{"id":5854,"date":"2012-06-30T00:52:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T04:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=5854"},"modified":"2012-06-30T00:52:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T04:52:03","slug":"transmissions-bigfoot-qa-with-barry-williams-danny-bonaduce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=5854","title":{"rendered":"Transmissions: BIGFOOT Q&A with Barry Williams & Danny Bonaduce"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/code>Barry Williams (The Brady Bunch) and Danny Bonaduce (The Partridge Family) join forces tonight to defeat an evil Bigfoot in the aptly named Syfy movie, Bigfoot. Barry and\"\"<\/a> Danny took some time this week to talk about the movie, their boxing match and Danny\u2019s obsession with Twitter. Don\u2019t forget to tune in tonight to Bigfoot at 9pm\u2026only on Syfy!<\/p>\n

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Gary Morgenstein: Welcome everyone to the Syfy Original Movie Bigfoot press conference. The movie premiers on Syfy Saturday, June 30th at 9:00 pm. And I\u2019m delighted to welcome the stars, Barry Williams and Danny Bonaduce. Welcome guys.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Good afternoon. Hello everybody.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Hey. That guy that introduced us was that a real guy or is that guy – is that just a really great skill of being able to sound like…<\/p>\n

Gary Morgenstein: It\u2019s an avatar.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: It\u2019s a totally good joke. That guy was real.<\/p>\n

Gary Morgenstein: We have lots of tricks. Just wait. You don\u2019t know what you\u2019ve gotten yourself into. So everyone out there – all the reporters – since we have a bunch of people on the line, if you could just ask one question at a time and then there\u2019ll be time for follow up.<\/p>\n

And so (Keith) could you please put forward the first question?<\/p>\n

Operator: Sure thing. Our first question comes from the line of Jamie Ruby with SciFi Vision. Please go ahead with your question.<\/p>\n

Jamie Ruby: Hi guys. Thanks so much for doing the call today.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: No problem.<\/p>\n

Jamie Ruby: So can you guys talk about how you became involved with this show and what made you want to do it?<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: It was really easy for me. They said that they were talking to Danny Bonaduce and they wanted me in the movie. And I said as long as I can beat him up I\u2019ll do the movie.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Fair enough. I, interestingly enough and I hope this doesn\u2019t make anybody look ill prepared because the movie went off like a hitch. It was perfect. Everybody, you know, worked really fast.<\/p>\n

But I was doing my radio show two years ago and heard that I was doing a movie about Bigfoot with Barry Williams. I called my agent who also has my name on Google Search and he said I just read that too. I said is there any truth to it? And he said I haven\u2019t heard a word about it.<\/p>\n

And two years later we started production. It was really bizarre but it\u2019s neat.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: I have to tell you too, I love doing a monster movie. It\u2019s great fun to do because it\u2019s only scary when you watch it and not so much when you do it. I\u2019m always interested in something where I have a chance to save the world.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: God I\u2019ve got to disagree with Barry vehemently. This is going to be a long phone call. Scary movies are not that scary when you watch them but it was terrifying to make.<\/p>\n

I even asked Barry, I said hey man, when that guy says look up here and scream because Bigfoot\u2019s going to eat you and there\u2019s no Bigfoot.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re just staring off at a big stick with a piece of tape on it because we\u2019re going to put in by magic – I\u2019m sure there are some initials, that Bigfoot will be there later. Everybody screams. I said Barry, do you like feel really stupid when we do that?<\/p>\n

And Barry said no, I\u2019m an actor. When he says Bigfoot\u2019s right there I assume Bigfoot\u2019s right there. And I went wow, I\u2019m bad at acting because I feel really stupid.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Well see, I paid a lot of money for acting lessons so I tried – I\u2019ve spent my whole life trying to justify them.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Hey don\u2019t – I swear, I said – I was talking to a reporter. I said Barry Williams, I don\u2019t know if you know this or not, but is a real live actor. I just – to be honest with you and not just flattering to Barry. Honest to goodness, you know, I have another occupation and this came along as a gift.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t have to audition, I didn\u2019t have to jump through hoops and that\u2019s what a lot of actors have to do and one of the reasons I don\u2019t really do it anymore.<\/p>\n

So I was more than pleased to do it. But Barry, God bless him, not only takes it very seriously but made it kind of easier on me to do because he\u2019s really, really good at it.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Well Danny\u2019s being very modest about his talents and what he brings to the table. But we did work together well. I\u2019d do it again for sure.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Yeah. Me too. I don\u2019t know what happens to Bigfoot at the end of this but if he dies bring him back. If he has a cousin yeah, it was fun.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: We brought in the Air Force with like nuclear missiles. I think Bigfoot is going to bite the dust in this.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Well don\u2019t give away the end man.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Okay. Forget I said that.<\/p>\n

Operator: Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of (Kyle Nolan) with (Norans) dot net. Please go ahead with your question.<\/p>\n

(Kyle Nolan): Hi guys. Thanks for taking the time to talk to us.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Hey man.<\/p>\n

(Kyle Nolan): So Barry, you had done the Mega Piranha movie a few years ago. Talk about how this was different, working on this creature feature than the other one. And did you kind of give Danny some tips on how to go about working on one of these?<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: You know, the format for working on a movie is working on a movie. Danny has plenty of experience working on television and movies. So no on that. The difference with this and Mega Piranha was I was much more involved in the process.<\/p>\n

My role in Mega Piranha largely took place in offices and in cars. So I was kind of away from the cast through most of it.<\/p>\n

In this we were out working on location, we\u2019re working with a green screen, we\u2019re working in some pretty challenging circumstances because Seattle enjoyed the worst storm in 100 years through the time…<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Yeah.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: …we were filming. And so it was very hands on and I had a lot more to do in it. So overall I it was a more satisfying experience if you could say.<\/p>\n

Operator: Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Reg Seeton with www.TheDeadbolt.com. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

Reg Seeton: Hey guys. Thanks for taking the call.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Hey.<\/p>\n

Reg Seeton: Since you both – since both of you guys squared off in the boxing ring years ago, what type of appreciation do you have for each other now, at this age, doing a movie like this? Go Danny.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: To be honest with you I\u2019m not positive what one has to do with the other in a movie. I have the utmost respect for Barry from that particular boxing match because I box. I box regularly and I fight strangers and I go three rounds and see who can make it.<\/p>\n

And somebody had backed out of that fight with me and Barry took it at the last second. He\u2019s a little bit bigger than I was so I tried to move around. And then finally he hit me and I thought – I mean he really hit me. It hurt.<\/p>\n

And I thought you know what, I am going to get knocked out trying to be polite. And when I looked up and was already in motion and was too late to stop myself Barry looked as surprised that he had hit me in the face as hard as he did. And I hit him so hard my shoulder hurt and he continued to get up.<\/p>\n

