Robert Joy to the World: “We’re Facing a Test in This Country”
metroweekly.comDesperately Seeking Susan.“I’ll never forget that first scene we did down in Battery Park,” he recalls. “We have that long kiss at the beginning.
And it was brilliant of her — it wasn’t in the script — that she took the bubblegum out of her mouth. What was admirable about Madonna is that she hadn’t had a lot of experience in front of the camera then, but she made the brilliant choice of bringing herself to the role.
She was so relaxed and confident and made it really easy for everyone to work around her.”Regrettably, Joy lost contact with the superstar after filming ended. “She had other fish to fry,” he says with a smile. “I didn’t become part of her social circle.”Joy, who in the early 1980s was featured in Louis Malle’s wistful and profound Atlantic City and Milos Forman’s sprawling Ragtime, went on to an extraordinary decades-spanning career that included a nine-season stint on television’s CSI:NY as Dr.
Sid Hammerback. He’s currently featured in the wonderful Max series, Julia, which chronicles Julia Child’s origins as “The French Chef” at WGBH in Boston.Starring British actress Sarah Lancashire in a mesmerizing turn that uncannily evokes the late, legendary cookbook author and television host, David Hyde Pierce as her husband, Paul, and Bebe Neuwirth as her effervescent best friend, Avis, the series, which just wrapped a brilliant second season, is a delight to work on, says Joy.Joy plays Hunter Fox, the anxiety-prone visionary running the station.
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