Becca Anderson
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136 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jan 2025
Becca Anderson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I've been engaged many times. And she was asking me if I would come to shoot a cover of Playboy, and she said, if we like it, we'll print it. And I said, well, call me when it's for real. And I hung up, and my boyfriend or fiancé was really mad at me, and she called back, and she said, no, it's for real. And I said, okay, and I just took my purse, and I ran out of there, and I didn't come back.
Yeah. The rest is history.
It sounds crazy. And the rest is history. I thought, what am I doing staying here? This is no fun.
My mom was a waitress and she worked at Smitty's Pancake House. But my dad was a poker player, con man, chimney sweep with a top hat and everything. Everyone has a story about my father, the notorious bad boy of Ladysmith. My dad liked to race cars, and my mom has a scar across her whole forehead because her head went through the windshield when she was pregnant with me. And we like to joke.
That's probably the reason I'm a little bit crazy.
Well, my parents are still together, madly in love. They write each other beautiful cards and letters, and they're still jealous if someone is out too long. They want to know where they've been. And they've always had this very wild love affair. And I think my brother and I would feel like we were in the way a lot of the times because they were the most important people in each other's lives.
And that was something I never wanted my kids to feel, even though I love my parents, I care for them, and they are here with me. And my dad is really kind of mellowed out, I guess, in his later years. He had a stroke about five years ago. He made a full comeback. He even got his eyesight back, which is interesting. He used to have to wear glasses, and now he doesn't.
But they're madly in love, but in that wild way. I think that that was my impression of what love is. You know, it was a volatile relationship at times. And I would, you know, take my brother to different places to keep him from seeing things. It's kind of like this small town love affair. I don't know if love affairs change if it's big town or little towns.
They were like the bad boy and the bombshell. My mom running around in these butter yellow cute little outfits and a bouffant hairdo. And my dad with the slick back hair and the cigarettes rolled up in his sleeve and the motorcycle and the whole thing. I mean, they're a movie.
Well, I do. I think that if you're in a relationship that isn't working, does it make it better if you stay in it or is it better that you leave? I mean, these are up to the individuals. And I remember going to the Playboy Mansion actually one time and Smokey Robinson came up to me and I was in tears about leaving a relationship.
And he said, you know what, darling, you're a romantic and keep fighting for love. And I thought if Smokey Robinson thinks I'm a romantic and it's okay with him, I'm okay. Mm-hmm.
Well, the timeline was we had a safe the size of a refrigerator behind a carpeted wall while we were doing construction on our house. And that's where we kept a lot of our home movies. It wasn't that we made this tape. They spliced together pieces of 50 different tapes and made it look like we were, you know, who knows.
And we couldn't even remember if there was anything bad on the tape or exploitive. And when we were starting to get offers of millions of dollars, and we were like, what is going on? And then we actually got one tape back on a VHS. And Tommy looked at it and I didn't look at it. and realized that someone had stolen the safe, and then worked with this distributor, and we didn't know what to do.
We tried to stop it, and I was pregnant with Dylan, and they brought us into depositions, and Tommy would pace the hallway, but they were talking to me and trying to really, you know, hammer me down. They had nude pictures of me from Playboy. They said I had no right to privacy, that I was owned by the world, that nothing could ever ruin my career because I was a, you know, not worth anything.
And it was so hard. And after a few days of these depositions, Tommy just looked at me and said, we're done here. We're not going to put our child at risk. And I agreed. And we just walked out there and we said, just They'll deal with karma. We don't want a dime. We don't want any of this dirty money. I won't say what he said to them, but I agreed. We walked out of there. We couldn't do it.
You know, I hate to throw him under the bus because he really was wonderful in so many ways. And I know he genuinely cared about me. But he wasn't really a theatrical agent. And I think he was always thinking money first and didn't know if I was interested in doing a film like this.
But I remember having a conversation with him not too long after and just saying, if you don't believe in me as an actress, I'm going to have to move on. And nobody would take me until they saw The Last Showgirl. So you have to do something first. And that's the hard part about this business is people always think you have a formula.
You can just get an agent, get a publicist, get an assistant and start reading scripts and work with Meryl Streep. But that's not how it works. A lot of it has to do with the stars aligning and somebody seeing you, if it's Jamie Lee Curtis or Gia Coppola in my case. Or a loving son.
well, my loving son, of course, but also open up to it and reveal yourself to the world so people can maybe think of you for things and lose the armor and the protection.
Well, everything is spontaneous. It's not calculated. So I was just at Paris Fashion Week and I was wearing this beautiful Vivienne Westwood dress and a big hat. And I thought, why do I have to sit in a makeup chair for three hours? There's only, you know, how many inches of my face is going to show? Are people really going to fall over backwards if I'm not wearing makeup?
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