J: Hi! Nice to see you again
Vanessa: Nice to see you!
J: Great dress, great everything!
V: Thankyou. She is a local designer
J: Oh! Is that right? Local people, very nice. You know the last time I saw you it was not a year but like 9 months ago You were redoing your house, did you ever finished?
V: Yes, finally.
J: How long did it take?
V: Two and a half years. I moved out September 1995
J: How long was it supposed to take?
V: 9 months. I rented the first house thinking that a year would be enough and come a year it wasnt done. I asked for three more months and promised to be out by christmas time. So they sell the house, have to move out, the house is nowhere near finished. I rent another house for nine months. They say it will be done in 6 months. Nine months August comes and the house is still not finished
J: Thats like a nightmare
V: Go on the road for four months and to my parents
J: You moved back with your parents?
V: Yes I did, sleeping in my brothers bunk bed for a while. You know you move back home,there is just one telephone line, my parents dont have call-waiting. The phone is always busy. Its the little things that you miss.
J: Yeah, You are in your room and your parents in the other one watching Matlock the TV is this loud bang! bang! (shouting) No one can have a discussion
V: Ive been there
J: And you get that smell, which is always good
V: Well, my folks arent on that realm yet but its been wild. Moved in to another rental after that
J: So, how long were you in your parents house
V: I was on the road for about four months, so on and off.
J: We all love our parents but you do go nuts when you go back
V: And you are not having your stuff. You have the old pillow cases you had when you were a teenager.
J: And you have to put on a shirt at the dinner table
V: Well, I always wear a shirt at the dinner table, Jay.
J: Oh, I was thinking of taking you to dinner too. You know my dad would put on a jacket whenever we had dinner and on my house the cartoon of milk is on the table maybe you drink out of it, but there you have to pour it on the glass and all that kind of stuff.
J: Now, how did your kids adapt to all that?
V: Well they loved staying with grandma and papa, that was cool! But they are happy to be in the house. The pools is finished so they been there every day, but the problem of having a pool is that every neihborhood kid is in your house. So, its a blessing and a curse they say, We are thirsty! and is there something to eat!?
J: Did you send your kids to camp, do they like to do that stuff?
V:They went to camp, one came back prematurely after 1 week
J:Why?
V: Well, they were supposed to do 3 weeks, the oldest one is still gone. This is her fourth year in a row. She is still there she gets picked up on saturday. But the middle kid just bailed out after a week. The food wasnt good, they were bugs in her bed and squirels jumping everywhere
J: Oh! squirels jumping everywhere, how frightening. What a horrible thing for a child to see. Did you send her back?
V: No, she is right here
J: She is a cutie
V: Oh thanks
J: Actually my parents sent me to camp. I didnt wanted. I was working on my car. They said do you want to go to camp? I said no, no. I went for about four days and then I wrote my parents a letter saying, what awful thing did I do that you sent me here, so they went to pick me up
J: Did you went to camp
V: I went to camp for two years in a row. One week each. In CT. And found out recently that one of the hottest movie stars was a counselor there that I didnt had a chance to see when I was there. Denzel.
J: oh! Denzel Washington
V: I dont know where he was when I was there
J: Its a good thing you werent there when he was there
V: Would've been nice
J: He would been getting out of jail just now. (kidding:) Would you help me with my croshe
V: Arts and crafts baby
J: Tell me about this movie you are dancing.
V: I play a dance instructor and so we go to Vegas to win the world chapionship and I had to learn 7 different types of dancing
for this movie. For the competition I rumba, samba
J: Rumba, Samba!
V: Rumba, Samba, cha-cha and paso doble
J: Remember lambada, the forbidden dance!?
V: Yes and then salsa
J: Now, whos is this guy the women are going nuts for?, who is he?
V: Chayanne, who knows him, nobody, (applause), ok?
J: He is like huge in Latin America
V: He is huge. This is his first english speaking part. he is going to be big
J: yeah. Did you take him around hollywood?
V: I took him when we were shooting to Arnold cigar night
J: that silly male-bonding cigar night thing
V: well, there were some chicks there.
J: You see you are doing it now, You are talking like a male bonding cigar guy, chick!
V: On Monday night I took him ther to meet Arnold and he said (imitating Arnolds voice) Oh, who is this? new leading man? Im too old for you now? Whats the matter with you.? So he harrased him complety and embarassed him but it was one in a life time oportunity
J: Did you smoke a cigar?
V: Absolutely
J What kind do you like?
V: Im not doing any cubans. Got in trouble for that. My Eraser premiere I was smoking a Cohiba and the border-patrol on New Mexico came down on me and asked where did I get that cigar.
J: Lets show people a clip of the movie. Here is a scene from Dance With Me it opens next week
(clip)
J: Uhh! Chayanne! I know you have to go can you give us a little salsa
V: Well, do you salsa?
J: Are you going to teach me?
V: yeah, come on. First you have to make eye contact. Maybe a raised eyebrow and move your hips side to side, maybe do a little circle (dancing)
J: You do the circle, good, good, keep working on the circle, good, good
V: A little shoulder, Here we go, ahh!
J: Well be right back after this.
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