Do you think they’ll ever be another “Galaxy Quest?”
Wouldn’t that be fun?
Tim Allen has said he wanted to do it.
One time the producer wrote me and said they were going to do a second one. I thought that was exciting, because one of the things that happened on the first one was that they re-cut it at the last minute because they wanted it to go up against “Stuart Little.” So it was actually much more sophisticated and had other scenes in it that, I don’t even know if they’re in the DVD. I don’t think DreamWorks quite knew what they had. We never did an overseas tour and really I thought it was one of those movies that you could absolutely show all over the world and anyone who’d ever seen “Star Trek” would love it. But, as far as I know, I think Tim went to Australia and that was about it, which was a shame.
Are you going to be working on something with your husband [Jim Simpson] any time soon?
I hope so. I’m trying to think. He’s going to be doing some French plays, some old French plays, one called “The Vultures” next fall, I think, and maybe he’ll ask me to be in that. We try to take turns working so we have at least one attentive parent. And sometimes it actually causes havoc for us to be working on the same thing. Although we enjoy it, our daughter is kind of, she’s onto us now and very sarcastic.
What’s next for you?
Well, I’m doing a wonderful movie, working again with Alan Rickman. We’re doing a movie called “Snowcake,” which is an English script, [an] independent film. Alan plays a guy traveling through the northeast of America and there’s a terrible accident and someone is killed. He comes to my house to tell me about it and, as it turns out, I’m on the spectrum. I have autism and that’s just one of the things about this character. She’s many, many ‘out there’ things, but one of them is she’s OCD and she’s on the spectrum and very up-front about it. He has to spend a number of days with Linda because there’s a wake at her house and, of course, she never lets anyone in her house. She cleans the whole kitchen every time she makes a cup of tea. So she suddenly has 75 people in her house.
It’s a very unusual, beautifully written script. It’s not about autism per se, but I would say it tries to show you that people with this condition are maybe not that comfortable in our world. But they have worlds of their own which we are not part of, which are amazing. It’s a great story about Alan’s time in this town. He plays a character named Alan, and he has a romance, not with me, and a few other things. But it’s a beautiful, beautiful script by a first time screenwriter and it’s an English production. We’re going to start, hopefully, in January six hours north of Toronto or something really cold. And I can’t wait to work with Alan again.
