Scream Queen Brooke Lewis on Horror, Dating, Walking Dead
Scream Queen Brooke Lewis talks horror and The Walking Dead!
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Scream Queen Brooke Lewis talks horror and The Walking Dead!
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TSC’s Fred Richani interviews Scream Queen Brooke Lewis about her decorated acting career, writing/producing, the state of horror films, The Walking Dead, dating, awkward Tinder stories, and much more!
This interview transcript was generated from the video’s automatic captions and has been lightly edited for clarity. Punctuation was added automatically, so it may contain errors. Watch the video above for the full interview.
Red richan of TSC. I have right here via Skype. She’s an actress, a writer, a producer and the horror movie Queen herself Brooke Lewis Brooke, how are you today hi. Hi. Everyone Hi, Fred. Hi viewers listeners wait, Fred. I want to know, you know, since I’m like a Philly Jersey, New York girl am I allowed to call you Freddy you can call me Freddy like my Italian cousins in South Philly yo Freddy. What’s up now, you are Philly girl the eagles. They made the playoffs behind Nick F’s Cannon of an arm. God bless Nick fos, that’s all I have to say listen, no disrespect to Chip Kelly because I’m becoming slowly becoming a fan wasn’t at first, but my issue with my constant debate to all the sports fans and Philly Eagles fans obviously was that everybody kept giving, you know, all the props to Chip and I’m like even early on as soon as they threw Nick in there.
I’m like Nick fos, that’s gets the credit like, what’s up here and sure enough, I was right? My intuition was, right? Yeah. And the Eagles are doing pretty well, actually I was actually going to go to a Philadelphia 76ers game today plans changed and I think they actually did me a favor because the Sixers aren’t doing as well as the Eagles, but hey, we’ll see what happens with Danny Granger and next season and all that. But onto your career. You got a lot on your plate, you are of course the horror movie Queen you are known for a number of films such as kinky Killers ey murders and slime City Massacre and of course the web series Miss vampy and you got a number of films coming up.
Most notably Starship Rising can you tell us about that. Yes. And funny the ones that you mentioned all the ones that. I’m really known for. So to all the East Coasters out there. We shot them all in New York in Jersey in Hoboken in Buffalo. So, you know, I still have mad love for my peeps and my you know, childhood back there. Yes Starship Rising I’m so excited, you know, I’m so blessed and it’s so interesting how you know, they say God laughs when you’re making plans? I say that a lot because I would never have imagined my career to go in the direction that it did and we I know we talked about this off air before, you know, me starting in New York in Tony and Tina’s wedding Off Broadway and then mobster movies did the horror thing became a Scream Queen and now I kind of the last couple years have moved into a lot of sci-fi, which I’m loving and I’m loving the Sci-Fi fans.
So Neil Johnson actually plucked me out of a horror convention horror sci-fi convention years ago and was a fan and we sat and had a conversation he said I’d like to take you to lunch to talk about a couple films. I have going on. And I ended up doing this small role in a film called alien Dawn, which he directed and then he came to me and said, you know, I love working with you. I have this sci-fi either well, right now it’s a sequel it could be a Trilogy. I think it will be and I think we’re going to end up filming the third one the end of this year.
So he came to me and offered me this incredible one of the leads in Starship rising and it is it was an incredible experience. I mean for a lowbudget film a sci-fi film. We’re on this spaceship that they built and I’m one of the fighter pilots total badass role staris. I love this role and we’re like literally I’m like it felt like you were in space working on a spaceship for a month like crazy so much fun. Great role for me it will be out I believe in May I’m just waiting to get the distribution straight dates and then we have the sequel Starship the coming darkness which will be out at the end of this year, which we shot.
We shot the back to back almost a year and a half ago. So that’s how film, you know, turns over and Neil Johnson’s an amazing director. I can’t wait to work with him again and you got a few other films coming up like five billion according to your IMDb. But another one I wish that were true Freddy, but another one you have is the morning. Yes. Love it the morning is a young director friend of mine Mark konoff who I had done a supporting role in his action flick break many years ago six six years ago with Michael Madson and who else and David Kine blessed him before he passed away.
