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Breakfast with Tiffany
March 16, 2008

One of the top video vixens of the new millennium, Tiffany Shepis has appeared in some 50 films since her debut in Troma’s Tromeo and Juliet back in 1996, including such recent flicks as Sugar Creek Killer (2006), Hoodoo for Voodoo (2006) and Nightmare Man, which is being released this week by Lionsgate. The lively Ms. Shepis enjoys talking about her work, which frequently finds her naked, covered with blood and toting an automatic weapon. Needless to say, I enjoyed our conversation last week about her most recent movies! Oh, and by the way, we didn’t have breakfast together, just a phone interview…

 

VIDEO BUSINESS: Looking at a list of your recent films, I’ve decided that you simply have too movies films to talk about!

TIFFANY SHEPIS: Dude, I know! It’s ridiculous! That’s why you guys should do a monthly column on me!

VB: Well, let’s start with Nightmare Man, which is being release by Lionsgate this spring. It looked like you were having a real good time: it was physical, you were running around and getting naked a lot and there was plenty of action.

SHEPIS: If you can throw any type of weapon in my hand and cover me with blood, then I’m happy!

VB: Blood-covered babes with weapons are my favorite indoor pastime! If only I had known earlier! Hey, I also popped Dorm of the Dead into my DVD player.

SHEPIS: Oh God, why?

VB: Hey, I wanted to see’em all before we spoke. I can see that even in the DVD Premiere world, you’ve appeared in some really nice, polished ones like Vinyl Dolls (2002) or The Hazing (2004), and then you’ve popped up in some real dogs—like Dorm of the Dead.

SHEPIS: Yeah, it takes all kinds! I pretty much know what’s going to go down on each film and how they’re going to be shot and what they’re going to look like. I hate to say this, but I’m an actor and I make my living doing this. And occasionally, some of the more glamorous jobs don’t come around for a month or two and then the Dorm of the Deads call and you take what you can get.

VB: Conversely, though, do the makers of films of Dorm of the Dead’s caliber know what they’ve got when they hire an established, recognizable video vixen like you?

SHEPIS: In all fairness to Dorm of the Dead, there is a market for it. It’s funny—you walk on to some of these jobs where there isn’t much of a story and everything is done with one light and one camera, and you still do what you do as best as you can.

VB: Like you said, it takes all kinds.

SHEPIS: I just came off of a movie called Dark Reel and we were on it for like three months. It was a $5 million movie and we had some big people in it—Eddie Furlong and Lance Henricksen—and we all became very close and had a family atmosphere and that’s really cool. But sometimes it’s also fun to pop onto a job for one day. You don’t get to know anybody, you’re in and you’re out.

 

 

Posted by Laurence Lerman on March 16, 2008 | Comments (0)