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Interview With Brooke Adams, Lynne Adams
Aired June 29, 2002 - 09:43 ET
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(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "MADE-UP")
BROOKE ADAMS, ACTRESS/PRODUCER: Kate, you have to see this picture of (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: Mom, look at me for a second?
BROOKE ADAMS: Oh, sweetie. What are you doing?
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: I'm trying to figure out what happened. But I can fix it so you won't look so old.
BROOKE ADAMS: Oh, Jean!
LYNNE ADAMS, PRODUCER/ACTRESS: Stay with her, (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Good, stay with her.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
PHILLIPS: The brutal honesty of a child. This is the movie "Made-Up." They call it a coming-of-middle-age comedy.
And here's the plot. A woman's husband leaves her for a younger woman, and her daughter convinces her to undergo an elaborate makeover. Meanwhile, the woman's sister captures the whole process in a documentary film.
Two real-life sisters, Brooke Adams and Lynne Adams, bring us "Made-Up." They are both stars of the film as well as producers, and Lynne wrote the script loosely based on her play "Two-Faced." And they join us this morning from Boston.
Hello, ladies.
BROOKE ADAMS: Hi.
LYNNE ADAMS: Hi.
PHILLIPS: Pretty funny, we can all relate, can't we? Oh, my goodness.
All right, I want to know whose idea was -- well, obviously there was the play. But who came up with the idea to do the film, the doc? LYNNE ADAMS: Oh, gosh, that's a long -- it was a long process. We first had people who optioned it to do it based on the play, but that didn't work out. And then Brooke had directed the play, so Brooke and I worked on it for ages. I mean, a couple of years, so it's hard to say how -- who came up with it.
PHILLIPS: Brooke, is it autobiographal? Is it -- can I say that word? It's too big of a word for this morning. You know what I'm trying to say.
BROOKE ADAMS: Autobiographical, yes.
PHILLIPS: Thank you.
BROOKE ADAMS: Well, it's to the extent that I play a girl -- woman -- girl! -- a woman who was an actress who kind of gave it up when she had children, which is, in fact, what I've done. And to the extent that everything Lynne writes, I end up -- my life ends up turning out just like it, we -- she -- my life imitates her art. We did a play already in which Tony Shalhoub, who's the director of this, played my husband in it, it was before we were even going out together, and now he is my husband.
So it's somewhat autobiographical, but not so much when it -- she didn't write it when it was really happening, it happened after she wrote it. Now I have a teenaged daughter who thinks I look like an old hag and makes me feel really good about it all the time.
PHILLIPS: You are far from an old hag, all right? You're beautiful.
BROOKE ADAMS: Thank you.
PHILLIPS: Don't you listen to your daughter. We should have got her on the show too.
BROOKE ADAMS: That's true.
PHILLIPS: All right. Now, there's no message in this movie, right? I know a lot of people have asked you that. But you're really not -- that's not what you're trying to achieve.
BROOKE ADAMS: We're not trying to give a message, we're trying to open it up, show what we think it is, have it be funny, which it is. I mean, the situation is funny, hopefully our movie is, we think it is. Lot of people think it is, (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Go ahead, Lynne.
LYNNE ADAMS: No, I don't think there's a -- I mean, it's a (UNINTELLIGIBLE) -- well, you know, the message of you are what you are inside is what counts -- I mean, we all know that, but that doesn't help us when we start looking in the mirror and hating what we see.
I mean, so it's really just sort of examining that and letting women realize -- you know, we don't get to see these issues that women go through so much very often on film. So it's nice to have something that's -- women can really relate to without having to be judgmental about it. That's what we're going for.
PHILLIPS: What about men? Did men like this movie?
LYNNE ADAMS: Yes, you know, that's one of the really nice things about it., is that -- maybe partially because we had Tony direct it, so we wanted it to have a male perspective. But what -- I've gotten about 10 letters in the mail from people who saw the movie at festivals, and eight of them were from men who just loved it. So that's really (UNINTELLIGIBLE)...
PHILLIPS: Why? What did they say to you? Why did they love it?
