It had the potential to be a lot of fun. I loved Richard and, as a result, we had a blast working together. In the comedy, which opens today, Elfman plays an anthropologist who helps a professor fake a film about an undiscovered tribe of New Guinea. She dresses up in tribal garb, plays mating games with Dreyfuss and gets a chance to look like Lucille Ball in some of the movie's wackier scenes. It's the perfect showcase for someone like Elfman and a natural follow-up to her television success.
Willingness is the key word.
If you're so bent on something being a certain way and you can't experience it going any other way, it will probably go the other way. If you resist something, you will get it. Naah, just the voice of experience. Even though Elfman has had the kind of publicity others pay millions to get, she's incredibly grounded. At a party to promote ABC's television shows, she's remarkably at ease.