after that was the same kind of vacuum.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Just it's just kind of the whole because everybody felt
I can't everybody felt it.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
The producers felt it just kind of ruined this like
really like buzzworthy thing, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Okay, beyond that one, Yeah, I'm curious about it. Similar
because I've had method actors who want to mess with
me because they're method actors.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Oh yeah, I'm bad.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I can't tell you a lot of the stories.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
No, I want to hear them. I want to hear them.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Because they because I say stuff and everybody is like,
he thinks he's cool, you know what I mean. I
grew up a certain way. Yeah, my dad was from Brooklyn.
My dad's dad was from Brooklyn.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Where what part I don't know. Doesn't forgive me Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
But that's because I I don't like to talk about
Oh yeah, right with this, with that, you know.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Yeah, me too, me too, forget about it. Irish Catholics.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
What was I talking about?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
You've had experiences like right with method actors, but they
all ended the same way.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
So one guy, I was working on a movie and uh,
we finished filming and we were in Israel and we
were standing at like one of those all inclusive hotels
because we weren't one or two on the cautionumes. So
this guy, he just just was socializing and now we're
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not on the set and he just decides to kind of,
in a very abstract way, kind of rage on me
about something totally insignificant. But in the moment of this
reality we're in now, it'd be like if I went like,
you know, and I think, you know, and it was
just something stupid and offensive, right, But suddenly and when
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it happened, I was like, you know, wow, that was
some kind of a mood swing. Yeah, you know, because
this person got up and went to their hotel room.
It took me years to understand really was having he
was that person in the retropectause. Then it happened to
me a couple more times, and I went, oh, that's
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kind of some methodology of some Thespians where they feel
like they got.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
To right, like rally you up, well, spook you a little.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Bit whatever, so that when you're back on set you're
a little off balance, right, that's my guests. Yeah, that's
my guest. You know, some sometimes that would happen with
people who and I can't I won't say who either.
I did a movie called Last Exit to Brooklyn. One
of the actors.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Amen, love the movie.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Love the movie so much, meaning good, Yes, love the
movie though, but one of the actors from love that movie.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
I just want to say, we all do. Amen.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
But there was a lot of macho people running around,
and you know in the real world of of of macho. Yeah,
John's a big guy. He's a martial artist, and you know,
he talks more about how he has to talk himself
out of hurting someone. He's we're talking to himself, than
about what he needs to do to somebody else. So haha,
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when you really know how to, you know, diffuse the situation,
you don't have to be big, you don't have to
be that strong. You just have to know how to
diffuse the situation. So I would do that, Like verbally,
I just go, look, I kind of feel like you're
getting ready to do something weird or be weird, and
we're just trying to make a movie, and like we're
on a set and you're number four on the call
sheet and I'm number.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Eight, Like it's just a movie.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I kind of would go to that speech to try
to avoid further drama. Didn't always work, didn't always work.
So but that kind of cookiness. I don't know how
many women have done that to you. I don't have
many method women. You've dealt with.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
A couple, right, women.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Yes, more women than men, girl, Women are harder, I mean, yeah,
I've had more more caddy.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
I mean I grew up, like I said, like, you know,
I've you know, grew up in Brooklyn, like Irish Catholic,
working class, like always like a guy's girl, you know
what I mean, Like just grew up. I didn't grow
up with any sort of pomp or nobody was an artist,
you know what I mean. My family are cops and
firemen and fucking garbagemen and and so I never had
that attitude ever, so so coming coming to getting in
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this business. When I came to LA, was was kind
of a shock with with all the like you know, all.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Just all the all the all the way variety. Yeah,
and and you know, I modeled for a minute.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
I was not nowhere near as successful as your you know,
but I was always kind of like, all right, I
don't know, Okay, I know, you know they're gonna pay me.
But I always wanted to act, and but I was
never like a girly girl. So so when you get
into the business and then you meet all these women
that are so aggressively caddy and aggressively, I just didn't
grow up like that. I just grew up with normal,
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regular people in flat Bush. So I wasn't prepared. I
wasn't prepared.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I can only imagine behind the scenes a few times
with this one no where she just looked at her
confused seriously because they're trying to instigate her, and it's
like it's not until like you put your hands on
her that that person's going to figure out.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Like what I've had some I've had some bad argument.
I've had some like what the are you doing? What
the you're talking about with girl? And like been talked
to and been like you know you got you can't
talk like that, and I'm like why not, Like you know,
I had to learn, oh, you can't talk like this,
And because I just grew up in a family probably
like yours, where it was like it was like.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I'm still learning Bonnie.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
To talk to my husband.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Oh my god, he'll tell you, like I'm still learning,
Like you can't just say whatever you want, you can't
just pop off. But my mother, who was here two
ways ago, you know, we pop off together, you know
what I mean, like we just you know, it's like
we we just do. And my husband's like, oh god,
you can't say that. You just can't say that out
loud in front of my and so I am still.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Where were your canters? What was going on?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Just at home? Jerry's Jerry's Delli? No, just at home,
I mean the whole Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Would she make? Who your mom?
Speaker 5 (22:13):
What'd she make?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
What does she cook while she was here?
Speaker 5 (22:15):
My mom? Oh god, no, she's never cooked life. No,
never never cooked for me.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Never.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
My dad left when I was a kid.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
We moved in with my grandmother, my grandparents, who had
seven at home.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
My mom worked. My mom doesn't even know how to
boil an egg. Seriously, she cooks for the dog. I'm
not joking.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
She makes her dog homemade dinner every night, not herself.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
No, never cook for me a dinner.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Life. Love her to death, mom, But you know my
mom's she always says, my version of cooking is.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Hello, what do you want?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Does she really?
Speaker 5 (22:46):
She doesn't go every night, but she'll pay.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
She'll so. Now she is a supposed to man.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
She's very generous and she will order you whatever you like.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Does she like grub Hub?
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Oh yeah, well everything she has everything, she does everything,
she has the meals. I mean, she's amazing. But no,
she never cooked. But my grandmother cooked.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
So your mother's mother cooks.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Yes, well she did?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
She passing away. That's the onion. I want appeal for
a second here on one bad movie. The entree into
the conversation is bad movies. What is great? What is
grandmother like to cook?
Speaker 5 (23:19):
I'm curious dead?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
What did she like to cook?
Speaker 5 (23:21):
From the grave?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
You never chased the food?
Speaker 5 (23:24):
You know she's she cooked horribly. She was irish. She
was a horrible cook. I love you, Grandma.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
She would cook meat and potatoes, maybe a boiled broccoli
that you couldn't even eat every night.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
It was not good.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
And she's had seven kids living at home when we
moved in. I loved her, but she was the worst
cook on the planet.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Can I give you an amazing idea? You should do
a cookbook about your family? Horrible the cooks were that's
a great idea idea great grandma. Would you know not
a cook?
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Don't I I cook? I'm a great cook.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
I make a great chicken parmagan all right, I do
some good Italian food. I'm a very good cook. I
like to cook because nobody cooks for me.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Well, here's the funny thing. John is chefy. He's gonna.
He's not a chef, but he's chefy. James is a chef.
Are you did you know James is a chef? Oh,
James is a chef. James makes desserts. You would stab
people see that.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
I don't do I don't know how to do.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
No, no, no, he's if you you know his Instagram pages
cook like James the food. No no, no, I'm getting hungry.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
When am I getting invited over.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
A p e q u a bro? Forget about it.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
I love that we're both like Irish, but because because
we're from Long Island and Brooklyn, we still think.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
We get one of my sisters.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
We get the past to do this, we always do completely.
We get a pass of question.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Yeah. My Italian friends would always bust my balls and go,
you're not even Italian to be like, yeah, but I've
a flappish.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
I could do what I want, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Like, I could talk like this if I want what
part of.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Long Island by the way, mass Peak, massive Peak.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Oh, then you really get the pass and you really
get the pass.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Well.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
One of my first boyfriends was from mass Peak.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
By the way, Oh adorable. A lot of honkey and
ice came out of mass Speak. Jerry. Sorry, I shouldn't
have said that. Yeah, but like you know, that's my
sense of humor. Get it. I'll call Jerry honky.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Mass a Pequa.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
That's amazing, I mean, but that's where I'm from. They
used to call. I might get corrected for this later,
we'll see from the pilant gallery. Uh. But Massapequa was
mostly Jewish folks and Italians. So a nickname when you
were in the hood was Matza.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Pizza, Matza Pizza.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
I've heard that, Like, actually, I haven't heard that in forever.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Right, And and when you describe some of that Brooklyn
Y kind of stuff, especially if you say cops and firemen.
One of my sister's ex husbands, the whole family was
fireman's on uh, on the massapeakle park side, on the
other side of the tracks. So I was in the
(26:33):
Massapeaker that it was down by Maspeka High School, which
was near the Great South Bay, the south shore of
Long Island. Uh and uh just one of the most
coolest places.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
To grow up.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Very very rural, rural, forgive me very uh just Friday
night lights as.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Well, just down to earth real. That's how I grew up.
I wouldn't trade it, honestly.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Well, I just grew up with a lot of uh
folks like you, bunny. That's the truth. That's the not
like me.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
There's nothing like me. First of all. No, there's nobody
like me. I'm kidding.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Same attitude, Well, same attitude. You haven't. You haven't stamped
one thing here?
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Which one worst movie? Bad movie? Another bad movie?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Oh god, I didn't say it word.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
I've had so many.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Give me one you can talk about. Then nobody got whacked. Okay,
I'm scared.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
My husband said, don't name any names.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
No, he's right. You can name a movie that was.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Oh yeah, I did.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Okay, I did a horror movie, my only horror movie
I ever did called it was called seven Below. Don't
tell me you don't know what that movie is. No,
you don't, No, you don't stop.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
It John, you know seven below, what's it about? What's
it about?
Speaker 5 (28:01):
I can't even tell you.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I was.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
I still don't even know, I swear to God. Even
when I was there, I didn't. We're after a group
start a ghost.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Story, seven people that get pulled over, getting an accident,
and we ended up going to this house that was
haunted and.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
We're all strangers.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Everybody gets an accident and you get there and it's
a house that was haunted for two hundred years.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
It was so bad. Even when you turn the zombies,
you know, we all get killed.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
But but but but but it was so bad reading it.
But I wasn't working at the time. And again it
was like, oh, I want to do a horror movie.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Always wanted to do a horror movie, right, you know what? Okay,
fine one?
Speaker 2 (28:43):
So then what happened? You got there? The makeup artist was,
oh it was. The director was a mook.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Look, it was an absolute it was it was. It
was a good show.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
I mean, I mean one of the actors was welcome
to seven blow show.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
One of the actors.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Ladies and Gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
One of the.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Actors was drunk most of the time while we were
shooting to the point where it was so obvious that
we couldn't even you couldn't even like continue a conversation,
which I'm not you know.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
I've had it. I have a story about that I'll
never be able to tell. That's mind blowing. Please, I'm
sure yours, though somebody showed up waste.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
I'm sure your stories, though, are people of like a
super higher caliber. I mean, I'm talking about somebody who
never even Like if you think you never worked before
and you have the balls to do that, it's like
if you're like I always say, like my acting coach
used to say years ago, like if you're a denier,
if you're like an you know, unbelievable actor, all right,
maybe you can get away weaving asshole.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
But if you're like literally like a no way, it
never works. Like who what are you doing? What are
you doing? Look at me again with the hands? I
don't know. I'm massive pequent now. But there was that.
