Today we’d like to introduce you to Adrienne McQueen.
Hi Adrienne, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
Well hello there, thanks for having me. The short version is, I’m born in Frankfurt, Germany, but went to college in Salzburg, Austria before moving to Los Angeles. I’m a crazy movie lover since I saw Platoon by Oliver Stone when I was like 11 years old and that movie made me want to be in and make them. This was pure art to me. To this day it’s my favorite genre. Before I was an Andrew Lloyd Webber fanatic, still am, and I wanted to go to Broadway but Platoon as well as a few other films made me fall in love with Hollywood films. I blame Oliver Stone for my misery, LOL. I have an education in musical theater as well as acting from the Stella Adler Academy of Acting. Great school, great memories.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
It’s all who you know in Hollywood. Either you are born into it or you have lots of money, then making movies is easy and smooth.. But yes it’s been definitely not smooth for me, just my love for movies has kept me going. I started creating my own opportunities, writing my own scripts and developing them as a creative producer. It’s not easy if you don’t have the right contacts but over time one meets more and more people and hopefully at some point the right ones. I know I have great projects but it takes a city to make movies and TV. Just nowadays I do miss Hollywood films like they used to make in the 80s and 90s. Recently, it’s been more art house like in Europe but that’s why I left there LOL. Well, Tom Cruise brought it back with Maverick last year. Let’s do more of those again please!
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
I recently had a great part opposite Michael Ironside, Jackson Rathbone and Arnold Vosloo in the World War Il thriller, Condor’s Nest, theatrically released by Paramount Pictures. Now on AppleTV and ParamountPlus. Please check it out. Phil Blattenberger our director is amazing and super talented and is conquering Hollywood. As a creative producer a documentary short I worked on a few years ago called “We Do”, about Linkin Park, their fans and their connection to mental health, has received international praise. We have over 100.000 views on YouTube. And up and coming I have several feature films as well as a TV show in different stages of development. Exciting stuff in the works.. stay tuned..
What do you like best about our city? What do you like least?
Los Angeles is where all the crazy artists go. We feel save here, because everyone is like us. In our hometown people laughed at us for being different, but here we all speak the same “artistic” language. I love passionate people that do what they say, these are the people I like to work with. But yes the dark side of LA is that it also is a jungle of con-artists and flakes. Unfortunately, the world is not a fair place so I have to check myself and be nice to people that are not. It isn’t always easy as I am a blunt German Gemini without a filter but I’m doing okay. So sometimes I have to take a deep breath and tell myself, as they say, “If you’re lucky enough to live by the beach, you’re lucky enough.”
We Angelenos just don’t go enough.. let’s go more..
Contact Info:
- Website: http://www.adriennemcqueen.com/
- Instagram: @adriennemcqueen
- Other: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1432037/
Image Credits
Condor’s Nest Set and world premiere photos.. with Michael Ironside, Arnold Vosloo and Jackson Rathbone from twilight. Corinne Britti, as well as Director Phil Blattenberger.
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