And I know this may sound a bit neanderthal of me but if you\u2019ve never tried it you have a whole new respect for win, lose, whatever. The guy that keeps getting back up, what\u2019s the biggest scene in Cool Hand Luke? The guy who won\u2019t stay down.<\/p>\n

George Kennedy, if I\u2019m not mistaken, is not the star of that scene. It\u2019s Paul Newman because he refuses to stay down. And I know this may sound like an overdramatization of a fight but until you\u2019ve been in one, they\u2019re pretty dramatic, that\u2019s my impression of Barry Williams.<\/p>\n

I was yelling at him please stay down. I\u2019m getting exorbitantly tired of this. So I have the utmost respect for Barry in any way, shape or form, not only as just as an actor.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: I agree with you Danny – the boxing was the boxing. Danny and I have had a nice relationship, a respectful relationship for years and years and years. Boxing is boxing. It didn\u2019t mean that we didn\u2019t respect each other.<\/p>\n

I did not however know that he was not just a boxer but also a triple black belt. The producers left that part out. And I discovered that pretty much…<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Did they leave it off my resume?<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: You know, I missed that. And so…<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Oh, sorry about that man.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: And – yeah, and so I had missed that part and then so doing the movie, you know, we\u2019re coming into it in, you know, a completely way. And, you know, we were, you know, both trying to make the best movie and the most fun, you know, have the most, you know, the best movie we could.<\/p>\n

So there was – there\u2019s no like real animosity there except the acting part.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: I hope that answers your question. I added in the Cool Hand Luke reference. That makes me look legitimate.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Yeah, it does. It really does.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Yeah. I thought that was cool. I thought that was nice.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: I hope you\u2019re not wrong – as long as you\u2019re not wrong on the George Kennedy thing.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: No. No, I was – I thought that was really exactly what I meant but I couldn\u2019t believe the exact right reference came to mind. That doesn\u2019t happen all the – believe me, I just did a four hour radio talk show. If the exact right reference would have come to me three more times today\u2019s show would have smoked.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Yeah. I got it. I know.<\/p>\n

Operator: Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Aaron Sagers with Paranormal Pop Culture. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

Aaron Sagers: Hi guys. Thanks for joining us.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Yeah man.<\/p>\n

Aaron Sagers: Well first off, I guess if Bigfoot dies at the end you can always come back for, you know, Chupacabra, Loch Ness. There are all of these other monsters you can take on. But with that said like have you, either of you, ever discussed Bigfoot before you were on this project either with each other, with friends?<\/p>\n

And sort of what\u2019s your take on it? Do you actually have any kind of belief in the Missing Link?<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: I just moved about eight months ago and I do my new radio show – I guess I should publicize this as long as I have a chance on KZOK 102.5 in Seattle. Seattle, which I didn\u2019t know because it was weird doing a Bigfoot movie that wasn\u2019t about Seattle.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t know this about Seattle either. Bigfoot is one of the main things about Seattle along with the rain and gray skies. In the airport is the Sasquatch Caf\u00e9. You can get your Bigfoot burgers and Bigfoot\u2019s a thing up here that people talk about all the time.<\/p>\n

Now our Bigfoot in our movie is enormous. If there was something hiding that big I believe – and when I say this immediately all of the techno nerds are going to go hey, he\u2019s one of us. It would give up a heat signature and we would find it.<\/p>\n

Do I believe that there is something – I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s necessarily out in the woods or under the sea or in the sky but I believe for sure that there is something unlike us that has equal or superior intelligence.<\/p>\n

So whether it\u2019s a Bigfoot or you\u2019re using Bigfoot as an umbrella for aliens or not the Loch Ness Monster because that\u2019s really an inlet and the Loch Ness Monster would starve. But do I believe in stuff like that? Yeah. Absolutely.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Well I certainly believe the Bigfoot in this movie.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Yeah.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: If there is a real Bigfoot just whatever his size, I hope he\u2019s not as angry as our guy because our guy is not having it. He pretty much is cutting a swath, right…<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: And he\u2019s really scary.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: …down the town. Yeah. He is scary. And I\u2019m not sure – he\u2019s as big as King Kong. I mean this thing is fast too. But I\u2019m fascinated with theories and concepts. And like Danny was just saying, in Seattle it\u2019s quite a big deal.<\/p>\n

The sitings, the trackings I enjoy kind of observing it. And you have to know that somewhere in there there\u2019s got to be some type of missing link or something that\u2019s bridging the gap through our own evolution.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s hard to imagine with GPS taking it down to inches of where you are that if we really wanted to find it, it would be pretty hard to hide.<\/p>\n

Operator: Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Amy and Nancy Harrington with Pop Culture Passionistas. Please go ahead ladies.<\/p>\n

Woman: Hi guys. We\u2019re so excited to talk to you both today.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Hey.<\/p>\n

Woman: You are two of our pop culture icons and there is yet another pop culture icon of ours in this film, Alice Cooper. Can you tell us about working with him?<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: I\u2019ll start with this one. I know Alice a little bit. I\u2019ve had the pleasure of talking to Alice a few times in the past but never working with him. And he really intimidated me. Not the crazy makeup and I\u2019m so envious of that leather jacket. That leather jacket rules.<\/p>\n

But the director, Bruce at one point we had a real problem with continuity because as Barry said in the opening, we had a snowstorm that Seattle has not seen in at least 50 years if not 100. I mean everybody was flipped out. Snow doesn\u2019t stick to the ground here. That doesn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

And we are essentially snowed in and then it melted really fast. So we had to shoot things in a very – not quick as in haphazard but quick in as people had to think very quickly. And I\u2019m sorry, what was your basic question again? I started to answer questions about the weather.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Working with Alice.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Oh, thank you. So we had to change things to match that the snow had melted and we had just shot the original master shot with no snow.<\/p>\n

So at this point he just looks at me and he says why don\u2019t you and Alice just riff for a minute which means improv which on the radio is one thing. With people filming you and Alice Cooper standing there and Alice is really clever.<\/p>\n

And I said to him – my line was – my one written line and then that\u2019s where we were supposed to riff for almost two full minutes, I had said come on, you have to help me out Alice. We go way back. And he goes go way back? I\u2019ve known you for two hours and I already hate you.<\/p>\n

And he hit me with a riding crop. And I thought this is a really – this is an interesting way to delve into the world of improvisation with Alice Cooper who insists on hitting me. But I mean…<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Well I was…<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: I mean it\u2019s super neat.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Absolutely. I was – I knew we needed a pop icon in the role and Alice was not yet cast when we started the movie. And when I found out he was coming out and going to join us I was absolutely beside myself.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a big fan both of him, Kiss and he came in full regalia with all the leathers, the riding crop and a very cool guy. And I was also, you know, hoping because I sing a song in this movie and I was kind of hoping maybe I get some props from the Man and that didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