Then there was somebody else that didn't show up to set.
Then there was and these.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Were just again in your you know, sphere of of psyche.
It was just a low budget. These were very low budget.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
And then there was one very famous person who had
a very small part. I don't that that that that
The reason why I did the movie was because I
found out that he was going to be in it.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
And I was like, holy, you don't say he don't
say he no more clues.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
You already said something blood, It doesn't matter. It's it's
a poo poo movie.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Person wouldn't right here. The person showed up and would
only I did.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
All of my uh my scenes I read with a
stand in or somebody else and that, and that person
showed up and only worked for a couple of days
and then and then uh and then left. So all
of my stuff was like me reading to like you.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Know, because the most number one on the call sheet
right only there for.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
A day, right by the way, I have to say,
but so powerful, I have to say though, was actually
as far as like off the set was such a
lovely nice, actually like surprisingly cool nice person that it
was so surprising, you know what I mean when when
they said, like, you know, he's kind of fly in,
(31:19):
fly out, but he's not going to do this, you
know you So when it was like cut and he
was like actually having tea and being cool, I was like,
well this it just didn't.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
It just didn't.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
It was like, wait, but you're really you're really being
nice and lovely and like you know what I mean,
Like it was just bizarre. Again, these are things that
are like it just ruins the experience when you're.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Like it was design or nice. Yeah, yeah, I was
kind of here I'm doing this and because this is
my time, but over here I was doing this because
this is my time. Yeah, it was kind Did anybody
warn you? Did anybody go yeah, yeah, before this request
was made, did they say, hey, yeah, this dude won't
be there for your off camera.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
No, no, no, no, oh no before that right now,
I just.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Did his coverage, right, and they turned to you and said,
look at this broomstick.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
And that never happened to me before. And I know
I wrote a few you've probably had this.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Though rough out there, Barney, very rough.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
It's very rough, the rough rough seas.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
But you've probably had this. You know, some people won't
stay for their coverage. And like I've done a lot
of television and that's so common that some people they
they like they want to hard out and I've just
never been able to do that, Like, you know, even
when I've been the leader I just can't do that
to a young actor.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Was that a long time ago, not so long, within
the last fifteen years, yes, yes, right, so that's said. Yeah,
I think the industry has changed a lot. A lot
of that crap is because of production. A lot of
that is, oh, here's this above the line amount we
(32:54):
have to bring this guy in for one or two days. Yeah,
and how that gets cheaped production wise, you know, and
how they save the money in locations and move it
around and pay everybody. But la, It's just it's a
weird kind of necessary evil in that world. But it
doesn't change that it makes some people feel like crack.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Yes, it's I've had so many people on shows they
don't do they want to leave, and I just have
never had, you know, producers have been like, do you
want to go? You know you can go, and I've
just never unless it's like look, but of course, if
it's like you know, on a series, sometimes you're like
fourteen hours in, you know, you're exhausted. But I always
try to just be there because I just remember those
(33:38):
feelings of like you're not even gonna stay.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
No, no, I mean, oh yeah, you know, if you
really got to go, I get it, but just to
be like, no, I'm out, I got to dinner, like
I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
And then there was the occasional they sat in their
chair in video village. Yeah, you yelled their line.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Yes, that's the worst weird, right, that's so weird.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Well yeah, yeah, that's why we're brilliant, Bonnie.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
We are, right, Riant. I want to know your worst.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Oh gosh, oh see the kids met.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
I want to know your absolutely.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
I think my worst is uh uh, I think my
worst is uh that Hearty's thing? What is it called
Bonnie stan Lee's harp See how it started? Just like
see what he said, stan Lee? Right, stan Lee, you're
thinking stan Lee, they got like a comic con is
(34:39):
after this guy. Right, it would have happened if it
wasn't for stan Lee. Right, it's it's got to be
a decent picture. I think we shot in Bulgaria, which
was another kind of red flag. It was called Harpy's
shooting in Bulgaria two strikes, right, And then there was
how much are they going to pay me? And I
went when do we leave? Right? Which is terrible? That's terrible.
(35:02):
So some for some actors, bad movies come out of
just you know, money, financial horedom, of course, because my
dad made twenty six grand and raised six kids. So
dilio is, you want to bring me over to Bulgaria
at a certain point in my career and give me
X which was twenty five thousand is three zeros? So
(35:26):
do you add one zero to two fifty ahead? Can
I ask your husband? So one more zero makes two fifty.
So imagine being offered two to fifty thousand dollars, holy shit,
to go shoot in Bulgaria.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
What year was this.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
In the nineties?
Speaker 5 (35:41):
That's a lot that then, sure it was. That's a lot.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Now I'll take it, yeah, and and and right two
thousand and seven. Sometimes back then, I'll take.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
Two hundred thousand dollars right now.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Praise amen, Amen. So blessings, blessings, blessings. My point, My
point is I did a lot of that sort of
I did one hundred movies. When we were starting this,
literally in a conversation with the guys, I was like, yeah, man,
I did one hundred movies. And you know that's a
(36:18):
that one with Amos Poe bad movie. Uh, that one
about the shark that's swimming around in the canals of
Venice said Italy, that was a bad one. You know what,
It's called Sharks in Venice. See how easy it is
to have a bad movie. That is not my fault.
It's not that also shot in Bulgaria, so I've been
(36:40):
to Bulgaria. But I'm but I thought in my one
hundred films, ish ness whatever, I had like seven eight
nine seventy nine quote unquote heart Sharks in Venice, which
Sharks and Venice is actually a lovely film. There's another
one another called earth Storm, and I think they're both
(37:03):
kind of cute if you're into that creepy sci fi,
you know. I mean, I I what's my line, John,
I say, I'm just a construction worker. I'm not a scientist.
Damn it, Like what do I say this?
Speaker 5 (37:14):
It's not like what is that they.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Bring me in because I'm like, I'm a demolition expert
that knows how to blow up large objects. And there's
a meteorite coming towards Earth or the Moon's no, so
the moons? What is is the Moon's cracking? And can
I send a like some kind of fireballed you CAUs
(37:40):
you tell I didn't read the script. I'm just kidding,
but I'm supposed to do some demolition work on a
planet that's cracking in order to save the planet. And
it's called earth Storm, And my hair looked a lot
like this just because I'm not scared. Okay, So now
(38:00):
we're reflecting on those point being is literally it turned
out that my my bad movie count internally was twenty.
I had like I had to stop there, like they
were like no Dud's eighteen bad Races nineteen. Well, think
about your manager producing partner like going being honest with
(38:21):
you and going, no, no, dude, you forgot all these
other ones. You forgot, You forgot all the ones. You forgot,
all the ones outside both listen if you.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
Have like usual suspects, Amen, and then sharks and Venice,
you win.
Speaker 5 (38:34):
You know what I mean, you fucking win? Wow, right,
you win? I mean, come on, like you get to
do that.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
I mean I would take that and then do all
the freaking seven below as possible just to be a
part of something like that, honestly, And you were brilliant
in that. So it's like you gotta also walk away
and go, well take the l for these. But hey,
I was in one of the greatst films ever made.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
Of all time.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Okay, so below seven.
Speaker 5 (39:09):
Yeah, seven below, seven below doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Seven, I have to watch it. I gotta watch it. No,
I gotta watch it now, come on, Spike.
Speaker 5 (39:22):
And it's my only horror movie.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
And I've always I always wanted to do a really
good harror move.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
You know, like a like a classic. So I did
get to die a really good death though I got
in below seven ye yes, but below.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
Tell me seven well as you as you seven below,
I got it as you've done, like you know, when
the when it's like you know, the sun sunrise, like
we have we have, we have, you know, twenty minutes
to get the shop, twenty minutes to get.
Speaker 5 (39:51):
The shot, twenty minutes.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
Sometimes that's the best, right, Sometimes that's like the best
when that's when they got you. I do the best
work when it's like hurry up, hurry up like that
I always do.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
You know, it makes my husband, see what happened?
Speaker 2 (40:03):
They cut your head off? What they do? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (40:05):
They cut my head up? And I got to be like,
I did they really cut your head off?
Speaker 5 (40:09):
No? I got stabbed to death.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
But it was like that that that you know, feverish,
like the sun's coming up. We gotta go, we gotta go,
we gotta go, and that like, sometimes those are even
though it was a terrible scene and I was awful
in it and it's awful bad and I look ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
But sometimes that adrenaline kicks in and.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
You're just like we you know, we've got five minutes,
we've got ten minutes, we've got you know, and like
you've had those experiences, right, like we gotta go, we
gotta go, like we gotta get this shot, and sometimes
those are the best moments that you have ever.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Yes, working even on bad movies, even.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
Because when you're sitting around for twelve you know, sometimes
that's kind of like you get lazy. But when it's like,
let's go, we gotta get this shot, it's like that
feeling of like let's get adrenaline. The adrenaline, right, So
I got that experience. But yeah, it was miserable and
I was I looked it was it was.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Just your first feature, Harror.
Speaker 5 (40:59):
It wasn't my first feature.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
You almost said that earlier. When I started to ask
you about this, I literally said, you know, when, when
when can you think of something? You went, I think,
you know my first movie. You didn't.
Speaker 5 (41:12):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (41:12):
It was my first feature, but I think it was
my one of my first like real roles.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
I did a lot of another first lead.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
I did a lot of works, dude, Like a lot
of like Spider Man two, Like I'm screaming woman and
Spider Man two.
Speaker 5 (41:26):
That's my credit.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
Like I did a lot of like you know, one
liners like bedazzled.
Speaker 5 (41:32):
Oh that's a bad one. Oh that's a bad God
rest hold Raams. I could say this. I loved him
so much, but God rest his soul. He's amazing. But
be dazzled. That was a w.
Speaker 4 (41:45):
Elizabeth Hurley and Brendan Frasier. It was a it was
a that was bad. It was that was a bad movie.
But it was my first speaking role. And I was
girl in Beer Garden Number two and I had a
speaking role.
Speaker 5 (41:58):
Could you talk to I talked to Elizabeth Hurley?
Speaker 2 (42:03):
What'd you say?
Speaker 4 (42:05):
Don't remember? This was in ninety five. That was my
first speaking role, right, that was bad?
Speaker 2 (42:10):
Your first line ever on film was to Liz Early.
Speaker 4 (42:13):
Yeah, and she was so I just remember thinking because
in ninety five, you know, I mean she was like really,
you know, I just remember thinking, she's so beautiful.
Speaker 5 (42:22):
My god, No, she's so ugly, she's so gorgeous. Oh
my god, she was so beautiful.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
But I had like three lines and I got you know,
that was that was three or four lines, three or
four lines, and I just remember Harold Raymis was so
sweet and so kind and I was just on a
set for the first time.
