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The Projection Booth Podcast

Special Report: Tami Stronach

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8686 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Mike talks with actress Tami Stronach from her early days and starring as The Childlike Empress in The Neverending Story (1984) to her dance and theater career as the co-founder of The Paper Canoe Company.
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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

0:04.4

Hey, folks, it's your host, Mike White here with a special episode of the projection booth.

0:08.5

It is an interview with the childlike empress herself from the never-ending story, Ms. Tammy Straunack.

0:18.3

From what I understand, you were born in Tehran, So I'm curious where you grew up at and how you kind of made the, well, I don't want to say transition into acting, but how you got involved in acting.

0:30.4

Yes, I was born in Tehran, Iran. My parents were working there as archaeologists. So my father is Scottish and my mother's Israeli, and they were both doing a lot of digging in Iran on big sites.

0:42.2

So I grew up in the British Institute into Iran and on big sites around the country.

0:49.0

And then for your second part of the question, how did I transition into acting or become involved in acting?

0:54.6

We left Iran in 79.

0:56.7

There was a revolution then, and so we left and we kind of bounced around the globe.

1:02.3

We were living in Israel, where my mother is from, and then we went to England for a short period of time.

1:08.1

And then we came to America.

1:10.0

So it's a little bit interesting in the sense that

1:12.2

I think some people have asked me about my accent in the never-a-thing story, and it is a sort of

1:17.2

somewhat British accent becoming Americanized. It sort of lands somewhere in the Mid-Atlantic,

1:26.1

because I was, in fact, between those cultures.

1:30.5

And then we finally settled in Berkeley when I was nine, and I loved acting and singing and dancing.

1:36.9

And pretty much that was my through line for me, even though we moved a lot and we lived in a lot of different countries.

1:42.2

One way that I always knew that I was home was the minute I walked into an artistic studio,

1:48.3

whatever it was, dancing, acting, singing, that's when I felt that I was home no matter where I was,

1:53.3

and that kind of kept me grounded through a lot of different transitions.

1:57.6

And so I was discovered in acting class and asked for the film.

2:02.7

And what was that experience like for you? I mean, this is a pretty big role for somebody who

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