Archivo inglés: Donna Pescow

Donna Pescow interpreta a Annette en Saturday Night Fever, la enamorada no correspondida de John Travolta en el icónico film de los 70´s. En la entrevista de abajo, en inglés, Donna comenta sobre el éxito de la película, que tuvo que aprender a bailar disco y que nunca había estado en una discoteca.

I don´t think anybody knew how big it would be…

… Robert Stigwood wanted to use it as a forum for the Bee Gees and his groups and he was very much into the music aspect, but there was this wonderful script that would have been a great film without the music…

Donna Pescow es actriz y directora de cine y televisión. Es conocida por sus papeles como Annette en la película de 1977 Saturday Night Fever, Angie Falco Benson en la comedia de los años 80 Angie, Donna Garland en la comedia Out of This World y Eileen Stevens en la comedia Even Stevens.

Donna Pescow fue casi considerada "demasiado bonita" para el papel de Annette. Ella corrigió este asunto subiendo 40 libras y volviendo a aprender su acento nativo de Brooklyn, que había superado mientras estudiaba teatro en la Academia Americana de Artes Dramáticas. Después de que terminó la producción, perdió rápidamente el peso que había ganado para el papel.

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1977

El 4 de febrero se lanza el album Rumours de Fleetwood Mac.

El 26 de junio Elvis Presley actúa en su último concierto en vivo en Indianapolis, Indiana's Market Square Arena.

El 24 de julio Led Zeppelin toca en su último concierto en EEUU en Oakland, California. Una pelea salta entre los miembros de Led Zeppelin y la gente del promotor Bill Graham, resultando en cargos de asalto para varios miembros de Led Zeppelin, incluido el baterista John Bonham.

El 16 de agosto Elvis Presley, el rey del rock and roll muere en su casa de Graceland a los 42 años. 75.000 fans se alinean en las calles de Memphis para su funeral, que aconteció el 18 de agosto.

El 20 de octubre 3 miembros de Lynyrd Skynyrd mueren en un accidente de avión en Gillsburg, Mississippi, 3 días después del lanzamiento de su quinto álbum Street Survivors.

Actress Donna Pescow ("Annette" from "Saturday Night Fever") is our Guest

Donna Pescow habla sobre su acento de Brooklyn – las audiciones para Fiebre del Sábado por la Noche – el guión – y las fans de John Travolta, entre otras cosas

—… I learned how to lose my Brooklyn accent to do this speech American standard which sound that you come from nowhere. When I went to audition for Saturday Night Fever the casting director said “Are you from Brooklyn or what?” And I said: “Yes, I am.” And he said “go home, hang up with your family, talk to people and then come back”, which was a good thing cause I would have lost the role…

—The iconic role in SNF, how did it come about?

—I had not done any film. It was the first film. I had done theater, little roles in touring companies off Broadway. The agent I had at that time, brilliantly, told me “It´s a little part, in a little movie.” And at the time I don´t think there was a finished script but I wasn´t at the point of my career where I would have got the full script anyway. I got a size or pieces they want you to audition with so I got these pages that didn’t make a lot of sense and it was a lot of improvisation and they kept calling me back over and over again and then I found out, I think it was a Friday, that I have got the role and that we started on a Monday or Tuesday. That was when I read the script. So that was kind of shock.

—It was a big part.

—It was a huge part. I was thrilled but I was completely unaware.

—Were you aware what was going to become when you were filming it?

—To be a part of an iconic film is just extraordinary. I don´t think anybody knew how big it would be. I don´t think you can ever know that and I think at the time it was kind of an art film that Paramount did it with Robert Stigwood, who wanted to really use it as a forum for the Bee Gees and his groups and he was very much into the music aspect, but there was this wonderful script that would have been a great film without the music and with the music I think everybody thought it would be successful but not on the level…

—Did you believe that the whole career of John Travolta would skyrocket and the disco movement would start from there?

—He had done Welcome back Kotler and he was a tremendous star from that and we had crazy time filming because he had thousands of fans that would come out and he had to give false call sheets so the fans would be in one place and we would actually be filming in another place because of the crowds were just crazy and loud which stopped production.

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—… the character, Annette, everyone went to school with someone like her. She made the worst choices. She was a victim of that time…

—Did you have to learn to dance for that part?

—I was a dancer but I had never done any disco dancing and many of us had never been in a disco. Several of us went to a club so as to absorb what was going on…