I think he referred to it as – was he – he was asking Danny about whether…<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: I just saw the clip.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: …this thing was a hootenanny.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: He looks at you. He looks at you singing and he says, what is this a hootenanny?<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Yeah, a hootenanny. Right. That didn\u2019t – I didn\u2019t quite get that little wish fulfilled. But he\u2019s a very cool guy. He\u2019s nice to have in the movie and a lot of people don\u2019t know this about Alice but he is a scratch golfer. He\u2019s a really good golfer. So there you go.<\/p>\n

Operator: Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Travis Langley with GeekNation. Please proceed with your question.<\/p>\n

Travis Langley: So was this movie fun, grueling or both to shoot?<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: I go crazy when I watch actors and actresses get on television and they go oh, it was so much fun to make. Making a movie is not what you\u2019d call fun. You get good things that come out of it but it\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

And we had some extra challenges on this one because most of it was filmed outdoors and the weather was not cooperating. So we had that element to deal with – wind, snow, matching. We worked at night. We didn\u2019t have heaters in a lot of places.<\/p>\n

So you just do what you need to do and keep your eye on the ball which is how it\u2019s going to turn out. I wouldn\u2019t say fun but I\u2019m glad that I did it and I\u2019m pleased with what I\u2019ve seen that\u2019s come out.<\/p>\n

But grueling, you know, it was a tough shoot. It was a tough shoot.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Danny Bonaduce: I don\u2019t mean to just say ditto because that would make me a poor interview but first of all, I love GeekNation by the way. I\u2019m a big fan. But secondly I don\u2019t do that anymore for two reasons. And Barry has been overly kind but also rather insistent. And I thought that was nice too.<\/p>\n

On the set of the movie I would ask Barry\u2019s advice a lot. I\u2019m not shy. I have other talents. Barry\u2019s really good at this so I would ask Barry how should I play this, how should I do that?<\/p>\n

But I got very nervous because I gave an interview about this movie and the first thing they said was so, how was it making this movie and I didn\u2019t think about the all encompassing question.<\/p>\n

All I thought was knee deep in snow for four days straight and the outfit I had already worn so it was established which was not warm, when you go on the scale of hard I mean we weren\u2019t, you know, soldiers in the deserts carrying an 80 pound rucksack.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a talk show host. I stand in front of a microphone and try to be amusing. That\u2019s my real job. Out there acting beside a skilled actor like Barry Williams in the snow – it really did have its more difficult moments.<\/p>\n

But like I said, this was a big deal in my life. I don\u2019t do this kind of stuff anymore. This was just handed to me. Do you want to be in a monster movie. Do you want to be in a monster movie with Barry Williams? And I thought who says no to such things?<\/p>\n

I was going to ask the same question about our celebrity boxing match. Somebody asked me why would you do that? And because I like to box I said somebody asked me if I wanted to box Barry Williams.<\/p>\n

Who says no to things like – these opportunities do not come along every day. But hey, it was an arduous shoot at the very least.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Yeah. And in addition to which Danny – we were actually filming around Danny\u2019s radio schedule so he\u2019s getting up at 4:00 in the morning, on the air at 6:00 all the way until 10:00 and then driving up an hour away to the film location and working into the night.<\/p>\n

So it was challenging as we say. And regarding the boxing thing I\u2019m glad that I did it but save the tape because that is the last time you will see Barry Williams in a boxing ring.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Smart call Mr. Williams. I\u2019ve done it about 12 other times and every time you think it\u2019s a good idea that I thought it was a good idea and then eight weeks out I start getting scared and is this going to hurt and by the way, it always does. So you\u2019ve seen the last of me doing the same thing. I\u2019m with you.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Stuff happens in the boxing ring.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Yes it does.<\/p>\n

Operator: Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of (Tony Terlato) with Sci-Fi Talk. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Hey.<\/p>\n

(Tony Terlato): Hi gentlemen. How are you? I\u2019m a big, big fan. I actually used to watch you guys before there were DVRs and something to tape it. I actually watched you guys when you were on live TV in those days. I have a question.<\/p>\n

Bruce Davison is the director and your characters kind of have an adversarial, you know, thing going. Did he give you room to kind of play off each other and kind of come up with your own thing?<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Yes.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Well he did ,I believe, it will depend on the movie which I have not seen yet. I\u2019ve seen some of the trailers. But Bruce said – he kept looking at me with this really intense face and I think not mocking in a bad sense or maybe I mean parroting, the expression that I had.<\/p>\n

And yes Barry Williams and I do have an adversarial relationship but we\u2019re mad at each other. And like I said, Barry\u2019s the trained actor between the two of us. The script says I think – Harley Henderson is my name. Harley\u2019s really made and to the point of violence.<\/p>\n

Well all I can do is replicate what I\u2019ve seen in my real life whether it was the way I was raised or whether it was the way I really used to get really angry and fight. But I\u2019d grit my teeth and get ready to do my line and Bruce would say just bring it down Danny.<\/p>\n

Just bring it down. He said there is so much more power when you do – and it really – I must tell you I felt like he was mistaken. But he\u2019s the boss. You do what the director says. I remember that much from the Partridge Family and the few shows I\u2019ve done after.<\/p>\n

And on the good side see I remember doing the rage thing and then the clip that made it where it\u2019s just – where I just throw it off cuff – I\u2019m going to kill Bigfoot. His take on it was much smarter and he\u2019s absolutely right.<\/p>\n

Sometimes replicating real life just the way it actually happens, at least in my head, is not as good as a delivery. And Bruce Davison gave me a lot of direction that was very helpful.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: I want to say and I think everyone at Syfy should know, that the hero of this movie is Bruce Davison.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: For sure. Good call.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: He had to change gears in the middle of the race. We had to edit and cut.\"\"<\/a> We had to make things work because certain locations were not available. There were time constraints. There were all kinds of things that a less flexible director never would have been able to overcome.<\/p>\n

And so yes, he was leaning heavily on the actors and – both in being prepared and also making some of the carving out some of the characterizations as adjustments had to be made through the movie. And he never wavered. He was always organized.<\/p>\n

He always had good ideas and he would come to us when he wasn\u2019t clear about those ideas. But by the time we got to the set we were ready to go. And he finished that film I think a week early. I don\u2019t know another director that could have done it. And he\u2019s an actor.<\/p>\n

So for Danny and for me, you know, the kinds of things that Danny was just talking about in terms of how to produce something to the greatest effect, he knows how to relate that to us and it made it a lot easier for us.<\/p>\n

Operator: Thank you sir. And our next question comes from the line of David Martindale with Hearst Newspaper. Please proceed.<\/p>\n

David Martindale: Thank you.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Hi guy. Hearst from the William Randolph Hearst legacy?<\/p>\n

David Martindale: Sure. But very far removed from that.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Well I believe your publisher passed away this morning so my condolences.<\/p>\n

David Martindale: Okay.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: See that\u2019s what the hosting a radio talk show – anything that happens in the world. Apparently when you said very far removed you aren\u2019t probably having lunches together and throwing around ideas. But I know the last publishing Hearst passed away this morning.<\/p>\n

