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『 hunter schafer. twenty one. trans girl. she/her. 』 oh heavens, is that SAILOR QUINN from MAIN STREET i see roaming around mapleview? minnie may’s always calling them - GREEDY & - IMPULSIVE. i happen to think they’re not that bad! they’re a pretty cool WAITRESS AT SUNRISE DINER AND LOCAL PSYCHIC and every time i’ve seen them, they’ve always been + WARM & + QUICK WITTED. i hope i see them around again! 『 pepper. twenty four. est. she/her. 』

ABOUT THE MUN. the 2000 claymation film chicken run radicalized me hi, hey, hello, everyone my name is pepper and i am at work 😔 but i am also currently slacking off from work to write this 🤠 we love to see it. the duality of man. a bit about me is that i would lay my life down for hunter schafer !!! i am so excited to finally play her this has been my dream since i laid eyes on her,,, that and to take her hand in marriage but i digress. fun fact number 2, i have just started skins at my big age and i hate tony with a passion!!! i’ll fight that little punk i swear !!! fun fact number three, i have an irrational fear of humanoid beings with gills, looking at you sharkboy !! thanks for traumatizing me as a kid buddy, someone had to do it !! this fear also includes the deep from the boys, that weird fish guy that that one lady banged in that oscar nominated movie, and gill from kim possible. all of these fish men all my living nightmares, thank you for coming to my ted talk 😌 (honestlee,,, why is this such a common trope in media. who started this,,,why do they hate me). and finally, the most important thing you need to know about me, is that as a child i thot that god looked like king trident from the little mermaid. i think we can all relate to that, right? right. okay moving onto the love of my life, ms. sailor quinn.

BIO. winks with my third eye

everyone in mapleview knows about the quinns. the family has been here probably nearly as long as the town has and is pretty well known for their eccentrics. let’s just say the quinns were definitely, understandably, some of the first women in the history of mapleview to be accused of as being witches, an act of which they made the good ol’ mapleview history books for. this is a fact that sailor often looks back on with pride. honestly, it was one of the only things that made going to history class worth it, because despite how painfully boring the class was in general, sailor could never get tired of the startled looks of her classmates whenever her ancestry was brought up.

nowadays the quinns are arguably living a less exciting life than the good old days of being accused of sorcery. instead, they’re psychics. fortune tellers, if you will. you can find their family shop on main street, and if you’re ever feeling particularly divinely inspired you can stop by for a reading and a few charms or some crystals (they also offer sagings and exorcisms) . the third eye has actually become a bit of a tourist attraction actually, well, as much of a tourist attraction as you could find in mapleview, due to the actions of sailor’s mother.

to put it simply, sailor’s mother had plans bigger than mapleview could offer. around the time the she was eighteen she left the town for hollywood. now, you would think based in this information that venus quinn had big plans of being on the big screen maybe. or that perhaps she had the voice of an angel and wanted to sing on the radio. you would be wrong.

sailor’s mother became a reality tv show psychic. as you can guess, the psychic community loves her. that is, if love involved a myriad of curses being put on you and maybe a bit of voodoo. okay, she’s universally despised by psychics pretty much everywhere. i think it’s to be expected.

sailor was born into this legacy. as you can guess, it was a pretty heavy cross to bear. she was born into a b-list fame that meant her mother had to call her own paparazzi, that sailor herself simply had to be homeschooled to avoid the ‘mobbing’ of perhaps fifteen avid fans max, and that every morning in their grand living room her mother would let her hate mail fuel their fireplace. sailor would occasionally have her face plastered on tlc, or her voice would be heard as her mother made a ‘heartwarming call to her family at home whilst on tour’ but to put it bluntly, sailor was more of a prop in her mother’s fame than anything else. and it was bargain shop fame at best. but apparently still enough scrutiny that her mother felt the need to take her out of the public eye when she came out and began to transition.

