ANY GIVEN SUNDAY
I really got the part of Cindy Rooney because I went to a Hollywood party. A very famous actor was hanging with Oliver Stone there, and I was with Jim Carrey. More because of a competitiveness with Jim (big egos in this town), than because of all my alluring qualities (unfortunately!), this big name actor made a very forward pass at me, in front of Jim, no less. Rude. We did our best to ignore it, continuing polite conversation and laughing it off. It didn’t stop. The two guys started to get riled up, and then I got pissed. After all, I had suddenly just become an object. Obnoxious famous guy wasn’t sensitive to the fact that he was really embarrassing me, and I went off. The big name actor shut up. The next day I was offered the part.
That movie was ridiculous. It was just like people imagine making movies would be like. Most of the time they are not glamorous at all, but this one was. We shot mostly in South Beach. Fancy hotels. A swim in the warm ocean before work. SO MANY huge movie stars. All our trailers and trucks took up. so much space at the various locations that we all had golf carts to get to hair/makeup, wardrobe, and set. Dennis Quaid would set up a putting green. Al Pacino would cook and invite us over for spaghetti. Thousands of extras would fill football stadiums. Between shots I would hang with LL Cool J, Jamie Foxx, Aaron Ekhart, Matt Modine. I am so glad I had at least one of the ‘major’ movie experiences. That kind of excess really doesn’t happen anymore, but the 90’s was when the biz was booming
Oliver Stone is a genius filmmaker. For that one I think he maybe wasn’t completely of all his faculties…..not that I should ever make assumptions. Still, I was thrilled to be working with him. His focus was like being hit with a laser beam, I wanted so much to impress him. I think I did, but only for those days, and then the laser beam was focused on someone else and I had to live without the glow.
