Bo Derek's BIO Her role as Jenny in the Blake Edwards comedy '10' (1979)
November 20, 1956 (Long Beach, California, USA)
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It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.
I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.
There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.
Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different.
It's been very nice. I haven't gotten out too much because we've been working a lot but other wise the people have been very nice and I've had a good time.
I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We've never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.
We were on the island of Hawaii. I think I was there three months. It was fantastic. It is not much different than films. It depends on the television show but much of television today is as good or better than most films.
My character is an agoraphobic. She is afraid to leave her home or wherever her safe place is and in this case it's her home with her husband.
Also there is a twist to the story as I'm being haunted and driven crazy, attacked and so on. All I seem to do is run and scream and cry in every scene.
I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.
Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.
"10" was amazing! I had no career before "10" and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.
It's been done to death and it's vulgar just to be vulgar. I find them so unappealing and so unattractive. The next group of films is just unbelievable.
Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me. The industry was very open and probably hoping that I could do anything.
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