sailor came out to her mother at the age of nine and before she could even reach the age of ten, her mother had shipped her halfway across the country to mapleview to comfortably transition in a town of strangers and in a household of people she’d only ever met at argument fueled holiday parties. her mother swore up and down that this was to make sure that sailor could transition outside of public scrutiny, so that she could have her privacy in this time and not have to deal with the media hounding her down during such a vulnerable period but sailor couldn’t help but feel abandoned by the whole situation. it felt like her mother was hiding her away, like some sort of dirty little secret. it felt like she was ashamed of her, even if the woman swore up and down that she accepted sailor as she was.

sailor moved into the top of the third eye with her her aunts and grandmother and was welcomed into this clan of women with open arms. as mentioned earlier, most of sailor’s experience with her aunts and grandmother has been brief exchanges between her aunts screaming at her mother for being a sell out, her mother hollering back about them not supporting her, and her grandmother pretending to cast a curse on her mother from the head of the dining room table. you know. normal family gatherings, but not enough for you to truly get to know somebody. but it is within the quinn women’s household that sailor finally found her footing. she finally felt like she belonged. her aunts and gram taught her everything they knew and nurtured her lovingly throughout her transition. they gave her her first job working front desk at the third eye, made the place she felt like her mother abandoned her feel more like home than her mother’s place ever had. and she is painfully loyal to them for it. when her mother finally reached out to sailor at the age of sixteen, finally inviting her back home, sailor simply refused. and she’s been here in mapleview ever since.

a few years ago sailor’s mother moved back to mapleview to attempt to repair their relationship. to put it frankly, her views were plummeting quickly, and along with feeling some amount of remorse for her deteriorating relationship with her daughter she also thought that perhaps making her show a mother daughter act would bring some of the attention back to it. sailor has pretty much refused to speak to her, but she lives around sycamore way in a large house on a hill.

despite sailor having no plans to break into the reality tv business, she really has no idea what she would like to do instead. she is currently content to just continue working at her family shop, and occasionally take up a few of the shifts at the diner as well. she likes money, and she certainly has ambitions to make more, the how is simply up in the air at the moment. honestly, life would be a lot simpler if she could see her own future.

or well, anyone’s at all.

HEADCANNONS. are you a virgin? why are you planning a sacrifice?

this is the song that inspired sailor, no i cannot explain why.

sailor’s mother name is venus (vee), her aunts name is persephone (percy), her other aunts name is circe (cece) and finally her grandmother’s name is luna. both her aunts are unmarried and her grandmother is widowed.

that said, sailor does have a father despite the fact that i didn’t once mention him djsdjk he is an artist and he loves her mother to death honestly. their relationship is almost completely based off of the relationship of cassie’s parents from skins, so yeah they can’t keep their hands off each other and sailor’s father kenneth often paints her mother nude. most of these paintings could be seen on display in her old household, so sailor really did just grow up seeing her mother butt ass naked every day. sometimes it be like that i suppose.

sailor has three black cats. she calls them the muses and their names are calliope, clio, and urania. basically, whenever there is a black cat at the pound sailor makes it her mission to them home because the stigma against black cats that keeps them from getting adopted?? wack. sailor will adopt everyone of them.

is currently still living above her family shop is kind of interested in finding an apartment to move into instead. is in the market for a roomie or like three!! all interested parties please apply.

is actually kinda a con artist. honestly, her whole family kinda is but shh, don’t tell nsdkjsdjk none of them can actually see the future but aunt percy (who says she can see the future, but honestly while sailor does believe her aunt percy is also a bit loony so sdjhsdj who knows what the truth is?) and her grandmother. cece, vee, and sailor tho?? all faking it until they make it. honestly sailor is pretty good about it, although she doesn’t actively see the future she does believe in everything she practices for the most part, and it shows. that says, since she is frankly, a magpie when it comes to money and literally anything mildly expensive she will offer rich people tarot readings without any hesitation and proceed to make the whole thing up as she goes along. if sailor judges them to be bad people (aka rude, the kinda people who don’t tip, snooty, assholes) she will give them a horrible reading to instill the fear of god in them and charge them extra for some good luck charms to ward off their impending doom. but if she likes them she will read the cards as they are and do her best to give them good advice based on her gut. her only saving grace is that she has pretty good intuition anyways, so a lot of what she says tends to be right even if it’s just shots in the dark. (her aunt cece is worse though, she looks up all her clients online before they come to see her dskjdsjk all of her predictions are educated guesses based on her research)

