8/31/2023 0 Comments Huey lewis stuck with you![]() ![]() Had you even heard of music videos at that point? No one knew at the time how MTV was going to change the fabric of the music industry. By the time I’d gotten home from the “Heart and Soul” audition, I’d already gotten the call that I got the video. But the discipline I learned in dancing has carried through the rest of my life. I mean no disrespect to anyone doing it, but the world of dance can be cutthroat. At 13 I was on full scholarship for the San Francisco School of Ballet, but quit at 16 because I saw a destructive lifestyle-diet pills, cigarettes. They put on “Heart and Soul” (first time I heard it) and said, “Dance to it.” I had been a dancer for many years, starting ballet at seven. I was asked to pretend to flirt with guy across the room, which I like to believe I had a little experience with at that point. I turned around to leave and the director popped his head out of the room they were casting in and said, “Hey, miniskirt, where are you going?” He pulled me in and said they were also looking for a girl who’s the opposite and stands out in the crowd of these unusual characters. I went to the audition and there were 50 of the most hardcore punk rockers I’ve ever seen. I don’t look anything like a punk rocker.” I said I’ll put on high heels but that’s about the extent of it. My agent said, “They’re looking for punk rockers so I want you to put some of that spray stuff in your hair and put on torn fishnet stockings.” I said, “Lynn, I’m not doing that. After getting a guest star part on Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, Stacy Keach said, “You have natural talent and you have to move to Los Angeles or New York.” After “Heart and Soul” in particular started airing, music videos exploded and my agent started getting calls from casting directors in Los Angeles. I was really working as a model so consistently that acting hadn’t become a part of my life yet. At that point you couldn’t open up a local paper without seeing me in it. I was already modeling, spending six months of the year in Paris, six in San Francisco. What music videos, shows, or movies had you appeared in prior to that?Īt that point, none. Goode.” My older brother and sister Jeffrey and Tiffany knew him better because they were the same age group. I’d go to dances on Saturday nights and Huey was playing. Huey used to play with Clover in Bolinas, CA, where I grew up-an hour and 20 minutes north of San Francisco. I knew him on more of a “Hi, how are you?” level. Big bay windows overlooking the bay.ĭid you know Huey Lewis before the video? Beautiful apartment-I wish I still had it. I was living in San Francisco, right above Ghirardelli Square. How old were you when you appeared in the “Heart and Soul” and “I Want a New Drug” videos? ![]() The next day, I heard from Signy, and also from the director.I also reached ou t to the director of a music video Signy recently shot for a new artist, Kattail (who thanks Huey Lewis and the News on her site).The one they had is not her agent anymore but she gave me the name of Signy’s former manager, who kindly said she’d try to find her.Weeks passed and she had still not seen it, so I called SAG for her agent.
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