So, I had done that film and then, you know, you just in this business and you know, this you’ve worked in the entertainment industry for a long time, you know, it’s so much whether it’s acting, whether it’s wrestling whatever it may be, you know, it’s so much about who you know, building relationships and I built a great relationship with this very talented USC graduate director Mark leof and he also directed me in a film called Gerald, which was a dark comedy with Mickey Rooney and Deb Faker from all the Christopher Guest movies and leis Mandalore was the lead in that brilliant. So, he then went on to continue to direct and the morning is coming out, which is a drama really I think of it as a really amazing drama with a supernatural twist and it’s written and stars Michael Walton and was produced by Michael Walton it also has lisis Mandalore from a big f r wedding Dominique Swain is one of the leads.
She’s a wonderful actress from Lolita and she’s been around forever and Larry henin from Home Alone Peter Dobson from Forest Gump and rescue me just a really amazing labor of love independent film and we shot that a year and a half ago as well. So that’ll be at the end of this year. Yeah. And you actually mentioned wrestling you mentioned off the air that you are a wrestling fan. You’re in love with John Cena, you’re in a t. You’re in a ton of horror films. And I’m just wondering you why the hell hasn’t vinc manah called you back. I mean, I think you could be a WWE Diva.
And if not and if not a WWE Diva. I mean, I don’t know if you know, this WWE Studios has made a number of horror films. They made no one lives. They made Ceno evil they’re currently working on the Ceno Evil 2 sequel might already be completed in a post- production, but still I mean, why don’t they give you a call back back. You tell me, Fred, and now that you and I are friends. I mean, I’m like waiting. I’m waiting for you for the hookup like you’re so hooking me up with this because yeah I well, I’m a though. I couldn’t wrestle. I’m a total like you’re talking about the chick who breaks arms I would be like don’t break my nail.
Okay Diva, but the diva word fux show definitely Diva works for me. I like that. But yeah, you got to call your peeps and get me into those horror films because I do. I love wrestlers, oh, who’s wait who’s the Rody Roddy Piper. Yeah. He went on to do he’s actually starting a few of my friends horror films. I love him, too. I kind of have a matad crush on him a little bit too. He’s still crazy after all these years cool. He’s still sexy after all these years? Yeah, I mean that Kilt and everything. I mean, you know, come on. And I don’t know if you know this, but WWE in a few days is actually launching their 247 streaming Network at the time we’re doing this interview?
It’s set to launch literally in a couple days and they’re in the news a lot as is Netflix with house of cards Amazon Prime with a lot of their original series. And I’m just curious on your take of these whole streaming networks and binge watching do you see that being the future of how people watch TV watch movies and do you see that also benefiting Hollywood. Unfortunately and I have very very strong opinions about this both as an actress and as a producer. I have seen the way that this has taken shape and it kind of scares me the way, it’s going to continue I do 100% that it is all about Netflix and the Hulu and the hookups and you know, for the viewers and for audience members?
It’s a beautiful thing because like the internet like our iPhones now, you know, it gives you a plethora of fast options everything’s fast fast fast here and now in the moment pick, whatever you want choose whatever you want you have 990,000 choices unfortunately for I believe actors and producers and especially especially indep dependent film people like myself it makes it that much more challenging because a you’re competing, you know after the economy crashed and I could talk for hours about this. I don’t want to bore everyone, but like after the economy crash. We all know this it affected the entertainment industry drastically. So when we were able to years ago when I executive produced or produced, you know, million-dollar indie films.
You were able to make the money back as an independent producer, via DVD via VOD now, you know, DVDs are dead piracy from the internet. Everything’s about the quick the fast the apps and the TV and the hookup. So Netflix is great except you are so oversaturated with options that I feel no one can really stand out anymore. And yes, I feel that like, you know, an independent film star like myself and I say that humbly has a much more challenging time now to break into or break out I should say into anything huge because there are millions of people doing the same thing and especially with reality TV and with the internet, you know, everybody has the opportunity to have their 5 minutes of fame.
