And it was David Lynch's Dune.
No!
It was not that one.
What was that like by the way?
Boy talk about the big top circus.
That was really cool.
That was the big top circus,
it was my first job
out in Hollywood
I've done a couple of
things in Chicago
and Helena Bonham Carter
was going to do that role
but she was doing Room With A View,
can you imagine?
And it overlapped by about three
days and they wouldn't let her out
and so there was this mad
scramble to cast someone as
a princess of the universe.
So I
get this audition and I thought well
it's going to ... all they said was
it was the princess of the universe
and I hadn't read that book.
It's a little vague.
And so I wore...
I mean you could make the argument that
George Michael is the princess of the universe
and I wore - he would have
loved my outfit actually George
I had my hair like pulled back
in two little pearl barrettes
and then I had a white mini
dress that kind of flared out
'cause this was the eighties OK.
and then I had white lace tights on
and then I had little like white flats
so I didn't do a ZZ Top
girl unfortunately
and I had some kind of
sparkly thing on my wrist
this was my idea of what...
Princess of the universe
It's sort of Princess Leia
but I don't know
They didn't give you anything to
read they gave me something to read
but it was something from
Shakespeare that's all I remember
nothing from the script because
no one was allowed to read it
and they took a Polaroid of me
and apparently David Lynch saw
that Polaroid and picked me.
Right, the record does suggest that
you were selected by a Polaroid!
And I think he said I had a classic
look in my white mini dress!
But anyway I got the part and
the great thing about that part
was it was essentially my big break.
Really all I had to do with that
monologue and I was really a glorified
extra but it was a three-picture deal.
Because it tied you up for the sequels?
Yeah they thought they were
going to make Star Wars grown-ups
and it didn't work out that way, but
I got to be in these great scenes.
I didn't have too much to do
which is good for a beginner
But how big and elaborate...
And it was... you know Sting was
running around with this gold jockstrap
As he does everynight in my dreams.
And I was just kind of like "Hi!"
