- Title: FJ-HRN-2215
- Summary: Rowdy Roddy Piper: Rowdy Roddy Piper Interview
- Description:01:41:40 - Sound Bite: Roddy Piper Yeah so, my kids, I say go down and visit great grandma, you know and as I said, great grandma died right in front of them. This is like 3 oclock in the afternoon. She just came in for something, and theyre crying, little corn muffin, you know. So dads gotta tell them hes got cancer, and so I went on the spicket for four weeks, five days a week, got that radiation, they told me I was to stay down for 2 months, 2 weeks later I was doing a movie for MTV called Sweet Sixteen, and I had to get up for those kids, because it rocked their foundation too much. Id get up every morning Id throw up, and when Id go to the bathroom Id bleed, and I did it because radiation and that stuff stays with you for a year, and after going through all that, you know you have an appreciation for life, and it changes your perspectives, and when you see somebody else that is being a jerk like you were 20 years ago, you know exactly what to say to them without hurting their feelings, and besides all mine was on television, so is you know was like the pot calling the kettle black, they could take no offense, and I found out that my communication and my acting like with John Wayne, he didnt act he reacted, and all of a sudden it just settled in, and then now I must come back to Hollywood. I have a lady that I dont get along with that well, but shes very qualified, Tammy Sheffield, she knows everybody in Hollywood and shes what you call a life coach. You know mold me into, make me look the best I can. Now I think theyre gonna try and make a reality series, its not a reality series, its a real series and theyll make whatever amount of episodes, because I have a large movie coming out, and I had just talked to Vince McMann last night, I was in the ?, and Im going to go visit Michael Lake of the WWE entertainment department here in LA, and Im going to see what they have, but I need help in being politically correct and also camera friendly. But as far as the acting itself, if you ever had your feelings hurt real real bad, youd never do that to anybody no matter how much you hated them. And so thats how I caught on. 01:45:05 - Sound Bite: Roddy Piper & Tamie Sheffield Roddy Well first of all, green light entertainment, executive producer Fred Young, approached me about, because Im going to do this acting anyway, but I do need some help, and he knew Tammy, so he put us together. Tamie How the marriage happened. Roddy How the marriage happened. Tamie Like it or not, were in it together. Roddy Yeah, yeah, and you know one thing it isnt a setup Hogan Knows Best, whose another wrestler, Im not doing that. Im actually, as hard as this is to say to you, she does know what shes talking about. Tamie and you do know that you do need a little something something if you know what I mean. Roddy she says to me, you know, Im a fighter, she says to me, Im in a restaurant with her, and I just met the lady, and I got this black leather jacket Ive been wearing for years, she says we gotta do something about that jacket, I says Ive been wearing this for years, and she says, it looks like it. Tamie its all from here, Roddy, all from here. Roddy Im sure it is, yes. A03. HRN-2215 In: 01.46.26 Out: 01.48.05 Sound Bite: Roddy Piper & Tamie Sheffield Roddy Tamie Oh gosh, where do I start, where do I start, um you know I think it comes one of a physical aspect, changing the clothes, the hair, the tummy, Roddy Gee, the tummy. Tamie You know the physical aspect. Roddy The tummy. Tamie you hey I saw you back in your day and you were hot. Not that youre not hot now, Roddy but, I know. Roddy only a thousand made of shameless, you cant buy them, cant buy them. You can the book though. Tamie Yes, do the book one more time. Roddy you can buy the book. Tamie Ok now getting away from the physical aspect, going to the mental aspect of Roddy. Roddy see, she does that kind of stuff. Tamie but for me to kind of bring him down a little, still with the personality, but bring him down a little, because Hollywood is very, gosh I dont even know what word to use, you have to be careful with everything you say. Its about who you know, its about connections, its about personality, but you can turn them off very easily too. And Roddy seems to be my fortwa. Tamie and things have changed since the 80s and 90s, I mean lets face it. And so with, and youre just stuck in the 80s and 90s a little bit. Roddy what? What am I supposed to do, like grow or shrink? Tamie were going to do that with you, were going to make you grow. Back and back to reality here in 2008. 