The things you say when you meet Clea Duvall - Los Angeles

The things you say when you meet Clea Duvall - Los Angeles June 9, 2008

Filed under: Hot Situation - Los Angeles, Hot Situation - Queer women's travel. — admin @ 2:27 pm

Uh uh, (clears throat). Ahem, so if you’ve been reading my blog for a while you know that I’m the co-producer of this Rhapsody series called “Rock-Star Guide to the Galaxy”. Uh huh. Well, so we’re in LA to work with this particular band that for the moment shall remain nameless. Uh huh. Anyway, it’s nice and hot, like LA should be, and we’re in the green room at the Roxy and who walks in?! Clea Duvall. Uh huh.

I’ve been working with a lot of talent lately and I’m always calm, cool and professional. But a shout out back to my regulars – you’ve heard me mention before that Clea is one of my favorite actresses – right up there with Winona Ryder.. Uh huh. So pardon me while I take a moment to recount the story for you all.

Part 1: Clea walks in and stands in a corner (the corner that I’m standing in holding my video camera); she then turns to me, puts her hand out and says, “Hi, I’m Clea. You look familiar.” Uh huh. Turning red, eyes blinking, jaw dropping. I remember my name and introduce myself “We’re from San Francisco, so…uh..I don’t know where we would have met. But, well, you obviously look familiar.”

Clea: blink blink
Smiles. Nods head.
Exit stage right.

Part 2: The VIP area of the Roxy. It’s the end of the show and I have to remind myself to breath due to so many hot situations already. Deep slow breaths. Clea turns around and asks me, “is life that hard?” At that point, I just crack up laughing. We start chatting and at some point we get on the subject of smoking cigarettes and I share my theory, that “half of the addiction to smoking is not just the nicotine, but the deep rhythmic breaths you take while you smoke.” WTF is that!? Who says that? I do a lot of yoga.

Part 3: Inspiration. I finally come out to Clea that I’ve a big fan of hers since I was 16. Then I get worried that maybe I should check my facts before I open my big mouth, but before I can find my way through the space-time continuum she just asks me my age and it turns out she started acting when she was 18 (that means I was 15, so we’re all good). Then she shares that some things she saw while growing up influenced what she does now. I thought that was so sweet, that I got lost in my thoughts, and forgot to ask her what it was that influenced her!

Clea, if you read this blog, we all want to know what it was that influenced you while you were growing up. You have obviously been an inspiration and have influenced a lot of folks from my generation and younger.
So, um, will you be in my movie Licorice? I’m writing a coming of age drama that you would be perfect to play the role of the older sister. I already produced a short scene from it and gave a copy to one of your friends in that band we all know and love, (uh huh, just clearing my throat again in case you aren’t getting the hint).
In case you missed it, here’s a link to the Rock-Star guide to the Galaxy webisode with CSS.

Here’s a sneak peak to the Rock-Star guide to the Galaxy webisode with Uh Huh Her coming this August.

2 Comments for this post

Julia Says: June 12th, 2008 at 5:16 pm

LOL, I really don’t think that the things you said were embarrassing at all - I’m pretty sure she’s experienced far worse than that. Besides, if she’d been so put off by Part 1, there certainly would not have been a Part 2, which she initiated

I got to meet a pretty famous football (soccer)-player last year and I started asking all these really dumb questions because my brain just seemed to freeze all over and I couldn’t lead a decent conversation any more. Like “So do you live in this town?” even though I knew for a fact that she played for a team on the other side of the country. I’m still visibly cringing just thinking about it.

And said player hasn’t even meant anything to me while growing up, so I don’t even want to imagine what sort of idiocy I would come up with if ever were to meet Clea, who has had a huge influence on my life. I’m not even sure if I would be able to utter a single word, at least not of any human language. I do think you handled yourself very well, Shae!

And Says: July 11th, 2008 at 12:37 pm

Yes. re the smoking. That’s what I keep wondering and my mum too. Or at least the deep breaths. And I’m trying to stop smoking too, am going to buy magazines instead but yest I’m sure it somehow connects us with our passion too / energy / other realms / imaginative inspiration.