David Martindale: Okay. Good for you. And news to me. Anyway, how meaningful to each of you was it that the other one is cast in this movie which is to say would you have been just as satisfied to do it if the other actor had been say, Johnny Whitaker or Barry Livingston?<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Specifically, no. Because you\u2019ve got to remember that Barry and I, we are a part of a club that by the way gets smaller as time passes. But it was a small club to begin with. One of the reporters talked about watching us live when there were no DVRs and things like that.<\/p>\n

You know, we are – you have to, you know, I would have been – and the only reason I would have ever said no was if they asked me to do it with Corey Feldman. Shy of that I\u2019d have done it. But doing it with Barry Williams really meant something to me.<\/p>\n

I grew up a big fan – it\u2019s funny, I believe the Brady Bunch came on right before the Partridge Family and I was just the right age to be a fan. So like all the inside jokes and all the dialog, the Partridge Family I didn\u2019t really watch when it was on because I kind of knew what happened.<\/p>\n

I had spent all week working on it but I was a huge fan of the Brady Bunch. And like I said, on the few things that Barry and I have done together I\u2019ve had nothing but the utmost respect for him. So it was cool for me that it was specifically Barry Williams.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: I can answer this. If it wasn\u2019t Danny Bonaduce there was no movie. Now…<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Wow.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: …first of all, I feel that way. But also Syfy itself told me look, if Danny doesn\u2019t do this Barry, there\u2019s no movie.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: If I had only known I was that important.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: So it was a package deal and that\u2019s the way it came down. And I think they had the right formula.<\/p>\n

Operator: Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Karen Butler with UPI. Please go ahead ma\u2019am.<\/p>\n

Karen Butler: Hey guys. How are you?<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Great.<\/p>\n

Karen Butler: I was wondering…<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Hi.<\/p>\n

Karen Butler: Hi. I was wondering about the physical aspects of this. Did you go to any kind of Bigfoot boot camp with the shooting and the driving and the flying and all that good stuff?<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: I would say the way we shot this was Barry really did describe it accurately. I mean we were working – the movie and like you said, mostly Bruce\u2019s being able to direct on the absolute fly was amazing. So I would have to say the entire movie, and it\u2019s really good by the way.<\/p>\n

What I\u2019ve seen of it and I\u2019ll see the whole thing at a premier up here in Seattle tomorrow night. But what I\u2019ve seen of it he did an incredible job. But I must say for the intensity and you talk about actors and things like that having resting rooms and had fruit plates and stuff like that.<\/p>\n

None of that was going on. This was harsh. It was cold. It was muddy. We had to change the script all the time to accommodate the weather because this was supposed to be an outdoor festival. And all of a sudden snow came out of the sky from nowhere.<\/p>\n

So I would say the whole movie was a Bigfoot boot camp.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: No. I didn\u2019t do any particular training for it. I\u2019ve been a hang glider. I handled some guns. I do a little running, a little hiking. That\u2019s well within my, you know, every day parameter. So just enduring the cold.<\/p>\n

Operator: All righty. Thank you sir. And our next question comes from the line of Mike Gencarelli with www.MediaMikes.com. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

Mike Gencarelli: Hey guys. How\u2019s it going?<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Hey Mike.<\/p>\n

Mike Gencarelli: So you guys battle it out, you know, quite a bit on the film as we\u2019ve discussed before. But, you know, I\u2019ve got to ask, you know, the chemistry between you two was so – it was funny and it was just great.<\/p>\n

I mean did you guys have any good, you know, outtakes during shooting, having a hard time keeping it serious?<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: I had a hard time because I\u2019m really out of my element, I had a hard time with some things. But you know what? Barry and I – see each other off and on maybe ten times, 15 times throughout the years.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m realizing I\u2019m throwing around these accolades and I don\u2019t want you to think we\u2019re best friends. It\u2019s just that I had no problem keeping it serious because Mr. Williams, I just want to – I\u2019m really prefacing this to make sure everybody knows, really keeps it serious.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s off – when they say cut then he says Barry Williams, the guy that got there in the morning and the guy that\u2019s going home in the van with me at night, so to speak, or back to the city anyway. But I mean Barry Williams is the consummate actor.<\/p>\n

I interview people that are like Barry Williams and like me in the sense that they got really famous for something and not that I\u2019m not super grateful for Danny Partridge, I wouldn\u2019t have half the stuff I have had I never been Danny Partridge.<\/p>\n

But you\u2019re kind of stuck with it. And Barry\u2019s done a more successful job than most at being able to branch out from that. And I think the reason that is, is because he takes his craft so seriously that when we\u2019re shooting it\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

And I remember distinctly he would take a pencil and paper along with the director – he wasn\u2019t, you know, impolite or anything. But he would say things like this doesn\u2019t make sense.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019d agree but I\u2019ve got to tell you if we would take an extra five minutes I wouldn\u2019t have mentioned it. Barry was looking out for the quality of this movie all the time.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: I forgot what the question was.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Are you still there man?<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: I\u2019m here. Can you hear me?<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: I hear you.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Okay, great.<\/p>\n

Mike Gencarelli: Can you guys hear me?<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: I don\u2019t think he gets to hear. I was just – but you answered it really well and what was the question originally?<\/p>\n

Mike Gencarelli: It was if you guys had any kind of funny outtakes, you know…<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n

Mike Gencarelli: …if you had a hard time keeping it serious.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: What I did want to say about what was cool was, you know, Danny does – four hours of talking every day. And it\u2019s basically him and he\u2019s really entertaining. The amazing thing is that doesn\u2019t stop. He shows up on the set and he takes right off again.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s just as funny. It\u2019s like being entertained between all the takes and the drives and the rides back and forth. So it was really fun because he\u2019s funny. So there we go.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Danny Bonaduce: Well thank you. To some people that sounds funny. Others, that\u2019s my wife, would just say please stop. There are no microphones in our house. To which I just want to get microphones in my house.<\/p>\n

Operator: Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Chris Boyd with Hollywood Junket. Please go ahead sir.<\/p>\n

Chris Boyd: Hi guys.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Hey Chris.<\/p>\n

Chris Boyd: I\u2019d like to get back to Bigfoot himself for a minute. Of the reports that we usually hear in the news about Bigfoot, he\u2019s a very elusive creature. So I\u2019m wondering what happened to him to enrage him and make him want to come out and fight man like he is in this movie.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Harley Henderson.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Yeah, me. It\u2019s my bad dude. Sorry. What happens is I\u2019m just a shameless – my character is a shameless self promoter and also…<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Imaginative.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: …blind to my own limitations. I\u2019m bringing back – and I forget what bands they are but they\u2019re – I believe Sting is going to – in my mind, Sting is going to reunite the Police for one day just for my show. And I am going to cut down hundreds of old growth trees which are his natural habitat.<\/p>\n

