DOUBLE FEATURE: DERMOT MULRONEY & JAMES LEGROS

Far worse fates (rattlesnake bite, death by hanging, oral surgery) could have befallen Dermot Mulroney and James LeGros than having to ride shotgun in the estrogen western Bad Girls. After all, what cowboy, Screen Actors Guild - variety or otherwise, wouldn't be glad to oblige a gang of gunslinging prostitutes (Drew Barrymore, Andie MacDowell, Madeleine Stowe, and Mary Stuart Masterson) trying to got straight? But after eleven weeks of being shacked up in Podunk, Texas, with nothing to do except dodge deer, play golf, and hang out with a bunch of women, these two young guns were ready to hit the trail and head home.

Premiere: What compelled you guys to do this movie?
Mulroney: I admit to having vivid western fantasies as a child.
LeGros: Now when did you first start having these fantasies Mr.Mulroney?
Mulroney: No, seriously, guys love westerns, but I think this film proves they appeal to women too. It gives a handful of women the chance to play out their favorite male fantasies.

Premiere: Are these girls really bad?
LeGros: They're really good. It's just that the world sees them as bad because, well... they're whores. But they were forced into it.
Mulroney: So they kill a couple of people.
LeGros: Big deal.
Mulrony: This is a western. You're allowed.
Premiere: If they're considered bad, what does that make you?
Mulroney: We're the good guys.
LeGros: You know, we're the guys whose hats don't fall off when we fight.

Premiere: Was it difficult working with an all-woman cast?
Mulroney: It was a really good experience in every way except, I've got to say, there was just this weird, uh, overtone of sexual harassment.
LeGros: I pretty much felt like a peice of meat. [Laughs] I mean, I'd have to deal with the catcalls, the little double entendres, stuff that you really can't take issue with.
Mulroney: But the Supreme Court just ruled that it doesn't matter if you actually suffered emotional duress, it only matters if you think...
LeGros: Yeah, if you think the workplace is, you know, hostile - sexually hostile, which is what this was.
Mulroney: Definately. [Laughs] And then, you know, they started to, well, touch us.
LeGros: Yeah, I mean, I was groped on a van on the way to the set.
Mulroney: I know.
LeGros: This may not be the proper forum to bring it up in, but it was pretty painful.
Premiere: You didn't take this lying down, did you?
LeGros: [Dramatically clears his throat] Well, in a manner of speaking.
Mulroney: Lying on our backsides, I assure you.

Premiere: I bet your wives had a good time visiting the set. Mulroney: I actually loved it when they came to visit. It was the only time we were really treated like men.
LeGros: [Our costars] put on a real show of decorum then.
Mulroney: Yeah, so we wouldn't have to face our wives and explain that we were being teated like, uh, what do you call it?
LeGros: Sex toys.
Mulroney: Right, sex toys.
Premiere: After such a horribly degrading experience, I guess you'd never want to do it again.
Mulroney and LeGros: [Simultaneously] In a second!