LYNNE ADAMS: Well, I -- it's been different each time. They like it -- it's -- a lot of it is about creativity as well as about that, and they loved that part of it. And it's very multilayered, and I guess the men loved that. And I don't know, they don't usually say, Oh, I got to see things about women I didn't know before. But I think that must be part of it. I don't know.
PHILLIPS: Well, as a middle-aged woman, what do you guys think? Do you leave this movie laughing, crying, depressed?
BROOKE ADAMS: Oh, (UNINTELLIGIBLE) -- definitely not depressed.
LYNNE ADAMS: No, I think that the main thing we're trying to do is show that women are attractive for other things other than their looks...
PHILLIPS: Such as?
LYNNE ADAMS: Well, such as their humor, and their experiences that have made them wiser, and their creativity, and just all the things that we have more of when we get older.
PHILLIPS: All right, but let's really talk about men here, though. I mean, all those things sound great, but when it comes down to it, men want a sexy woman. They want us looking good, whether we're, you know, 20 or 60.
BROOKE ADAMS: Well, that's part of the humor of this is that we're try -- at the beginning, my character's trying to tell my daughter, who's 15 and gorgeous, that that's really not what matters to men, and that -- and obviously it's totally untrue, it is what matters to men, and it is what gives women power. And all society gives woman -- gives young girls the power, because we're a youth- oriented society.
So it's -- the humor comes from my attempt to say that it's not true when it really is true.
PHILLIPS: All right. We have a clip from the movie, let's take a look, guys. I'll have you respond.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "MADE-UP")
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: OK, ready? BROOKE ADAMS: Ready.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: Well?
BROOKE ADAMS: I look like I'm in drag.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: Mom!
BROOKE ADAMS: Oh, I'm sorry, sweetie, you did a very good job. I'm very impressed. I'm just a little in shock.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
PHILLIPS: No, you do not look like you're in drag, you look gorgeous. Now, (UNINTELLIGIBLE), were those rubber bands?
BROOKE ADAMS: Yes, rubber bands. They actually make them, but she used her own -- she created her own thing. Rubber bands on Band- Aids that clip onto your face and pull you back (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
PHILLIPS: Is she marketing those now? Is she making a lot of money?
LYNNE ADAMS: We have them on the Web site...
PHILLIPS: (UNINTELLIGIBLE)...
LYNNE ADAMS: ... (UNINTELLIGIBLE) see how -- yes, people are going to see how to make them right on the Web site.
PHILLIPS: You know what? Speaking of your Web site, we did. We pulled this up, the two (ph) face lift. And it has the construction and application half the price.
LYNNE ADAMS: Right, right.
PHILLIPS: All right, so your face lift called, cost 17 cents, versus an average cost of surgery, which is $10,000. What other good deals, guys?
LYNNE ADAMS: That's the best one. But you have to picture from that makeover that you saw, Brooke doesn't look all that different right now. In the movie, her hair's white and she looks not as good as she looks right now, I have to say.
PHILLIPS: Oh. All right, so when can we see this movie? Tell me where it -- I know it's circulating. Give us the scoop here if we want to make sure we don't miss this.
LYNNE ADAMS: Well, we're going to be doing some festivals right now. We're doing the Woods Hole Festival next, and then we're going to be doing some festivals in the fall. There aren't as many festivals in the summer. And then it's hard to say when it'll be coming out.
One of the things that's fun about this, doing this for people right now is, they say that with women, they need to have time to make up their mind they want to see it. So this gives women time to think about it and get ready to see it when it comes to theaters.
PHILLIPS: Brooke, you've been married for 10 years. You still feel sexy?
BROOKE ADAMS: Sometimes.
PHILLIPS: Lynne, you've been married for three years.
LYNNE ADAMS: Sure.
PHILLIPS: All right, that's what we like to hear, makeup or not, right?
LYNNE ADAMS: Right.
PHILLIPS: The film is a hoot. Ladies, thank you so much.
BROOKE ADAMS: Thank you.
PHILLIPS: Yes, appreciate...
LYNNE ADAMS: Thank you.
PHILLIPS: ... your being with us. All right.
BROOKE ADAMS: OK.
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