 We are art. A lot of work went into this film and amazing ideas from the director unbeknown to us what he was really up to. There's a lot of depth in Rokkiwara and when Jim Sharman the director was asked about making the movie, Alan Land Jr. just taken over 20th Century Fox and he wasn't keen to make this movie at all. And except people like Mick Jagger and Bowie all wanted to play Frank and Ferta and Jim Sharman the director said absolutely not. Tim Curry or no film. And also thankfully Pat Quinn, Magenta, we're from the original stage show so we were there while songs were being written and brought in overnight. We were in an amazing melting pot of talent from the designer to the director to the actors. So it was like an amazing creation of something, script coming in overnight, things happening. And then we opened the show on the stage and at the end of three weeks it was a three week run and then finished. And at the end of three weeks Mick Jagger and Bianca were queuing up to get hit. So we were hit from day one and it was extraordinary and the greatest thing was that Sharman stuck to his guns and they made out well if you want that lot this is the budget like a million or something if you have the others we might go to ten million. He said I want that lot and I'll do it for the million. Way! And we won. I mean I've always wanted to act. When I was in like the church play the first time I acted and I'm from Belfast Northern Ireland and I was coming down the road and this woman said to my mother she's very good you're a wee girl Mrs Quinn and I looked at her and thought oh I didn't know it was very good but so then from then on I then joined the drama league in Belfast as a girl and then at my secondary school my grandma's school I was part of the so I was playing pop in the summer night stream at the age of 12 you know so I just went on and I just had to be an actress it was a passion and it has to be a passion or you won't do it you know and a lot of people today young people say they want to be famous and you think what does that mean? Famous for what you know and you realise what you have to do and I actually got on the boat at 17 I was in the arts theatre in Belfast as a professional acting and ASM that's assistant stage manager backstage you had to do that you know at that age and then I thought I'm going to London so I got on the boat from Belfast and my father set up with a journalist at the Keyside at the docks in Belfast and he set up this picture and I'm standing like that on one of the ballards you know that they tie the ships to you know and I'm standing like this and it says headline is come down for stardom and that was in the Belfast Telegraph because daddy set that up and I've got it it's been everywhere that picture actually and it was like so I went to London and to begin from I became an usherette in the theatres so that I could see all the plays and started to work so it's extraordinary because it's a hard road and it's great if it works that was just my look and Sue Blaine sort of just went off what suited me and so that's how I came to that look and I guess in part of it is just playing myself that's Columbia I didn't even thought about it I'm very spirit at the moment kind of a gal impromptu as well but also I was very lucky I was born into a happy, large family I'm going to go fortune on one and I had loving parents who were very encouraging and I think that is a key thing so the four, myself and my three siblings, the four of us all have confidence we were encouraged to go into whatever area of work we felt inclined to and that's been a key thing I mean I absolutely love looking at paintings, sculptures, looking at a tree and music is obviously inspirational I mean when you hear a song you love and music you love it's absolutely thrilling and look I'm here 40 years later talking about this movie and I've just done this Q&A and as I say it was like I tell you I've been doing this for quite a while when I first did this I said to my agent what is this I'm auditioning for this rocky horror thing he said I think it's something about a circus and he wasn't wrong I've been in this circus ever since for 40 years I've been in this circus this circus has taken me around the world and back it's been extraordinary and when the 20th century brought out the DVD they paid me to go to Sydney they sent me around the world to sell it and promote it but I had to do a yuck yuck yuck and you know massive interviews and then I was at the Gay Mardi Gras in Sydney that was astonishing but I said could I go on the rocky horror float because it was a rocky horror float at the Gay Mardi Gras and they said no you have to be in the room watching so the TV cameras you know you have to do interviews you can't go on the float and when the float came around I thought thank the lord I didn't go on that because they're singing the Time War for the whole of the Gay Mardi Gras it would have killed me and then it was amazing because they opened the Gay Mardi Gras with Dikes on Bikes okay and there they were in the San Francisco caps and blondes with their hair flying and bikes on bikes and oh my god it's just like Eddie you know like Meatloaf How do you feel about the influence that art has on people? You know because I sort of work in the arts I see its effect on a daily basis and it's besides just raising one's intelligence and one's behavior in the world it affects your eyes it affects your optics it affects how you how you visualize and create your own world and turn health create others and it all has to do with the artist's vision first and how they have the ability to communicate to you through their unique vision and help you change yours and hopefully create a better, happier, more compassionate world Do you have any insecurities that may have hindered your success? I think the periods of my life where I haven't had the self-confidence and I've always had people encouraging me and that hasn't been an issue it's the issue of me encouraging myself and accepting their view of what I'm capable of and so until you internalize it until you internalize their acceptance and vision for you you know it's very difficult to get past that because we just keep chipping ourselves up I know in acting and films and things like that unless you're totally comfortable and accepting of your right to be there and your right to take your time to do your work you can't really succeed at it and it's the same thing with an artist or a photographer I think you have to be willing to battle your demons and battle maybe some of the naysayers and just stay on course