01:48:08 - Sound Bite: Roddy Piper & Tamie Sheffield Tamie You know what, Ive been thinking about that a lot. A life coach can mean so many things. Ive been in the business for over 10 years and I guess to give you know credit for myself, I know a lot of people, Ive been through a lot, a lot of good things a lot of bad things, as we all have our stories, just like I said, I heard you say that Roddys got so many stories, so do I. And its really matter of talking to, when I said, I dont even want to say to Roddy to say to anyone what a life coach is, its really getting them ready, getting them psyched, getting them mentally and physically, but I think physically is just a part of it, prepared for what theyre gonna do, whether its career, personal, physical and thats what Im here to do with Roddy. Roddy The part that is difficult is shes right. This really sucks. Yeah, Im getting them in stereo, Im suing Bose. In surround sound. Tamie Its gonna be okay. Roddy The thing is is yeah, I cant, Im not, yeah. Tamie I got him speechless, this is the first time, or maybe you got him speechless with that. Roddy No its . Tamie its not too many times that you get speechless huh? Roddy its cause i. Tamie we got it on tape right now. 01:49:50 - Sound Bite: Roddy Piper & Tamie Sheffield Tamie You know what, to me, its a challenge, and just like you said the challenge for me, Im excited, Im looking forward to it, and I mean, hey like I said, the last 10 years has been a challenge and for me this is a personal challenge because Ive been doing, if you wanna say life coach, if you wanna say guidance, if you wanna say informa, you know Ive been doing that I think all my life, but especially the last 10 years in Hollywood with the younger girls coming in, with other friends, with family members, with crew, and. Roddy its a kilt. Tamie Id have to say for me, he is a big challenge for me and what Im doing, and I think I can really do it and I wanna show other people that I can do it and were gonna do it together, I think thats what it is too, its not just me, because if hes not in it with me its not gonna happen yeah. You just be quiet dear. So it really is a team because I could be doing so much, I could be blah blah blah blah blah, I could be putting in so much effort, and if hes not in it with me, were both gonna fail. Roddy Im a terrible schmoozer. Tamie we found that out. Roddy You know, I dont go to a party 5 people, when I was a little boy in like a 7/11, Id wait. I can go in front of a hundred million, not know the you know fortunately yeah I have to say shes right on that part. 01:52:05 - Sound Bite: Roddy Piper & Tamie Sheffield Tamie And sometimes its not even one thing that kills me in Hollywood, its not even so much about talent. Really talent is like number 3 on the list. Its pretty much who you know, connections, luck, personality, looks, and then talent is like way down here. (talks) Hes sweating over here. Roddy Tough crowd you know, they like you give you just like to live Tamie I mean so when people you know producers and directors they want to work with someone they know they can get along with, thats professional, thats not gonna start fights, thats not gonna have an ego, thats not gonna say theyre better than anyone else, not that Im talking about anyone in particular, but Roddy Rawwweeer. Yes maam. Tamie but I mean, so if you walk in there with an attitude telling people what to do, saying why I did this, you know, I dont want to use words, sometimes I almost want to say thats gonna turn someone off. Roddy Heres the deal too, heres the deal too, with respect to the lady is, remember when we were talking if I was training you asked me if when I was fighting lets say in a movie, was it hard with no people, when I was training I always did 110 percent. I wanna do the best work I can do, and if I dont swallow my pride and get my head on straight and realize that the lady has been in this town and I cant do anything but the best I can do, and then she knows. Tamie and I believe that, and I believe that, and I think if I didnt believe it. Roddy its very difficult. Tamie then its all just a matter of acting, then its all just a matter of BS, so. Roddy then you just, yeah, this reality show, I dont even like the name of it, its more like, you know what its like? Its like watching the, watching her tear me apart, whatever it is, and watching me, Im gonna do the movie, but you know I need the acting coach, I need whatever, I need to slim down whatever it is 01:54:40 - Sound Bite: Roddy Piper & Tamie Sheffield Roddy So the king says, Lions make leopards tame. Mulberry says, Yea, but not change their spots, take up my shame and I resign my gauge, my dear dear lord, the purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation, that away men are but guilded loom or painted clay, a jewel in the barred up chest is a bold spirit in the loyal breast, my honor and my life they grow as one, take my honor and my life is done. So my dear liege, let my honor me try, with that I live, or with that I die. Thank you. Tamie Wow. I am impressed. Roddy Well I had it on my hand. Tamie I would think there were cue cards over here if we werent looking in the same place. I am impressed. Roddy Well maybe theres hope. Thats the first nice thing shes said to me. Tamie oh come on now. Weve got it on camera. You cant say I never gave you a compliment, theres a compliment right there. 01:55:47 - Sound Bite: Roddy Piper & Tamie Sheffield Roddy Oh no no, shes got an acting coach. Tamie Thats gonna be in the works. Roddy Yeah you know thats part of, Id rather call it a documentary because theres no bologna about it, uh Ive done 34 films, weve talked about They Live, weve talked about different things, and theres 2 acting coaches she suggested, one is Ivana Chevik, whos a very famous acting coach, another one is Brian Reese, and she has another folk that they want me to see. Its all part of the process, the thing is I only got about 10 weeks like everything else, you know. Tamie Pressure. Did I say pressure? Roddy Yeah, I work good under pressure. 