And he\u2019s not real pleased. So yeah, it\u2019s me. When you say what happens to make him so mad the answer is me. What tries to appease him of course is Barry.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Right. So this guy – this Bigfoot is very, very mad. You\u2019ve been desecrating the environment, the trees, all of the property, no regard for it. Noise. You\u2019ve got ATVs going on, all kinds of – and our Bigfoot just is not – he\u2019s fed up. And he wants something that is more environmentally sound.<\/p>\n

And he\u2019s willing to bite off heads, break people in two and fling them over his shoulder if they don\u2019t pay attention.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: He recycles them.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Yes.<\/p>\n

Operator: All right. Thank you gentlemen. And our next question comes from the line of (Mary Pasquale) with Culture (Breath). Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

(Mary Pasquale): Hi guys. How are you doing?<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Good.<\/p>\n

(Mary Pasquale): So I\u2019d like to hear, without giving any spoilers away, what was your favorite scene or activity that you worked on in the film?<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: No question about it. Top…<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Go ahead.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Top of Mount Rushmore with Danny\u2019s character taking a fall and he\u2019s dangling over the edge and I\u2019m holding on. And he\u2019s holding onto my arm. That was the highlight of the filming.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: I was driving with him. I\u2019m on the back of a very high powered ATV and we\u2019re going to ride out about the distance of two football teams, turn right and then come around and head straight for the camera.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s about a, 500 yard dash. And right before we\u2019re about to do it Bruce the director says you just settle more of the camera.<\/p>\n

You just find the camera for us. Now finding the camera is an acting expression. Say I\u2019m talking to Barry Williams and I\u2019m at 6:00 and he\u2019s at 12:00 and the camera is also behind him at 12:00. I\u2019ve got to lean over. I\u2019ve got to find the sunlight. It is another expression, find the camera.<\/p>\n

So he says you\u2019ve got to help this guy find the camera. So I\u2019m doing it but I can\u2019t figure out why I\u2019m doing it because he\u2019s in the front of the ATV driving really fast. He can see everything I can see. So I\u2019m going a little more to the right, a little bit more to the left.<\/p>\n

Okay, now straight ahead, gun it. And we start going really fast and I cannot for the life of me, figure it out and I go put on the brakes. And I\u2019m petrified. And he puts on the brakes. It turns out this man is stone blind without his glasses.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m not helping him find the camera as an acting expression. He can\u2019t see it. And we\u2019re going really fast on an ATV with empty but big guns. It was as a matter of fact it wasn\u2019t my favorite. Out of those things your favorite scene is when they\u2019re over.<\/p>\n

As it was happening and they said hey, do you want to do that one again? And I said no. I think we\u2019re good with that.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Yeah.<\/p>\n

Operator: Thank you. And our next question is a follow up question from the line of Jamie Ruby with SciFi Vision. Please go ahead sir.<\/p>\n

Jamie Ruby: Hi. Hi again.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Hi.<\/p>\n

Jamie Ruby: So what\u2019s – what was your favorite monster movie growing up, both of you?<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: I don\u2019t know if you want to consider it a monster movie but this is with\"\"<\/a> your, you know, as a disc jockey or a talk show host I\u2019ve moved into half a dozen cities or more and there are some things that you can just count on. And one of them is so what\u2019s the scariest movie that\u2019s ever been made and your phone lines light up. Now I usually have a fight between the Exorcist and Jaws. And in my world Jaws wins out because it\u2019s now been 35 years, something like that but I dive.<\/p>\n

And I will tell you there is not a time that I dive that at some point I don\u2019t hear that (da da, da da) from Jaws. Jaws continues to scare me especially on night dives. So if you consider – and I don\u2019t think there\u2019s ever been a Great White shark that big ever caught so I\u2019ll still make it a monster.<\/p>\n

My favorite monster movie therefore is Jaws.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Growing up Frankenstein – the green one with the things coming out of his neck.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: The bolts. Yeah.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: That was the one it would just stay with me after the movie was over and I\u2019d be looking under the bed kind of thing.<\/p>\n

Operator: Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Stacy Roberts with www.SeriouslyOMG.com. Please go ahead with your question.<\/p>\n

Stacy Roberts: Hello guys.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Hello. Is your address really Seriously OMG?<\/p>\n

Stacy Roberts: Yep.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: That\u2019s hysterical. Seriously, oh my God. That\u2019s very funny.<\/p>\n

Stacy Roberts: Yeah, like totally – and I\u2019ve been like tweeting the (Douche) at Seriously OMG WTF.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: It\u2019s not the (Douche) for God\u2019s sake. It\u2019s the Dooch Man, D-O-O-C-H. Man. I don\u2019t know what you\u2019re going to get if you tweet the (Douche).<\/p>\n

Stacy Roberts: Well I think it says the (Douche) Man. So I\u2019ve seen…<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Hang on. I\u2019m looking at my wife. Honey, we have to do something about my Twitter handle. They\u2019re tweeting…<\/p>\n

Stacy Roberts: It is the Dooch Man. You\u2019re right.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: …the (Douche).<\/p>\n

Stacy Roberts: I\u2019ve seen the money. I absolutely love it. And after Debbie Gibson and Tiffany did Mega Piranha vs Gatoroid they went on tour together. Any chance you guys might do something?<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Wow. It\u2019s a great question and probably a wonderful tour. It\u2019s very funny. I know both of those young ladies rather well. The year I got into radio was the years they were the hottest. Now Deborah as she prefers to be called now, did you know she\u2019s in the Guinness Book of World Records?<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: For what?<\/p>\n

Stacy Roberts: No.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: For the youngest person to ever write, produce and perform a million selling album. She wrote all the words, wrote all the music. Yeah, she\u2019s in the Guinness Book of World Records. I saw her on Broadway. She\u2019s just a really, really talented girl. Tiffany is a wonderful girl too.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure what I would do on a tour with Barry Williams because I\u2019ve done stand up comedy for David Cassidy a couple of times when he\u2019s been in the towns where I\u2019m working. And Barry is a consummate performer. He\u2019s got a song and dance show that he takes on the road.<\/p>\n

But comedy is so frightening. It\u2019s hundreds of people daring you to laugh plus they\u2019re usually – if Barry and I were to go and do something together they would want funny reflections from the Partridge Family. Well, it was a very long day and I was ten years old.<\/p>\n

I have a couple of funny stories but I don\u2019t have a half an hour\u2019s worth so I don\u2019t know what I would do. But Barry\u2019s got a show he takes on the road.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Well I will travel but I\u2019m stationed and living in Branson, Missouri where I\u2019m doing – it\u2019s called Lunch with the Brady Bunch. And so it\u2019s a standing show here. I do it four days a week and it opened this year.<\/p>\n

And it will be here for the foreseeable future. And it\u2019s a nostalgic ride in a very kind of on the nose way for people that watch – I watch 50 year old women become teenagers in the show because they\u2019re back to 12, 11 years old when they were watching the Brady Bunch and it\u2019s a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

