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AC
(DENNIS): I know this is jumping ahead to the future but I heard
that you have plans to release your film on DVD. What kind of special
features would you like to have on the DVD?
MARGARET:
I think I'm going to put a video diary of every performance and
gay pride rally, every political speech, every award show and everything
I've done like over the past year. So, there will be a lot of crazy
shit and a lot of fun stuff that will make it on the DVD.
AC
(DENNIS): I was told that you were going to write a book. Can you
tell us more about that?
MARGARET: The book is coming out next year
and it is called "I'M THE ONE THAT I WANT," my own autobiography.
I just finished it two years ago. It was really an interesting experience
to change my format of storytelling and I have been working on it
for a year and a half. It was the hardest thing that I ever done.
I was so focused and committed to it. I was doing the book and maintaining
the tour schedule, which was certainly a challenge. The book is
done and I'm really proud of it. It's going to be out next year
and will be published by Valentine and I will be going on a book
tour with it. My new show should be ready by then. I'm starting
to work on a new show in September. At that point, I will be
touring with the new show as well.
AC
(DENNIS): Earlier you mentioned your sitcom "ALL AMERICAN GIRL."
I've read about the pain that the cancellation caused you. In my
interview your co-actress on the show, Amy Hill, she used the word
"saddened" to describe her feelings about the whole situation. If
you had one word to describe your feeling of the situation, what
would that be?
MARGARET:
Diarrhea! Because I was so sick the whole time. I was
so sick. I was so emotionally sick and I had the worst diarrhea
for a year. That's all I remember.
AC
(DENNIS): So, is your movie closure for you? Will there ever be
closure for you or will the experiences from "ALL AMERICAN
GIRL" forever haunt you?
MARGARET:
I don't think so. I think that this movie is a final word on that
experience and for me it was a chapter. It was a great thing. Things
really happen to you for a reason and I can see why I had that horrible
experience because I can grow as a performer and I can work and
change. Now I can embrace a whole new world of opportunity and I'm
not saddened by it. I feel that I got a lot from it and a whole
generation of younger Asian American kids got to see themselves
on TV, which is really exciting. I hear a lot of young kids now
who are teenagers are so grateful that I got to do what I did and
it really affected them. That's really important. I think
that it was really hard but at the same time we did a lot of things.
So, I'm really happy how the way things turned out and I'm really
glad that I am who I am.
AC
(DENNIS): I think it's pretty cool that you are now listed in books
as being the first Asian family on television.
MARGARET:
Yeah, that's great!
AC
(DENNIS): Do you like to watch yourself on television or movies?
MARGARET:
I don't like to watch myself on television but I like
to watch myself on film. I don't know what that means. I don't want
to see myself on TV but I love to see myself on film.
AC
(DENNIS): Do you remember your reaction the first time you saw yourself
on the screen?
MARGARET:
It was weird because it didn't look like me. It was back
in high school when I was in a show and they videotaped it. It was
so weird because you don't think you look like that but you do.
You gradually over the years get used to it. Now, for the film,
I had to get really used to it very fast. More than I ever had and
it changed the way I view myself. It's always a little bit weird
but it's great.
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