And that’s amazing. And I encourage and support that for everyone. No one’s better than anyone else. However, it does make it really difficult monetarily, you know, as an indie producer to make money now with situations like this and the formula hasn’t been really fully developed yet, you know, one day. Yes, I think they say. And I go to a lot of producer seminars and distribution seminars, and I’m at the film markets. They say that within four years it will be like television where the product placement and the advertising will pay large. You know, amounts of money. Like they do for television, but it hasn’t quite gotten there yet.
So again. And I know this firsthand with films and with I’ve been focused so much on my M vampy character my Miss vampy web series and all that good stuff. And so there just hasn’t been a formula yet for people like me to make a ton of money that way. So it’s great for exposure, but you don’t always get that return in investment being on Netflix or somewhere like that. Oh, oh, I don’t I mean I love Netflix. I’m a fan, I’m a member, but if I were to tell you from the opposite side as an actress producer, what the return correct on an N film what the buyouts for that for an independent film.
Again, I can’t really speak for these TV series, but we all have to remember that the TV series are all backed by huge Studio Executives in Hollywood. So, you know what things look like it’s all smoke and mirrors and appearance and reality and you of all people know this of course now I got to ask you said, you’re an actress. You’re a producer, of course, what came first I am an actress through and through that is my heart my soul my passion my life. Why I’m still single and we have a story about that later. But why I’m single. I have sacrificed everything. It’s such a part of who I am and what I love and I’ve been doing it and singing and dancing since I was a little girl and that’s my thing.
So after making a living acting in New York like we talked about starting in Tony antina’s wedding, which is an equity contract. I made great money at 22 years old. I did soaps, I did mobster movies and I was doing great. And then came out to Los Angeles. And it was like, you may as well. I couldn’t get arrested, you know, and so I realized I was smart I had a business background. And so I need to create a career for myself. Nobody was doing it for me, I wasn’t a trust fund kid. I wasn’t, you know, my dad wasn’t Aaron Spelling. And I wasn’t banging the right directors.
So I had to create a career. So I started producing. I took classes I produced a few short films. I would help friends with their projects just to kind of learn the ropes and was that is how I created again. I started on Broadway and network sitcoms. I was on a foxcom for a recurring in ‘ 04 and then just started producing my own own films. You know, or you know, getting hired to produce for other companies and my negotiation was always. So I could star in those films and create a career and that’s what I did didn’t come e for me and what led you to becoming the screen Queen and starring in a ton of horror movies.
Well, I have been a horror fan since childhood. I was like the product of all the’80s horror films. I was like a junkie my friends and I would sit for days and watch them when I guess it was like, oh, I’m going to date myself, but when VCR came out and I was just a fan and I never in a million years imagined becoming a well-known scare Queen, which I really actually now take pride in and again coming from an actress who’s done a lot of comedy and other genres I’m very proud of that. I think that a Scream Queen is a sexy powerful woman working in the horror genre as an actress and I feel I’ve made some great choices and have done some great roles.
You know, I kind of steer away a lot of times from the victim and the bimbo and all of that stuff, you know. So, it really kind of came out of nowhere it came out of and too long of a story, but I went to Sundance Film Festival 2004 the first saw came out and I saw that this was like all the rage and all the craze and I knew that kind of psychological torture thing was going to get really hot and blow up and sure enough, it did. And I went to one of my producing Partners back in New York and Jersey who had wanted to produce something together for a long time and he said, you know, you can be the la liaison and I’ll work back here and we did it and we created a film the title originally was called polycarp.
It took us about 3 four years from inception to distribution for to make this film. And I starred in this. We agreed that they were going to write the lead brunette role for me to star in and play psychiatrist with a Twist and I star in this film with Michael Pere from Eddie and the cruiser Streets of Fire Philadelphia Experiment Charles Jing. God Rest of soul that amazing actor who was oser nominated for Dog Day Afternoon Tootsie bestel hor house in Texas rescue me. So and Eric edari from Lincoln Lawyer and Mark bolasco and this great cast of indie film people and stuff and TV people and it was called polycarp and next thing.
You know, choices were made that were out of my control and they added some sex more sex scenes and this is what happens as films take shape and I didn’t own the film. I was one of the executive producers and stars of it and next thing. You know, we go to the film market and it gets bought by Universal vendi and becomes kinky Killers. You said it. So, here’s the good news that I will say positively a here I was this actress from Philly and New York without getting the big break again had done a recurring on Fox sitcom had done TV pilot that didn’t get picked up, you know, failed at a lot of things and all of a sudden I do this one late night horror Thriller sexy horror Thriller kinky Killers Showtime picks it up and it airs for two years three nights a week on Showtime and my like managers reps are calling going.
