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Linda Carter Interview - Part one from Larry King Live, Oct 21,1991
Question: Larry King (introducing:) Lynda Carter is back on the air, the former beauty queen, star of the hit series, Wonder Woman returns in the upcoming tv movie Daddy, based on the novel by Danielle Steele, it will air this Wednesday night on NBC, and then you come in again, when, in November..? LYNDA: November 5th, with a wonderful movie called Posing about a 37 year old woman, who, sort of for inexplicable reasons, decides to disrupt her life and pose for Playboy. It’s also a true story, there are two other stories about women who have done the same thing, and it’sit’s an entirely different look at, you know, at why someone would do that, and disrupt their lives. Question: Can we call all of this "The Return of Lynda Carter?? LYNDA: Yes (laughing), you, you said Lynda Carter’s comeback, and I went pow! (with her finger as a gun) at the television, I prefer to call it the return, my return to television rather than a comeback, comeback sounds like its so old or something. Question: Is this the return of Lynda? LYNDA: Yes, it absolutely is. Questions: Well, we had thought Lynda had settled into the suburbs of Washington and Potomac Maryland with her husband Robert Altman and her wonderful children and it would be we would see you occasionally and hello! LYNDA: Well, I..I had made up my mind first of all that I did not want to work any longer, I, about six years ago decided that I wasn’t happy working, it gave me no joy, I really was not getting anything from my work, and wanted some substance in my life, which is why I married Robert Altman, who is a fabulous man, and then I got pregnant with my first child, and said, that’s it, and pulled out completely from just about everything except a few commercials. And then I really knew I wanted to get back into, into the business sooner or later, so I took the opportunity to spend time here in New York, studying, acting again, went back to the drawing board and, and have committed myself to really finding out what that is. Question: But then had another child? LYNDA: Had another child and spent three months in bed, and after you spend three months in bed (laughing) you ah, the first thing you want to do is to bolt and get out there and feel life and, you know, I really had empathy for people that, that are confined to bed. Question: Could you explain what it is you missed? LYNDA: Well, I, I really got re-ignited by studying again, I did not have the fire, Larry, that I once had, when I first started, and studying again and really understanding what the work was about, as opposed to everything that we can get caught up in and lost in, uh the fame and the money and the deals and the celebrity, and now it’s about the work for me. Now it’s about the parts, it’s about the work, it’s about how I approach it and, I’m excited, I’m ignited, I, ah, I can’t wait for the next part. Question: Are you going to back into clubs, too? (nightclubs) Because you had a great singing and dancing act. LYNDA: Probably. I’m right now focusing on the acting and my family, and ah I think that’s what I going to do for the time being and we’ll see. Question: Are you happy with 'Daddy?' LYNDA: I am happy with 'Daddy,' I’m a Danielle Steele fan anyway, I mean I take a lot of plane trips and I can pull out a Danielle Steele book and read it. Question: Had you read Daddy before you got the part? LYNDA: Yes, I did. Question: Did you think of yourself when you read it, actors do that. LYNDA: No..yes they do, I really hadn’t, ah, Doug Cramer who is the guy that discovered me and Wonder Woman is doing all these Danielle Steele books for televison, and I had lunch with him and he said, there’s this script I want you to read, would you do it, and I, I thought it was sort of kismet that it would be the same guy that sort of got me started. Question: Now no one would know that at the same time that this would occur, Robert Altman would have problems dealing with an investigation about a bank, in some far-off country. Now from your standpoint, now you have four things going on. You have a husband with his name on page one, you’ve got yourself on the front page of the show section, you’re both in tabloids and at the same time it looks funny, because you’re off doing what you weren’t supposed to do. How did you handle all this? LYNDA: Yeah, well first of all, it’s the man, you know I married the most remarkable human being, I mean no one knows him better than I do, and he is a man of integrity, and he is resilient and he is strong and just a fabulous guy and a wonderful Father. And I think it has really