Speaker 5 (42:38):
My mind was blown But yeah, that way, it was bad. Yeah,
I don't feel bad saying, well, I.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Have never communicated with Liz Hurley on film, but I've
been to several parties. Thirty thirty five years ago. No,
so I went thirty thirty five years ago. Yeah, that
she spoke to me, but I.
Speaker 4 (42:59):
Just don't remember because you were so like blown away.
Speaker 6 (43:03):
You were just like two in the morning and it
was a party at someone's house and the you know,
in the Hollywood Hills, and you know, Lizurley was cleaning
the kitchen at her friend's house.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
And I was like, you know, like, hey, dude, what's up.
She's like, right, mate, there's the front tier. That was
my brush with greatness with Liz Hurley. Which one are
you Steven? Right? All right, right, there's the front two.
Good luck. Now drive careful, don't let the tool hit you.
On a bam, you know that sort of thing. But
(43:35):
now she looks fabulous. Now still still her son is
like some fancy director, is he and he's like handsome,
beyond handsome.
Speaker 5 (43:45):
She's still I mean, you won't be as.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Handsome as my next grandchild. Anyway. That was comedy on
an intergalactic level. Here at one bad.
Speaker 5 (44:00):
Movie people, So you're bad movie? Well, earth Storm, first storm,
sharks in Venice? Sure do you remembers she has to
come back?
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Jim? Can she already co host and help me co
host stuff like when we blow up? Because the shows
we already know it's going to blow up. Everyone's talking
about one bad movie?
Speaker 5 (44:22):
What's yours?
Speaker 2 (44:23):
Isn't that weird?
Speaker 5 (44:25):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Nobody I thought it was a stupid idea.
Speaker 5 (44:27):
Everyone's going, it's a great idea. It's a great idea.
But what's your personal not that.
Speaker 4 (44:33):
You've been in the Harpy's one was bad Velvet threesome?
Speaker 2 (44:40):
Yeah, oh my gosh, we wanted to talk about, Well,
that's been so great. If you knock the whole shelf over,
you got it.
Speaker 5 (44:52):
Look at you.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
I know I was good. That's the guy my wife married. Boy,
that little right eye to this.
Speaker 4 (45:03):
I told Jane's my very first pilot I ever did.
Andy Fleming hired me. This is a good story, Amy Adam.
It was a show called gross Point. It was on
the WB.
Speaker 5 (45:14):
It was a spoof of like nine O two one oh,
and it was. It was way ahead of its time.
It should have been on.
Speaker 4 (45:21):
Darren Starr, who created nine two and oh, wrote this
as a as a spoof and we were all adults.
Speaker 5 (45:26):
Playing tea.
Speaker 4 (45:28):
And Andy Fleming was the director of the pilot. Amy
Adams worked for four days, got fired. They didn't think
she was funny. My manager calls me and goes, listen,
you gotta be there. I got you an audition. They
need a blonde, you know, because I was playing the blonde,
the Kelly character nine on two and oh whatever, the
(45:49):
blonde role. She's like, you gotta be there seven o'clock.
You're gonna meet Darren. You can audition. If you get it,
it shoots tomorrow. So I went, wow, that was my
very first pilot I auditioned for like they made I
remember Andy. I did it so many times and Andy
came outside and.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
Was it was for Andy's show.
Speaker 5 (46:10):
It was for Darren Starr's show. For the WB. Remember
the WB. It doesn't exist anymore now I c W.
Speaker 2 (46:16):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (46:17):
But Andy Fleming was directing the pilot and he came out.
He kept show of that show, and he kept coming
out and helping me and going listen, I want you
to get this job. And he was like, this is
what they want, this is what they want. And I
got the show and I had to be on set
at four in the morning the next day to get
my hair dyed platinum, and I replaced Amy Adams.
Speaker 5 (46:38):
Funny story is running into.
Speaker 4 (46:40):
Amy Adams years later, who we had a mutual friend,
and she was like, oh, yeah, I know you.
Speaker 5 (46:44):
You replaced me. I wanted to be like, you've I
replaced you.
Speaker 4 (46:48):
You're an Oscar winner man, and now on my show
got canceled?
Speaker 5 (46:52):
What what how did that happen? And She's like, oh, yeah,
I got fired and you replaced me.
Speaker 4 (46:56):
And I was like, now you're Amy Adams and I
was on a canceled shop. But Andy Fleming directed it,
and he talked about this movie, how much he loved
it and how he had the best time.
Speaker 2 (47:07):
Well, let me tell you my Andy Fleming story. So like, uh,
quite opposite to what I shared with you earlier. You know,
some journeys are fabulous, right. You get on the cruise
ship and you know they said, this cruise ship is
going to lead you and take you all warm and
(47:28):
fuzzy into a threesome. And sure enough, that's exactly what happened. Sorry,
can I say that, I'm sorry, but that's what happened
because Larslyn Boyle, who if I can just make out
with this VHS cover for a second, But I'm going
to say the same thing about Josh Charles. But Larslyn
(47:49):
Boyle is is probably one of the funniest, one of
the most natural actresses I've ever worked with. Natural, which
is that's the one you can't teach. Josh Charles is
Josh Charles. He's gone on to being super great stuff
and a very unique special actor. Steve Baldwin, Oh, a
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little whitfer snapper. Now Grandpa Grandpa? Where is he Grandpa? No,
I don't think he's a grandpa yet, Grandma, No, baby Baldwin.
Maybe Grandpa number two coming down like a fastball. So
Andy who When I met him, like some directors, he
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was quirky and he was this, and he was smart
and hit but he had the vision, right, he knew
what he wanted. That's why he was cool to.
Speaker 5 (48:45):
Yeah, he's very clear about Yeah, what do you wanted.
Speaker 2 (48:47):
To get you in a panicked situation to focus and
deliver it was cool. Yeah, he's that kind of equality
writer director. But with me on Threesome, it was I
was playing a bit of a more Fantasma Gore character,
you know what I mean. So I was playing this
guy that was like proverbiably perpetually horny. That's basically my
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character in Threesome. So well, it's kind of true, but
it speaks to many other young men out there globally. Sorry,
it's college life, you know.
Speaker 5 (49:26):
Is that Andy's first film? Was that his first film?
I forgot.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
I think it might be his first kind of like
big film.
Speaker 4 (49:33):
Yeah, he did, like feature and I think yeah he
did film school first.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
I think he didn't. You may have done another student film.
Speaker 5 (49:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
But the best part of Threesome wasn't the threesome. I
just have to say stupid stuff so it becomes like
sound bites for one bad movie on social media. So
the best part of Threesome was cut. That's that's a
promo for the show now, right, I'd be foolish. Sorry,
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this is how my show goes. Just welcome.
Speaker 5 (50:08):
The best part of the threesome was the threesome.
Speaker 2 (50:12):
There you see now now you've landed the plane, Bonnie,
thank you in the movie. The threesome in the.
Speaker 5 (50:17):
Movie only in the movie, right, and only in the
movie correct.
Speaker 2 (50:23):
And Andy Fleming when I met him was fun because
if you kind of set a foundation for a character
and then you let the actor have fun. So it
was weird because I would come to him with some ideas,
like the physiology of what I was Like, I'm like, oh, hey,
in the blocking, I was here, but what if I
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cross over? Because he gives me a room to like
kind of thrust my hips, and like, you know, he's
like Andy's cheer going.
Speaker 5 (50:50):
Yeah, he's very face.
Speaker 2 (50:54):
Yeah, let's do a rehearsal.
Speaker 5 (50:57):
Yeah that's very like He's like, hmm, okay, let's.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
And sure enough a lot of my improvs made it
up into the film on that level. But then when
you put into the mix Lara Flynn and Josh two
very very funny people, the rest is kind of history.
This movie touched many people. Yeah, it was huge with
comedy and a brilliant story by Andy Fleming. I was
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blessed to be in it.
Speaker 5 (51:27):
I'm a big fan.
Speaker 4 (51:28):
He's a great guy, and yeah, this was like one
of those indies you know back in the day that
just blew up that everybody you know, like it was
just those great movies that just kind of blow blow up.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
All right, Well, we'll we'll find Andy somewhere out there
and TV land in the future, and we'll see if
we can get him on this program.
Speaker 5 (51:50):
It probably could.
Speaker 2 (51:51):
I think we can. I think we can. I ran
into another friend of his recently at a coffee shop,
and yeah, the vibes are out there for threesome, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (52:01):
Threesome part two point zero, threesome two point oh.
Speaker 5 (52:07):
I think it would be called thurple. Now, what is
it a thurple? What throttle? Now it would be a thropple.
Speaker 2 (52:17):
What's a throutle?
Speaker 5 (52:19):
It's a couple that are three people, that's the thing, apparently.
Speaker 2 (52:23):
Together as just friends now like a couple, like a
married like so they live together. Yeah, and they're all
kind of washing each other's backs in the shower.
Speaker 4 (52:34):
Right, it's a thing, right, James, very much. So they
live together, they're married. They consider themselves a family, not
for me.
Speaker 2 (52:47):
Can you take a nap? I feel exhausted. No, but
I'm fifty eight. I mean, you know, listen, I you know, listen.
Speaker 5 (52:59):
I'd be exaust don't get any ideas over there.
Speaker 2 (53:04):
Sure, oh sure, Bonnie blame it on him. So let
me ask you another question. I don't care if the
cameras are ru Yes. I made a lot of movies
because the hundred movies I made I stopped doing like
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ten fifteen years ago, even kind of towards the tail
end of my filmmaking career, I did mostly faith based, mostly,
but before that, I you know, I did pretty good
making some pretty cool movies, the regular ones like we're
talking about. So now I'm gonna make some more because
I've been out of the game for a whiles. But
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I'm entering back into the matrix now with the wisdom
and knowledge of Oh, I don't know. You could almost
call me like a Hollywood shaman at this point, more
like a no mad so to speak. And that's right
where I want to be, Bonnie. So I think I'm
going to develop I don't know how, and I gotta
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be watching careful because there's a lot of devils like
I just met some guy who said, hey, come do
this over here with me and my boys. And they
were doing a show, it's ev series, and they said, hey,
because you know you'd be great guys, like an Irish
mafia guy. It's on. I'm already developing my own Irish
mafia kind of Bordwalk empire. And I'm fifty eight. And
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here's how it works. Now you're ready. Yes, I'm not asking,
I'm just gonna do it. Yes, and this town will
never fing be the same.
Speaker 5 (54:48):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (54:49):
In the name of Stephen Baldwin, You've been one motherfus.
I'm coming.
Speaker 5 (54:57):
I love that guns.
Speaker 2 (54:59):
Ablaze sing Miss Summerville.
Speaker 5 (55:03):
Okay, So anyway, I don't want to break.
Speaker 2 (55:06):
Yeah, that's cool, Irish.
Speaker 5 (55:09):
I'm available. I'm Irish. You know. Listen, listen saying.
