When I told people I was interviewing you, several of them said to me, “I loved 1000 Fires. I feel very supported by them, and I’m really grateful for that. And I think my relationship with John Waters and being cast in Cry-Baby really introduced me to the lesbian and gay community. And over the years, my friendships were always like that. When I did movie, Not of This Earth, I was surrounded by costume designers and makeup artists and people that were bisexual, straight, gay – people of different walks of life. Was that a demographic you intentionally courted? The film is making its Palm Springs premiere at Cinema Diverse: The Palm Springs LGBTQ Film Festival, which is perfect because you have a big gay following. So, to play with that in a fun way was intriguing to me, to play somebody who was so fearless – but was she really? I had a good time with it. ” As if it’s supposed to be the end of you. Once you’re no longer 29, you start to hear the final march of, “once you turn 30. Which was intriguing to me because as an actress in Hollywood, it’s something you’re constantly reminded of. She’s really afraid of growing old, and she becomes fixated on it. I was really intrigued by Sally Fay because she is outrageously arrogant and beyond confident, but at the same time there’s a mask there. What’s great about playing an evil character? So, it was nice that this one was genuinely fun to do. I’ve said this before: A lot of the comedies I’ve done my career were the least fun to make. He has a cool head and a charming demeanor, and he brought that energy to the set.

And she’s so funny and so witty and clever.” What was he like to work with? She could not have been more accommodating and generous to me and the other actors. I interviewed JC a month ago, and here’s what he had to say about you: “Traci is always the first person there and the last person to leave. Traci spoke candidly to Palm Springs Life about the joys and perils of doing comedy, the #MeToo movement, her experience working with Roseanne Barr, and her big gay following. 27-28, at Cathedral City's Mary Pickford Theatre. The film festival offers a bonus weekend of films as well, Sept. 21 during Cinema Diverse, the LGBTQ film festival at the Palm Springs Cultural Center, which opens Sept 19. Later this month, she plays conniving Sally Fay, a cosmetics giant eager to get her hands on the fountain of youth at any cost in writer-director JC Calciano’s Steam Room Stories: The Movie, which is based on his successful web series that has attracted more than 52 million YouTube views.

She’s also created a fashion line and still finds time to work as an activist for causes that are dear to her. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Renaissance woman Traci Lords has acted in film and TV, she’s done modeling, made music, and written books and a short film, which she also directed.

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