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~~~Preston, the administrator at Anne's site put together
a wonderful interview with the lady herself using questions
we all submitted.

Here is the first installment:

Quote:

I saw that some people wanted the interview in "episodes"
and another posting said no, all at once.
But, in order to get something out there, here are some
of the first questions.
The very first one was about how she felt regarding
Fannes and the site, but because I had been
taking to her in general before the interview actually started,
I neglected to turn the voice recorder on for that question.
So I asked her again at the end,
and that question will be transcribed last and posted later.

Preston

FANNES: You have visited several countries.
Which countries did you like the most?
Or is there any one special country you haven’t
been to yet and would like to visit in the future?

ANNE: Well, I would really like to visit every country
in the world eventually. I’m curious about all of them
and love what I learn when I go to a new place.
Recently James was working in London
and he flew Homer and I over, and we also went to Paris,
and those places are wonderful.
But, I’m always so glad to get back to Vancouver.
We have a log cabin here we bought during the show
and it’s our favorite place to spend time.
So, I’d have to say overall, I love Canada right now.

FANNES: Anne, if you were to interview yourself,
much like in the 2007 Esquire interview where
Halle Berry interviewed herself, what one tough question
would you ask, and what would the answer be?

ANNE: (long pause), oh, wow, tough question…
I would probably say that uh, all the decisions
that you’ve made in your life, decisions that you stand by.
And my answer to that would be, yes,
I stand by all the decisions that I’ve made,
but it doesn’t mean that all the choices that you make
in our life are not difficult. And, that the journey of standing by,
and sticking by the choices I’ve made has been a challenge,
but I’ve tried to stay true to my heart
and stay as honest as I can possibly be,
and feel proud with the choices I’ve made in my life .

If you don’t mind Anne, we would like to learn more about your personal life,
and your views and feelings about
decisions you have made in the past.
So here are some selected questions we picked
from the many questions that were sent.

FANNES: During your childhood, your family
moved several times and you must have changed
schools frequently. How did your new classmates
treat you being new to the school?
Was it difficult for you to fit in or be accepted as a new student?

ANNE: Yes, it was very difficult for me to change schools
all the time, and I think I just became very shy.
I became a very independent little girl who spent most
of my time with myself because I was afraid
of making new friendships cause I was always afraid we were going to move again.
So, that’s one of the reasons that
for Homer’s life I really wanted to switch over from doing movies,
which would take me all over the place a lot
to going into a tv show that I thought would give him
a more consistent life so that he didn’t have to
change schools as much as I did, because
I didn’t want him to go through the same difficulty that I went through.

FANNES: You once said that you are always honest,
whether you are in the limelight or not.
Do you regret some of the things you have said in the past?
If yes, which are the things you wish
you had never said and why?

ANNE: Well I think that goes to part of the
difficult question I would ask myself, I think it’s been…
the choices that I’ve made for myself
to be honest came from my life as a child,
I always felt that because of the lack of honesty
in our household that kind of tore our family apart
because we lived in a lot of lies,
And so I don’t regret any of the choices
that I made to be honest.
I wish I had the wisdom maybe that I have now,
I might’ve treated things a little bit differently,
or understood people’s reticence to kind of embrace
honesty with the bluntness that I now have.
But, I stand by all of my decisions,
and feel very proud, from being open about my
relationship with Ellen to being open about my understanding
of what happened to me as a child, and sharing my story.
They were two of the biggest decisions I think I made
in my life to be honest publicly. And, they are two of the things
I’m proudest of in my life. So, I wouldn’t take anything back,
I just would say, as many people say,
“If I only knew then what I know now”,
but that’s part of what brought me to where I am,
and I can stand proud, being a part of hopefully
sharing honestly and openly, and helping other people to do the same.

FANNES: Anne, if you were able to meet one person,
for whatever reason, whether that person was alive today or not,
who would you choose and why? What would you talk about?

ANNE: Well, I had the opportunity..my friends on my birthday,
one year a few years back, blindfolded me and said they
had a huge surprise for me. And they took me to UCLA campus,
where I walked blindfolded all the way through the campus,
and they had brought me to hear the Dalai Lama.

FANNES: That must’ve gotten a little attention,
seeing you led through the campus blindfolded!