Speaker 2 (55:15):
D and D D and D Bonnie, we don't got
to worry.
Speaker 5 (55:21):
I love that idea.
Speaker 2 (55:22):
Okay, we don't got to worry. We got we had
all the stuff, we had all the bullets in the ground.
We're good.
Speaker 5 (55:27):
Good for you.
Speaker 2 (55:28):
You're ready to go to our bullets are the Bible?
Forget about it. Okay, God is our witness. Anyway, I'm
writing something I'm developing my own.
Speaker 5 (55:41):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (55:41):
Uh if you remember another what's the Sean penn Irish
Mafia thing with uh State of Grace?
Speaker 5 (55:53):
Oh my god, I love it. No, no, no, it's
oh State of Grace.
Speaker 2 (55:58):
Grace with Gary Oldman and Sean pet No. But that's
that movie made by a terrific eighties nineties director and
that was a studio picture that was brilliant acting, that
was done right. Yeah, and I won't talk about John Pennymore.
I've kind of said a little too much lately, John
man O, my god. So I have kind of an
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idea for that, but more David Mammott more more kind
of dialogue. Ye, there won't be as much violence, and
you know, car chases and screaming and blood and you
know it doesn't have to be guts. You can leave
that to the imagination.
Speaker 4 (56:40):
But that last scene in State of Grace, the last out,
the shootout with no with no dialogue for like twenty minutes,
is I think one of the best yeah and ending
shootouts ever made. And there's no dialogue, there's literally no.
Speaker 2 (56:58):
Oh you know how blessed you are? You got to
chick knows how to talk about shootouts.
Speaker 5 (57:03):
You have any idea, that's right.
Speaker 2 (57:07):
As you as you were a soldier, stay on the
wing over here. Wow, so you get the state of grace.
So so again just we'll circle, will circle back because
because the truth is the guys, I guess I can
say it, I can talk about I can save whatever
I want, right John, and we can edit right. Well,
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what I was gonna say is there's that show that
saa God. You may have already been on this, but
I think it's called have Not is a mafia show
that streams on the web right now. If you go
to IMDb and you look at grave, uh, it's either
(57:54):
Graves Send or Graves, and I think it's Graves and
it's all one word and many actors. He's been on it,
many credible actors. But it's mostly like an indie low budget.
So those guys, uh uh true, someome people they know
you know what I'm saying, Bonnie. You know they did
(58:17):
a little back channel of Massapequa. They came up over here,
they said, hey, YO, wants to talk. I said, as
long as your business doesn't conflict with my business, inevitably
you will learn how to spell Massapequa. You know what
I'm saying, on the day of my daughter's wedding, you
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come to me on the day my daughters, so you
pop up up. But I think there's an Irish version
of that, of course. I think there's like a really
sit down.
Speaker 6 (58:48):
Of course, medium nobody's done nobody's done it.
Speaker 2 (58:56):
And all these macho people, God bless them, all these
people that you know, that the Oppenheimer Oppenheimer gang, they
got all the tools at their disposal. Yeah, God bless them. Listen.
Speaker 5 (59:09):
The departed. That's the other only one, I think, the Depretty.
But yeah, the Irish, the Irish. Nobody touches that.
Speaker 2 (59:18):
Was Leo in that Leo Dicaprios and departed, right, I'm saying,
except him. It was a great trick. I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding, just kidding.
Speaker 5 (59:30):
Leo's had enough. Let's let's let's spread the wealth.
Speaker 2 (59:32):
He flirted with my wife once at a charity event.
He's a terrific actor. Sorry, just being smarty.
Speaker 5 (59:43):
Finish up, finish up.
Speaker 2 (59:44):
All right, Bonnie, Wait, you can't leave yet? Do you
have somewhere to be? I'm just kidding. I'm just trying
to cause trouble again. How would you like to finish
this interview.
Speaker 5 (59:54):
I don't know you come back again. I would love
to come back. This is awesome.
Speaker 2 (59:57):
Will you?
Speaker 5 (59:58):
This is such.
Speaker 2 (59:59):
A role in Uh. What I want to bring back
is like the TV movie. Remember when they did TV
movies like the three parts here.
Speaker 5 (01:00:10):
I did them back in the day.
Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
I'm going to sell in this town or just raise
the money. A three part kind of TV movie idea.
That's this. That's my version of like a Irish Godfather,
but done by kid who only looks stupid. You know
what I'm saying right now.
Speaker 5 (01:00:31):
You're smarter than you look. You're smarter than you look. Steve.
You gotta say.
Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
Thank you so much for coming.
Speaker 5 (01:00:38):
Oh my god, this was so fun. Thank you, thank you,
thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (01:00:46):
Tread Lips so Bad, Guilty Madnesses, unders so fat. A
back of the old shir
All right, welcome back to One Bad Movie.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Steven. How you doing. I'm doing okay, there, JJ, how
about yourself?
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Great, I'm great.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Okay, So where's the scripture? I don't have my email here.
We don't need scripts on really seriously, all right, are
you kidding? No, we don't, especially about Bonnie. I know
Bonnie is so off script I.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Wasn't This is another one I wasn't there for so
I got to watch this.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Bonnie was fabulous, she was just y. Yeah it was weird, right, yeah,
it was kind of cool. We had a similar kind
of thespianistic.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Trademark, One Bad Movie espianistic. Thank you for our audience.
For those who don't know, you may remember Bonnie from
The OC friends NYPD Blue.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
She was listen to me, this is gonna sound so bad.
But that's why I'm the host of One Bad Movie.
Most people know already that I have a very interesting
perspective and opinion on entertainment and talent. I won't say
I hated the OC, but I just didn't watch it.
It's just was kind of you know, it was not
my thing. It was not in my algorithm of what
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entertained me. Right, But Bonnie was awesome. Yea. So whenever
there's a talent level that elevates a project, I think
that's pretty interesting.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
She elevated the room when she came in for the pod.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, she was.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
And you guys, you guys talked all things New York.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I just connected with Bonnie being kind of old school
in her mentality, very family h just that thing.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Well, my favorite part of the conversation is when you
guys got into working with the same director Andrew.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah. And it's so weird because I just did a
Steel City Con. I went and signed to autographs that's right,
comic con thing, and so it was fabulous nice. The
coolest part the people that not only worked there, but
in the lines. The fans themselves were really sweet and fun.
But the photos they could sign of mine. One of
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them was threesome nice. Andy Fleming's a picture yeah, so
which he wrote and directed. Not an easy thing to do.
And I was just pleasantly surprised at the number of
people that as a comedy genuinely think that title is
a lot of fun. As a Christian now, a lot
of people are like ew Steady Stevie. But that's the
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kind of stories I don't mind telling as a Christian.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Nice Well, I told you my whole story about a
good friend of mine just out of the blue, didn't
even know that you and I were working together, said
have you ever seen Threesome? I said no, and he said, oh,
that is peaked Stephen Balding Man, that is like a
nineties you have to see. He gave me for not
seeing the movie.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
So Steve baldwins Threesomes peeked in the nineties. Thank goodness, No, no, no,
no peaks Stephen Goodness, that's all over.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
No, No, that's not meaning you peaked in the nineties.
Oh that means like that is like the Krem de
la crem of your repertence. Right, Well, enough about that
without further ado, Let's let's get into Bonnie. What a
great episode. And one little tidbit that I learned. I
didn't know that she sang on the Garden State soundtrack,
which they just had a twentieth anniversary concert. She's uber
(03:07):
suber talented.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Bonnie's kind of like smoking retro, you know what I mean,
from a retro perspective. She is who she is, the
real deal. So nice.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Welcome to one bad movie, all right, without further ado.
This is Bonnie Somerville.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
That's an adult.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Bonnie Crag, fat lips. It's so bad, it's good.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
We see damn.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Place sound guilty, Blesssmas Sunderson. It's so bad, it's good.
One bad.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Twenty years ago, as an actress, my therapist was like,
you do not look at anyone else because I will
You know, I'll short circuit.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
So I don't read that because I'll be like crazy.
You can put that on the air.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I don't get literally if I if I look at
what anyone else is doing, I will kill myself, like
I just it will set comments, no, just like well
why are you doing this? Why is she doing this?
Why am I not doing this? Why did my sugar
cancel it? So I never do that. So I have
a friend who is she's one of those actors. I'm
sure you know they read everything. They're like they know everybody,
they know every producer, they know every.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
I don't want to if you know, just let me work.
I don't want to hear about the other blonde. You
know my no, don't tell me.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
If you knew how much I don't know, you'd be amassed.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
We're the same because no, no, no, I'm I had to
find this out from a friend that the agency went under.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
And even my husband is like, have you heard this?
Speaker 4 (04:51):
And he's not even an actor, and I'm like, I what, no,
because I just can't do it drives me nuts if
I if you know, I learned not to compare myself
because that's the.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Well I have to kind of just keep my ear
to the ground because of family members, right, I just
have to make sure what the children are behaving, so
to speak. You know, it's it's just a weird genetics thing. Move,
move my drink.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Oh okay, sorry, how's that? HELLU?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Then, Jim, I'm gonna hell at you the rest of
this conversation. It's because it's she knows how to hit
the ball back over the net, so to speak. John,
what do you mean?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Hell?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Who's telling I'm going to be me?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Me me?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Because we haven't even started formally with the interview and
already we're having.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
A lovely chanch lovely cha.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yes, yes, well, Bonnie Somerville, welcome to One Bad Movie.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
And you're here. I think you're here kind of because
you heard about it. Yes, through the grape vine.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Yes, which is growing.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Rapidly. Hear about one bad movie. Yeah, and I was
sharing this with you before off camera, before this beginning
of the interview. Uh, that one bad movie is this
happy accident that was kind of birthed out of something unique.
But then before you know the whole backstory, which I'm
gonna get into it in one second. You saw a promo,
a teaser. Yes, what'd you think?
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I thought it was hilarious. I loved it. I thought
it was hysterically funny.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
It's one of my favorite words, hilarious, powerful word, hilarious,
use it lightly.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
But I'm not. I'm not. I'm a funny snob.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
So I wouldn't say hilarious if it wasn't hilarious because
I'm a funny snob.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Trust me, if it's not, it's not funny.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, funny snobbery is is greatly needed.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
So I was listening to an interview driving in a car,
talking to myself, which I I do quite often, and
there was this actor talking promoting a film and it
was lovely and I kind of was listening, listening and listening.
I hear the off stuff. I hear the like kind
of the nail scratch on the chalkboard, so to speak,
(07:19):
a little bit, and I just was listening to it
just brought me back to when I did a lot
of that circuit stuff, you know, right we're radio round
tables and everything, digital magic carpet, which is fabulous. But
I was listening and I went, boy, forgive me. I
don't mean to be mean when I say this, but
(07:40):
because I haven't.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Worked in a long time me neither me either. I'm
about it neither.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I'm driving in the car, I'm listening to this radio program,
lovely actor. Everything sounds great, and I went, just like this,
I'm so glad I don't have to do this. I
didn't mean it like mean, I just meant it like
I remember that, and I generally go, wouldn't it just
be a blast for this guy to talk about that
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one crap movie he made? This just however, in the
psychology of my you know.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Like they were being honest and not foolish.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Just just it was a knee jerk thing. I thought,
you know, in the opposite way of thinking. And I went,
you know what I mean because everybody, to myself, I went,
because everybody has, every actor has at least one bad movie,
and then I walked around with one bad movie for
like a day, going could you ask people if they
(08:39):
wanted to talk about their one bad movie? And I
went like, like literally, kind of like a psycho. I
was like, walking around, This is how I process creatively.