01:56:36 - Sound Bite: Roddy Piper & Tamie Sheffield Roddy Lets put it this way, my youngest is 13 years old. My ranch costs 30 thousand dollars a month just to keep it goin. That little baby corn muffin, shes an honor roll student, on the presidents list, and shes gonna go to college and be whatever, she deserves to have the other 3 kids have. How am I gonna give her that livin? Fight? Pfft. I cant fight these guys no more. What am I gonna do, how serious am I? Ill rip your throat out you get in my auction line. Not auction, audition. I hate audition, audition, geez. Tamie Audition, auction, same thing. Roddy Thats why maybe I need her, oh did I say that. Its a documentary is what it is, its you know, I mean obviously shes a very pretty lady. Tamie Were gonna have some speed bumps, were gonna have some bumps along the way, but like I said I think we both have the same goal, and were both in it from the heart, and I think thats really and thats whats gonna come through. Theres, were gonna have some troubles along the way, I also think theres gonna be a lot of uh successes through the. Roddy were gonna make it. 01:57:59 - Sound Bite: Roddy Piper & Tamie Sheffield Roddy No but you know if we wanted to make it like a reality series like they have, they wouldve got some wonderful big black lady that wouldve really argued with me. Thats not what this is about. Hey, god bless ? Tamie He doesnt know what every episode is yet. Roddy No I dont but uh its a doc a documentary. 01:59:18 - Sound Bite: Roddy Piper & Tamie Sheffield Roddy Tamie You can see the chemistry here is quite interesting to say the least. And Ill be very vague about that and say interesting. Um but no but seriously, we are gonna live together. Roddy Lets clarify that, alright? Tamie He gets rid of one wife and then he kind of brings in another. But no we are gonna live under the same roof for uh a certain amount of time, and I think this is because we really need to get, we know each other but not enough where you know I cant just spend 3 hours a day with him, put it that way, you know what I mean, we need to be together all the time, and I think thats in the mental part of it of everything he needs to do I, its for the acting, its for our goal, its to get him mentally and physically ready. Roddy and I will be mental after that, without a doubt. But at the same. Tamie hey you got me speechless, but you said it I didnt. But um. Roddy no I understand, I dont want them ,you know this is, this is as real as it gets, as rowdy as it gets in this particular one Tamie the goals are real. Roddy yeah, the goals are real. And you know its entertainment, we hope that you enjoy it, but I hope that you enjoy the movie that Im going to make and after its all done and the heartache you know Ill probably be buying her Bentleys, you know I dont know, shes a nice lady. Tamie you have that on tape, there dont you there? Roddy did I say that? Tamie uh yeah you did, its already on there. Roddy chairs, taking a lot of chairs. (talks) Probably, thank you sir, probably. Tamie whose side are you on? Whose side are you on? But we do have the goals, I mean we do have the goals, and you know just one of my goals, this is a challenge, and Im excited for it. Roddy I am too. Tamie And I want him to help me to acquire my, to attain my challenge, and to see that if I can do it with Roddy, I can do it with so many other people. And so for me, thats like, if you want to say a long time goal, a personal goal, that will be the first and Rod will be the first and hopefully many to continue. Roddy But the ladys right. Tamie No pressure, no pressure 02:01:47 - Sound Bite: Roddy Piper & Tamie Sheffield Roddy Is quite no seriously, um I will understand the industry better the more that I, she knows everybody, shes been in this town, shes done a lot of great shows, you know we can kid around, but the lady can tell me what to wear in the morning because I really dont care what I wear, I never have, but in living together, what that does, its not the fact that we are in the same house and youre gonna look for that banner, its the fact that, no Rod you need to get up now and get to the gym and etcetera, I mean you know shes got a husband, its not like theyre throwing us in here. Its like a lot like boot camp now that I think about it, and if youre gonna do it you might as well do it with the best and shes been recommended and as much as I wanna kid with her, and sometimes she really pisses me, ticks me off, uh but its not a joke, its not Im not gonna do 3 seasons of it, its what it is, and then Im gonna make the best movies I can possibly make and probably have her at my side as I grow, because it is different, Hollywood and where I come from, 2 different animals and I need this lady. Tamie I mean I would say with Roddys credit he was at the top of the top of wrestling, but there was no where else to go, I mean he was at the top, now with Hollywood, I hate even saying Hollywood, with acting, with movies, he did very very well, but he still could do so much more, and he still got so much more in here and ambition and goals that he can go so much further and I dont wanna put words in his mouth. Roddy Youre doing a pretty good job of it. Tamie The way I look at it too is that you reach the top of wrestling so why cant you reach the top in acting as well. Roddy and Im glad I got you. Tamie well do it together. Roddy Absolutely. Tamie This is where everyone goes awwwww. Roddy but no its true, its a documentary, its not a reality show.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/2008
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 2000s
- File Name: FJ-HRN-2215