Rosie O'Donnell Show
Contributed by Amanda
Hey! Our next guest is the star of the new USA action drama La Femme Nikita. Take a look.
(shows a clip)
R: Please welcome, Peta Wilson. Excuse me, but Peta, you’re like the cutest!
P: Well, uh, thank you.
R: How are you?
P: I’m great! I’m very excited, this is my first time, I feel like, you know.
R: You feel a little nervous.
P: I’m a little nervous, I feel like I’m getting on the springboard and I’m about to like do the sprint.
R: All right, I’ll get you through it, Peta, don’t be scared at all.
P: Good. Ok Alright. I’m not scared.
R: Now-First series, La Femme Nikita?
P: First series, third acting job, third paid, third hired acting job.
R: You were a model before?
P: Did a little bit of that, wasn’t very big, but, did well, made a living out of it
R: Yeah, you got a nice base.
P: Yeah I did a little, I did a little of it.
R: Your body’s not bad either.
P: It’s all right.
R: You look good, Peta, that’s the point of the story.
P: I’m Australian, love nothing fancy.
R: All right, there you have it. Now so they called- what was your first acting job , just
P: Umm, Oh God, Ahh,
R: A little somethin?
P: I did a lot of theater, I did a lot of plays, but the first film job I did was a movie called the Sadness of Sex. First you’re happy, then you’re sad. And I was the girl. I didn't say nothin. I was just, y'know.
R: Just walkin through. Now were you livin in Australia when they called you to do this series?
P: No, I was livin in Los Angeles, and I was studying and in a theater
company, I was actually gonna to come to New York and do theater and my
manager said, Come and try some TV, we know you do well with films,
you're not getting good, You’re not the name, Go for television. And I
said, me, TV? That’s like, too small. And he said, go and do it, and
I went and auditioned, like everybody else in L.A., and I was this
little Australian...
R: And you got it, And its doin really well on the USA Network.
P: I'm so happy, I'm glad everyone loves it.
R: Are you gettin recognized everywhere?
P: A little, it was weird, I went to New Orleans last week for this
press conference thing, and these people came up to me at the airport,
and my mum and grandma were with me because my grandma lives with me
right? And--
R: Your grandma lives with you?
P: She looks after me.
R: Oh that’s so sweet!
P: She makes sure I’m okay.
R: Peta how old are you?
P: I’m 26.
R :I thought you were gonna say you're twelve, I was thinkin you don't
look twelve!
P: I'm twenty six years old and my grandma lives with me that's
pathetic!
R: No, it's not, that’s actually very endearing.
P: I’m very Catholic, very Irish she makes me laugh.
R: Irish Catholic, Peta. We’re connectin, you and me, we’re connecting!
P: Whoo!
R: Go! Oh, you're takin off your hat? Do what you want to do.
P: I’m gittin relaxed now,
R: So you're in the airport with nana and mom.
P: I'm in the airport with nana and mom, and some girl said, "Oh my god
that’s La Femme Nikita." And for the first time instead of like, *******
I'm like, that's me, And uh, it was very nice, and she, we talked about
the company she works for, and then mum came and dad came. Then it
happened all the way to New Orleans, and I was in New Orleans and I’m
signin *** and I'm like 'mum, check this out, can you believe it!'
R: oh that’s very sweet. So you're hangin out with the superstars, I
hear you and Liza were partyin hearty.
P: Well no, no, it’s so bizarre. I drive in to New York last night,
the limousine picks me up, and I’m all excited, and I'm singin in the
limo, "New York, New York" that song, y'know that song, (hums)
R: Sure.
P: An hour later, I'm in Liza Minnelli's apartment!
R: Now Peta, how did that happen?
P: I don't know.
R: The limo guy took you to the wrong place? He had the wrong address?
P: No! She likes the show. She really likes me and the show. Can you
get it, can you...
R: So Liza summoned you to her apartment?
P: Well, my very good friend, my sista not my brotha, my sista, Serita,
is really good friends with her, and they, Serita, she said, Liza wants
to meet you, let's go! And I said, I've got to go to Rosie, she said,
she'll prime me, so all night, well until twelve o'clock last night, she
was telling me what to do on talk shows, but of course I can't really,
because I’m not Liza, because she does it like Liza.
R: Do you know the Liza song?
P: Yes she says it’s, it's not Liza with a z, it's Lisa with an S, cuz,
you know the rest.
