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by Jeremy, staff writer 7/16/03
DP Columns / Jeremy The Loner
Exclusive Interview With Actress & Musician
Louise Robey
 
Jeremy The Loner: What came first for you, a love of music or a love of acting?
Louise Robey: I was in love with music and as my father met my mother while appearing in "The Mousetrap" in Montreal (he was an actor singer and my mother was a singer actress and my grandmother was a singer actress). I thought I might see if I could add actress to my singer. I think Roman Polanski had a lot to do with giving me the confidence to try.
Jeremy The Loner: You started off your career as a model. How did you go from that to releasing your debut album "Robey" in 1984?
Louise Robey: Well I did not see modelling other than as a way of
getting money to go in the studios to record my songs and to continue with my dancing. I was going to be a good rock singer by any means. I was hanging out at JP's and jamming with anyone who would have me sit in. I got to work with a lot of very good backing singers, most notably Monique Dyan who was working with Squeeze from England. I got some people together to record my songs and I was very lucky to have the help of Marcus Barone, Shep Pettibone, Cat, Ed Walsh and loads of others, but
my first recording was actually in France for CBS in a group called Baby in 1979. I morphed it into a band called "Louise and the Creeps" and went to London to record at the Marquee Studios and got offered a few deals. But by that time I was being managed and nothing seemed to be good enough. My manager turned down a deal with Chris Blackwell of Island Records which I always thought was a big mistake.
Jeremy The Loner: What was it like to have a hit record with "One Night In Bangkok" and a video on MTV? Did you get a taste of that indulgent pop star lifestyle?
Louise Robey: Well I found out what busy meant. I was on a promo ride to hell. Its so fake you don't know where you are going or why but you just suit up and show up. I was made to feel like a star in the US. People where happy to meet me. In South America I must have turned up in a week when there wasn't a lot going on and the television people just descended on me and put me on continuously then I got a lot of adulation but without the security. That was a bit scary.
Jeremy The Loner: What did you think of Murray Head's version of the song? And do you happen to know his opinion on your version?
Louise Robey: I have heard Murry Heads version. Its good, its a
different style but that show tune type delivery isn't my thing. I don't know what he thinks of my version. Tim Rice was asked by a journalist what he thought of my version and its success soon after release and he said he had not heard it. or of me. I know that he had but there was a
lot of politics going on between CBS and RCA over this and he was just keeping his head down. Wise move!.
Jeremy The Loner: What do you remember about making the movie "Raw Deal"? Was Arnold Schwarzenegger a decent guy to work with?
Louise Robey: It was just so exciting. I was given all the help I needed and everybody especially the director John Irvin was so kind and encouraging that I didn't get scared at all. Arnie let me drive around in his limo and watch him set up for a shot. He was a total gentleman and looked out for me and asked me if I was comfortable or hungry or tired allot.
 