Then I called John, who's the worst. He's the meanest,
most horrible critic ever, but he's super smart. So I
(09:01):
said to him, Hey, man, you know every actor has
one bad movie, and you know, bad movies are kind
of like an opinion, and you know, could I could
you put that in a format that's the truth? Could
you put that in a format for me? And does
that work? And I went because I don't think it works.
I think it's kind of too stupid, it's too upside now,
(09:23):
and it's too if it takes too long to get it.
But then you saw the trailer and you got it.
Welcome to one.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Bad movie, Thank you, happy to be here.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
That's the way I like to approach the comprehension.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
I just like the honesty of it.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
It's like everybody talks about all their success but nobody, well, A,
you can't. You're not allowed to say things that you
really see on sets, because then you'll be you know Blacklist,
You know, we all know all the stuff that, all
the stuff that goes on. Nobody talks about the badge.
They only talk about the success. But it's like I
(10:01):
love I love the bad I love the like the
backstory and like what did you go through?
Speaker 5 (10:06):
And this this guy was an asshole? And I got
get to.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
That, bunny. Do you have a bad movie?
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Which one of mine?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Oh God, is that where should I start?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Was there kind of a voyage a voyage you entered
into that was a production? Is that you know? Uh?
Remember that thought? Yes, I digressed just for a second.
But my brother tells a funny story. My brother Alex
says to me, like, oh yeah, no, it's it's kind
of commonplace. You know, you're do an indie thing. They
promise you this, she signed the contract. You know, it's
(10:39):
you know, it's love Boat to Fiji is the picture
and your you know, Captain Stewart whatever his name is,
and yes, let's love boat.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
That's how That's how I know. I remember love. I
remember love. I'm not too I'm not too far mind right.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
So Alix says he has had the experience many times
in indie Land where he gets on the love boat.
They come off that, you know, they leave Manhattan, they
get out into the ocean and like all of a sudden,
they start to turn and they're heading towards Staten Island,
you know what I mean. And he's like, but the
script cover says Fiji, and they're like, well, you know,
some things went down and we lost an investor. Yeah,
(11:25):
Staten Island. But I'm fum so is there any void?
Is there any production? You think that? And it doesn't
have to be you know, psycho crazy, someone's dark. I
have so many we're here for a while.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
I have I have a movie. I don't want to
say what it was.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
I have a movie where it was my very first
Indie and it was the lead. It was the star,
and it's shot and I'm you're from Long Island. I'm
from Brooklyn. Most of my mom's one of nine, they
all live on Long Island. So having any job in
New York is obviously was always a big deal for me,
you know what I mean, just because the family could
come in the grandparents cub and it was this India
(12:05):
I did.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
It was a first offer.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
I got to be the lead, it was the star,
and I was there for three weeks by myself, shooting
in Philly and New York City.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
My grandma was on set. This was grandmother was on
she passed away, but she was an extra.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
She actually was in the background. We walked down Fifth
Avenue and she was in the background and I was there,
and I was so excited. This was like fifteen years ago.
And the producers, lovely guys, came up to me after
I was there and said, we have to talk to you.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
And I was like, oh shit, I'm fired. I'm fired.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
I'm already fired. And they were like, we feel really bad.
And I was like sweating thinking, and they said, the
lead actor, who was more famous than me, who was
on a very successful hit show, he's coming and he
wants to bump you down. He doesn't want you to
be number one. He wants to be number one. On
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the call sheet. You got to be number two. And
I was like, it was my first time ever just
having that moment, and you know, being alone for three
weeks on a set and being.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
And you were how old, thirty.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Five, thirty four to thirty five, but still it was
like my first number one on a movie, and just
the feeling of that happening adjustment. But just even though
I know, look, we're actors, we have ego, I get
you know, you know, you say it doesn't matter, but
when you finally get it kind of matters.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
You know, you tell your family you're.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Like, I made number one, like and so he shows
up and I was completely immediately bumped down to number two,
and the entire energy changed.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
For the next six weeks.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
It was like a it was a completely different job,
do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
So those three weeks, no you even said the name
of the movie yet. No, okay, you haven't said the
name of the actor. Now, so is there another one?
Because that's just incredibly intriguing. Yes, let's just leave that that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Yeah, it was just it was it was just like
a it was just just just.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Having that moment like I'm number one. No, I think
I was, No, I was younger than thirty.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
But then when he shows it, just the whole movie,
the whole experience went like.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Deep, you know what I mean, most definitely.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Taking the boat to you think.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
You're going to and then different different situations where.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
It's like, but who does that though?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
If you're really successful and this one young younger actor
gets a change.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Who shows up.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
I just I'll never forget. I would never do that
to somebody. I would never I would be like, yeah,
let them take the let them take the win. It's
a little stupid movie, you know, thirty grand forty whatever
it was.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Why would you why would you go, hey, listen, I
want to change the call sheet?
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Like do you not have like like like like a
like like a life. I mean, it was just like
the guy has a multi millionaire and I'm like, it's
just like, wait a second, you know, I just think
like those those kind of things to me are like
a bad movie experience, you know, yes, absolutely emotionally whole thing.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
So I've had you've had that, well, you know, I've
been number two on the call sheet many times, h
and kind of in that hierarchy.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Yeah, but it's that I've been number two, three, four, ten.
It's it's starting off as one and you're.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Just like, oh my.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
God, you know, just actress, think actress, think I'm one,
you know that stupid thing, which we learned later on
it really doesn't matter who cares.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
But when I have it for the first time, you're
like yes, and then someone shows up and they're.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Like yeah, not so much, right, It's just like, yeah,
that was just like then the vibration for six weeks
after that was the same kind of vacuum.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Just it's just kind of the whole because everybody felt
I can't everybody felt it.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
The producers felt it just kind of ruined this like
really like buzzworthy thing, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Okay, beyond that one, Yeah, I'm curious about it. Similar
because I've had method actors who want to mess with
me because they're method actors.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Oh yeah, I'm bad.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I can't tell you a lot of the stories.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
No, I want to hear them. I want to hear them.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Because they because I say stuff and everybody is like,
he thinks he's cool, you know what I mean. I
grew up a certain way. Yeah, my dad was from Brooklyn.
My dad's dad was from Brooklyn.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Where what part I don't know. Doesn't forgive me Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
But that's because I I don't like to talk about
Oh yeah, right with this, with that, you know.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Yeah, me too, me too, forget about it. Irish Catholics.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
What was I talking about?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
You've had experiences like right with method actors, but they
all ended the same way.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
So one guy, I was working on a movie and uh,
we finished filming and we were in Israel and we
were standing at like one of those all inclusive hotels
because we weren't one or two on the cautionumes. So
this guy, he just just was socializing and now we're
(17:24):
not on the set and he just decides to kind of,
in a very abstract way, kind of rage on me
about something totally insignificant. But in the moment of this
reality we're in now, it'd be like if I went like,
you know, and I think, you know, and it was
just something stupid and offensive, right, But suddenly and when
(17:47):
it happened, I was like, you know, wow, that was
some kind of a mood swing. Yeah, you know, because
this person got up and went to their hotel room.
It took me years to understand really was having he
was that person in the retropectause. Then it happened to
me a couple more times, and I went, oh, that's
(18:10):
kind of some methodology of some Thespians where they feel
like they got.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
To right, like rally you up, well, spook you a little.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Bit whatever, so that when you're back on set you're
a little off balance, right, that's my guests. Yeah, that's
my guest. You know, some sometimes that would happen with
people who and I can't I won't say who either.
I did a movie called Last Exit to Brooklyn. One
of the actors.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Amen, love the movie.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Love the movie so much, meaning good, Yes, love the
movie though, but one of the actors from love that movie.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
I just want to say, we all do. Amen.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
But there was a lot of macho people running around,
and you know in the real world of of of macho. Yeah,
John's a big guy. He's a martial artist, and you know,
he talks more about how he has to talk himself
out of hurting someone. He's we're talking to himself, than
about what he needs to do to somebody else. So haha,
(19:13):
when you really know how to, you know, diffuse the situation,
you don't have to be big, you don't have to
be that strong. You just have to know how to
diffuse the situation. So I would do that, Like verbally,
I just go, look, I kind of feel like you're
getting ready to do something weird or be weird, and
we're just trying to make a movie, and like we're
on a set and you're number four on the call
sheet and I'm number.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Eight, Like it's just a movie.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I kind of would go to that speech to try
to avoid further drama. Didn't always work, didn't always work.
So but that kind of cookiness. I don't know how
many women have done that to you. I don't have
many method women. You've dealt with.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
A couple, right, women.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Yes, more women than men, girl, Women are harder, I mean, yeah,
I've had more more caddy.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
I mean I grew up, like I said, like, you know,
I've you know, grew up in Brooklyn, like Irish Catholic,
working class, like always like a guy's girl, you know
what I mean, Like just grew up. I didn't grow
up with any sort of pomp or nobody was an artist,
you know what I mean. My family are cops and
firemen and fucking garbagemen and and so I never had
that attitude ever, so so coming coming to getting in
(20:28):
this business. When I came to LA, was was kind
of a shock with with all the like you know, all.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Just all the all the all the way variety. Yeah,
and and you know, I modeled for a minute.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
I was not nowhere near as successful as your you know,
but I was always kind of like, all right, I
don't know, Okay, I know, you know they're gonna pay me.
But I always wanted to act, and but I was
never like a girly girl. So so when you get
into the business and then you meet all these women
that are so aggressively caddy and aggressively, I just didn't
grow up like that. I just grew up with normal,
(21:03):
regular people in flat Bush. So I wasn't prepared. I
wasn't prepared.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I can only imagine behind the scenes a few times
with this one no where she just looked at her
confused seriously because they're trying to instigate her, and it's
like it's not until like you put your hands on
her that that person's going to figure out.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Like what I've had some I've had some bad argument.
I've had some like what the are you doing? What
the you're talking about with girl? And like been talked
to and been like you know you got you can't
talk like that, and I'm like why not, Like you know,
I had to learn, oh, you can't talk like this,
And because I just grew up in a family probably
like yours, where it was like it was like.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I'm still learning Bonnie.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
To talk to my husband.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Oh my god, he'll tell you, like I'm still learning,
Like you can't just say whatever you want, you can't
just pop off. But my mother, who was here two
ways ago, you know, we pop off together, you know
what I mean, like we just you know, it's like
we we just do. And my husband's like, oh god,
you can't say that. You just can't say that out
loud in front of my and so I am still.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Where were your canters? What was going on?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Just at home? Jerry's Jerry's Delli? No, just at home,
I mean the whole Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Would she make? Who your mom?
