Where Is She Now? (The Scream Queens and The B-Movie Bimbos)
Feature by Alex Zander Welcome to our new and ongoing feature. "Where Is She Now?" Every issue we will bring back one of the legendary bad girls who were cinemas most sensational sex symbols. The movies may have been panned by so-called critics, but they were adored by us. Enjoy the first of an endless run of B- Movie Babes that will begin here with Yvette Lera who starred as Razor Baby in Full Moon's, "Blood Dolls". | ||
Yvette Lera is a native Chicagoan who was in love
with music. She is real rock n roll girl but not at all rock grrl. Her image is one more easily identifiable as glamour as opposed to grunge. She studied acting and music in Chicago, and in the 90's moved to LA like so many other young women hell-bent on breaking into the business. Unlike so many others her story is not a tragic one. Yvette is, in essence a workaholic, and rock n roll is her job. She's on the job 24-7, and is not one prone to taking a day off. A shameless self-promoter, her resume is impressive and speaks for itself. Moving to LA her face made her a living as she appeared in print ads TV ads and then moved into movies. She has a few low-budget beauties to her credit, which of course include gratuitous nudity. Somehow she managed to graduate to the biggest summer blockbuster of 1998 Armageddon.
But her real love is rock n roll. And she decided after a brief stint playing
the sunset Strip in Hollywood to return to her roots in Chicago. The timing couldn't be better since the music scene is becoming healthier for original rock music than it ever has. And unlike the Lolitas that have the music world's attention over the past 4 years. Yvette, writes, sings and plays her own stuff. At the time of this writing she now has the attention and interest of rock n roll legend Kim Fowley. Fowley, who may very well own the greatest rock n roll resume of them all was the man who created the sensation known as The Runaways in the 70's.
| It's still early in Yvettes return to her hometown, so we wanted to catch her while we could so we sat down at Rannalis under the Tower
Records store on Chicago's north side and shared some beer and chewed the fat. Alex Zander: Yvette please rattle off some of the movies that you've done and what you did in them. And begin with the notorious Blood Dolls. Yvette Lera: First I was in Blood 
Dolls. I played Razor Baby, so I was the guitar player and the little bad girl in the cage that the villain makes perform songs through electric shock. I was picked from 150 girls chosen by Charles Band and Miles Copeland. They had interviewed us. Miles Copeland, founded IRS Records and he had us working with Penelope Spheeris who did the documentaries on the DVD for Blood Dolls, she did
"Suburbia", "Wayne's World", "Decline and Fall of Western | 
Civilization"... I worked with Jane Weidlin from the Go-Go's, we collaborated on some music. So that was a long interviewing process.
AZ:Was that the last film that you did? YL:Yeah, that was the last major film that I did. AZ:What was the film Judas Kiss? YL: Judas Kiss, I was with Carla Gugino, she's in Spy Kids now, she plays the mom. In Judas Kiss I played an extraterrestrial-vixen sort of thing, Captain Desire. It was the very beginning, basically. It was a small little clip of like a semi-porno with a chick that the security guard was watching when he was getting killed. AZ:Is that where they got the nudes that are on the Internet? YL:Yeah, basically, it was just "I'm Captain Desire and I'm here to shoot you," the alien chick. And we just take our tops off and get it on. (laughs) AZ:What was House of Wax? YL: Exotic House of Wax is a Full Moon production, but it's under a different name. It's sort of like their softcore things that they do. My character was Cleopatra and I play the wax figure, and it was Cleopatra and Anthony... |