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Weekday Afternoon's on the Drive. She's an award winning actress and international star.
You've seen her in Airport, The Detective, Bullets, Murder on the
Orient Express, and The Deep. Jacqueline Bissett's newest production is called Lauren and
Rose. It's about a young director and an aging actress and their relationship together,
and it is out now in theaters everywhere. Jacqueline Bissett is joining us
now on the Drive with Lee Matthews. Is this, Jacqueline, a kind
of a Harold and Maude story? Oh, you could say so, because
the characters have a big age difference, But I don't see it like Harold
and Order at all. I suppose you could say that. Yeah, it
is about two. The young man is a beginning young filmmaker, and my
character as an actress who's been in many, many films and has had a
kind of interesting career, but she's got a sort of bad reputation because she's
been a little bit too provocative or whatever that people have known about her.
They meet to to try and get possibly work with each other, and it
grows into an incredible friendship where they where she mentors him and he in a
sense mentors her. It's the crossing, the crossing over of age and wisdom,
and it's it's just lovely. It's we talk about interesting stuff and I
pass on all my adventures and he it reinvents me and we work together.
And that's which is such a joy to work with somebody who you who you
really care about. I mean, it's a wonderful adventure. I've often thought
when you meet somebody on a film, you know, as long as you
work together, and then you sort of become engaged to them as a person,
not just in the role, and you can never get a chance to
work with them again because it just doesn't happen. They go off and you
go off, and you just think the experience of having worked with somebody and
then knowing them as a friend is a great thing because you will never find
that same stuff again in that area. It's just gone. And I in
this story, this takes place over six years. We get to know each
other in a rounded fashion and we are completely We learn to love each other.
We love each other in a non sexual way. But it was very
rewarding. I know exactly of what you speak Jacqueline Bissett, and the movie
is Lauren and Rose. I've in my radio career worked with female morning show
partners, and because we're not only playing a role of traffic and weather and
all this other things, but in the course of our conversations, we get
to know each other as intimately as any married couple. Although there is no
there is no role match there. It's a very unique relationship and I look
back on I almost look back on the different partners I've had As a marriage.
It was it was a professional marriage, but a marriage nonetheless, I
get it. Yeah, yeah, And a lot of people never have the
opportunity to see each other. I mean a lot of women never see how
that where their husbands go, and never get a chance to see them in
the office. You know, even I don't know. It's it's a very
limited relationships can be very limited, even though you love each other madly,
but you're always at home, when you're always in the kitchen, or you're
always I don't know, doing the ordinary stuff, or you don't get to
see the other bit that the other person has. Jacqueline Bessett. The end
of The name of the movie is Lauren and Rose. It's about a young
director in his first film. She's a well seasoned actress and it's perhaps her
last film that they're working on together. Have you had similar discussions with your
directors when you're when you're getting ready to do a film, if you had
these kind of sit down me with young directors for the very first time.
Not as much, Not as much as this. I've had a very very
good relationship with a young director called Christopher Munch, who which I did a
movie called The Sleepy Time Gal, which was a very very complex role.
Took me a year to get ready for that one. That's another one of
my absolute favorites. Sleepy Time Gal and Lauren and Rose really are my favorite
roles that I've had. And Rich and Famous was a great role too.
But they gave me a chance to do stuff I hadn't done, and to
go much much deeper than you're allowed to do in a role where there's not
much time or you don't have you don't have the life is so interesting if
you go in detail, almost anything is interesting if you ask the right questions
and you dig deep, I just find it just absolutely fascinating people are so
fascinating, and this is Lauren and Rose is written so well that you can
go you discover the fascination that they hold for each other, these two people,
and that's very moving to me. Jacqueline Bissette, it is said you
have quite an onscreen onscreen chemistry with Kelly Blantcher co star. I think I
do, Yes, I do. He was a wonderful partner and he listens
so well. That's such a wonderful, such a gift in any relationship.
Somebody who listens. So when somebody listens, well, it just frees you
up. You don't you're not fright to making you fool of yourself. You
can say stuff, you can be yourself. It's just an incredible gift.
I mean, on film and in real life, I think people talk,
they don't listen. A lot of people don't listen at all. And Hollywood,
they tend they start talking in the minute you said something. They're competing
with you with their story about the same thing. So basically there's a lot
of time spent repeating, repeating, and you know what I mean, They're
just always trying to top each other. And I think that's just really boring
when people are like that. So I seek out people who listen and who
who talk, and I listen. I like to listen. I'm a good
listener, fortunately, Jacqueline Besset. My business is replete with those characters,
is it. Yes, that want to do that, they'd want to control
the conversation, and my style is more of a conversation. I want to
know what you're really thinking rather than how I can market your content. You
know, well, some of that is built into the time element you have.
You don't have much time to go beyond what is essential, right,
Yeah, Lauren and Rose is the name of the movie. It is Jacqueline
Set's latest production. Are you I'm an avid scuba diver diver? Are you
still doing any of that? I have not put my head underwater since the
Deep literally not. You know, at the end of that shoot, I
was so exhausted and so glad that I'd survived it that I did forgot to
get myself whatever you do to get the exam so that you can actually go
somewhere else and do it. Yes, So they situate a minute, Maybe
I don't want to go underwater for anymore. What an incredible experience? Now
I am even in the pool, I am. I haven't put my head
underwater. I imagine you got your fill of it, but you we want
to get our fill of Jacqueline Bissett and Beissette in Lauren and Roads. The
movie is out now, and I thank you for listening and joining us today.
Can I just tell you? Can I just tell you how to find
it? Yes, it's playing exclusively in several places. It's playing in the
theaters in New York area, in Arizona and Louisiana, and it's playing outside
those states. You can stream it. You'll find the details on the website
Lauren and Rose dot com. That's Lauren is spelled l O r e N.
Thank you for letting me say that, because it's really important that people
find it. Thanks for listening to Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee Matthews
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