been his strength that has allowed me to, really look at this, this whole problem from a different perspective, and oh no, my world is crashing down, because I watch this guy, watched the way he handled it, and he’s so remarkable with his resiliency and his ability to really see the whole picture. Washington is a tough town, and you know as well as I do that you cannot believe what you read in the newspapers. What’s so interesting, & so terrible at the same time about this, and it makes me so angry, is that they went on for months and months about this alleged thing with Clark Clifford, this real true American hero, trying to trash him, to tear his reputation apart along with my husband’s, and then two days after they testified, the Federal Reserve board had done intensive investigation, seven man years worth of investigation, came back and corroborated everything that Clifford and Robert had said, that their bank was run one hundred percent honestly with no outside influence from BCCI whatsoever, the bank that they ran, they ran honestly, and there was no outside influence, and it did not even get TWO LINES in the Washington Post. And that makes my angry, (getting more and more upset) they trash my husband, they trash Clark Clifford, and then, then when they’re wrong, they don’t even report it. Ah man, dukes up! (raising her fists in front of her, at the TV.) Linda Carter Interview - Part two from Larry King Live, Oct 21,1991 Question: What effect has it had (the BCCI scandal) on you. professionally any? LYNDA: Well, no..(laughing)..actually, I think in Hollywood, they think it’s good publicity, oh yes, you looked adorable on television, sitting behind him, no, I’ve had, there’s been an outpouring of support from friends, and uh..in Washington, a lot of people have asked me, well, you know, you can really see who your friends are and whom sticks by you and it’s a tribute to my husband, ah, that we have had so much, so much positive reinforcement, our friends have stuck by us and have been true blue. Phone call: Have you ever considered going back to singing and bringing variety back to television? LYNDA: Yes, I would like to sing again, right now I’m concentrating on my acting career and my return to television and then film, and, singing is really a big part of my life, and I know that I want to go back. Larry King: Do you miss Hollywood? LYNDA: Well, I miss the industry, I miss that, but I really like living in Washington, despite everything, yeah. Phone call: Did you become a vegetarian to prevent animal slaughter or world hunger, or for health reasons? LYNDA: Well, I really am not a vegetarian any longer, I have been on and off different periods of my life, my latest thing right now is bee pollen (laughing).it’s energy producing and it’s uh, natural. I met this bee keeper when I was shooting in Vancouver I know this sounds so strange, but I swear to you it gives me so much energy, a teaspoon a day, you cannot believe it. Phone call: I’d like to know if you’re ever going to do a Wonder Woman reunion? LYNDA: Ohhhhh, yes, it would be interesting to see if I could fit into that suit again, wouldn’t it? Well, I haven’t been approached by Warner Brothers to do, there’s been talk, they tried to revive it and I don’t think the public really wanted to see anyone but me in that role, so we’ll have to see. They’d better not wait until I’m sixty! Larry King: Well now it’s fairly common, but how many women had their own shows, when Wonder Woman was on? LYNDA: It was Lindsay Wagner and myself in our age group, there was also Angie (Dickinson) of course, and Mary Tyler Moore and Carol Burnett, but we sort of started it all, back, way back then. Larry King: Was it fun or camp, or both? LYNDA: It was so much fun to do, and I have really enjoyed the last several years talking to people because it seems to be such a they seem to have such a warm and wonderful feeling about the show. Phone call: Are you at all concerned with animal testing done by cosmetic industries? LYNDA: Yes, of course, Maybelline discontinued that practice many, many years, most of the time that I’ve been with them, and yes, I am concerned, I think it is inhumane, and, uh, they, they always have reasons for it, but not reasons I agree with. Phone call: My question to you is, when we have troubles, we need friend to count on, can you name any people in Hollywood that you’ve been able to count on through all these troubles you’ve had? LYNDA: Well, well I hesitate in naming names anyway, uh, because my friend are my friends, and some of them are famous, and some of them aren’t, and I must say as earlier, that I’ve been overwhelmed by the support that they gave us. |
