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This is Later with Lee Matthews the
Lee Matthews podcast, Moore what you hear?

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Weekday Afternoon's on the Drive. She's
an award winning actress and international star.

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You've seen her in Airport, The
Detective, Bullets, Murder on the

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Orient Express, and The Deep.
Jacqueline Bissett's newest production is called Lauren and

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Rose. It's about a young director
and an aging actress and their relationship together,

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and it is out now in theaters
everywhere. Jacqueline Bissett is joining us

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now on the Drive with Lee Matthews. Is this, Jacqueline, a kind

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of a Harold and Maude story?
Oh, you could say so, because

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the characters have a big age difference, But I don't see it like Harold

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and Order at all. I suppose
you could say that. Yeah, it

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is about two. The young man
is a beginning young filmmaker, and my

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character as an actress who's been in
many, many films and has had a

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kind of interesting career, but she's
got a sort of bad reputation because she's

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been a little bit too provocative or
whatever that people have known about her.

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They meet to to try and get
possibly work with each other, and it

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grows into an incredible friendship where they
where she mentors him and he in a

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sense mentors her. It's the crossing, the crossing over of age and wisdom,

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and it's it's just lovely. It's
we talk about interesting stuff and I

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pass on all my adventures and he
it reinvents me and we work together.

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And that's which is such a joy
to work with somebody who you who you

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really care about. I mean,
it's a wonderful adventure. I've often thought

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when you meet somebody on a film, you know, as long as you

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work together, and then you sort
of become engaged to them as a person,

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not just in the role, and
you can never get a chance to

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work with them again because it just
doesn't happen. They go off and you

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go off, and you just think
the experience of having worked with somebody and

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then knowing them as a friend is
a great thing because you will never find

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that same stuff again in that area. It's just gone. And I in

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this story, this takes place over
six years. We get to know each

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other in a rounded fashion and we
are completely We learn to love each other.

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We love each other in a non
sexual way. But it was very

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rewarding. I know exactly of what
you speak Jacqueline Bissett, and the movie

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is Lauren and Rose. I've in
my radio career worked with female morning show

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partners, and because we're not only
playing a role of traffic and weather and

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all this other things, but in
the course of our conversations, we get

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to know each other as intimately as
any married couple. Although there is no

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there is no role match there.
It's a very unique relationship and I look

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back on I almost look back on
the different partners I've had As a marriage.

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It was it was a professional marriage, but a marriage nonetheless, I

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get it. Yeah, yeah,
And a lot of people never have the

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opportunity to see each other. I
mean a lot of women never see how

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that where their husbands go, and
never get a chance to see them in

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the office. You know, even
I don't know. It's it's a very

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limited relationships can be very limited,
even though you love each other madly,

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but you're always at home, when
you're always in the kitchen, or you're

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always I don't know, doing the
ordinary stuff, or you don't get to

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see the other bit that the other
person has. Jacqueline Bessett. The end

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of The name of the movie is
Lauren and Rose. It's about a young

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director in his first film. She's
a well seasoned actress and it's perhaps her

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last film that they're working on together. Have you had similar discussions with your

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directors when you're when you're getting ready
to do a film, if you had

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these kind of sit down me with
young directors for the very first time.

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Not as much, Not as much
as this. I've had a very very

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good relationship with a young director called
Christopher Munch, who which I did a

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movie called The Sleepy Time Gal,
which was a very very complex role.

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Took me a year to get ready
for that one. That's another one of

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my absolute favorites. Sleepy Time Gal
and Lauren and Rose really are my favorite

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roles that I've had. And Rich
and Famous was a great role too.

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But they gave me a chance to
do stuff I hadn't done, and to

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go much much deeper than you're allowed
to do in a role where there's not

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much time or you don't have you
don't have the life is so interesting if

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you go in detail, almost anything
is interesting if you ask the right questions

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and you dig deep, I just
find it just absolutely fascinating people are so

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fascinating, and this is Lauren and
Rose is written so well that you can

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go you discover the fascination that they
hold for each other, these two people,

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and that's very moving to me.
Jacqueline Bissette, it is said you

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have quite an onscreen onscreen chemistry with
Kelly Blantcher co star. I think I

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do, Yes, I do.
He was a wonderful partner and he listens

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so well. That's such a wonderful, such a gift in any relationship.

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Somebody who listens. So when somebody
listens, well, it just frees you

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up. You don't you're not fright
to making you fool of yourself. You

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can say stuff, you can be
yourself. It's just an incredible gift.

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I mean, on film and in
real life, I think people talk,

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they don't listen. A lot of
people don't listen at all. And Hollywood,

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they tend they start talking in the
minute you said something. They're competing

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with you with their story about the
same thing. So basically there's a lot

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of time spent repeating, repeating,
and you know what I mean, They're

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just always trying to top each other. And I think that's just really boring

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when people are like that. So
I seek out people who listen and who

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who talk, and I listen.
I like to listen. I'm a good

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listener, fortunately, Jacqueline Besset.
My business is replete with those characters,

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is it. Yes, that want
to do that, they'd want to control

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the conversation, and my style is
more of a conversation. I want to

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know what you're really thinking rather than
how I can market your content. You

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know, well, some of that
is built into the time element you have.

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You don't have much time to go
beyond what is essential, right,

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Yeah, Lauren and Rose is the
name of the movie. It is Jacqueline

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Set's latest production. Are you I'm
an avid scuba diver diver? Are you

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still doing any of that? I
have not put my head underwater since the

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Deep literally not. You know,
at the end of that shoot, I

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was so exhausted and so glad that
I'd survived it that I did forgot to

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get myself whatever you do to get
the exam so that you can actually go

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somewhere else and do it. Yes, So they situate a minute, Maybe

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I don't want to go underwater for
anymore. What an incredible experience? Now

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I am even in the pool,
I am. I haven't put my head

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underwater. I imagine you got your
fill of it, but you we want

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to get our fill of Jacqueline Bissett
and Beissette in Lauren and Roads. The

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movie is out now, and I
thank you for listening and joining us today.

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Can I just tell you? Can
I just tell you how to find

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it? Yes, it's playing exclusively
in several places. It's playing in the

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theaters in New York area, in
Arizona and Louisiana, and it's playing outside

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those states. You can stream it. You'll find the details on the website

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Lauren and Rose dot com. That's
Lauren is spelled l O r e N.

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Thank you for letting me say that, because it's really important that people

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find it. Thanks for listening to
Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee Matthews

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Podcast, and remember to listen to
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