With less than two weeks before the Season 3 DVD release of Moonlighting, Cybill revealed to us what it was like to finally reunite with Bruce Willis, Glenn Caron and Jay Daniel for the commentary of Atomic Shakespeare and also her interview with Bruce and Glenn on the bonus featurette, Memories of Moonlighting. She shared her memories of making the renowned episode and, despite the well publicized tensions, being proud of the work she and Bruce did on Moonlighting.

DM: The Season 3 DVDs will be coming out in less than two weeks.

CS: Oh my God, that’s so wonderful!

DM: And the huge news is that you and Bruce reunited for the featurette Memories of Moonlighting. So tell us what it was like?

CS: It was scary. I hadn’t seen or been with Bruce in a long time. I arrived first and I was feeling anxious but when Bruce arrived, we hugged each other. For the interview, they had Bruce sit between me and Glenn. I teased him and he thanked me for getting pregnant because he was able to do Die Hard. I kind of wanted to not talk too much and stayed out of the way. I really did only have a few things to say which essentially was, I wish I had appreciated it more at the time because I am so proud of the work that we did, and I feel so grateful and honored to have been a part of the show, and then to see the interest coming around is really fun.

DM: It would be interesting to see the two of you work together again.

CS: Wouldn’t that be great?

JC: It would be fantastic!

CS: Yeah, well, we ain’t dead yet!

DM: You mentioned in an earlier conversation with us that Bruce contacted you by phone last year while the two of you were working on projects in Toronto.

CS: Yeah, he wanted to get together but I had to leave the next day. We were like two ships passing in the night. We talk once in a great while. We have very good feelings for each other. I think the process of life, the way it unfolds… the fact that I had the opportunity to sit in a room with Glenn and Bruce and just talk, and listen, really, to how we felt about it. I know with Glenn he mentioned that he had one of the worst ideas in history deciding to marry Maddie off to this wimpy guy… Help me out here, gals.

DM: Walter Bishop. The actor was Dennis Dugan.

CS: Yeah. He’s a great guy, a wonderful guy. So Glenn brought that up about what a disaster it was. I said, "I tried to tell you." And he said, "Oh yeah, oh yeah. Let’s get to it now. Let’s get this thing out all in the open." And I was a little frightened by that.

DM: It could turn into a therapy session!

CS: But he said that it was the worst idea in history and that supposedly I don’t know how many people called. It was before the internet. They couldn’t email in and say that marrying Maddie off was the worst idea in the world.

DM: Roger Director told us in his interview that after the show aired on the east coast, the phone calls started coming into ABC and they patched them into the writers’ office at Moonlighting.

CS: (Laughs) Oh yeah. Wow! So that was nice for me to hear because I really didn’t agree with that at the time, and it was nice to hear Glenn just acknowledge that. But if I had to do it over again, I’d definitely try to stand up more for my character. We’d been working for so hard for so long that there is an element of burnout, and it really alters your perception of what’s going on, and I would say that we each had our own ways of dealing with burnout and stress. I don’t know, I think in a way maybe we’d all do it a little differently. I’m hoping we have a little bit more wisdom. Of course, one never knows in life, especially about our own wisdom.

DM: At the time, you were so concerned with getting the work done that you couldn't put it into perspective.

CS: Well, also the passion always comes back to that. The incredible highs. The incredible fights. I know I’ve told you this before, but again, one of the things in learning to function in that environment and do it is just an accomplishment. But for me, when I would get those pages at the last minute and they’d say, "We know you’ve never seen them, and we know you have to memorize it, but if you could because the whole crew’s waiting." I’d have to go to sleep on my couch in my trailer for about five to ten minutes in order for my brain to just shut down and rest for a few minutes. Then I would do the best I could and we did.

DM: Actually, when I interviewed Jay Daniel last week, he went into that a little bit, about how hard it was on you and Bruce. He was very sympathetic.

CS: Really?

JC: He was talking about how you would be in the makeup chair at six thirty am and be out of there at God knows what hour, and then be right back in the makeup chair again at six thirty the next morning. He said it was really trying.

CS: I think that Bruce pointed out something in this last interview that was really good. He’s a night person.

DM: He’s a night owl.

CS: He’s a night owl. I’m a morning person, so that really explained a lot of it. I would tell them that I don’t care what time I finish at night. I’d like to start at six thirty again because I’m a morning person so that’s why he would say that we worked very late, and it was my request to say, "I don’t care what time we finish at night, can we start at six thirty?" Because I knew that I had the ability to do better at six thirty.

DM: How was the rapport between you and Bruce when you reunited for the DVD?

CS: It was fun!

DM: Was the same old magic there, a little bit of the bantering between the two of you?

CS: I think it will always be there. I would have liked to banter with him more. I wish I’d had the chance. I’d like to do it again.

DM: Well, if not in the movie, maybe for the next DVD release.

CS: (Laughs)

JC: Jay said he was fascinated to watch you guys again and how you guys clicked at points. He said it felt like you had never been apart, like the chemistry, the magic was still there.

CS: Oh yes. Absolutely.

JC: It’s very cool. And with Glenn there also it must have been really interesting to have the three of you guys in the same room.

CS: It was very exciting.

DM: So what are your thoughts about a reunion movie? Do you think you will be closer to it now since everyone reunited?

CS: You were the one that told me that Glenn’s thinking about recasting it?

DM: Yes. There was an article, and I think it was done before you guys did the interview and commentary for the DVD.

CS: Really?

DM: He was interviewed by a Canadian paper saying that he was thinking of recasting it, but since then, we have not heard anything more about it. So we’re hoping that once you guys got together for the DVD, that idea went out of his head.

