Apr 1, 2021
Anne Heche is setting the record straight with Damian and Anne! You Might Know Her From Six Days, Seven Nights; Wag the Dog; If These Walls Could Talk; Volcano; Donnie Brasco; Birth; Hung, Cat Fight, Men in Trees, Psycho; and My Friend Dahmer. Anne Heche and her co-host Heather Duffy Boylston join us to talk about their podcast, Better Together and their mission for everyone to practice a little more kindness. They talk about Anne’s stint on Dancing with the Stars and how it was an opportunity to tell the story of being blacklisted after taking her then-girlfriend Ellen DeGeneres to the red carpet premiere of Volcano. We dig into Anne’s memoir Call Me Crazy, how she and Gus Van Sant pitched a lesbian backstory for Marion Crane, her relationship to the LGBTQ+ community, her physicality in two of our faves: Cat Fight and My Friend Dahmer, why Damian and Anne think she should be in Fun Home the musical, and what it was like directing Ellen and Sharon Stone’s sex scene in If These Walls Could Talk 2 This one is just one for the ol’ books.
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Great Muppet Caper starring Charles Grodin (who is alive), and Diana Rigg
Kermit was first person voted off The Masked Singer
Patti LaBelle singing the ABCs with the Muppets on Sesame Street
We asked Lesley Ann Warren about singing with Muppets (Ep 78# Lesley Ann Warren)
Beethoven (1992) is important to many people (Bonnie Hunt is in it so I was into it)
Clifford starring Charles Grodin, Mary Steenburgen, Martin Short
Anne loves Dabney Coleman
Anne and her friend Heather Duffy Boylston started a podcast called Better Together
Anne’s book Call Me Crazy came out a few days before 9/11 and so her book tour never happened
Anne appeared on Dancing With the Stars at the behest of her bff Heather
Anne ice skated in a Hallmark movie, Looks Like Christmas
Anne and Ellen escorted out of the Volcano premiere and fired from her studio contract with FOX
Anne’s father was closeted and died of AIDS
We thougth Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home might resonate with Anne Heche (also Dykes to Watch Out For)
Catfight with Sandra Oh (Netflix), Birth with Nicole Kidman (Starz), My Friend Dahmer (Amazon), Gracie’s Choice, Men in Trees, Hung (HBO), The Vanished (Netflix)
Anne plays a lesbian in Catfight (dir: Onur Tukel) opposite Alicia Silverstone
After Anne was blacklisted from Hollywood, she went to Broadway to do David Auburn’s Proof (replacing Jennifer Jason Leigh)
Then appeared opposite Twentieth Century with Alec Baldwin (Tony nominated)
Huge wig in My Friend Dahmer, tooth work in Nip/Tuck
Anne acted in If These Walls Could Talk and wrote/directed If These Walls Could Talk 2 which co-starred Sharon Stone and Ellen as lovers trying to have a baby
Director of Birth, Jonathan Glazer, told her “I don’t need your backstory” and “take the need out of it”
Had never seen the original Psycho before filming Gus Van Sant’s remake (1998)
Anne Heche’s NYT review for her performances in Proof on Broadway
Anne directed If These Walls Could Talk 2, which co-stars Nia Long (the 1970s segment), who appears in Big Momma’s House with next week’s guest.
Anne conflates Mummenschanz with Mannheim Steamroller