R: That's true, now do you know the whole thing?
P: I don’t know any of it.
R: Now were you a big Liza fan when you were growin up?
P: I was, very much! I was saying living in New Guinea as a kid that we
didn’t have any television we had a lot of music and I would lip sync
******* Always Liza Minnelli, and always for entertainment every night I
would do my lip sync to Liz Minnelli songs, and dressing my brother like
a doll, and sort of acting out the songs.
R: See? Life is a cabaret old chum!
P: That's right. Now I'm from New Guinea
R: Now New Guinea,
P: Army brat.
R: Can I say something? If it wasn’t for the board game Risk, I would
have no idea where New Guinea was.
P: I know it's a little bit, it's a tiny place.
R: On the Risk board game I believe it's on the lower right corner.
Where in the world, technically. Near what?
P: It’s smack bang right on the equator just above Australia under
Japan. Second World War, they nearly got to us through Australia, uh,
through Papua New Guinea. But it’s a beautiful place, it's very
primitive.
R: Really? Now did you grow up there? Like you?
P: Kind of like maybe six or seven years there, every time I tell the
story it changes, but around that time.
R: Peta, let me tell you something, when you're on a talk show, lie,
exaggerate, it doesn't matter.
P: Fine, okay, so seven years there.
R: How would I know? It doesn’t matta.
P: Army brat, Dad’s in the army. I pretty well grew up in navy
communities. I did a lot of tap dancing up there. Very scary.
R: What's scary, the tap dancing?
P: It’s nothing like the predators, like you know we have predators on
the street, like the bad people, that's what I take care of, But in New
Guinea it’s the animals. We have, well they have really big animals.
They have really big ***s.
They have really big snakes, they have really big crocodiles,
everything's really big. Now the cane toads are that big.
R: What’s a cane toad?
P: A toad, a frog
R: Oh a frog
P: The frogs, the frogs, now the frogs are that big they kill the
snakes.
R: The frogs kill the snakes?
P: The frogs kill the snakes. And we lived on the edge of a cane field,
right? The houses are cut out? And two houses down there’s this guy,
Lieutenant Lee Barnes, let’s say that’s his name. and he’s got this
beautiful swimming pool, right? We’re never allowed in it because we’re
the grommets at the end of the street, and Dad’s like a sergeant.
R: Stop! Grommets, what is it?
P: Grommets, you know, riffraff.
R: Okay, go!
P: And so, we’re down uh, we’re uh, We weren’t in the pool , we’ve got
like our pool’s like half of a water tank cut in half.
R: And this particular time XXXXXXXXX.
P: This particular trip we get a small crocodile, very small, very
little, until it gets big enough we let it go.
R: A pet crocodile!
P: Of course!
R: Of course! Yes!
P: So, well in New Guinea, everyone’s gotta have one. So the pet
crocodile is sitting in the pool one day, it rains, it rains heavy in
New Guinea. You get like this much rain. It comes, the crocodile gets
up in the middle of the pool, it gets out of the pool, gets in the
neighbor’s swimming pool, seven o’clock in the morning you hear him
getting up in the morning, aw stretching the guy who’ll never let us in
the pool, gets up in the morning, doing his y’know exercises and all of
a sudden you hear, "WILSON, GET THIS **DAMN CROCODILE OUT OF HERE!"
R: He knew it was yours?
P: And we came down there and it was attached to his finger XXXX in the
pool. You know, like, a lot of things like that happened.
R: Did it take off his finger?
P: No it didn't, it just held on.
R: Did you have to kill the crocodile,
P: No, we don’t kill stuff up there, we just let it go.
R: You let it go,
P: You let it go.
R: Peta? Nice to know. Can I say something?
P: Yeah.
R: Peta, you’ve done exceptionally well for your first talk show.
P: Oh, I've got something!
R: What do you have?
P: Oh! I have something
R: What? What?
P: It’s a present.
R: It’s a present?
P: It’s a present for you from Nikita. XXXX Now when I’m in Toronto and
I’m doin the show, if anything, anyone messes with you, you just put
this on. Go "Nikita, I need ya."
R: Alright. Hey Nikita, Peta, uh, can you kick this person’s butt
for...Next time Donny Osmond is on the show and he calls me Chubby I’m
gonna go, "hey, Nikita? Peta?"
P: That’s right.
R: Peta Wilson, gimme a high five, you rock sista friend! We’ll be
right back!
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