INTERVIEW WITH NIA VARDALOS:
How do you sum up “Connie and Carla?”
Toni Collette and I play two dinner theater performers who think they’re fabulous, and we’re not. So we borrow money for better costumes and don’t realize we borrowed it from gangsters, we can’t sing in dinner theaters anymore so we go undercover as drag queens.
What is the most difficult thing about being a drag queen?
There is nothing. I loved it, I loved the costumes, the lipstick, I loved it all.
Could you imagine the continuing adventures of “Connie and Carla?”
That would be fun. Actually if I ever write a sequel, I would make David Duchovny sing.
David’s played a transvestite before. Did he have any tips for you?
He kept saying to me, “Arch your back like this. Hold your back up.” I said, “Hey, just play the scene.”
Tell me why you picked David Duchovny to be in this movie.
He really is everything you think he is. He’s an [incredible] actor, he’s accessible to the audience because he doesn’t try to be anything that he’s not. I think he understands he’s lived in his body for a long time and he really knows it’s good-looking and what are you going to do? He knows who he is and he doesn’t flaunt it.
Is this movie inspired by something in your past?
Yes, it is. My dinner theater performances and musical theater. I’ve done tons of it.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
Interviews from the Premiere: David Duchovny / Michael Lembeck / Dash Mihok / Alec Mapa and Robert Kaiser
”Connie and Carla” Premiere Photos
”Connie and Carla” Press Junket Interviews, Production Photos, and Trailer