Speaker 5 (22:13):
What'd she make?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
What does she cook while she was here?
Speaker 5 (22:15):
My mom? Oh god, no, she's never cooked life. No,
never never cooked for me.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Never.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
My dad left when I was a kid.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
We moved in with my grandmother, my grandparents, who had
seven at home.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
My mom worked. My mom doesn't even know how to
boil an egg. Seriously, she cooks for the dog. I'm
not joking.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
She makes her dog homemade dinner every night, not herself.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
No, never cook for me a dinner.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Life. Love her to death, mom, But you know my
mom's she always says, my version of cooking is.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Hello, what do you want?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Does she really?
Speaker 5 (22:46):
She doesn't go every night, but she'll pay.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
She'll so. Now she is a supposed to man.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
She's very generous and she will order you whatever you like.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Does she like grub Hub?
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Oh yeah, well everything she has everything, she does everything,
she has the meals. I mean, she's amazing. But no,
she never cooked. But my grandmother cooked.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
So your mother's mother cooks.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Yes, well she did?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
She passing away. That's the onion. I want appeal for
a second here on one bad movie. The entree into
the conversation is bad movies. What is great? What is
grandmother like to cook?
Speaker 5 (23:19):
I'm curious dead?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
What did she like to cook?
Speaker 5 (23:21):
From the grave?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
You never chased the food?
Speaker 5 (23:24):
You know she's she cooked horribly. She was irish. She
was a horrible cook. I love you, Grandma.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
She would cook meat and potatoes, maybe a boiled broccoli
that you couldn't even eat every night.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
It was not good.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
And she's had seven kids living at home when we
moved in. I loved her, but she was the worst
cook on the planet.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Can I give you an amazing idea? You should do
a cookbook about your family? Horrible the cooks were that's
a great idea idea great grandma. Would you know not
a cook?
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Don't I I cook? I'm a great cook.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
I make a great chicken parmagan all right, I do
some good Italian food. I'm a very good cook. I
like to cook because nobody cooks for me.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Well, here's the funny thing. John is chefy. He's gonna.
He's not a chef, but he's chefy. James is a chef.
Are you did you know James is a chef? Oh,
James is a chef. James makes desserts. You would stab
people see that.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
I don't do I don't know how to do.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
No, no, no, he's if you you know his Instagram pages
cook like James the food. No no, no, I'm getting hungry.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
When am I getting invited over.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
A p e q u a bro? Forget about it.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
I love that we're both like Irish, but because because
we're from Long Island and Brooklyn, we still think.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
We get one of my sisters.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
We get the past to do this, we always do completely.
We get a pass of question.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Yeah. My Italian friends would always bust my balls and go,
you're not even Italian to be like, yeah, but I've
a flappish.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
I could do what I want, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Like, I could talk like this if I want what
part of.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Long Island by the way, mass Peak, massive Peak.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Oh, then you really get the pass and you really
get the pass.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Well.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
One of my first boyfriends was from mass Peak.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
By the way, Oh adorable. A lot of honkey and
ice came out of mass Speak. Jerry. Sorry, I shouldn't
have said that. Yeah, but like you know, that's my
sense of humor. Get it. I'll call Jerry honky.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Mass a Pequa.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
That's amazing, I mean, but that's where I'm from. They
used to call. I might get corrected for this later,
we'll see from the pilant gallery. Uh. But Massapequa was
mostly Jewish folks and Italians. So a nickname when you
were in the hood was Matza.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Pizza, Matza Pizza.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
I've heard that, Like, actually, I haven't heard that in forever.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Right, And and when you describe some of that Brooklyn
Y kind of stuff, especially if you say cops and firemen.
One of my sister's ex husbands, the whole family was
fireman's on uh, on the massapeakle park side, on the
other side of the tracks. So I was in the
(26:33):
Massapeaker that it was down by Maspeka High School, which
was near the Great South Bay, the south shore of
Long Island. Uh and uh just one of the most
coolest places.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
To grow up.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Very very rural, rural, forgive me very uh just Friday
night lights as.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Well, just down to earth real. That's how I grew up.
I wouldn't trade it, honestly.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Well, I just grew up with a lot of uh
folks like you, bunny. That's the truth. That's the not
like me.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
There's nothing like me. First of all. No, there's nobody
like me. I'm kidding.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Same attitude, Well, same attitude. You haven't. You haven't stamped
one thing here?
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Which one worst movie? Bad movie? Another bad movie?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Oh god, I didn't say it word.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
I've had so many.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Give me one you can talk about. Then nobody got whacked. Okay,
I'm scared.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
My husband said, don't name any names.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
No, he's right. You can name a movie that was.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Oh yeah, I did.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Okay, I did a horror movie, my only horror movie
I ever did called it was called seven Below. Don't
tell me you don't know what that movie is. No,
you don't, No, you don't stop.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
It John, you know seven below, what's it about? What's
it about?
Speaker 5 (28:01):
I can't even tell you.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I was.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
I still don't even know, I swear to God. Even
when I was there, I didn't. We're after a group
start a ghost.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Story, seven people that get pulled over, getting an accident,
and we ended up going to this house that was
haunted and.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
We're all strangers.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Everybody gets an accident and you get there and it's
a house that was haunted for two hundred years.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
It was so bad. Even when you turn the zombies,
you know, we all get killed.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
But but but but but it was so bad reading it.
But I wasn't working at the time. And again it
was like, oh, I want to do a horror movie.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Always wanted to do a horror movie, right, you know what? Okay,
fine one?
Speaker 2 (28:43):
So then what happened? You got there? The makeup artist was,
oh it was. The director was a mook.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Look, it was an absolute it was it was. It
was a good show.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
I mean, I mean one of the actors was welcome
to seven blow show.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
One of the actors.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Ladies and Gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
One of the.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Actors was drunk most of the time while we were
shooting to the point where it was so obvious that
we couldn't even you couldn't even like continue a conversation,
which I'm not you know.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
I've had it. I have a story about that I'll
never be able to tell. That's mind blowing. Please, I'm
sure yours, though somebody showed up waste.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
I'm sure your stories, though, are people of like a
super higher caliber. I mean, I'm talking about somebody who
never even Like if you think you never worked before
and you have the balls to do that, it's like
if you're like I always say, like my acting coach
used to say years ago, like if you're a denier,
if you're like an you know, unbelievable actor, all right,
maybe you can get away weaving asshole.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
But if you're like literally like a no way, it
never works. Like who what are you doing? What are
you doing? Look at me again with the hands? I
don't know. I'm massive pequent now. But there was that.
Then there was somebody else that didn't show up to set.
Then there was and these.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Were just again in your you know, sphere of of psyche.
It was just a low budget. These were very low budget.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
And then there was one very famous person who had
a very small part. I don't that that that that
The reason why I did the movie was because I
found out that he was going to be in it.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
And I was like, holy, you don't say he don't
say he no more clues.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
You already said something blood, It doesn't matter. It's it's
a poo poo movie.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Person wouldn't right here. The person showed up and would
only I did.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
All of my uh my scenes I read with a
stand in or somebody else and that, and that person
showed up and only worked for a couple of days
and then and then uh and then left. So all
of my stuff was like me reading to like you.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Know, because the most number one on the call sheet
right only there for.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
A day, right by the way, I have to say,
but so powerful, I have to say though, was actually
as far as like off the set was such a
lovely nice, actually like surprisingly cool nice person that it
was so surprising, you know what I mean when when
they said, like, you know, he's kind of fly in,
(31:19):
fly out, but he's not going to do this, you
know you So when it was like cut and he
was like actually having tea and being cool, I was like,
well this it just didn't.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
It just didn't.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
It was like, wait, but you're really you're really being
nice and lovely and like you know what I mean,
Like it was just bizarre. Again, these are things that
are like it just ruins the experience when you're.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Like it was design or nice. Yeah, yeah, I was
kind of here I'm doing this and because this is
my time, but over here I was doing this because
this is my time. Yeah, it was kind Did anybody
warn you? Did anybody go yeah, yeah, before this request
was made, did they say, hey, yeah, this dude won't
be there for your off camera.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
No, no, no, no, oh no before that right now,
I just.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Did his coverage, right, and they turned to you and said,
look at this broomstick.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
And that never happened to me before. And I know
I wrote a few you've probably had this.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Though rough out there, Barney, very rough.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
It's very rough, the rough rough seas.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
But you've probably had this. You know, some people won't
stay for their coverage. And like I've done a lot
of television and that's so common that some people they
they like they want to hard out and I've just
never been able to do that, Like, you know, even
when I've been the leader I just can't do that
to a young actor.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Was that a long time ago, not so long, within
the last fifteen years, yes, yes, right, so that's said. Yeah,
I think the industry has changed a lot. A lot
of that crap is because of production. A lot of
that is, oh, here's this above the line amount we
(32:54):
have to bring this guy in for one or two days. Yeah,
and how that gets cheaped production wise, you know, and
how they save the money in locations and move it
around and pay everybody. But la, It's just it's a
weird kind of necessary evil in that world. But it
doesn't change that it makes some people feel like crack.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Yes, it's I've had so many people on shows they
don't do they want to leave, and I just have
never had, you know, producers have been like, do you
want to go? You know you can go, and I've
just never unless it's like look, but of course, if
it's like you know, on a series, sometimes you're like
fourteen hours in, you know, you're exhausted. But I always
try to just be there because I just remember those
(33:38):
feelings of like you're not even gonna stay.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
No, no, I mean, oh yeah, you know, if you
really got to go, I get it, but just to
be like, no, I'm out, I got to dinner, like
I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
And then there was the occasional they sat in their
chair in video village. Yeah, you yelled their line.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Yes, that's the worst weird, right, that's so weird.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Well yeah, yeah, that's why we're brilliant, Bonnie.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
We are, right, Riant. I want to know your worst.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Oh gosh, oh see the kids met.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
I want to know your absolutely.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
I think my worst is uh uh, I think my
worst is uh that Hearty's thing? What is it called
Bonnie stan Lee's harp See how it started? Just like
see what he said, stan Lee? Right, stan Lee, you're
thinking stan Lee, they got like a comic con is
(34:39):
after this guy. Right, it would have happened if it
wasn't for stan Lee. Right, it's it's got to be
a decent picture. I think we shot in Bulgaria, which
was another kind of red flag. It was called Harpy's
shooting in Bulgaria two strikes, right, And then there was
how much are they going to pay me? And I
went when do we leave? Right? Which is terrible? That's terrible.
(35:02):
So some for some actors, bad movies come out of
just you know, money, financial horedom, of course, because my
dad made twenty six grand and raised six kids. So
dilio is, you want to bring me over to Bulgaria
at a certain point in my career and give me
X which was twenty five thousand is three zeros? So
(35:26):
do you add one zero to two fifty ahead? Can
I ask your husband? So one more zero makes two fifty.
