Tonight, an 80s all over Patreon exclusive interview with the star of Dressed to Kill,

blowout and Robocop, Nancy Allen.

And now your hosts, Drew McQueenie and Scott Whiteburn.

I'm excited that this is the first one because I think this, you're the perfect person to talk to because so much of the work that I really want to dig into is the exact era we'll be talking about. So I think

it's great. Oh, well, good. Good. I'm glad it all worked out. Well, first, I want to thank you for your

work with WeSpark. My sister is a breast cancer survivor this year. And the work you do with that

organization is incredibly valuable. Well, thank you. And I'm glad to hear that she's doing well.

It's a very traumatic thing to go through.

Well, in a way, this is a perfect place to start the conversation.

We Spark was founded by Wendy Joe Sperber, who I always think of as such a big, vibrant,

hilarious presence in so many of the films that we're going to get to talk about on the podcast.

And when I think of comedy in the early 80s, she was a big part of that.

She was one of those faces that was that popped up in so many things I loved.

And you guys worked together right at the beginning of the Zamekis Gale career.

And I'm fascinated by them as writers and by Robert as a director.

Can you talk a bit about your impression of them as writers,

both on I Want to Hold Your Hand in 1941, and then about Zemeckis as a director on his feature debut?

Sure. I guess it was, I met Bob, Bob Z, I'll call him Bob Z for the audition, actually,

if I want to hold your hand.

I read the script, loved it, and couldn't wait to go in there.

Sally Dennison was casting, and I was walking down the halls of this little building,

its little offshoot of Universal Studios, and this geeky kind of skinny guy with glasses looked like a you know a gopher you know an office boy and he

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