When you see that girl and her French accent Well, it's not an accent to her. It's her voice. And there's also so many, Bridget Bardot, Emmanuelle Seigner, Emmanuelle Beart.
There are so many beautiful French actresses that have this quality that we view as great sexuality. They also are much more comfortable with their bodies and much more open sexually, so I think that's why it seems like it's sexier. But having said that, that's why it's one of the Romance languages.
German accents and Hassidic accents aren't that romantic. Although Hebrew, when spoken by certain people, sounds beautiful. Did you feel like Collette being the only woman in a room full of techies, mostly guys?
It was just me and Brad, so it wasn't like I was surrounded by the Pixar geniuses of techies at the time. I was just in a studio cubicle with Brad telling me what to do. So I did not have the experience of interacting with the men and women who created this art who are head and shoulders above me, technological speaking.
I would have no way to know or ever hope to learn what they know computer-wise. Yeah, but they're in a booth separated from you. They're behind a big Plexiglas thing and they don't speak to you, really, unless you want to talk to them.
It's just you and the producer/director. And they do their thing quietly. Have you ever felt like Collette before in any situation?
On movies? I would say that contemporary society is fairly obviously white male dominated. That's just the nature of the beast.
In stand-up, probably when I started in '85, there were certainly less women than there are now, but it's difficult for anyone transcending gender. It's very difficult when you're starting out doing stand-up. It's just that there's an added problem when you're a female doing standup that it's just an accepted trope, Women aren't as funny as men.
Women aren't as funny. So you're starting at that deficit. Also, a lot of club managers, especially in the '80s, never wanted to book two women on one show because they felt it could lose the audience.
So there wouldn't be as many opportunities to work. Or, if there was a female there headlining one week, they didn't want to have a female headlining the next week, even though there's not the same rules for men. But there would also be unspoken rules about comics of color back then.
You don't want to have more than one black guy on a show. People don't get away with that anymore. There's certainly an enormous amount of diversity that exists now in the arts that wasn't there in the early-mid '80s.
Have you tried any Gusteau recipes? And even if I did cook, it's far above my pay grade cook-wise. I don't have that kind of time.
But no, I'm not a cook. I like to watch the Food Network but I don't like to cook. What do you get out of watching Food Network then?
I don't know but I watch Paula Deen, Nigella Lawson, and Giada De Laurentiis and Mario Batali and Tony Bourdain when he was on. When you see that girl and her French accent Well, it's not an accent to her.
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