So imagine being offered two to fifty thousand dollars, holy shit,
to go shoot in Bulgaria.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
What year was this.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
In the nineties?
Speaker 5 (35:41):
That's a lot that then, sure it was. That's a lot.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Now I'll take it, yeah, and and and right two
thousand and seven. Sometimes back then, I'll take.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
Two hundred thousand dollars right now.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Praise amen, Amen. So blessings, blessings, blessings. My point, My
point is I did a lot of that sort of
I did one hundred movies. When we were starting this,
literally in a conversation with the guys, I was like, yeah, man,
I did one hundred movies. And you know that's a
(36:18):
that one with Amos Poe bad movie. Uh, that one
about the shark that's swimming around in the canals of
Venice said Italy, that was a bad one. You know what,
It's called Sharks in Venice. See how easy it is
to have a bad movie. That is not my fault.
It's not that also shot in Bulgaria, so I've been
(36:40):
to Bulgaria. But I'm but I thought in my one
hundred films, ish ness whatever, I had like seven eight
nine seventy nine quote unquote heart Sharks in Venice, which
Sharks and Venice is actually a lovely film. There's another
one another called earth Storm, and I think they're both
(37:03):
kind of cute if you're into that creepy sci fi,
you know. I mean, I I what's my line, John,
I say, I'm just a construction worker. I'm not a scientist.
Damn it, Like what do I say this?
Speaker 5 (37:14):
It's not like what is that they.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Bring me in because I'm like, I'm a demolition expert
that knows how to blow up large objects. And there's
a meteorite coming towards Earth or the Moon's no, so
the moons? What is is the Moon's cracking? And can
I send a like some kind of fireballed you CAUs
(37:40):
you tell I didn't read the script. I'm just kidding,
but I'm supposed to do some demolition work on a
planet that's cracking in order to save the planet. And
it's called earth Storm, And my hair looked a lot
like this just because I'm not scared. Okay, So now
(38:00):
we're reflecting on those point being is literally it turned
out that my my bad movie count internally was twenty.
I had like I had to stop there, like they
were like no Dud's eighteen bad Races nineteen. Well, think
about your manager producing partner like going being honest with
(38:21):
you and going, no, no, dude, you forgot all these
other ones. You forgot, You forgot all the ones. You forgot,
all the ones outside both listen if you.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
Have like usual suspects, Amen, and then sharks and Venice,
you win.
Speaker 5 (38:34):
You know what I mean, you fucking win? Wow, right,
you win? I mean, come on, like you get to
do that.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
I mean I would take that and then do all
the freaking seven below as possible just to be a
part of something like that, honestly, And you were brilliant
in that. So it's like you gotta also walk away
and go, well take the l for these. But hey,
I was in one of the greatst films ever made.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
Of all time.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Okay, so below seven.
Speaker 5 (39:09):
Yeah, seven below, seven below doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Seven, I have to watch it. I gotta watch it. No,
I gotta watch it now, come on, Spike.
Speaker 5 (39:22):
And it's my only horror movie.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
And I've always I always wanted to do a really
good harror move.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
You know, like a like a classic. So I did
get to die a really good death though I got
in below seven ye yes, but below.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
Tell me seven well as you as you seven below,
I got it as you've done, like you know, when
the when it's like you know, the sun sunrise, like
we have we have, we have, you know, twenty minutes
to get the shop, twenty minutes to get.
Speaker 5 (39:51):
The shot, twenty minutes.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
Sometimes that's the best, right, Sometimes that's like the best
when that's when they got you. I do the best
work when it's like hurry up, hurry up like that
I always do.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
You know, it makes my husband, see what happened?
Speaker 2 (40:03):
They cut your head off? What they do? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (40:05):
They cut my head up? And I got to be like,
I did they really cut your head off?
Speaker 5 (40:09):
No? I got stabbed to death.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
But it was like that that that you know, feverish,
like the sun's coming up. We gotta go, we gotta go,
we gotta go, and that like, sometimes those are even
though it was a terrible scene and I was awful
in it and it's awful bad and I look ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
But sometimes that adrenaline kicks in and.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
You're just like we you know, we've got five minutes,
we've got ten minutes, we've got you know, and like
you've had those experiences, right, like we gotta go, we
gotta go, like we gotta get this shot, and sometimes
those are the best moments that you have ever.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Yes, working even on bad movies, even.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
Because when you're sitting around for twelve you know, sometimes
that's kind of like you get lazy. But when it's like,
let's go, we gotta get this shot, it's like that
feeling of like let's get adrenaline. The adrenaline, right, So
I got that experience. But yeah, it was miserable and
I was I looked it was it was.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Just your first feature, Harror.
Speaker 5 (40:59):
It wasn't my first feature.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
You almost said that earlier. When I started to ask
you about this, I literally said, you know, when, when
when can you think of something? You went, I think,
you know my first movie. You didn't.
Speaker 5 (41:12):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (41:12):
It was my first feature, but I think it was
my one of my first like real roles.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
I did a lot of another first lead.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
I did a lot of works, dude, Like a lot
of like Spider Man two, Like I'm screaming woman and
Spider Man two.
Speaker 5 (41:26):
That's my credit.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
Like I did a lot of like you know, one
liners like bedazzled.
Speaker 5 (41:32):
Oh that's a bad one. Oh that's a bad God
rest hold Raams. I could say this. I loved him
so much, but God rest his soul. He's amazing. But
be dazzled. That was a w.
Speaker 4 (41:45):
Elizabeth Hurley and Brendan Frasier. It was a it was
a that was bad. It was that was a bad movie.
But it was my first speaking role. And I was
girl in Beer Garden Number two and I had a
speaking role.
Speaker 5 (41:58):
Could you talk to I talked to Elizabeth Hurley?
Speaker 2 (42:03):
What'd you say?
Speaker 4 (42:05):
Don't remember? This was in ninety five. That was my
first speaking role, right, that was bad?
Speaker 2 (42:10):
Your first line ever on film was to Liz Early.
Speaker 4 (42:13):
Yeah, and she was so I just remember thinking because
in ninety five, you know, I mean she was like really,
you know, I just remember thinking, she's so beautiful.
Speaker 5 (42:22):
My god, No, she's so ugly, she's so gorgeous. Oh
my god, she was so beautiful.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
But I had like three lines and I got you know,
that was that was three or four lines, three or
four lines, and I just remember Harold Raymis was so
sweet and so kind and I was just on a
set for the first time.
Speaker 5 (42:38):
My mind was blown But yeah, that way, it was bad. Yeah,
I don't feel bad saying, well, I.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Have never communicated with Liz Hurley on film, but I've
been to several parties. Thirty thirty five years ago. No,
so I went thirty thirty five years ago. Yeah, that
she spoke to me, but I.
Speaker 4 (42:59):
Just don't remember because you were so like blown away.
Speaker 6 (43:03):
You were just like two in the morning and it
was a party at someone's house and the you know,
in the Hollywood Hills, and you know, Lizurley was cleaning
the kitchen at her friend's house.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
And I was like, you know, like, hey, dude, what's up.
She's like, right, mate, there's the front tier. That was
my brush with greatness with Liz Hurley. Which one are
you Steven? Right? All right, right, there's the front two.
Good luck. Now drive careful, don't let the tool hit you.
On a bam, you know that sort of thing. But
(43:35):
now she looks fabulous. Now still still her son is
like some fancy director, is he and he's like handsome,
beyond handsome.
Speaker 5 (43:45):
She's still I mean, you won't be as.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Handsome as my next grandchild. Anyway. That was comedy on
an intergalactic level. Here at one bad.
Speaker 5 (44:00):
Movie people, So you're bad movie? Well, earth Storm, first storm,
sharks in Venice? Sure do you remembers she has to
come back?
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Jim? Can she already co host and help me co
host stuff like when we blow up? Because the shows
we already know it's going to blow up. Everyone's talking
about one bad movie?
Speaker 5 (44:22):
What's yours?
Speaker 2 (44:23):
Isn't that weird?
Speaker 5 (44:25):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Nobody I thought it was a stupid idea.
Speaker 5 (44:27):
Everyone's going, it's a great idea. It's a great idea.
But what's your personal not that.
Speaker 4 (44:33):
You've been in the Harpy's one was bad Velvet threesome?
Speaker 2 (44:40):
Yeah, oh my gosh, we wanted to talk about, Well,
that's been so great. If you knock the whole shelf over,
you got it.
Speaker 5 (44:52):
Look at you.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
I know I was good. That's the guy my wife married. Boy,
that little right eye to this.
Speaker 4 (45:03):
I told Jane's my very first pilot I ever did.
Andy Fleming hired me. This is a good story, Amy Adam.
It was a show called gross Point. It was on
the WB.
Speaker 5 (45:14):
It was a spoof of like nine O two one oh,
and it was. It was way ahead of its time.
It should have been on.
Speaker 4 (45:21):
Darren Starr, who created nine two and oh, wrote this
as a as a spoof and we were all adults.
Speaker 5 (45:26):
Playing tea.
Speaker 4 (45:28):
And Andy Fleming was the director of the pilot. Amy
Adams worked for four days, got fired. They didn't think
she was funny. My manager calls me and goes, listen,
you gotta be there. I got you an audition. They
need a blonde, you know, because I was playing the blonde,
the Kelly character nine on two and oh whatever, the
(45:49):
blonde role. She's like, you gotta be there seven o'clock.
You're gonna meet Darren. You can audition. If you get it,
it shoots tomorrow. So I went, wow, that was my
very first pilot I auditioned for like they made I
remember Andy. I did it so many times and Andy
came outside and.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
Was it was for Andy's show.
Speaker 5 (46:10):
It was for Darren Starr's show. For the WB. Remember
the WB. It doesn't exist anymore now I c W.
Speaker 2 (46:16):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (46:17):
But Andy Fleming was directing the pilot and he came out.
He kept show of that show, and he kept coming
out and helping me and going listen, I want you
to get this job. And he was like, this is
what they want, this is what they want. And I
got the show and I had to be on set
at four in the morning the next day to get
my hair dyed platinum, and I replaced Amy Adams.
Speaker 5 (46:38):
Funny story is running into.
Speaker 4 (46:40):
Amy Adams years later, who we had a mutual friend,
and she was like, oh, yeah, I know you.
Speaker 5 (46:44):
You replaced me. I wanted to be like, you've I
replaced you.
Speaker 4 (46:48):
You're an Oscar winner man, and now on my show
got canceled?
Speaker 5 (46:52):
What what how did that happen? And She's like, oh, yeah,
I got fired and you replaced me.
Speaker 4 (46:56):
And I was like, now you're Amy Adams and I
was on a canceled shop. But Andy Fleming directed it,
and he talked about this movie, how much he loved
it and how he had the best time.