So I do take that out as well. We don\u2019t have plans to go out on the road everybody\u2019s got a busy schedule. I\u2019m in Branson. He\u2019s in Seattle. He\u2019s doing a radio show. I\u2019m performing a show here. And you never know. The right thing could come along.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll get to spend some time together with all of you and maybe someone will come up with something that makes sense for us and we\u2019ll show up and do it.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Can I ask a question, what is – because I\u2019ve seen your stage act. What is Lunch with the Brady Bunch?<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: That\u2019s the show that I\u2019m doing.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Are there other Bradys there?<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: I have the new Brady Bunch kids with me. So they are all…<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Oh, very smart.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: So I\u2019ve got them in costume, original choreography. We\u2019re doing all the music. It\u2019s multimedia. It\u2019s, you know, I\u2019m using support clips and graphics and photos and stories.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Oh, that sounds fun. I would totally come see that.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: It\u2019s the whole ride. In fact at one point, there are a couple of things but one of the songs, I talk about how the Bradys became a concert – or recording act because I had gone to the producer and I said look, there are all of these families that are making records.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And some of them are selling millions of records, why not the Brady Bunch kids? I mean look at the Jackson 5, look at the Osmond Brothers, the Archies and of course the Partridge Family. And then the Greg character that I – is in my show he comes out and sings with everybody, I Think I Love You.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Oh, that\u2019s hysterical.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: And a little bit of One Bad Apple and ABC and Sugar Sugar and like that.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Oh, that sounds like a great show.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: It\u2019s a fun show. It is a fun show.<\/p>\n

Operator: Thank you. And our next question is a follow up question by (Kyle Nolan) with (Norans) dot net. Please proceed with your question.<\/p>\n

(Kyle Nolan): Hey guys. So these creature features can range anywhere from really serious to really campy. How did you determine the right tone to play your characters?<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Good question.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: I do comedy if you will. There are no jokes. I\u2019ve never written a joke in my entire life. But the flavor of my morning show which has been on the air for 25 years and done pretty well by the way.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Yes.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Most of the feeling for comedy is where to put your emphasis. And if the movie itself is supposed to be like tongue in cheek then the only way to make it more funny would be to play it as straight as possible. I know for myself and I think I can answer for Barry but since he\u2019s right here I won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

For me my answer was to play it as straight as possible. And I played mine like I wanted those trees out of there. Barry and I were at each other\u2019s throats. I played my character like I wanted him dead. I played it as straight as I could play it.<\/p>\n

If it\u2019s campy, that will add to the campiness. Plus like I said Barry does much more of this than I do. But the fact of the matter is it\u2019s written. The dialog is pretty serious at some point.<\/p>\n

So I thought – I think the premise probably puts the tongue in cheek. But at least on my place I play it as seriously as I can.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Yeah. That\u2019s – and you\u2019re exactly right. When you cast Danny Bonaduce and Barry Williams in the same movie – in a monster movie you know it\u2019s going to have some degree of camp to it. That\u2019s why we\u2019re picked.<\/p>\n

And so it\u2019s going to have that certain tone. But the only way to play the movie is to play it for real, for keeps and let the situations and the appearances – of Bigfoot and the circumstances, let them kind of play out. It\u2019s all a little bit larger than life in that sense.<\/p>\n

I think this movie will be best enjoyed with a box of popcorn in your lap.<\/p>\n

Operator: Thank you. And our next question is another follow up question from the line of Aaron Sagers with Paranormal Pop Culture. Please go ahead sir.<\/p>\n

Aaron Sagers: Hi guys. Yeah, kind of bouncing off of that previous question, Syfy as a network has really sort of owned the campy monster movie genre which kind of harkens back to the \u201950s monster movie that were sort of unintentionally campy.<\/p>\n

You know, what do you think the appeal is now for people that, you know, why do people want to stay home on a Saturday night and watch these campy monster movies?<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: One thing I think is the appeal is you\u2019ve got to remember like shows like take American Idol for example their final nights are the biggest rating nights on network TV.<\/p>\n

And if they can get 23 million viewers they pop open the champagne and they absolutely flip out. Well both the Brady Bunch and the Partridge Family had 40 million viewers every single Friday night. There wasn\u2019t that much – it\u2019s not that we were that great although I thought they were great shows.<\/p>\n

But the fact is there were three to five channels back then, not 300 to 500 channels. And your options were limited. So I think one of the things is to go back to something you remember and secondly, something from your youth and something that was good.<\/p>\n

And the juxtaposition of Greg Brady and Danny Partridge in the same, they\u2019re almost the yin and yang if you will. You grew up with one and in a way, and I\u2019ve heard this over the years, you kind of rooted for one or liked one better than the other.<\/p>\n

But I think, if I hadn\u2019t played Danny Partridge I\u2019d stay home on a Saturday night and make sure to watch this. This seems like a can\u2019t miss formula for – at least for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

But the guy that had the guts to say it in a meeting hey listen, I\u2019ve got a great idea and we should do this for the foreseeable future – how about Debbie Gibson and Tiffany fight monsters and then have it work for them. I think the real strength came on pitching the idea.<\/p>\n

Once the idea came to fruition I think it\u2019s an almost no brainer. I would absolutely watch Greg Brady and Danny Partridge fight it out over Bigfoot or anything else for that matter. As a matter of fact, I think they should do a whole series.<\/p>\n

Greg Brady and I should team up on hunting down monsters in the wild. I hear there\u2019s – oh no, that was Piranhaconda. They did that last week. There\u2019s a giant animal in Australia that needs capturing and only Greg and Danny can save the day.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: I also wanted to add something. Yeah, there\u2019s no shortage of monsters to…<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Yeah.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: …harness.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: No, because the Tasmanian tiger dog – we could go get that.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: I wanted to add also partly from this question and the one just before it in terms of the campiness of it and approach to making the movie. If you play the movie to be campy – if you play it then it just becomes corny. And that\u2019s not really enjoyable to me.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not the kind of movie I would want to see. I do think it\u2019s a way to be nicely entertained with a lot of action. There\u2019s stuff going on from the get go. This is not the kind of a movie that waits until the last three minutes to show the monster.<\/p>\n

That guy is out and stepping on people like in the first 30 seconds. And then you\u2019ve got helicopters and you\u2019ve got hang gliders and you\u2019ve got the Air Force and you have big guns and you have fights going on and you\u2019ve got it\u2019s just nonstop with action.<\/p>\n

So there\u2019s something always going on to hold and pique your interest. While it doesn\u2019t require a lot of over thinking. You\u2019re on the ride and you go, like a roller coaster.<\/p>\n

Operator: Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Kristen Clark with www.PopCultureMadness.com. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

Kristen Clark: Hi. Thank you so much for talking to us today.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Hi.<\/p>\n

Kristen Clark: So Syfy is known for its crazy creatures in its films. So how, you know, in your opinion, you know, how do you think Bigfoot stands apart?<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: For me I think if we\u2019re going to take that legitimately I think our Bigfoot could beat up their Piranhaconda. I\u2019m serious. I think the casting was really smart and really clever. And the script was really good and the direction\u2019s really good.<\/p>\n