the type to crush and crush hard. falls in love every other week, and gets her heart broken just as often. honestly, sailor tends to fall for anyone who is nice to her, or gives her attention, or whose attention she wants. she is constantly on tinder mostly for fun. tends to treat the app more like a game than anything else, goes out on one night stands a hookups at least ??? 3 times a week. will make cast a love spell for the guy who told her to stay dry when she left the grocery store or the girl who smiled at her on the bus.

cannot drive but has a license. if you see sailor behind the wheel, duck. she drives a cute little sky blue bug though. it has eyelashes on the headlights.

colours her hair whenever she is even mildly stressed. by default at the moment it’s a pretty silvery blonde, so she tends to colour the ends often depending on her mood.

actually can sing unlike her mother, you can probably catch her at any open mic nights in town. she has a little guitar that she’s covered in flower stickers and named aphrodite.

that little frowny face florence pugh was making throughout the entirety of midsommar,,, unhappy sailor content. thank you for coming to my ted talk.

the type to go to church and pretend to be overcome by the holy spirit just because she’s bored on a sunday sdkjsdj

your girl is vegan and bisexual, we love to see it.

PERSONALITY. feeling cute today. might commit acts of hubris

CHEEKY. 99.9% of the time sailor is joking. she is the type to generally tend to be in a cheerful mood no matter what, always laughing or making a dry joke. doesn’t tend to often be in a bad mood but when she is it says something. very witty honestly, tends to be quite funny and the type to go out of her way to make someone laugh

GREEDY. sailor loves money. she absolutely adores it. she’s kind of a magpie when it comes to material things, the type to go to antique stores and thrift stores and clear them out of absolutely anything that interests her. a shameless pickpocket and minor thief, but only when it comes to large corporations or people who look like they have a summer house stashed away somewhere. definitely snatched some sort of expensive little statue from her moms place the last time she went to visit a la fleabag. is probably still looking for some place to sell it online, but honestly also kinda wants to keep it. she’s named her no head nancy and she is currently sitting on sailors desk as a paperweight

WARM. all faults aside, if you ever need something from somebody sailor is the one to go to. need a ride home from the club? sailor will come and get you in ten minutes. feeling sick? sailor will be over at your place with some vegan chicken noodle soup and a charm for good health. need someone to cheer you up? sailor is doing a chicken dance on your front porch. she is ultimately kind, and if you are her friend especially she will be there for you until death.

IMPULSIVE. that said sailor does pretty much everything she does without thinking. she is actually, surprisingly enough, a bit of a planner when it comes to life and finances, like she is pretty organized considering how scattered her personality is otherwise. but if sailor gets a whim to go somewhere or do something out of nowhere, she will do it. commitments be damned. the type to suddenly get up and leave mapleview one day to live in hawaii for a year and learn to scuba dive yk. will send you postcards tho.

this is my first time playing sailor so if this is a mess and contradictory it’s because i am too 😌 thank you for coming to my ted talk.

WANTED CONNECTIONS. god doesnt respond why should i

EXES. give. me. ANGST with this please. the more dramatic the better. it’s been a hot minute since i had a good ex connection so maybe something where they dated in high school or even more recently. where they’re trying to be on good terms but some angsty feels linger below the surface, or where they’re on really bad terms and can’t hide it. the kind of exes who keep going back to each other, or who can’t leave each other alone, jealousy, and all that good stuff yk

BEST FRIENDS. pls. i would love for sailor to have like four or five of these honestly, just a little squad. these could be here roommates!! or not!! i plan on putting in a wc for her roommates honestly, so look forward to that.