Speaker 2 (47:07):
Well, let me tell you my Andy Fleming story. So like, uh,
quite opposite to what I shared with you earlier. You know,
some journeys are fabulous, right. You get on the cruise
ship and you know they said, this cruise ship is
going to lead you and take you all warm and
(47:28):
fuzzy into a threesome. And sure enough, that's exactly what happened. Sorry,
can I say that, I'm sorry, but that's what happened
because Larslyn Boyle, who if I can just make out
with this VHS cover for a second, But I'm going
to say the same thing about Josh Charles. But Larslyn
(47:49):
Boyle is is probably one of the funniest, one of
the most natural actresses I've ever worked with. Natural, which
is that's the one you can't teach. Josh Charles is
Josh Charles. He's gone on to being super great stuff
and a very unique special actor. Steve Baldwin, Oh, a
(48:14):
little whitfer snapper. Now Grandpa Grandpa? Where is he Grandpa? No,
I don't think he's a grandpa yet, Grandma, No, baby Baldwin.
Maybe Grandpa number two coming down like a fastball. So
Andy who When I met him, like some directors, he
(48:39):
was quirky and he was this, and he was smart
and hit but he had the vision, right, he knew
what he wanted. That's why he was cool to.
Speaker 5 (48:45):
Yeah, he's very clear about Yeah, what do you wanted.
Speaker 2 (48:47):
To get you in a panicked situation to focus and
deliver it was cool. Yeah, he's that kind of equality
writer director. But with me on Threesome, it was I
was playing a bit of a more Fantasma Gore character,
you know what I mean. So I was playing this
guy that was like proverbiably perpetually horny. That's basically my
(49:14):
character in Threesome. So well, it's kind of true, but
it speaks to many other young men out there globally. Sorry,
it's college life, you know.
Speaker 5 (49:26):
Is that Andy's first film? Was that his first film?
I forgot.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
I think it might be his first kind of like
big film.
Speaker 4 (49:33):
Yeah, he did, like feature and I think yeah he
did film school first.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
I think he didn't. You may have done another student film.
Speaker 5 (49:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
But the best part of Threesome wasn't the threesome. I
just have to say stupid stuff so it becomes like
sound bites for one bad movie on social media. So
the best part of Threesome was cut. That's that's a
promo for the show now, right, I'd be foolish. Sorry,
(50:05):
this is how my show goes. Just welcome.
Speaker 5 (50:08):
The best part of the threesome was the threesome.
Speaker 2 (50:12):
There you see now now you've landed the plane, Bonnie,
thank you in the movie. The threesome in the.
Speaker 5 (50:17):
Movie only in the movie, right, and only in the
movie correct.
Speaker 2 (50:23):
And Andy Fleming when I met him was fun because
if you kind of set a foundation for a character
and then you let the actor have fun. So it
was weird because I would come to him with some ideas,
like the physiology of what I was Like, I'm like, oh, hey,
in the blocking, I was here, but what if I
(50:44):
cross over? Because he gives me a room to like
kind of thrust my hips, and like, you know, he's
like Andy's cheer going.
Speaker 5 (50:50):
Yeah, he's very face.
Speaker 2 (50:54):
Yeah, let's do a rehearsal.
Speaker 5 (50:57):
Yeah that's very like He's like, hmm, okay, let's.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
And sure enough a lot of my improvs made it
up into the film on that level. But then when
you put into the mix Lara Flynn and Josh two
very very funny people, the rest is kind of history.
This movie touched many people. Yeah, it was huge with
comedy and a brilliant story by Andy Fleming. I was
(51:27):
blessed to be in it.
Speaker 5 (51:27):
I'm a big fan.
Speaker 4 (51:28):
He's a great guy, and yeah, this was like one
of those indies you know back in the day that
just blew up that everybody you know, like it was
just those great movies that just kind of blow blow up.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
All right, Well, we'll we'll find Andy somewhere out there
and TV land in the future, and we'll see if
we can get him on this program.
Speaker 5 (51:50):
It probably could.
Speaker 2 (51:51):
I think we can. I think we can. I ran
into another friend of his recently at a coffee shop,
and yeah, the vibes are out there for threesome, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (52:01):
Threesome part two point zero, threesome two point oh.
Speaker 5 (52:07):
I think it would be called thurple. Now, what is
it a thurple? What throttle? Now it would be a thropple.
Speaker 2 (52:17):
What's a throutle?
Speaker 5 (52:19):
It's a couple that are three people, that's the thing, apparently.
Speaker 2 (52:23):
Together as just friends now like a couple, like a
married like so they live together. Yeah, and they're all
kind of washing each other's backs in the shower.
Speaker 4 (52:34):
Right, it's a thing, right, James, very much. So they
live together, they're married. They consider themselves a family, not
for me.
Speaker 2 (52:47):
Can you take a nap? I feel exhausted. No, but
I'm fifty eight. I mean, you know, listen, I you know, listen.
Speaker 5 (52:59):
I'd be exaust don't get any ideas over there.
Speaker 2 (53:04):
Sure, oh sure, Bonnie blame it on him. So let
me ask you another question. I don't care if the
cameras are ru Yes. I made a lot of movies
because the hundred movies I made I stopped doing like
(53:24):
ten fifteen years ago, even kind of towards the tail
end of my filmmaking career, I did mostly faith based, mostly,
but before that, I you know, I did pretty good
making some pretty cool movies, the regular ones like we're
talking about. So now I'm gonna make some more because
I've been out of the game for a whiles. But
(53:45):
I'm entering back into the matrix now with the wisdom
and knowledge of Oh, I don't know. You could almost
call me like a Hollywood shaman at this point, more
like a no mad so to speak. And that's right
where I want to be, Bonnie. So I think I'm
going to develop I don't know how, and I gotta
(54:08):
be watching careful because there's a lot of devils like
I just met some guy who said, hey, come do
this over here with me and my boys. And they
were doing a show, it's ev series, and they said, hey,
because you know you'd be great guys, like an Irish
mafia guy. It's on. I'm already developing my own Irish
mafia kind of Bordwalk empire. And I'm fifty eight. And
(54:36):
here's how it works. Now you're ready. Yes, I'm not asking,
I'm just gonna do it. Yes, and this town will
never fing be the same.
Speaker 5 (54:48):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (54:49):
In the name of Stephen Baldwin, You've been one motherfus.
I'm coming.
Speaker 5 (54:57):
I love that guns.
Speaker 2 (54:59):
Ablaze sing Miss Summerville.
Speaker 5 (55:03):
Okay, So anyway, I don't want to break.
Speaker 2 (55:06):
Yeah, that's cool, Irish.
Speaker 5 (55:09):
I'm available. I'm Irish. You know. Listen, listen saying.
Speaker 2 (55:15):
D and D D and D Bonnie, we don't got
to worry.
Speaker 5 (55:21):
I love that idea.
Speaker 2 (55:22):
Okay, we don't got to worry. We got we had
all the stuff, we had all the bullets in the ground.
We're good.
Speaker 5 (55:27):
Good for you.
Speaker 2 (55:28):
You're ready to go to our bullets are the Bible?
Forget about it. Okay, God is our witness. Anyway, I'm
writing something I'm developing my own.
Speaker 5 (55:41):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (55:41):
Uh if you remember another what's the Sean penn Irish
Mafia thing with uh State of Grace?
Speaker 5 (55:53):
Oh my god, I love it. No, no, no, it's
oh State of Grace.
Speaker 2 (55:58):
Grace with Gary Oldman and Sean pet No. But that's
that movie made by a terrific eighties nineties director and
that was a studio picture that was brilliant acting, that
was done right. Yeah, and I won't talk about John Pennymore.
I've kind of said a little too much lately, John
man O, my god. So I have kind of an
(56:22):
idea for that, but more David Mammott more more kind
of dialogue. Ye, there won't be as much violence, and
you know, car chases and screaming and blood and you
know it doesn't have to be guts. You can leave
that to the imagination.
Speaker 4 (56:40):
But that last scene in State of Grace, the last out,
the shootout with no with no dialogue for like twenty minutes,
is I think one of the best yeah and ending
shootouts ever made. And there's no dialogue, there's literally no.
Speaker 2 (56:58):
Oh you know how blessed you are? You got to
chick knows how to talk about shootouts.
Speaker 5 (57:03):
You have any idea, that's right.
Speaker 2 (57:07):
As you as you were a soldier, stay on the
wing over here. Wow, so you get the state of grace.
So so again just we'll circle, will circle back because
because the truth is the guys, I guess I can
say it, I can talk about I can save whatever
I want, right John, and we can edit right. Well,
(57:33):
what I was gonna say is there's that show that
saa God. You may have already been on this, but
I think it's called have Not is a mafia show
that streams on the web right now. If you go
to IMDb and you look at grave, uh, it's either
(57:54):
Graves Send or Graves, and I think it's Graves and
it's all one word and many actors. He's been on it,
many credible actors. But it's mostly like an indie low budget.
So those guys, uh uh true, someome people they know
you know what I'm saying, Bonnie. You know they did
(58:17):
a little back channel of Massapequa. They came up over here,
they said, hey, YO, wants to talk. I said, as
long as your business doesn't conflict with my business, inevitably
you will learn how to spell Massapequa. You know what
I'm saying, on the day of my daughter's wedding, you
(58:38):
come to me on the day my daughters, so you
pop up up. But I think there's an Irish version
of that, of course. I think there's like a really
sit down.
Speaker 6 (58:48):
Of course, medium nobody's done nobody's done it.
Speaker 2 (58:56):
And all these macho people, God bless them, all these
people that you know, that the Oppenheimer Oppenheimer gang, they
got all the tools at their disposal. Yeah, God bless them. Listen.
Speaker 5 (59:09):
The departed. That's the other only one, I think, the Depretty.
But yeah, the Irish, the Irish. Nobody touches that.
Speaker 2 (59:18):
Was Leo in that Leo Dicaprios and departed, right, I'm saying,
except him. It was a great trick. I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding, just kidding.
Speaker 5 (59:30):
Leo's had enough. Let's let's let's spread the wealth.
Speaker 2 (59:32):
He flirted with my wife once at a charity event.
He's a terrific actor. Sorry, just being smarty.
Speaker 5 (59:43):
Finish up, finish up.
Speaker 2 (59:44):
All right, Bonnie, Wait, you can't leave yet? Do you
have somewhere to be? I'm just kidding. I'm just trying
to cause trouble again. How would you like to finish
this interview.
Speaker 5 (59:54):
I don't know you come back again. I would love
to come back. This is awesome.
Speaker 2 (59:57):
Will you?
Speaker 5 (59:58):
This is such.
Speaker 2 (59:59):
A role in Uh. What I want to bring back
is like the TV movie. Remember when they did TV
movies like the three parts here.
Speaker 5 (01:00:10):
I did them back in the day.
Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
I'm going to sell in this town or just raise
the money. A three part kind of TV movie idea.
That's this. That's my version of like a Irish Godfather,
but done by kid who only looks stupid. You know
what I'm saying right now.
Speaker 5 (01:00:31):
You're smarter than you look. You're smarter than you look. Steve.
You gotta say.
Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
Thank you so much for coming.
Speaker 5 (01:00:38):
Oh my god, this was so fun. Thank you, thank you,
thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (01:00:46):
Tread Lips so Bad, Guilty Madnesses, unders so fat. A
back of the old shir
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