But if you\u2019re talking about just bad ass monsters, I\u2019ve seen the other ones and I think our Bigfoot could kick their snakes\u2019 and their sharks\u2019 but.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Well he\u2019s flicking away bullets like someone\u2019s throwing soft peas at him. And as Danny pointed out, this – I didn\u2019t even realize. I guess I\u2019m glad I was looking in the right place but this – he must be 40 feet – at least 40 feet tall.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Easy. Easy.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: It – I mean this thing is – he is big and bad and mad.<\/p>\n

Operator: Thank you. And our next question is a follow up question from the line of Mr. Travis Langley with GeekNation. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

Travis Langley: Okay. What other projects do you guys have coming up? And we know Danny\u2019s Twitter handle. Is Barry on Twitter?<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: I\u2019m not active with Twitter. No.<\/p>\n

Travis Langley: Okay. So what other projects do you guys…<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Oh God. I couldn\u2019t get through the day without…<\/p>\n

Travis Langley: …have coming out?<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: …it.<\/p>\n

Travis Langley: Really?<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Other projects? I\u2019m living in Branson, Missouri. I opened a show at a theater here doing – it\u2019s called Lunch with the Brady Bunch and it\u2019s a musical variety show and a nostalgic ride of all of – it\u2019s like the best of the Brady Bunch on stage.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the best of the elements. Best of the clips. Best of the stories, all of that stuff on stage. And that is what I do now. That\u2019s, you know, that\u2019s four days a week. And I\u2019ve moved here to Branson to build it and to do it and to stay here with it.<\/p>\n

And then other projects will come in during the January and March. In part I\u2019ll be taking this on the road like Danny talked – mentioned. And then other things come up as they come up.<\/p>\n

This movie happened to be slotted right in that break between January and March when I\u2019m available to do other things. And so we\u2019ll see what happens this year.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: I\u2019m really blessed – morning talk show host is a very nice job. I just moved to Seattle this year. And I do a cable comedy show called, the World\u2019s Dumbest and it\u2019s on TruTV I think Thursday nights at 9:30 but they re-run the heck out of it.<\/p>\n

So they accommodate me but I just fly out of here at 10:00 am on a Friday and I\u2019m down in LA one Friday a month and I film four episodes of the World\u2019s Dumbest. And that\u2019s just been wonderful to me. I used to call it my alimony show.<\/p>\n

But one of these days she\u2019ll go away. Yeah, Bigfoot come to think about it isn\u2019t my only monster movie. There is the alimony. But…<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: I\u2019ve just got to say I\u2019m…<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: …yeah, so I\u2019ve been doing…<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: I was just going to say I\u2019m glad that my book Growing Up Brady was successful because that paid for my first divorce.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Dude, don\u2019t you know it? You\u2019d think of all of the things we have seen we\u2019d learn something. I cannot believe how long this World\u2019s Dumbest has been on. I\u2019ve done 130 episodes so far and there doesn\u2019t seem to be an end in sight. It\u2019s one of TruTV\u2019s most popular television shows.<\/p>\n

And by the way, you can podcast my radio show.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Cool. I\u2019ll do that.<\/p>\n

Operator: Thank you. And our next question is another question from (Robin Brooks) with (Sangirl) Confessions. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

(Robin Brooks): Hi guys.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Hello.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Hi.<\/p>\n

(Robin Brooks): Thank you for taking – thank you for talking with us today. And I have to admit this is totally fulfilling (unintelligible) for me.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: You\u2019re welcome. It\u2019s a thrill to do it.<\/p>\n

(Robin Brooks): I just wanted to get that one out. You both talked about working with Alice Cooper but I was wondering what it was like to work with some of the actors because there are some pretty big names in this movie like Howard Hessman and Billy Idol and Sherilyn Fenn.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Oh, I had a wonderful time. At one point or another because I\u2019ve been a talk show host for 25 years now. I\u2019ve interviewed all of them at least once. But it\u2019s a revolving door of what we are promoting now.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t expect them to have great memories of me. But I have a Bruce Davison memory that really didn\u2019t even involve him. This will give you the idea of I call everybody on the radio a disc jockey whether they\u2019re a talk show host or not.<\/p>\n

When they remade Willard II, at the grand premier of that I got in a glass coffin as a promotional thing for I guess somebody had made some money, either my radio station or the movie company, one of the two. I got in a glass coffin with 2000 rats.<\/p>\n

And I really held that against Bruce because that was one of my favorite movies and they wouldn\u2019t have remade it had he not done such a good job and I wouldn\u2019t have been in a glass box with 2000 rats.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: I want to talk about Howard Hessman for just a minute. He is a consummate actor, so much so that you almost wonder if he\u2019s doing anything because it\u2019s just so believable. He is a great example Danny by the way, of less is more.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s so comfortable in what he does and so real in what he does. And it was very interesting for me and I would watch him and learn things from him. I also got to spend time with him. We visited downtown Seattle and spent a day together.<\/p>\n

And he has stories, oh my gosh, that go back since before I was acting and I\u2019ve been acting for 46 years. So I really, really appreciated and was very happy that Howard was a part of our show even if he didn\u2019t have as much to do in it as I might have liked.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: I wouldn\u2019t have thought that but when you said that, the only way sometimes I knew – except he was getting every single laugh he was supposed to…<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Oh yeah.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: …he was – Barry\u2019s right. He\u2019d play them so light but he often – because we were really playing from the seat of our pants – he would often ad lib and that\u2019s how I know okay, he\u2019s taking this seriously. And every ad lib was funnier than the next.<\/p>\n

That guy is very, very talented. And it\u2019s funny. If you don\u2019t make sure to watch it Barry\u2019s absolutely right because it\u2019s hard to tell what that guy\u2019s doing until you realize he\u2019s getting a bigger laugh this time than last time. He\u2019s really good. I really enjoyed working with him.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Yeah. He\u2019s got a really interesting character too, playing the mayor. He\u2019s kind of like the mayor in your movie Jaws. He\u2019ll do anything to make a buck, to skim the city, to sell it out. Whatever he needs to do.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Right. Yeah, that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

Operator: Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Ann Morris with Airlock Alpha. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

Ann Morris: Hi.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Airlock Alpha. What is Airlock…<\/p>\n

Ann Morris: Airlock Alpha.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: What? Air – what?<\/p>\n

Ann Morris: Airlock Alpha is a science fiction and fantasy news and review and opinion site and…<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Cool.<\/p>\n

Ann Morris: …I seem to be their kind of resident sci-fi movie reporter. And I had a question for you. I want to ask both of you. This is fantasy time now. If you were pitching a movie, another movie and not a sequel to Bigfoot, to Syfy what would you pitch for a movie of the week?<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: I\u2019ve actually given this some serious thought. I have this great idea.
\nI have an idea for a vampire film or a vampire movie of the week but it\u2019s played by a working band. A band. A rock and roll band or a goth kind of band that you would recognize. A goth band with records out.<\/p>\n