REGULAR CUSTOMER. someone who sailor is either milking dry or is just trying to reassure. she comes to their place in the middle of the night to sage the place because they swear they heard a ghost. they have a urgent skype call because they broke a mirror and want sailor to go over their future one more time to see how it’s been affected. sailor makes a lot of money off of them and either feels guilty about it or not even a little bit guilty about it depending on their relationship.

OTHER REGULAR CUSTOMER. this is someone who sailor regularly serves at the diner. rip to them because she is horrible at it. they find sailors order taking pencil in their soup. sailor is constantly getting their order wrong. sometimes she sits down with them and steals their fries as she talks their ear off. sailor is honestly probably too comfortable with them considering how bad she is at her job, but she definitely considers them friends.

A CRUSH. open to ladies, theydies, and gents! someone who sailor has a big ol’ dumb crush on. this is the person that sailor thinks of whenever she does a love reading, the person who she gazes at longingly whenever she sees them. she also probably talks their ear off whenever they see each other. big heart eyes atm, but sailor knows it probably won’t last more than a month. right?

EX-CRUSHES. that makes me think omg, i’d love to have some people sailor used to have a crush on. people she had a crush on in high school. people she had a crush on last year. just people she used to be obsessed with who she is completely over now sdkjdsjk maybe they’re friends now and sailor doesn’t know what she saw in them in the first place. maybe they’re enemies omg

OPPOSITES ATTRACT. i’d like someone really grounded to be friends with sailor. like just someone with their shit together who isn’t as airy and whimsical as her. sailor makes them loosen up a bit, and they make sure sailor doesn’t end up dead. it’s a balance.

i think that’s all i can think of for now but honestly i’d also love to see a bully sailor used to have a s child, someone who thinks psychics and astrology and everything is bs just so sailor can like !!! debate with them about it yk, someone who’s a fan of her moms show, someone who maybe comes to sailors open mic nights religiously, a neighbor maybe like just the person who lives above the shop beside the third eye and sees these women baying at the moon during the summer solstice and is like ??? fuck i gotta move, previous one night stands, fwb, ewb, uh someone who bonds with sailor over occult stuff???

#mapleviewintro #whew #this took a hot minute but here it is y'all we love to see it

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Meet actress and '80s icon Diane Franklin of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Amityville II, and her newest The Amityville Murders.

I caught up with the one and only Diane Franklin for an in-depth chat on the '80s (naturally!), acting, energy, curly hair and 1980s teen filmmaking (a trend that she was the vanguard of with films like The Last American Virgin and Better Off Dead…), Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (and its third installment), great film, and her latest, The Amityville Murders, which tells the story of the very real DeFeo Murders that did much to spawn (or at least reinforce) the Amityville legends.

Diane is a veteran of the Amityville franchise, having starred in Amityville II: The Possession where she played daughter Patricia Montelli – a loosely-based on a true story character. In The Amityville Murders, however, she plays one of the real victims, Louise DeFeo, in a tour de force performance that adds tremendous humanity to this very dark story. The Amityville Murders as a film does this too, while giving us a truly disturbing look into the underbelly and dysfunction of what – for most outside accounts – seemed like a normal New York family.

Diane Franklin as Karen in 1982's THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN

Diane Franklin as Patricia Montelli in 1982's AMITYVILLE II: THE POSSESSION.

Diane Franklin as Monique Junet in 1985's BETTER OFF DEAD...

(L-R) Diane Franklin as Princess Joanna and Kimberly Kates as Princess Elizabeth in 1989's BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE.

On the night of November 13, 1974 in Amityville, NY on Long Island. Ronald Joseph DeFeo Jr., also called "Butch", (played by John Robinson in the movie), aged 23, grabbed his father's .35 caliber hunting rifle and went room to room in his family's huge, rambling Dutch colonial house, shooting his mother Louise, father Ron DeFeo, Sr., and his 4 siblings as they lay, sleeping in their beds.

