It's been yet another busy year for shapely New York-based actress Debbie Rochon (Picture: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8), who's vamped as only a video vixen can vamp in no less that a dozen films in 2003 -- and some 50 overall in the last three years alone. So prolific a work schedule seems to befit a veteran B-Queen who?s resume includes nearly 100 films over the past decade-and-a-half, including such cult shelf favorites as Tromeo & Juliet (1996), Head Cheerleader Dead Cheerleader (2000) and American Nightmare (2002). Debbie took some time from her seemingly endless production schedule to talk to Mr Skin about her latest projects and life as a "softcore character actress."
Debbie, we really appreciate you taking the time on this beautiful Thursday afternoon to speak with us for a few minutes.
It's my pleasure --and it is a beautiful Thursday.
We're assuming you've been working??
I've been very, very busy lately. Since the fall, I've done a horror/western call Fort Doom, where I play I madam who's been thrown out of Two Snakes, Arkansas who makes her way North to claim some property that's unfortunately inhabited by Confederate zombies. A very bad scene, but I have all my working girls with me, so you can imagine all the fun we have....
Sounds great--we can't wait to see you in a petticoat. What else is up?
I've also finished Nowhere Man, directed by Tim McCann. The quick version of the story is that it's about this happy couple and while the wife is at work one day, her husband receives an anonymous VHS tape at home. He pops it in and sees that it's his wife in a porno movie she made years earlier. He absolutely freaks out and the relationship falls apart. He becomes physically and mentally abusive to her, culminating in him attacking her. Finally, she cuts his dick off after she's had enough of his abuse. The rest of the movie that she's on the fun with his dick and he's trying to get it back and sew it back on before it decomposes.
That could be a major concern.
Absolutely. It's a really cool, extreme dark comedy. I'm very excited about it. And then I'm gearing up to for two movies. One is called Scare Museum, about a Vietnam vet who found a talisman when he was over there and how this talisman eventually makes it back to a war museum in the U.S. The other is Screaming Alone in Silence, which is about an actress who's done so many horror movies that it's beginning to affect her psychologically. She becomes fearful and agoraphobic and full of neuroses. It's kind of like that movie with Catherine Deneuve??
Repulsion?
Yeah, that's it! My most recent film is Final Examination, which was directed by Fred Olen Ray. Artisan just released it in November. That one has a lot of erotic scenes in it! Kari Wuhrer is also in that one--she did a stand-up job in it and she's really a very nice person. It's a weird combination of erotic thriller and horror movie. I don't know if it ever found the right niche, which may be its downfall. But it was a lot of fun to make. We shot it in Hawaii. People will definitely enjoy all the erotic scenes. This one if perfect for late-night cable.
Anything a little lighter on the horizon?
Earlier this year I made Dr. Horror's Erotic House of Idiots and it's a really funny parody of those kind of, oh, you know, those kind of movies.
Mr. Skin looks forward to getting these up on the site.
You know, I really love the Mr Skin website. That '50s style is so nice. You go to some of these celebrity sites and you feel kind of dirty. At Mr Skin, you feel like you're having a grand old time
It's great that you feel that way. Of course, there's nothing wrong with feeling a little dirty.
There's enough "dirty" out there. At Mr Skin, you feel good about looking at the nudity. Mr Skin is such a cute little guy!
You know, we've spoken to you a couple of times over the past year and we've got to say, either you're the best actress we've met or you're a genuinely sweet, kind person. You enjoy speaking about what you do and you're eager to talk about it.
Oh yes, I love what I do, my career and my roles. I'm a--hmmmmm--here's a new term I'm going to coin: I'm a "softcore character actress."
Can nice softcore character B-movie actresses really finish first in your industry?
I sincerely mean this: I think you really do have to be yourself and a truly good person to make it. At least that's what I've gathered through my life experiences. If you can't at least hold on to your own character, you've got nothing left. It's so rare that you see help and good feelings reciprocated in this business. It's sad to me and it hammers away at my spirit, I must admit. But I keep trying to be the person that I want to be.
