Audrey Landers – Live Fan Q&A

Jon_Host: Audrey is here everyone. Welcome Audrey

Audrey_Landers: Hi everyone

Question_Host: Welcome!

Audrey_Landers: Hi

Audrey_Landers: First question please

Chole: Hi Audrey. Wonderful to have you with us. How has your day been today ? Audrey you are great. I read you are in Bachelor Party 2, is that true and who do you play? Is Tom Hanks in it?

Audrey_Landers: Hi Chloe that is true

Audrey_Landers: No Tom Hanks in this movie, it’s a modern version

Audrey_Landers: I play the mother of the bride to be

Audrey_Landers: I think it will be out around Christmas. It is a very funny comedy

Audrey_Landers: Next please

PTG: You're best known as Afton on Dallas, but do you wish you could have stayed longer on Search for Tomorrow or Secret Storm? Also, would you ever consider returning to One Life to live

Audrey_Landers: I was just a teenager when I did Search for tomorrow

Audrey_Landers: I would not wanted to stay longer

Audrey_Landers: Of course I would consider going back to One Life to Live for a limited time

Audrey_Landers: I am doing a new series now

Audrey_Landers: Burn Notice - an action series about the CIA. I play the girlfriend of the lead man, I play Veronica

Audrey_Landers: Next question please

Barbara_Fan: You were a huge success in Germany, you were always on magazine covers - why do you think your singing career was a big success in Europe? Also I loved Barbara Bel Geddes, what was she like to work with?

Audrey_Landers: Singing was always my first love

Audrey_Landers: I had the opportunity to perform a lot

Audrey_Landers: I have very loyal fans

Audrey_Landers: Barbara was very spunky

Audrey_Landers: Not much like her character

Audrey_Landers: Barbara was a little more worldly

Audrey_Landers: And very professional

Audrey_Landers: Next question please

Luke: Tits and Ass was a highlight of A Chorus Line, you were wonderful, any stories of making the movie?

Audrey_Landers: Luke I have some

Audrey_Landers: They had cast the entire film before I joined the cast

Audrey_Landers: The rest of cast were professional dancers, but that was not my main talent

Audrey_Landers: When I got the part I rehearsed from 6am until 9pm at time, to catch up with everyone else

Audrey_Landers: It was a great challenge for me

Audrey_Landers: It was an usual set

Audrey_Landers: There is a lot of waiting around

Audrey_Landers: Once the filming began the dancers would sit around a lot

Audrey_Landers: They brought in junk food while they waited

Audrey_Landers: They all put on weight

Audrey_Landers: The other cast members all went from hard bodies to soft

Audrey_Landers: The producer did not allow junk food on the set

Audrey_Landers: I was ok I had to practice all the time so did not have time

Audrey_Landers: Next please

Miss_Texas: Loved your songs on Dallas, especially Steal Me Away, did you write them, and are they available for download?

Audrey_Landers: I did write them

Audrey_Landers: I wrote all the songs Afton sang on Dallas

Audrey_Landers: I do not know if it is available to download

Audrey_Landers: All my other songs are on iTunes

Audrey_Landers: Next question thank you

FINNISH: Greetings from Finland! Have you ever been here visiting? Like your song Honeymoon in Trinidad very much. All the best for you!

Audrey_Landers: Yes I was in Finland. It was very cold

Audrey_Landers: In the 1980s

Audrey_Landers: I performed in Finland. The people were very very warm

Audrey_Landers: I do have a new album coming out

Audrey_Landers: I am not sure if it will get an international release

Affie: You joined the show just after Who Shot J.R and in the middle of Lucy’s Wedding, two of the Shows biggest events, what was it like joining when the show was so huge? Were you welcomed by all the cast?

Audrey_Landers: The cast welcomed me. It was intimidating

Audrey_Landers: My first scene was with JR in bed

Audrey_Landers: He was very funny

Audrey_Landers: All the gossip about fighting and backstabbing with the cast were not true

Xander: Loved one of your earliest moments in bed with J.R during Lucy’s wedding, it was classic, what was filming that first love scene with Larry like?

Audrey_Landers: Larry played a trick on me

Audrey_Landers: When you do love scenes you are clothed from the neck down

Audrey_Landers: Larry was wearing cowboy boots

Audrey_Landers: In the scene he has to put his hand on my shoulder, when the director called action, Larry poured ice cubes down my back

Audrey_Landers: (laughs)

Bevin: Afton is my favourite character from Dallas. I thought her character, excluding her beginning, was a refreshing change from the other, mindless trophy wives/girlfriends. Did you enjoy playing an intelligent woman on the program where the intelligence was usually limited to the male characters?

Audrey_Landers: It was fun to watch the evolution of Afton

Audrey_Landers: I don't think I would call her intelligent in the beginning

Audrey_Landers: She was ambitious

Audrey_Landers: She did evolve into a more intelligent woman

Audrey_Landers: I must admit it was more fun playing the bad girl.

Audrey_Landers: There was more for me to do when I was spying or sleeping with a Ewing brother.

Audrey_Landers: When they made Afton sweet and nice they ran out of interesting storylines

johnny: Hi i am a fan of Jim Davis what was the effect on the actors and writers when he died in 1981 , was it expected?

Audrey_Landers: Sadly I only worked with Jim for a short time

Audrey_Landers: He had a strong impact on the show

Audrey_Landers: For all the years I was on the show the cast spoke about him

Audrey_Landers: He defined the Dallas cowboy business man. He was sadly missed

Audrey_Landers: His illness came on very suddenly. He worked right up until the time of his death.

fiona: How did it feel going back to Dallas in 1989 after being away for a couple of seasons.