One of the oddest parts of the grisly discovery at 112 Ocean Avenue was that only 2 DeFeos stirred as Butch went room to room firing a rifle with a report louder than a jet engine – not even a single neighbor heard the shots. All of the DeFeos were found on their stomachs in bed. There was also zero evidence of drugs in the victims' systems.

The DeFeo Murders happened two years before the Lutz family would move in and have the experiences that shaped the original 1979 Amityville Horror. As for Butch, he is still in jail (serving 6 concurrent sentences of 25 years to life), after having told a number of stories about the murders – including saying it was actually the mob who killed his family and (at a different time) that voices compelled him to kill. To hear more on the true crime details, check out the Real Monsters podcast here. I will be on it Thursday February 14 for our episode on this bizarre crime.

Enjoy the interview below and catch The Amityville Murders in theaters, On Digital, and On Demand February 8. Stay tuned for our interview with writer and director Daniel Farrands too.

The rambling Dutch colonial at 112 Ocean Avenue after it became a crime scene. Source:historyvshollywood.com

The DeFeo children. Source:historyvshollywood.com

Hello, Diane. Welcome to The 405!

Hi, Wess. How are you?

To be honest, I've been better. I'm fighting a bit of a fever at home today, but I'll live.

Oh my goodness. Well, I will make this the best part of your day, okay?

I have no doubt of that. [Laughs]

[Laughs] We won't let it to go waste.

To start things off, I was just curious, did you ever see yourself going back to Amityville? Let alone in this way? That is from a fictionalized story (in the second Amityville movie) to The Amityville Murders?

Never. No. Not at all. I couldn't imagine.

First of all, I was in Amityville II. I thought, at the time, who is going to ever watch part two? That was the first part, who watches part two? Because in the '80s, nobody really watched part two. Everyone would watch the original, right?

Interesting.

You would go, "Why would you spend your money to see part two when you could see part one?" Who could ever imagine that the internet was a topic, and that we would be watching whatever we wanted, whenever we wanted.

Mm-hmm (affirmative).

So, that's the first thing. And then, the second thing was, if anything, I thought, "Oh, well, maybe there'll be a remake of Better Off Dead. Or, maybe Last American Virgin. Or, Bill and Ted," which they are going to do, which is kind of amazing. Which I may be in.

Oh, wow. That'll be fun to see.

But, never Amityville. And when the director said he would like me to play Louise DeFeo, I burst into tears because this was such a respectable, wonderful story. I mean, the woman ... This is based on a true story. The ability to play someone who was real was always a dream of mine and it couldn't have come at a better time.

If he had offered it to me years ago, I would've probably said no because I was raising my kids. I wanted to raise my own kids, I didn't want somebody else ... I didn't want to be traveling and acting, I wanted to be there for them.

So, the timing of this was unbelievable, that my children are old enough and I have the time to do the film. It was a dream come true, it really was.

Diane Franklin as Louise DeFeo in the “THE AMITYVILLE MURDERS” a horror film by Skyline Entertainment. Photo courtesy of Skyline Entertainment.

Absolutely. It’s really kind of a microcosm of family breakdown in the larger society, I think. What were the challenges like with Louise DeFeo part versus Patricia Montelli in Amityville 2?

Okay, so the challenges playing Louise DeFeo ... First of all, there was very limited information. I didn't realize that when I played Patricia Montelli – which is based on Dawn DeFeo – because I didn't research it at the time when I was younger because I wanted to keep myself really innocent and I didn't want to scare myself playing the role. I wanted to keep myself very open and vulnerable.

But, in this case, I really tried to do more research because I'm playing a real person, plus I'm playing the mother, and the mother in the story knows what's happening. All mothers know what's going on. I really wanted to get more information, but there wasn't a lot. Which is, really, kind of interesting.

From an internet perspective, we always look at the world and we think, "Oh, we can get any information whenever we wanted." But, back in the '80s, or '70s, especially, people were ... I remember growing up, cause I'm from Long Island, a couple of towns away from Amityville…

Oh, wow.