But if you think about it, a rock and roll band\u2019s job besides performing is to sleep all day and be out all night so these vampires would never be in hiding. Plus we\u2019re talking about Alice Cooper who I saw at the Hollywood Bowl in 1977 cuts his head off in a guillotine.<\/p>\n

So these guys would bite their victims live on stage and everybody would think it was just part of the show. So my first pitch to Syfy would be a rock and roll vampire movie.<\/p>\n

Ann Morris: Thank you.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: I like outer space and I think it would be fun to first of all, casting would have to be the same. It would have to be, you know, Danny and Barry at each other trying to save the world for different reasons. But I\u2019d like to start in some kind of a spaceship that hits a different planet.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s a hostile planet and it\u2019s jeopardizing Earth because it\u2019s important to save the world and somebody has to do it. So to get in and infiltrate it and come at it from different directions and with cross purposes and have that kind of conflict going on.<\/p>\n

But ultimately get to the root of the problem and the monsters, whoever they are, the bad guys and we should not be in human form of any kind and then – and hopefully at the end of the day save the world.<\/p>\n

Operator: Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of John Soltes with Hollywood Soapbox. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

John Soltes: Thank you so much for the interview today. You know, the one question I had and perhaps you\u2019ve answered it quite a lot of times. You know, when people watch Bigfoot this weekend they\u2019re obviously going to, you know, tune in and because they know you from your previous roles.<\/p>\n

I mean is it sort of that curse or is it a privilege to be sort of remembered, you know, first and foremost for an iconic role, you know, when you were younger?<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: It\u2019s an absolute privilege. I can\u2019t imagine that Barry feels too differently. But, you know, he\u2019s got a show in Branson right now called Lunch with the Brady Bunch.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Lunch with the Brady Bunch.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: So I imagine he does embrace it. But here are the facts as far as I am concerned. That almost all of the good things that have come to me in my adult life have something to do with the fact that I was on the Partridge Family.<\/p>\n

I would not be – as Barry and I were both saying, it had to be Greg Brady versus Danny Partridge in this movie or there was going to be no movie. It\u2019s funny, when I do interviews for things and I do a lot of them, people almost seem afraid to ask the question.<\/p>\n

How can you possibly interview me without bringing up the Partridge Family? I can see because of some of the interviews that I\u2019ve done with people who are mostly famous for one thing they did a long time ago and they really resent it. I\u2019m not one of them.<\/p>\n

I could not be more grateful for the Partridge Family and know the blessings that it has brought me.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Well I\u2019m going to echo that. Type casting works against you if it prevents you from getting jobs that you really want to do. I\u2019m sure there are things that I\u2019m not considered for because I\u2019m known as kind of the good guy Greg from the Brady Bunch.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019ve had a varied career that has included Broadway. I\u2019ve been a DJ. I\u2019ve written a book. I\u2019ve produced movies. I\u2019ve done every play I\u2019ve wanted to do. I\u2019ve got a great show that\u2019s about the Brady Bunch. And I echo your sentiment Danny.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a tremendous amount of privilege that comes with people both being familiar with you but in a kind way and a way that makes them feel good.<\/p>\n

Or as I was talking about earlier, sometimes takes them back into their own childhood when the whole world felt safer and more fun for them. So with anything there are there are two sides to everything.<\/p>\n

But overall, grateful would be the word I think that I would attach to my association with the Brady Bunch.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: I\u2019m with you.<\/p>\n

Gary Morgenstein: Guys, we have time for one more question so (Keith).<\/p>\n

Operator: Thank you sir. And our last question comes from the line of Jamie Ruby with SciFi Vision. Please go ahead.<\/p>\n

Jamie Ruby: Oh wow I get the last one. I guess I have to think of something really good?<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Yes.<\/p>\n

Jamie Ruby: So this…<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: It\u2019s all on you.<\/p>\n

Jamie Ruby: I don\u2019t know if this is a fantastic one but what do you think you guys would be doing if you weren\u2019t, you know, doing what you\u2019re doing now in the entertainment industry?<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Let\u2019s see. With my skills and reputation I\u2019m fairly confident I\u2019d be dead. It\u2019s funny and I don\u2019t mean to make fun of the poor girl. She\u2019s a darling young lady. But we did the 40th anniversary of the first episode of the Partridge Family on the Today Show.<\/p>\n

And Matt Lauer asked that exact same question but in my opinion at a very unfortunate moment. He\u2019s going down the line asking questions and then he gets to Suzanne Crough, the girl who played Tracy.<\/p>\n

And he says, so what do you do now? And she said I\u2019m the Assistant Manager at Office Max. And then he says so what do you think you\u2019d be doing if you hadn\u2019t been in the Partridge Family? And there was this really big giant silence and I said she\u2019d be working at Staples man.<\/p>\n

So the Partridge Family – I have no idea but my family is a very talented group of people. I would love to think that I would be doing something very interesting.<\/p>\n

But by just some of the things I have done even with the blessings that I have been given and how hard I\u2019ve tried to waste them, I can\u2019t imagine that I would be living the very happily married, very structured home owning, go to work every morning kind of life that I get to lead.<\/p>\n

Jamie Ruby: Barry?<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: I have never considered another option than the one I\u2019m doing and continue to pursue and reinvent. I wanted to be an actor\/singer from the time I was four years old. I started when I was 11 and I have never looked back. I\u2019ve never had a backup. I\u2019ve never taken another job.<\/p>\n

Everything I\u2019ve done has been on – in front of the camera or behind it and that\u2019s what I\u2019m doing now. The show that I\u2019ve developed – this show has taken 2-1\/2 years to get Lunch with the Brady Bunch to where it is now. And there are some really cool elements.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a corny show at all. It\u2019s a legitimately entertaining, nostalgic ride through things that multi generations of people are familiar with. And I love it. I don\u2019t even set my alarm to get up in the morning. I can\u2019t wait to get going.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m here. I\u2019m loving it. And I can\u2019t think of anything else I could be doing that would bring me more satisfaction.<\/p>\n

Jamie Ruby: Okay, great. Thanks so much both of you.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Thank you.<\/p>\n

Gary Morgenstein: And thank you everyone. Thank you Barry and Danny so much.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: You bet. Thank you. And thank you for having it so well organized and Danny, it\u2019s always fun to jump on the phone with you and share some time together.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Absolutely. This was great you guys.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Yeah.<\/p>\n

Gary Morgenstein: Take care. Bigfoot, this Saturday on Syfy. June 30th at 9:00 pm. Take care everyone.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Thank you.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Yeah. I\u2019m going to go Twitter that I did this. See you later.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Cool.<\/p>\n

Gary Morgenstein: Yeah. Tweet away please. Bye.<\/p>\n

Barry Williams: Bye-bye.<\/p>\n

Danny Bonaduce: Bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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