Okay. You need to come to the office now you have 200 fan letters sitting here on our desk come pick them up. I’m like, what like I’ve been at this game for so long and I’m getting older and you know, and I’m like, okay, you know what? I’m just so embracing it like life’s challenging enough this business is challenging enough being a female in this business is challenging enough. And I just went okay, you know, higher power, whatever you believe like show me what I’m supposed to do. And it just blew I let go and it just blew up, it just blew up and then we went on to make ey murders that Robbie Bryan directed and that kind of really put me on the map.
And now I’m on the cover of all these horror magazines and starring with the amazing Candyman Tony Todd and Billy D Williams Star Wars and Gabrielle anoir from Burn Notice. And Frank gillo the coach and Warrior speaking of sports just and William foresight and all these brilliant veteran actors and I’m getting to play a lead in this mystery thriller like so, you know, it’s all good. It’s really good. That’s amazing. And you are a beautiful young woman, but also very talented, but I would imagine as a female saying that, but I would imagine as a female in the industry as you said it is hard at times and do you worry at all about being typ cast and how have you been able to overcome that great question.
And I haven’t been able to overcome it. Well, I have and I haven’t and we talked about this a little bit too, before, you know, I used to worry about being a typ cast. I, you know, especially in New York starting out young and they kind of want to typ cast you they want to mold you and as an actress, you tend to run from that. And then as you get older and you learn the ropes and the business and you see the way things actually work in the Hollywood industry even in New York not as much, but more so here. You know, you realize you go.
Okay, you know what I’m just going to embrace it. And I have been so blessed really over all these years now to be a consistently working actress? Just embracing my type and that is the mobster stuff. I produced and played a very big supporting role in Sinatra Club, which I’m so grateful for and proud of that was a couple million doll mobster feature based on it’s like a preg Goodfellas with Danny ncci from Titanic Jason gric from all the last Dawn movies Iron Eagle half The Sopranos was on that show and Ellen Holman from Spartacus beautiful actress and these great people and Michael Nory from Flash Dance.
So I did a lot of mob I played the mobster hooker like the gumada hooker and I’ve done a lot of that. And that Marissa to Mona in my cousin Vinnie is truly my inspiration for my Miss vampy character. I mean, they call her like the next I from, you know, I should be this blessed they call her like the new Elvira in horror. And that’s what Miss vampy is she’s a comedic Brooklyn mobster vampire crossed with like an elvir type. She’s a vampire. But she’s full of love and has a heart of gold and I just embrace it. You know, so I do the mobster flicks and I do I’ve done a lot of Television, mobster stuff and then the horror thing broke out.
So comedy mobster movies and horror and I just yeah. I’ve played slime City Massacre I played a hooker and I ended up winning the be movie Golden cob award for leading lady Scream Queen of the year 2010 for it. So, you know, you can to any women out there any actresses listening who want advice you can fight it all you want, but then you come to a point where you’re like, okay, why am I fighting this I’m just going to embrace it because I’m blessed and the horror fans. I will say. And now I’m crossing over again into more sci-fi stuff those horror and sci-fi fans are like wrestling you guys get this.
Like so loyal loal. So supportive. So encouraging why would I run from that it’s I’m so lucky. I mean, people would and I say this humbly again, you know, would love to be in my shoes. It’s been an incredible ride especially the last like seven years. However, I will say this one last note because you mentioned it being a woman the where I have been a little bit able to turn the tables is by producing. So instead of yeah, 10 years ago even 5 years ago, I was getting all these roles where even in horror where it was like, oh, can you play the lead in our film and show your boobs and pour blood all over and I’ve chosen never to do that.
I’ve never done nudity in a film. I don’t judge it. I think it’s great. I’ve just chosen not to for me and I’ve played by producing. I was able to play the psychiatrist the detective the killer, you know, the opposite of what they would typically typ cast me as which would be the bimbo the hooker the Vixen the whatever. And so, I’ve been very fortunate. But I’ve also worked my ass off to make that happen happen to create that to stay away from the stereotypes. So, it can be done, but I like I Encompass and embrace all of it together. And it seems like to me Indie.