People would be like, "Don't take that picture. I don't want ... "Others would be like, "Please." They wouldn't to look good, but it was like, "No, don't even put me in that photo." There was no plastic surgery. There was nothing else. People who were older were more like, "Let the kids have the pictures." They were just more ... There was more ... It was considered vain to take a lot of photos. "Don't look at yourself in the mirror." It was a different trend than it is today, certainly, with all the selfies.

Wow. I was just thinking about that. The details of that crime, too, are just ... I still find it difficult to wrap my head around how nobody heard that rifle that night in the DeFeo house.

Yeah, absolutely. That's a rifle. We're talking about using a gun. We're not talking about the fact that ... I don't know if silencers were happening back then, really, that nobody moved, and that nobody ... That, and then, it took a while for the guy, the son, to go from room to room.

Neighbors would've heard the shots, then they would have heard it stop, then they would have heard another. I think it's kind of interesting even that the neighbors didn't call anyone or ... I don't know, the whole thing is very odd.

It really is. A rifle with a similar caliber to the .35 caliber Butch DeFeo used that night, has a report that comes in at 156 decibels. Which (for perspective) is 16 decibels louder than a jet engine taking off. It's also about 36 decibels above the threshold where most people feel pain from a loud noise.

I believe that ... We don't think about it often – we don't think of haunted houses as something that is practical, or real, but I believe that people feel energy differently, and some people can feel it stronger than others.

I agree with that Diane.

Butch DeFeo, who is in jail right now and he is serving his sentence, he has had many different stories. I have to say, I don't know what the truth is, but the ability to go from room to room and do that, something possessed him. Something possessed him.

No doubt.

I'm not saying ... even if he was on drugs or some kind of under the influence, something got into him. I've got to believe that when you're in a house, and you feel it, it's real and you've got to get away from that energy. The Lutz family who moved into that house ... If you feel that energy, you can't stay around it, you feel it. Through your senses.

I have to say that my experience doing this film, because I read all this and I was more the mother and vulnerable, it was actually much scarier to do it as an adult than it was as a child.

Wow.

When I went home, I honestly couldn't ... I found myself sleeping on my stomach. Could not do it. From this day, I cannot sleep on my stomach any more. It brings me horrible feelings. Terrible dreams. So, yeah, it affected me this time.

Wow. Yeah, I imagine. With every victim found that way after Butch murdered them.

By the way, I have to tell you, Amityville, the first one, I got a shock of gray hair after that film.

Oh, really?

It's amazing. I was absolutely affected by doing the horror film.

That's incredible. I would never have thought to get into that.

Yeah, as an actor, you know. You get affected when you do these films. There's a residue, there's a bad energy. You need to be careful. You have to be careful.

I have very positive energy, so that's good, but you… have to be careful.

You certainly do have a very positive energy. That answers a question I had too, which was what's it like to get into the head space of Louise DeFeo?

Yeah, just for the audience's information, Amityville II is basically ... half the story takes place in the house, and the second half is an exorcism story.

The first half of that story, which takes place in the house, there's family abuse. It's really real. The parents, who were Rutanya Alda, who was wonderful in the film. I love her as a person, and Burt Young, who played my dad in the film. Very strong energy. I played Patricia Montelli, and there's incest in the films.

So it's a lot. It's very raw and it's very scary…

Diane Franklin as Patricia Montelli in AMITYVILLE II: THE POSSESSION.

Diane Franklin as Louise DeFeo in the “THE AMITYVILLE MURDERS” a horror film by Skyline Entertainment. Photo courtesy of Skyline Entertainment.

It really is. I watched it last night and was very impressed with it. Of course, I've always liked the original too.

In this film, Amityville Murders, it's much more real. You stay in the house, but everything is more real. Though there is not as much ... Younger generation might say, "Oh my gosh, I've seen better special effects." There's nothing really scare happening, eyeballs popping or a snake coming out of an ear, or something crazy. That's because this is based on a real story, and honestly, if you look at the real story, it is creepier. It's scarier. Real facts, to me, are scarier. Shadows are scarier. To me, that is closer to what could really be happening.

