![]() ![]() This is the hardest role I’ve done because you are dead. This man, he’s brought a lot of joy and a lot of heartfelt meaning. My daughter is 21 and she loves this video as much as we did, our generation, and some Hispanic kids that I know - they’re part of my family - they just went to the Tom Petty concert. Kids, they’re macabre, today, yesterday and many years ago and will be in the future. But when I slide down the side of him, I just honestly couldn’t keep it together sometimes. So near the end too, it was very eerie, but it was the fun part. I said, ‘Okay I’m going to go for this’ because the director kept saying, ‘You have to play dead. He puts lipstick on you and you’re playing dead. He dances with you and dips you and your feet are off the ground. Dead weight! This guy, he was taller than me and everything, but I thought, ‘God, he’s going to drag me around this whole video. I’m not the most outgoing human being in the world - I thought, ‘I’m shy he’s shy.’ We hardly said three words to each other in the beginning, but as the story unfolded, and this director kept saying, ‘Look, you have got to be dead weight in this,’ I remember I was very conscious of my costar and the people I deal with. He was just very humble, beautifully shy. I know that, as we were filming, Tom I found to be always incredibly sensitive and sort of a backseat guy, no matter how brilliant the message was. I don’t know where he was from, but I do remember he had a gruff voice and a very stern one, and he wanted kind of like his way or the highway. And, of course, I had heard a version of the story he was going to tell but I truly didn’t care. I had no clue on the day I actually went to film this - I mean, I had a previous wardrobe in the wedding dress, but I remember that’s all I really wore, so I didn’t really know where this was going. Then I heard the music, and I was so in love with the song. I don’t know when that was, but when he called, I went, ‘Yeah!’ I didn’t care what it was about. ![]() I didn’t know him back then, before that video, so I was just blown away, and thought, ‘Okay, I’ve been asked to do videos, I have not done one.’ I think I did one with Don Was. I’ve often heard people speak - and it’s so true because it’s true in my own life - that Tom Petty helped so many of us get through so many difficult times in our lives, again, whether it’s the memory of the song or the entertainment it brought or just the message that he bought.Īnd that video, when he called - I don’t know who he went through, an agent, whatever - ‘Tom asked me!’ I didn’t know Tom Petty. There are certain artists that you go through life and they either entertain and help you get through a period of your life, or they have a significant influence on the message that they brought during that time. I did it for one reason - I did it because of Tom Petty. ![]()
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