Jeremy The Loner: How did you come to play the part of Micki in "Friday the 13th: The Series"?
Louise Robey: I was doing allot of improv troupe stuff all over LA
mostly with Mike Chain and M.I.C.E. and casting people where after me for doing adverts and modelling and I turned up for an audition after a modelling job. I knew it was a Paramount one but you know I was doing about two auditions a day at the time. I didn't get told I had the role. I just got asked to go back and when I arrived I was met by the costume director and measured. Then I drove her home and her parting words were "so I will see you in Toronto in two days". Then I was scared. Mostly for my dry cleaning. It was all over LA and M.I.C.E. people helped me pack up and wished me luck and where so happy for me. It was great.
Jeremy The Loner: Which was harder work... being on the road with the singing career, or shooting a one hour weekly T.V. show?
Louise Robey: I think they are all wearing in their own ways. The TV Show is longer in a single spell than a road tour but the road tour has less chance of privacy and everybody tries to party every night up until the "Zombie zone" of the tour arrives. That's about day 14 of a 31 day tour. After that everybody just starts talking to themselves.
Jeremy The Loner: What do you think were the major contributing factors that made the series take off and become successful?
Louise Robey: Well there was the obvious star quality of the lead
actress ("she said modestly") Oh and the rest of the cast just pulled up their boot straps just in order to be in contention. Well OK I will come clean. We just used voodoo.
Jeremy The Loner: Did the protests from religious and parents groups over the "violent content" of the series bother you? Do you think they affected the series at all?
Louise Robey: Yes. You always are going to have people that think they are charged with knowing what's best for others and what with the parents whining on about all the violence. I don't think the show would have worked if I had simply gone round to recover cursed objects. Armed only with good manners. Maybe we would have run and run if we could have simply explained to the people in possession of the cursed objects that they where terribly naughty and to give the object back or I will get jolly baitey.
Jeremy The Loner: You had great chemistry on-screen with your co-stars Chris Wiggins and John D. LeMay. What are some of your impressions of them?
Louise Robey: John was a method actor and had to rehearse and get pumped for the mood. Mostly behind the dumpster because it just got too embarrassing otherwise. Chris was the veteran thespian metering out good advice and had a stoicism that can only come from years behind the mic in radio plays. It also helped everybody in the show that he played Paul Bernard, psychiatrist.
Jeremy The Loner: What are some of the cool props you kept from the show?
Louise Robey: Well I got one of the manifests. There were two, Vita the porcelain doll, some jars from the shop and various odd bits like incense burners.
Jeremy The Loner: The show was cancelled after only three seasons, and at the height of its success. Why do you think Paramount pulled the plug?
Louise Robey: I think it was that they had enough shows to cut them into half hour "to be continued" type shows and sell them all round the world to avoid the twin problems of what to do for the next series and how to avoid the mid western bible belt complainants. Also it was getting expensive to produce what with FX and stuff.
Jeremy The Loner: Even though Paramount seems to be sitting on the rights to F13 for the moment, do you think the cast could be brought back for a reunion show if the studio gave the word?
Louise Robey: Well Paramount don't actually seem to want to do anything much and are actually being difficult in the extreme. In a recent Channel Four documentary involving me, the producer asked if they could show a short clip of Friday and Paramount licensing asked $5000 US to show a 30 second clip. Now that's what I call obstructive. I would do a reunion and I think the others would as well but then I don't know if it would make financial sense.
Jeremy The Loner: After F13 ended, you got you first lead movie role with "Play Nice". You said at the time that you loved the script, but ultimately didn't love the finished product. How do you think it could have been better?
Louise Robey: I think that the script was promising but as often happens the editing of the shoots tends toward obtaining the sex scenes and gore scenes with some loose dialogue that sort of joins them together.
Jeremy The Loner: Are love scenes hard to shoot? How much preparation goes into making them?
Louise Robey: Not for me except when the sheets get wound round you and it all goes wrong, as you have to do things with a little grace. Its a little like a staged dance. As for preparation, a nice bath, lots of teeth brushing and some body lotion will do it.
Jeremy The Loner: Does it piss you off (ala Alyssa Milano) to have nude pictures of you featured on pay websites without your permission? Or are you not bothered by it?
Louise Robey: It is annoying as some of them give out pictures without having to have even a credit card #. I have a seven year old son at school and I think his Peers may be able to get nude images of me because of this.
Jeremy The Loner: What prompted you to take a break from the business through a good part of the 90's?
Louise Robey: I got married to the Earl of Burford then pregnant and moved to England. so I am now divorced and living in a recording studio with my boyfriend Mark Harwood.
Jeremy The Loner: I've heard that you've been working on everything from writing children's books to making a new album. Is there anything your fans should be on the lookout for?
Louise Robey: Yes in the near future I will have finished the new album. I have been taking my time as things are developing well within my band "A Guy Called Dready" and the musical direction is moving away from the sort of dance based material toward more song based material and so we have done the album about twice so far. As for children¹s books I have finished six. They were for my son but I think they are worth publishing. I don't have much time as I am working as Studio Manager/Domestic Goddess, Rock Singer/Session singer and Voice over Artist/Radio Actress. Phew! Lots of Love Louise XXX

Jeremy The Loner: Thank you, Louise, for the interview. And thanks for still looking hot sixteen years after I first saw you. If you ever want to hook up with a maladjusted guy with a loner complex, give me a holler, okay?