I completely agree. The best horror is grounded more in reality than fantasy like Amityville II and The Amityville Murders.

And, as far as Daniel Farrands knows, director, writer who studied and did the documentary on Amityville, this is all accurate. So, it's very little in this film that did not really happen. So, I think that just makes it just a creepier feeling, and to understand that I'm actually doing the same story, but there are differences and the differences are based on the reality.

Oh, absolutely, and I actually talked to him yesterday. So, that'll be-

Oh, wonderful.

Yeah, that was a good interview, as well…

He's wonderful.

He really is. I didn't know he was a producer on The Haunting in Connecticut, too. He has a specialty in based on a true story work.

This is his first writing tour de force. I was so honored that he thought of me, even the production company style. It's also our first work together, and I was so excited to be part of their ... this big jump in entertainment. Really, I was very proud of him, very happy that I was included.

Oh, he definitely made the right decision, casting you like he did. All the casting really couldn't have been better.

(R-L foreground) Diane Franklin as Princess Joanna and Kimberly Kates as Princess Elizabeth in 1989's BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE.

You mentioned it a bit earlier, and I did have a question about it. Bill & Ted at 30 years. I was just wondering if you had any reflections about that.

Oh, yes. Well, I was Princess Joanna, and also a little picnic for those who don't know, I played one of the medieval princesses and originally I was cast as Princess Elizabeth, but someone got the credits wrong…

Oh wow. [Laughs] I did not know that.

…so I became Princess Joanna. And then, in the sequel Bogus Journey, they had a woman play my role, and yet, Azcuy, I forgot how to pronounce her last name, but Azcuy, and she was Princess Elizabeth, so they went back to that name.

Ah yes. Annette Azcuy.

Yeah!

Now, they're going to do Bill & Ted III, so the princesses are included. I'm not sure if I'm in it, but please knock on wood, cross your fingers…

Oh, I am right now.

…but they're going to shoot it this year. And, if I am in the film, we'll see what my name is, it might be back to Princess Elizabeth. So, that would be very fun for the fans too, a little tidbit. The old-school fans would be like, "Oh yeah. She used to be princess Joanna. Now, she's Princess Elizabeth," so, that'd be kind of fun. So cross your fingers.

If it's shot, even if I'm not in it, it'll be a great film.

Oh, I'm sure it will be. It'll be a lot of fun to go see. Will absolutely keep our fingers crossed.

It's called Bill & Ted Face the Music, and I also teach acting, and one of the things I found is that so many teachers show Bill & Ted, the original, the Adventure, to their students, and that makes me so proud. Because, it's like, "Oh, look!" like a nice role model for the kids. They always like that, so it's funny. It's very fun.

Very cool.

Diane Franklin as Louise DeFeo in the “THE AMITYVILLE MURDERS” a horror film by Skyline Entertainment. Photo courtesy of Skyline Entertainment.

Switching gears, just a little bit, to a question I ask everybody, what makes a great film?

Very nice. I like that. I'm going to tell you something that I find interesting. There are some films that are great films as we speak. Right? Like, today, a film comes out, and it's very commercial. People connect with it, right now. And, those are actually ... we might say, "Oh, well, maybe those films are commercial, but they do represent what's going on in the moment, right?

Right.

And, I think, those details, well, maybe they're not that important. They might represent what's happening today, currently. They represent who we are as people, and our American culture. And then, that brings nostalgic memories, and if the films we watch who help us grow up. And, I think, those are the ones that become great films later on. Because, you look back and you go, "Wow, that raised me, or it taught me something."

Couldn't agree more Diane. Well said.

