![]() ![]() The table was full of people who were going to work on the video (maybe 10 to 15 people). On the third interview, there was a big dining room table where they had set up a camera at one end and had me sit at the other end. The first two were very much like the first except they wanted me to do more specific faces. I was really surprised when I got called to come back. When I left, I told my mom that I knew I didn’t get the gig or a callback because I didn’t look as sexy or made-up as the models. I did surprise, anger, sadness, joy, shy, strong, come hither…etc. They asked me to mug for the camera and make as many faces as I could. In the interview room, there was the editor and about four other people. ![]() Though I felt really out of place, I was never a quitter, so when called, I did my very best. I immediately thought my agent had really missed the mark on this call because there were about 10 to 15 girls in the waiting area with skimpy, tight clothes and they had full photo albums of themselves in different outfits and poses. When I came into the home where the interviews were being conducted, all I had with me was an actor’s headshot and résumé. She chose to wait in the car and I found out later that she didn’t want me to be seen as a child. I asked my mom to come with me since she had always been with me as a child actress. They were looking for a sexy Alice, so my mom and I went shopping and found a tight pink puff sleeve T-shirt, skintight black jeans (at the time they were called peg-leg pants and were basically all spandex), and a pair of kitten heel Mary Janes. told me that they weren’t really interested but that I should go nonetheless to get my name out there. Joanie told them that I had grown up and that they should at least meet me. She told them that I was one of her clients but they said they were looking for a model, not an actress, and besides, they knew of me and didn’t think I the pretty “Alice In Wonderland look” they wanted. My agent, Joanie Roba, was contacted and asked to send models to an interview for a Tom Petty music video. I did many guest-starring roles in other series and a lot of after school specials. I did one feature film, Harper Valley PTA with Barbara Eden, and was a recurring character on Family with Kristy McNichol. I would estimate that as a child I did over fifty commercials, for McDonalds, Hostess, Shakey’s Pizza, Manwich, Bryant air conditioners, Crest. My very first acting job was a Barbie Beach Bus commercial at 6 years old. What music videos, shows, or movies had you appeared in prior to that? My mother made sure I was never in danger of becoming a drug-addicted Dana Plato or Kim Richards. When I lost roles to the likes of Jodie Foster, Kim Richards, Helen Hunt, she would remind me that I always crossed paths with these blonde “all-American girls” (crazy, huh? that is what we, the blonde, blue-eyed, thin girls were called) at interviews and that I should be flattered to be in their echelon. She always supported me and was my grounding force years as a child actress. My mother was the driving force behind my return to acting. Having just left abusive boyfriend, two or three months prior, I was living at my mother’s house in Chatsworth, CA. He stalked me for a while after, but my brothers took care of that (clandestinely). After the bruises for months, my mother and sister-in-law just showed up one day and moved me out. My self-esteem was very low and my boyfriend was extremely jealous. with a physically abusive, rage-aholic boyfriend. I had moved back to Los Angeles from central California (lived with my sister for two years while getting over the death of a boyfriend). I had turned 21 four months prior to the interview for the music video. How old were you when you appeared in the “Don’t Come Around Here No More” video? This installment is otherwise known as “When you Wish upon a star.” ![]()
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