JC: Exactly!

DM: Fans do not want to see this recast.

CS: Well, it was a huge hit for him and recycling hits, it seems like with more and more movies and television, that’s what happens.

DM: You said in our last conversation that when you and Bruce finally got together he said, "Everybody wants us to work together again," or something like that?

CS: Yeah. I think it was something like, "Everybody really wants us to work together again!"

DM: And if not for Moonlighting, maybe in another movie project.

CS: Maybe I need to give him a call and just say, "Let’s do this."

JC: Sounds like a good plan to me.

CS: (Laughs) Yeah, hope so.

DM: What was it like doing the commentary for Atomic Shakespeare?

CS: We had four people commenting on it, which makes it very difficult. Three is kind of the most you can do with that. I think it would have been different if we just had three people. There wasn’t that much commentary. For instance, when I just did it with Glenn, I guess I felt freer, and I think I am certainly really affected by having a conversation maybe with just one person. That’s sometimes easier for me. For me, it was a great opportunity. I’m so glad I got to do it, but at the same time, I don’t think I’m as good.

DM: When I spoke to Jay, he said you remembered how heavy the costumes were.

CS: Oh my God, it was! It was one of the most difficult episodes for me to shoot. When Glenn originally came to me, he said, "I have the greatest idea in the world! We’re going to do The Taming of the Shrew," and I said, "Who’s going to play the shrew?"

(Everyone laughs)

CS: I don’t think he really liked that reaction. The costumes were gorgeous. I think they weighed thirty pounds. They felt like they weighed fifty or a hundred. I had to be tied up and, you know, ideally, I’d rather go around in sweatpants, and in my daily life in a sweatshirt or pajamas, so when I look back I think I was so tired and that affected it too.

DM: It was a grueling shoot. It was shot, edited and then it went straight to air.

CS: Yep.

JC: You must have been very hot in those costumes, too.

CS: Oh absolutely! And being tied up is not my favorite thing. I had an experience in a movie once where I was in a place called Bronson Caves. It's somewhere here in the Los Angeles area. But they had me tied up in between these gas torches. I'm supposed to be in the cave and they put up these gas torches. So I was tied up, and one of them wouldn’t light. The prop man came over where I’m tied up right next to it between one and one that wouldn’t light. He put a match up to it and it blew the match out, so much gas was coming out! Then when he finally got it lit, it kind of exploded! I don’t think it blew off his eyebrows. That happened to me, too, growing up. I think I was fourteen or fifteen. My mother said, "Well, we’re going to have some steaks. Would you go out and light the gas grill?" I went out and I guess I turned it on too long because it blew up in my face and burnt my eyelashes, eyebrows off, and the front of my hair. So between that, I mean, I don’t mind being tied up in life like for fun, but when I had to be tied up there, it was sheer misery on my face. It was easy to act being miserable.

DM: Have you talked to Glenn or Bruce since your get together for the commentary?

CS: No. I need to call them though and see what they think.

DM: You just came back from the Sundance Film Festival because you had a movie called Open Window being screened there. Did you enjoy being there?

CS: It’s wonderful to go there, but I mean, to have a film and all that, but particularly if you’re famous at all, it’s very difficult to get around in the town. I loved going. I now know what to expect even though everybody told me what to expect. It takes an hour to go like two miles in a car. I can’t get on the streets and walk, and I love to walk. So it was wonderful to be there, but also weird. I just stayed one night. I did interviews, did what I had to do, and then I left the next day.

DM: You also have another movie coming out with Wesley Snipes called Hard Luck?

CS: Yes.

DM: You want to tell us a little bit about that?

CS: I play a serial killer and I make snuff films.

DM: Oh my God!

(Everyone laughs)

CS: I capture Wesley, with my partner in crime.

DM: Did you enjoy making that movie?

CS: I had a blast! Mario Van Peebles is the director. We shot in Providence and it was really fun. He was a very good director. Very interesting ideas and things that I, when he told me, I was thinking, "Oh God! I should have known that!" It was the kind of thing where I went "Oh yeah! Why wasn’t I already thinking that?" But I love that when a director could do that.

JC: Will it be graphically violent?

CS: It’s pretty graphic, but there’s a lot of comedy. But we’ll see, you know? I think it’s pretty wild.

JC: So it’s a dark comedy?

CS: Yeah. I laughed out loud when I read it because I saw that comedy thing, but, you know, I would think it would be very funny.

DM: Any other projects you have coming up, or anything else you’d like to discuss?

CS: Well, I’m hoping to do Tennessee Williams’ last play. It’s unproduced and unpublished. The title is Masks Outrageous. Peter Bogdanovich is going to direct it. I’m hoping he’d like to take it first to London.

DM: As a stage play?

CS: Yeah.

DM: Fantastic.

CS: And then hopefully bring it into New York. It’s the part of a lifetime for me. I call it my "Stellar Adler" part. She was a great acting teacher. She was one of my major mentors.

DM: Well, we want to wish you great luck with it. Anything else you'd like to discuss?

CS: My son and my daughter, they formed a company with Sonny Bjornson, Ed Ruscha's daughter, and they’re doing a line of clothes. It's called Cyrus and Sonny. They’re having their first fashion show Saturday night (1/28) so we’re gearing up for that.

DM: Where’s the show going to be held?

CS: Ghettogloss.

DM: Sounds like it will be a lot of fun. Good luck to your kids on that. Well, thank you, Cybill for talking to us again.

CS: I’ll give everybody a call. It was wonderful talking to you again.

DM: It's always wonderful to talk to you.

JC: Thank you, Cybill. Take care.