As an example, Last American Virgin was a film I did, first film I did, and I would have thought that that film would have, originally, when I got the script, maybe never would have seen the light of day. This was a small film at a time when Officer and a Gentleman was out, and this film, I thought, would disappear. But, because it came out, and so many people saw it. It was the beginning of films where teenagers were the lead, teenagers had a voice, and teenagers were acting as adults. It raised a generation. There are people who watch that film and learn from it, and they never forgot it. And, it is still around today.

Definitely. That's a one of a kind power of great cinema, I think.

Actually, also it's a microcosm of the ‘80s. ‘80's subject matter, ‘80s ... the abortion and drugs, and drinking, and there's nudity, and there's so many things in that film that ... and the sex. It's just very timely and it also ... the music and the costumes. It was the first film where my curly hair started the perm. My curly hair that's still short curly hair, opened up doors for Julia Roberts and actresses who had not curled their hair before, like a perm. Starting with Flashdance … It just opened up a whole world.

So, I have books about it, if you look up Diane Franklin books, my second book is "Diane Franklin: The Excellent Curls of the Last American, French-Exchange Babe of the 80s". We're talking about things emerging in culture, so when I see a great film, I have to say that, I think it evolves and changes. What we see as a great film, at the time, maybe evolved, and something else becomes a great film. Because, does it last, and how does it affect us in the world and in the big picture?

Absolutely. Fantastic questions to ask and look for.

To let the audience know as well: I'm going to be doing a convention at the end of May, Retro Weekend, and if anyone's interested they could come… I have pictures I sign, and if anyone has a CD or whatever they want to be signed, they should come to Retro Weekend at the end of May, last weekend of May. It's in Ohio though. I don't know if that's too far, but just letting you know.

Oh, definitely. That'll be a lot of fun. In Cleveland, I see.

Yeah.

Last question I had was just, what's next for you, if you had anything that we haven't covered yet?

Very exciting. Okay, so first of all, just letting everyone know, I did a small cameo in a film called Wally Got Wasted. It is on Amazon Prime, and if you're interested…

Absolutely will check that out.

I have a funny, very funny cameo in that film, so you can get that through the Amazon Prime app, only. I guess it's just one of those things.

Next, I also have a film I did called, The Final Interview, for a director named Fred Vogel. It is an art film. It is going to film festivals across the county this year. So, if you hear of it, go see it and I have a thriller, very exciting thriller. Very wonderful. It takes place in the ‘80s, and I play a lead woman and news director. Grainger Hines plays my husband in this exciting film. I'm sorry… Grainger, yeah.

Diane Franklin as Patricia Montelli in 1982's AMITYVILLE II: THE POSSESSION.

That one actually caught my eye during research. My kind of movie.

And, the third thing that's very exciting for me, is that my daughter is a filmmaker and her name is Olivia DeLaurentis, and she's coming out of ... she's actually written a film. It's been picked up. She's twenty-two years old. This is, perhaps, the youngest film director that has…

Very cool.

She does dark comedies. It's probably the youngest film director to be picked up. She's written it. She's directing it. She's acting in it, and I will be in it, and we're shooting it this year. And, it's called This Gets Ruff.

So, if you look up Olivia DeLaurentis, and you look up This Gets Ruff, you also might see her, she's under Barely Legal Comedy. Put "comedy" in there, because I'm not responsible, if you don't put that in.

[Laughs] won't forget that "comedy" part.

[Laughs] She is a comedian, but a beautiful, funny, and she's the next one coming up. She's amazing.

And, the princess from Bill & Ted, the other girls who I worked with Kimberly Kates, she's producing the film. She's actually a producer now.

Cool.

So, she saw Olivia's work in Barely Legal Comedy, and she said, "You are brilliant," and she said something about, if she has a script, she wants to auction it. And, the minute Olivia got out of UCLA, she picked it up. And so, I am very excited to act with my own daughter this year.

That's great! Will be sure to catch that too.

So, here I am. It's all hitting, and I am beyond excited.

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Trailer BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (1989).

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Trailer BETTER OFF DEAD... (1985).

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Trailer AMITYVILLE II: THE POSSESSION (1982).

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Trailer THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN (1982).

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