Can you tell us a little bit about Yvonne Miller?
Well, she doesn’t die. She lives until the end. She’s hanging out with her friend Alice and they’re concerned, of course. You know, because of Freddy. To be honest, I didn’t even know about Nightmare on Elm Street before I took the role. And I like that you didn’t have to see all the previous Nightmare movies to understand it. It was a great cast, Stephen Hopkins directed it. I never saw Robert Englund until it was actually time to do a scene with Freddy. So, that was cool. My first interaction with Robert was Freddy trying to drown me in the jacuzzi. We shot that right off the 10 freeway on Robertson, at this old Spaghetti factory. It was the first time I got to work with Wes Craven, and then we did People Under the Stairs two years later. Wes is so incredible, so many stories. He made another movie called The Serpent and the Rainbow that was so scary, it’s like The Exorcist to me. And he would just tell us all these crazy stories about how he shot these films. Horror fans are the most dedicated fans, it’s a strong subculture. When I go do all of the conventions, people are lined up around the corner. People plan their whole vacations around going to these conventions. I’ve been all over the place doing them. Who would have thought it would still be cracking 30 years later?

Among the convention circles, I’m sure you run into a lot of the same people from other film franchises. What’s it like being one of the rare people to survive?
It’s so good! Normally, the Black girl gets knocked off first, but nope, I survived that shit.

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