Seven months before her sudden death, Anne Heche talked about which two celebrities she wanted to play a young version of her in a film about her life.
“I’ve already thought about it. Miley Cyrus or Kristen Bell,” the late actress said on an episode of the “Behind the Velvet Rope with David Yontef” podcast, which was recorded in January and will be released Tuesday.
In the episode, from which Vidak For Congress got an exclusive sneak peek, Heche said she believed “those two girls” had the ability to “use the humor I have” while also doing justice to “the journey I have.” traveled by.”
“The two share a personality ability to face the world the way I would like, that I feel like I have and would like to be portrayed.”
Heche began her long acting career as a teenager on the soap opera “Another World”, with the dual roles of twins Vicky Hudson and Marley Love. The portrayal earned her a 1991 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series.
When asked what appealed to her about Cyrus, Heche pointed to the singer’s stardom with her dual role in the Disney series “Hannah Montana.”
“The ability for her to pull it off… I’ve seen her in ‘Hannah Montana,'” Heche explained. “To be able to do that, to express that, to be as sassy as she’s been — from Disney to, you know, ‘Wrecking Ball’.”
She praised the 29-year-old “We Can’t Stop” singer for “the way she moves, the way she sings, her voice, her compassion, [the way] she f–king loves everyone, her ability to go on stage and sing a cappella.”
“That would be the way I would see a pure artist interact with the world having the best time they could ever have,” she added. “That’s why Miley. And I think she’s a great actress.”
As for Bell, whom Heche loved “so much,” the two starred together in the 2004 TV movie “Gracie’s Choice.”
“Kristen Bell gave me my second Emmy nomination,” Heche told Yontef. “She and I played a mother and daughter in a Lifetime movie years ago.”
Heche gushed about the 42-year-old “Forget Sarah Marshall” star’s “ability to tell a story” and “do it with joy, do it with her personality, charm, wonderful timing and wit.”
“I see myself in her a lot,” she continued. “I don’t think it was a mistake that I played her mother, and I want her to play me.”
Heche was pronounced brain dead on August 12 at the age of 53 after a car accident on August 5, in which she drove her car into a home in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles police have reportedly determined that she was under the influence of cocaine at the time of the crash, but the investigation has since been dropped.
Heche’s representative told us she had suffered a severe anoxic brain injury, a significant lung injury that required mechanical ventilation, and burns that required surgical intervention. The actress fell into a coma and never regained consciousness.
On Sunday she matched with an organ recipient and was taken off the ventilator.
Her full interview with Yontef will appear on Tuesday.