ANNE: [laughing] It was very funny!
I had them all around me…it was quite adorable,
I think everyone giggled at seeing me stumble
through the crowds of people who were there.
But what my friends knew is that was the one person
I would want to meet. I think there is such truth and peace
and honesty spoken by him, and he stood up for what
he believes in and I admire that so much.
I didn’t get a chance to meet him,
but I got a chance to hear him speak,
and if I had the opportunity to sit down with him
one on one, to be in the presence of his wisdom
and perhaps we can all, or certainly myself,
be in the path of someone so dedicated to truth, honesty and peace.

FANNES: OK, he’s made a great mark on the world,
that’s an excellent choice.

FANNES: If you could get back one thing
from your past that you have lost and miss the most,
what would it be and why?

ANNE: Well, unfortunately in my life I’ve experienced
a lot of death of very close relationships,
and[pause] to choose which one I’d like to have back
would be difficult if there were a person that I would like
to be sharing my life with right now most,
I think it would be my brother who I lost when I was 14.
And I would like to share, I would like to have a brother
and I would like to share this life with him,
and to have been given the opportunity to see
him grow up and see what he was going to do,
how he was going to participate in the world
and share that with him.

FANNES: Would you agree to have a movie made
about your life? If yes, which actress would you want
to play you, or would you want to play the role yourself?
Who else might be in the cast?

ANNE: Oh, gosh…would I agree?
Sure, I’d agree, for the same reason I agreed
to write my book. The more we tell our stories
then the more we encourage people that telling
their story is a part of healing that helps people
to open up themselves.
I don’t think I would want to play myself,
I probably couldn’t have enough perspective,
and would probably cast myself a little younger if I could[laughs] .
But, let’s see, who would I want to play me?
I don’t know a specific actress…someone who maybe
had a similar journey to mine, who understood,
I think, as an actress that you connect with roles because
you’ve participated somehow in life in a way
that helps you understand the truth of each character.
So whether or not that actress would be well-known
or not wouldn’t matter to me,
it would just be someone who could connect
to the truth of it. And I used to, when my eldest sister was alive,
she and I used to talk about who we would cast
to play our father, and our fantasy was always Michael Douglas.
I think about that now sometimes, too, but I don’t know
that anyone’s going to do a movie of my book any time soon,
but if they would, maybe Michael Douglas would be my Dad!

FANNES: Are you considering writing another book?
If so, what would be the subject?
We would all love to read about your life story from the point
where Call Me Crazy left us.

ANNE: Wow…well, first of all, let say that’s nice to hear.
I do consider writing other books…one of the things
I learned about writing Call Me Crazy is that when I wrote
so bluntly about my life, people really wanted me,
in the industry, to be able to translate into other characters.
Because I had been so exposed, it was
kind of a little more difficult, [with people]knowing so much about me,
for me to go into roles, so I’ve kind of chosen to take what
my life taught me, and put that into characters,
rather than talk so openly about my personal life.
When you’re an actress, I think people like to have
a little bit more of a mystery so that
they can really dive into characters.
And so I’ve kind of shied away from that a little bit.
That doesn’t mean that I won’t write another book.
There would have to be a moment in my life where
I understand that there’s a space for it that makes sense.

FANNES: Your decision to write Call Me Crazy must not
have been an easy one. We admire you so much for writing it,
not just for yourself, but for everyone that you
have helped by doing so. We are curious to know
if the decision was easier because your father
had already passed away. Would you have written it
if he were still alive at that time?

ANNE: You know, I mean that’s a good question,
I don’t know…I think when my father died,
there was such a need for me to understand that story,
because I didn’t get to talk to him about it,
and have a healing with him. I needed to find a way
to continue my journey and move on from my journey,
and so I found that writing the book was a way to do that.
And if he were alive, I think I would’ve pursued
that relationship with him, and tried to heal it with him.
But, because I couldn’t do it,
I think that’s one of…if there’s every a way to look at a gift of,
of pain in your life, I was very motivated to share
my story so that people could do the same in their lives,
if their loved ones were gone, or if there was something
that they needed to heal, that there are all these alternative
routes to not getting stuck in your past.
And, I had been stuck in my past.
My life from when my father was alive
dictated my behavior, dictated my relationships,
dictated my choices, and I needed to move on from that.
The book was the answer to that,
and had he been alive, maybe there would have been
a different avenue, but that seemed the only one
for me that made sense.

ps...I submitted a question about a follow~up book
to Call Me Crazy . Sure hope she decides
to do it some day.

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