I’m sorry horror movies are very Indie friendly why is that. Oh, that’s I could again. That would take me hours to get into detail about, but because in that genre and I can speak from a producer standpoint and from a distribution standpoint. And why, you know, it’s not always looked at as the high EST form of art or, you know, film making is because you for distribution value. And for, you know, horror fans a again are so loyal when you love horror. It’s like a cult thing, you know, again, like wrestling when you love it. You love it. And so it’s you can make an indie horror film on the Cheap on the down low without huge named actors without spending a fortune on Talent without spending a fortune on locations.
I mean, think about it. You can stick a group of six hot, you know, college kids in one room and make a horror movie, you know, as long as you’ve got I’m not saying. It’s going to be a good one, but I’m saying to answer your question. It’s just all the elements are easier to put together than to put together, you know, a comedy or what else what have you also with the producing part and distribution and all of the logistics around that horror films transfer and translate much more clearly and much easier to foreign markets than let’s say a comedy does like a comedy is very hard to sell, you know, cuz the sensibility would have to transfer in Chinese or in, you know India and with horror.
It’s visual, right and the chill and this and the thrill. So, it’s a lot easier to make your money back on a horror film. Now you fought off some creeps in your film, but outside of film. I mean, you’ve also had your fair share of creeps and listen there are some great fans, you know, I have some great fans myself, but at times there, you know, you always get some of those people that kind of I don’t want to say cross the line, but you know, they get into that creeper territory. You have one story that actually just occurred before we went on air, can you tell us about it.
Yes, Fred. Well, this is I thought this is the perfect conversation to kind of, you know, bring up in our interview today and because it was so funny. I was almost flabbergasted and when we first hooked up, you know, on Skype. I’m like I got to tell you the story because all right. So I’m single woman. Yes, I’m single any any dates, especially out here in California, actually, I don’t think I want a Cali guy semi guys from New York over here. But so I’m single. So I date, right? And I online date. And I also do online, dating coaching, which I’m a board certified life coach as well.
And I do online, dating coaching, which is hilarious. So, I’ve been through it all, but this kind of really like made me laugh piss me off, but made me laugh. So right before our interview. I get a text now it’s Friday Friday afternoon here basically now and I get a text like, hey sexy, let’s get together tonight? No name. No identification. I don’t have the number in my phone, which makes me think it’s either someone I deleted or someone I dated a while ago or met a while ago fine. So I text back and I’m like I’m sorry. Who is this because I do like we talked about get crazy stalkers and fans and Gifts in my home door and my PO box and whatever.
So I’m like, who is this? So, he says, oh, hey, it’s so you how quickly you forget it’s BL blah blah. We’ll let him remain anonymous, it’s blah blah from Tinder. So I as you know, do not touch Tinder and for all the listeners and viewers out there in case, you don’t know what Tinder is we talked about this a quick synopsis is that it’s an dating app on the phone that has a name and a photo you can flip through it and all the guys are going to be loving this one. This advice. So you flip through it. There’s millions of choices of women and men and so, let’s say tonight.
I’m out or right now I could be like, go on Tinder flip through pictures, contact someone and say let’s meet right now it like gives you who a location of who’s in like a 10 m radius I believe I could be wrong about the mileage, but who’s in a 10 mile radius and go. Hey, I’m done work now at 1:00 in the afternoon, let’s meet up for a margarita. So, they go. Okay, cool meet up or let’s late at night come over and get something something something. So it’s like an instant. It’s like everything I can’t stand. It’s like a here now instant let’s hook up right now.
We don’t even have to know each other’s names other than what’s on Tinder. It’s like Craigslist with a face. I think it’s worse because it’s like your app literally I could click on. I don’t do it. I won’t do it. But you can click on right now my friends do it my friends are getting getting action every night my guy friends and my girlfriends. So, but you can click on right now and flip through like this like the phone book and have 20 people come over right now or go meet you meet me at the beach right now. So, I won’t do it. So the fact.
