November 7, 2016
I was visiting a film set back in the day with a guy in a band who was singing the film’s big song. It was a do nothing kind of day. We were just goofing around and raiding craft service. The producers just wanted him to visit the set to get a feel for the movie and to get any ideas for a music video for that title song. The movie actually opened at number one and my friend got an award from ASCAP for the song. If you were a teen at the time the movie was released you probably saw it. Anyway, we were not doing much of anything when he got called away to go meet some people.That left me on my own. I decided to try and find another friend of mine who was doing props on the movie. I asked around and someone pointed in the general vicinity of some trailers. I remember very clearly knocking on the door to the trailer. No one answered, but I knew my friend wouldn’t mind if I went in and waited.
One big problem. It wasn’t the trailer for my friend. Nope. It was the trailer of an actress in the movie. An Academy Award winning actress actually. I walked in on her with another woman. In bed. Naked. The other woman was an actress who was also in the movie but is known for more behind the scenes stuff than in front of the camera.
I mumbled a sorry and got out as quickly as I could. I was sorry I had walked in on it, but it wasn’t a big deal to me and two trailers beyond was the prop trailer. I didn’t say anything to him about what I saw. It couldn’t have been more than ten minutes when our Academy Award winning actress poked her head inside, saw me and motioned me out of the trailer. I walked out and apologized to her for walking in. She immediately started talking.
“Did you tell anyone what you saw? Please tell me you didn’t. Please don’t tell anyone.”
She was shaking. Crying. She told me that no one knew that she was bisexual and that if anyone found out she thought her career would end. She was at a crossroads in her career and had a huge franchise lined up which she thought would disappear. I told her I hadn’t told anyone and wasn’t planning on it and would make sure I never would. It was then she gave me the biggest hardest hug I have ever received. I guess she trusted me and she was right to.
Fast forward a few years. She finished a huge movie and the first installment of that franchise. I ran into her while I was eating lunch with a couple of people. She was walking past with someone and did a double take when she saw me. She stopped in her tracks which caused the guy behind her to crash into her and almost knock her over. She bent down and whispered thank you in my ear before kissing my cheek and moving on.
In the few times we saw each other after that, the meetings were just as brief but you could tell she cared less about what others thought and she finally was able to say publicly what she had feared someone would force her to do so many years earlier.
Anna Paquin/She's All That
Is the other woman Clea DuVall?
ReplyDeleteShe's still primarily known for acting, but she wrote and directed her first movie in 2016. Nobody else in the cast list remotely fits with the "primarily known for behind the scenes" stuff.
The other women in the movie aside from Paquin:
Rachael Leigh Cook
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
Lil Kim
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Gabrielle Union
Tamara Mello
Vanessa Lee Chester
Mello and Lee Chester are primarily actresses, as well, with 1 producing credit between them.
So is Enty friends with Fatboy Slim or someone from Sixpence None the Richer?
ReplyDeleteMy bet is the other woman was Clea, she's always been an out lesbian.
ReplyDeleteClea DuVall as the other actress better known for behind the camera work?
ReplyDeleteFrom Clea's page on IMDB: "Took a small role in She's All That (1999) to support her friend, Rachael Leigh Cook, in her first leading movie role. The two met on the set of The Defenders: Payback (1997)."
ReplyDeleteThe other girl was probably one of the professional dancers in the movie. Stephanie Landwehr, Dani Lee, and Bree Turner all seem to have careers more as dancers than as actresses.
ReplyDeleteIt could also have been Debbie Lee Carrington, who's more a stuntwoman…but that's because the 3'10" Debbie Lee fits easily into "creature" suits (she was an Ewok, she was one of the Howard the Duck actors, etc.) and so her dwarfism makes that pairing less likely.
I'm just a little nervous about Ana's age here. She was born on July 24, 1982, and the movie was released in January of '99, so Ana was no more than 16 at the time of the incident, perhaps only 15. Hope the other woman wasn't dancing with a statutory rape charge…
Don't the trailer doors lock?
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