Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir by Lauper Cyndi

Author:Lauper, Cyndi [Lauper, Cyndi]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

I STARTED GETTING SCRIPTS from movie companies, because at the time they were really gunning for pop singers like Madonna to star in films. They wanted me to be in Girls Just Want to Have Fun—remember that one, with Sarah Jessica Parker? It was about girls who enter a dance competition. When I read the script I thought, “How dare you take what I’ve done, dress characters up like me, and then write this stupid, inane script about nothing, when everything I’ve struggled to do was about something?” I couldn’t believe it.

Then I got a call to do a movie called Vibes, which was a Ron Howard film. I was—and am—such a huge fan of his. I thought it was awesome the way he used actors like Don Ameche and Hume Cronyn in Cocoon. But I said, “Listen, I would love to do the movie, but I may actually suck. So why don’t you do a screen test and see if I’m good enough? The last thing I want to do is be in a movie and stink.” They said okay, and Ron Howard came to see me in my New York City apartment. He was so nice and down-to-earth. When I was doing the screen test, I kept thinking, “Oh my God, I’m being directed by Ron Howard.”

I mean, I had no acting experience aside from my videos. I just listened to everything he said, did what he told me, and he liked it. He made me watch it, too, and I didn’t think I looked terrible on-screen. So I signed up to do the movie. I played a psychic named Sylvia, who, with another psychic (to be played by Dan Aykroyd), gets hired by a rich guy to find his son in South America. But as it turns out, we’re really hired to find a hidden Incan treasure where all the world’s psychic energy comes from. To me, right off the bat, that was so much fun.

I tried to figure out what the hell this girl Sylvia would look like. She was a beautician as well as a psychic, and she was supposed to have pink hair—like, you know those girls who mean to bleach their hair blond but turn it pink? I fell asleep after I bleached it though, and my hair turned white and kind of burned off in spots, so I couldn’t process it again to turn it a different color. So I just let it be white-blond. And then I saw that Madonna was doing a movie called Who’s That Girl and she was a bleached blonde too. I was like, “Okay—nice. We can never get away from each other.”

On the topic of hair dye, I knew about it: I’ve been dyeing my hair since I was probably nine, when I used food coloring to make it green for Saint Patrick’s Day. Then at twelve, I used Sun-In, then Nice ’n Easy, before I moved on to the hard stuff. I once tried to dye it back to brown—my natural color—but it turned red by mistake.

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