Diane Ladd

I was there for the hottest day on record.

[laughs] Hilarious, right? Anyhow, we're gonna get to the last in the trilogy because I reviewed Lost Highway, David Lynch series, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, and the last of the trifecta is 1990, Wild at Heart, starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern, her real-life mother, Diane Ladd, rest in peace, uh, Harry Dean Stanton, Isabella Rossellini, Sherilyn Fenn, Willem Dafoe, Jack Vance.

Who else am I missing? Oh, um, Grace Ze- Is it Grace Zabinski, who...

I'm probably saying her last name completely wrong.

I feel like we don't have that David Lynch level anymore is what I'm trying to get at.

Uh, going back to the movie here, the start of this movie is so scary.

If you have a narcissistic personality disorder mother or father, you are going to be triggered off the Richter scale watching Diane Ladd's performance.

If you have a mother or a father who is dealing with histrionic personality disorder or BPD that's unchecked, that includes covert control or narcissistic abuse, this movie's gonna get under your skin.

The film is centred on Hopkins, but the support is nicely done throughout.

Aaron Murphy as young Tom, Diane Ladd as Ada, Christopher Lawford as fellow racer Jim Moffat, and Paul Rodriguez as Fernando, the car dealer Bert meets along the way, and two of the supporting players are worth flagging for anyone watching this now.

Anthony Starr, who plays Jeff, went on to Banshee and then to Homelander in The Boys, so if you only know him as television's most terrifying superhero, seeing him here is a treat.

And Walton Goggins appears as Marty Dickerson, who is a real Bonneville racer, the man behind the Vincent known as the Blue Bike.

Makes sense.

The film stars Jason Robards, Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd, Pam Greer, and others.

It has a 63% on Rotten Tomatoes, a 68% on Metacritic, and a 6.7 out of 10 on IMDb, and it made $8.4 million against a budget of $20 million.

Ooh.

Yeah, we did, yeah.

And then there's Diane Ladd, as an example.

That

name sort

And this was with

Diane Ladd.

Right.

Exactly.

And Kathleen points out that's part of it.

Kathleen, Diane was part of it's fascination for me.

That one kind of does fascinate me.

And I'm thinking, how the heck did they get her into this movie? That's the big question in my mind.

We're going to make this a four-hour show, but Corman, I was reading about him.

His whole business plan was to grab actors who he knew were good on the way up Or those who hadn't done anything in a while needed a paycheck.

Diane Ladd needed a

paycheck.

She was on with her mother, actually, who has now sadly passed.

Diane Ladd, fantastic.

You can go back and listen to it on BBC Sounds.

It was a wonderful interview, both of them.