Audrey_Landers: Fiona - It was a great feeling. When I returned the character had matured, more intelligent and worldly

Audrey_Landers: It was always like I had never left

Audrey_Landers: Leonard Katzman was the guiding force on the show, he kept the show consistant

Tread: What was doing Playboy with Judy like?

Audrey_Landers: We made the decision to do Playboy because we thought it would change our image from cheerleader to mature roles

Audrey_Landers: We would do it with no nudity and no payment, just for publicity. My gran thought it was tasteful

Audrey_Landers: There are a select group of woman who have done it with no nudity

Audrey_Landers: The outcome was it did nothing for us

Audrey_Landers: It was not help the direction of our career in any way

Audrey_Landers: People assumed we had done nudity without seeing it

Audrey_Landers: So we had offers for films with nudity, so opened the wrong doors for us

Audrey_Landers: But I do like the pictures and have them on the wall in my library (laughs)

Pammy_P: Were Victoria and Morgan nice to work with?

Audrey_Landers: I always got on well with Victoria

Audrey_Landers: She was so confident

Audrey_Landers: I did not work very much with Morgan

Audrey_Landers: Victoria has a very successful cosmetic line.

Lucas: You and Dallas cos-stars Tilton and Principal were part of a huge female sex symbol time in the eighties with your sister Judy Farrah, Morgan Fairchild and more. What was it like to be a sex symbol.

Audrey_Landers: It was very flattering

Audrey_Landers: For myself and Judy we did not think of ourselves as sex symbols. We wanted to play roles we enjoyed

Audrey_Landers: It was very flattering

Audrey_Landers: Looking back on it now it was amusing

Audrey_Landers: We did not realize it at the time

Afton: Any plans for more Huggabug Club shows?

Audrey_Landers: Ohhh so sweet

Audrey_Landers: We produced and wrote 50 episodes

Audrey_Landers: We hope it will be rerun again

Audrey_Landers: Thanks for remembering the show

Audrey_Landers: We wrote the show, 250 songs, I edited the show. My mom produced it.

Audrey_Landers: We have a new family movie - Circus Island

Audrey_Landers: A film my mom produced, my sister and I directed

Audrey_Landers: My children are in the movie

DameBarbara: You were managed by your mother - did that help you keep your feet on the ground? Do You still live in Florida?

Audrey_Landers: Yes, she still manages me. We are very close. That is her at the door now

toni: The scenes between you and Pam were great, especially when you tell her her mama is dead. Do you remember anything about that scene?

Audrey_Landers: toni - Let me remember

Audrey_Landers: When an actor does a scene which requires acting ability, it is always great

Audrey_Landers: It was good doing those scenes with Victoria

Audrey_Landers: I have the show on DVD. I can throw away my closet of VHS videos

CooperLuv: Audrey, you worked with most of the cast, loved when you had brief scenes with Ellie and bitchy scenes with Lucy, anyone you wanted more of a storyline with?

Audrey_Landers: I would like to have done more scenes with Patrick Duffy

Audrey_Landers: He was always a great deal of fun

Audrey_Landers: He was also very cute

Philipe_in_Madrid: Good evening from Spain Audrey. As a singer, did you have any contact or relations with the composers of the series, Jerrold Immel, John Parker, Richard Warren, Lance Rubin or Angela Morley? Audrey, you have such a beautiful voice.

Audrey_Landers: Philipe I worked with them briefly when I recorded the songs in the show

Audrey_Landers: I would sing it to them ahead of time

Audrey_Landers: Often it was not written into the script and they would suddenly say 'it was be nice to start this with you singing a song'

Audrey_Landers: So I would have get a keyboard and sing there and then

Omey: Hi, do you still keep in touch with any of the Dallas cast ?

Audrey_Landers: Off and on with Ken

Audrey_Landers: We have tried to meet up and do some personal appearances in Europe. That is about it.

70's_TV: Which did you have more fun on, working on Battlestar Galactica, Police Woman or Charlie’s Angels? Were the Angels nice to you?

Audrey_Landers: That is a funny question

Audrey_Landers: Battlestar was so much fun

Audrey_Landers: I played a girl from another planet, a backward place

Audrey_Landers: It was fun, the costumes were so exotic

Audrey_Landers: It was an introduction to episodic tv

Audrey_Landers: The Angels were very nice to me

Audrey_Landers: The women were secure and confident. So no jealousy

Audrey_Landers: They were very very nice

Audrey_Landers: I was so evil, that was fun

Karin_Schill: Can you tell us the title of your new album? I live in Sweden, will I be able to buy it from the US online or maybe from Germany?

Audrey_Landers: The album is in German - Spuren Eines Sommer

Audrey_Landers: The other one Dolce Vita

KL4ever: Hi Audrey thanks for talking to us, What is your best memory from your time on DALLAS?

Audrey_Landers: Kl4ever - There were so many

Audrey_Landers: The best memory was the day I got Dallas

Audrey_Landers: Afton was supposed to only be in it for 2 days

Audrey_Landers: Sorry 2 episodes

Audrey_Landers: So when they wrote me in as a series regular was a great memory

Dallas: Trapped on a Desert Island Audrey, Tilton or Morgan Brittany, who would you choose?

Audrey_Landers: (laughs)

Audrey_Landers: Charlene Tilton

Audrey_Landers: She is the salt of the earth and a great deal of fun to be with

Audrey_Landers: Thank you everyone. This was so much fun

Question_Host: Thank you Audrey for a wonderful chat!

Audrey_Landers: A great way to stay in touch all over the world

Audrey_Landers: I hope we do it again soon

Audrey_Landers: Bye everyone