I don’t want to date a guy who’s on Tinder either. No, thank you. No, thank you. So the guy’s like so, it’s so I had to just give that background information. So people understand the magnitude of that. So this idiot is like so, it’s so. And so from Tinder. So I text back and I said, I don’t do Tinder number one number two, I said, that’s not where we met and number three. It’s Friday afternoon. I said, I’m a lady and I am booked tonight? And I have plans all weekend, and to me in my book I’m old school like you don’t ask me out on a Friday morning for that weekend.
Sorry. I’m going to be busy. So I gave him that information via text. So he text back and said, oh, too bad that like I couldn’t go out tonight. So I texted back and I said, yeah. Thanks. I said, but I’m sure that you can go on Tinder tonight and have 10 smoking hot chicks over your place within 15 minutes. He text back and he said hahaa. Absolutely. I can. It’s like Dom pizza. Oh God. So then I’m like so over it at this point, and I’m like snarky back and I was like, oh, and then I said something kind of snarky, which I don’t want to say because it was disrespectable to women, but it was something pertaining to pizza and being make sure they’re not thick whatever.
So then he text back and he said, wait. I’m going to read it from here. Like I read it to before because this was just like shocking to me. So. And so I was rude and I said, I texted back and I said, yeah. Just make sure they’re not extra thick when they get delivered whatever that was mean cuz I’m I got a big booty. And I got a, you know, I’m no skinny mini. So then he texts back and says, oh, no. They’re just hot and ready like Little Caesars. Oh my God, Fred. What is this world like I’m getting older, but what has this world come to tell me, but this is Tinder.
I don’t know. I mean you see like all these, you know, creepy posts on like, Okay, Cupid and stuff like that. I just I don’t like I don’t like I don’t know. Like I’m like reveal that you’re an Okay, Cupid what no, no, I am not I am not although although I mean I have friends that try to like sign me up for stuff like that. And I’m just like no, like I don’t like I’m like you? I don’t go out cuz like I mean I go out and stuff and I’m date. I do whatever, but like you know, I mean, we work we do our stuff, you know, and then and people don’t get that and they’re like, well, what do you do for fun.
I’m like, this is fun right, right? And I don’t know if it’s an age thing or if it’s just in general, but I’m so glad you just said what you said because that’s occurred to me like when all these people and I’ve done listen, I’m on online dating. You know, and the I won’t say what sites, but like no, okay, keep it for example is a great example. I tried it once I didn’t it’s not for me, but, you know, that’s it always puzzles me like when you’re emailing with someone at 10 o’clock at night on a Wednesday night and they’re like, hey, come over now or come meet me for a drink now and I’m not saying I’m not impulsive because I’ve done it, but like you said this Tinder thing.
It’s like you and I are working right now. I’m going to be doing more press the rest of the day like how can I just go. Okay, sure. I’ll just leave everything drop my career and come meet you right now for skinny margarita not going to happen, right? Yeah. Well, I guess we’re lucky to sense that you know, our passions are also our careers and obviously that’s a testament to all your hard work. Thank you. Thank you. And you too. I’m super impressed with you, I hope that we’re going to get to meet soon. Hopefully I’ll get to well, hopefully when Robbie Bryan’s films, which we’ll be filming this year black hat, which I have a roll in which is amazing.
And it’s an anime drama. And it oh and it’s got an anti-bullying campaign going on around it and a couple other pretty incredible things going on around it. And then we’re also in talks. We actually had a big meeting phone conference last night and he’s my director. That’s back in New York and New Jersey. And we have this Thriller on our plate called the eyes and I’m like loving it right now and the script is really getting into tiptop shape and I’m going to be playing one of the leads and it’s oh, I’m so excited. So, that would bring me back East for like a month as well this summer.
Hey, well, that definitely keep me posted now. There’s a show on TV that pretty much everybody watches and I’m curious on your take on it The Walking Dead. Do you feel like that has helped or hurt the horror industry. I think it has helped I think that you know, and again, the horror genre has taken such a growth and turn in the last few years with mainstream. I think the Walking Dead. I think American Horror Story, which I am a big fan of I got to be honest. I’m not a zombie girl although big. Shout out to Lazarus Day of the Dead. Day of the Living Dead, right?
