With a Wink and a Toke

So did you do any method acting for this movie.

You know, it's not my bag, believe it or not.

Sure, I believe it.

You do? You know, I'm such a speed-up kind of gal and it's a slow-down kind of drug. That's what's so funny about it. They portray it like it's a speedball or cocaine, over-the-top crystal meth. I don't enjoy anything that renders me verbally useless.

There are some direct lines and scenes from the original that have ended up in this remake.

It definitely begins as a parody and turns into a musical. It's a little bit of both. That's what made it fun to perform: it covered a lot of territory from an acting standpoint and a comedy standpoint--between pure '30s dialect and parody and glamour. And frankly, the female characters in '30s films tend to be more exciting than a lot of what you see today. It's just fun to play these tortured archetypal heroines.