Is that the title day of the Living Dead. Yes, according to IMB Thomas Churchill my amazing director to I love my directors I’m so lucky and we’re gonna be doing part two this year as well. Thomas Churchill created this incredible segue to zombies and I’m not a zombie girl, but this script was too good to pass up. It’s like a film Noir zombie drama mystery and I have this amazing reporing role in it. And that’s coming out very soon through origin releasing and so, you know, something and I only bring it up because something like The Walking Dead opens up doors. I think it has made zombies a little bit more respected again, you know, they it just makes it more legit?
And it makes people take the horror genre more seriously? Well said. Well said. Well, before we get you out of here. I know you also have your own production company Philly chick pictures, what do you have on your plate, you know, that’s a great question. I am being very very careful and very selective with producing right now for all the reasons that we discussed early on how challenging it is now to, you know, make I don’t I’m old school, you know we shot kinky killers and eye murders on 35mm film back in the day. I know you don’t do that now. I don’t really know and God bless these kids and my friends who are making, you know, $20,000 feature films.
I don’t know that world. So, I haven’t I’m too afraid of it and it for me, it’s just too timec consuming and I’m super focused on my acting career so the stuff that Philly chick pictures will be really focused on will just be my Miss vampy web series and recently. We just did M vampy’s Love Bites M vampy’s love bites cuz remember she’s a Brooklyn vampire that the beautiful Stacy Lane Wilson directed and she’s going to be directing all my Miss vampy web series. And Matt Ral big. Shout out and thank you. He’s my young producer on Miss vampy Love Bites. And I’ve been so fortunate.
So that just we just started, you know, airing those recently. So miss vampy basically and which Vamp it out with my partner jusid. We have Vamp it out, which is 14 girls with Miss vampy again, all positive messages. And then we are in talks for another I it’s funny here I go again with the Vampire a rock opera, which I did in New York at very very young out of college that we workshopped with the incredibly talented composer Mark Weiser. And I optioned that script. So it’s called what was called The Cure it’s now called in my blood and I am teamed up with a couple production companies and we’re kind of trying to focus on that as well.
But that’s a several million dollar vampire rock opera. So that’s on my plate. So, yeah, they’re really the only producing projects I have other than that, you know, I’m just totally focused on acting and super blessed and I’ll be doing Robbie Bryan’s two films. I’ll be doing Neil Johnson’s films this year again and I’ll be doing a couple films with Thomas Churchill. So kind of like, you know, the Indie Indie level of let’s see soresi and Leonardo DiCaprio. No, you know, I really respect those teams like the Adam Sandler teams and the Jud APO teams and the S where, you know, you build these relationships over years and you just keep working together again.
And so that’s kind of how it’s happening for me. I’m really really really lucky you definitely are and I’m very happy for your success, especially also being from the Jersey New York area, where can fans find you online to keep up with everything you’re doing cuz like I said you do have about 5 billion films coming up. Oh, I hope so, thank you. Thank you. Yes. Well, my I’m a big Twitter girl, you know that I tweet and I will always respond to my tweets. And I love my fans. I’m really grateful. So Brooke Lewis l a that’s b r o o k e l e w.
I s l a is my Twitter handle. I don’t do Facebook, but I do have the Facebook fan the official Brooke Lewis Facebook fan page. So I just we use that and I’m an assistant, WE Post just all business stuff on that Twitter I get more personal and Brook Lewis.com is my press website and Philly chickp pictures.com is my production company, but don’t be sending me projects to produce because I won’t and M vampy Donnet for all the Miss vampy fans you want to check out my web series and H I know I’m like C and then I write for The Huffington Post as like a ask the drama Queen is my column like a sexy single woman in Hollywood?
Who goes through the online dating stuff and dating in LA and making movies in LA. And the crazy. And the stalkers and the fans and all of it. So you can check out my writing as well. Awesome. Thank you so much for the time pleasure talking to you best of luck and everything and hopefully I’ll see you around back in Jersey or New York? Oh, we are so keeping in touch you will see me, you’ll come to set and visit hopefully and I have had so much fun with you today great questions. And I hope all the viewers enjoy it.
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