This is the transcript from the Lucy Lawless interview on Canadian TV on
Tuesday 07 Jan 97.  It ran about 4 minutes long.

Lucy was dressed in a long royal blue robe with a gold headband that had
beads hanging from it around her face.  Two long hair pieces were braided in
gold ribbons.  They were shooting on the beach (surprise!).  It is the beach
scene from Destiny when Julius Caeser gives her the ransom money.

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HOST - It's the kind of series that could have gone either way, disappear
into oblivion or become a cult hit.  Xena - Warrior Princess went the
latter, thanks to its star, New Zealand actress Lucy Lawless.  Bill Ralston
met up with Lawless on location in Auckland and filed this report:

BR Voiceover -
        "Call me oldfashioned, but there's something strangely simply
alluring about lithe libidious lethally armed Amazons and skimpy gravity
defying wonder bra-ed leather corsets."

THEY SHOW LUCY SHOOTING A SCENE WHERE SHE PICKS UP SOME DINARS AND TREASURES
FROM A CHEST AND SHE RAISES THEM OVER HER HEAD AND THEN LETS THEM DROP (from
Destiny)

BR Voiceover -
        "All long the line, millions of hormonally charged young Americans
have also tuned in and turned on to Xena, a surprise box office success
beyond just cult appeal.  It's turned Lucy Lawless into a serious star in
the U.S.

IN THE BACKGROUND LUCY AND KARL URBAN (Julius Caeser) ARE STANDING ON THE
BEACH KISSING EACH OTHER.

THEN THEY SHOW A CLIP OF XENA SAYING TO A PEASANT GUY "So, what have we got
to talk about?" (I didn't recognize the episode).

BR Voiceover -
        "Well, how about, how do you feel about the show?"

LUCY -
        "It is perfect and I fear it's about to end."

BR -
        "Do you ever wake up and pinch yourself?"

LUCY -
        "I regularly pinch myself to make sure I don't take it for granted.
I know what it's like to be out of work.  I know how hard everybody else
here works and I don't want to let them down by whinging, getting spoiled.
You just gotta keep slapping yourself on the hand.  Instead of saying (she
mimicks a demanding person) "Where's my Winnebago?!" (laughs)

THEY SHOW A CLIP OF SOLDIERS FIRING ARROWS AT XENA.  SHE CATCHES 2 AND GETS
SHOT BY ONE AND FALLS TO THE GROUND (from Chariots of War).

THEN THEY SHOW A CLIP WHERE SHE THROWS HER CHAKRAM AT THE WAIST BELT OF THE
BLIND CYCLOPS AND HIS PANTS FALL DOWN (from Sins of the Past).

BR Voiceover -
        "OK, it ain't Hamlet, but there's a large, dark, campy humour to the
show that lifts it well above the mundane."

LUCY -
        "It's terrificly funny!  In the States they write about it being
mirthless.  I suppose it's because we have such fun shooting this show, that
it seems to me like the funniest role ever invented.  And I get to do other
things, I get to play other characters, doubles of myself, evil doubles,
even MORE evil doubles and I get to be the dopey ditzey princess and I get
to be the mad nymphomanic tramp. You know, the beer swilling tramp."

THEY SHOW A CLIP OF SINS OF THE PAST WITH XENA FIGHTING IN HER UNDERWEAR.
"You round up the girls.  We'll take care of this one (meaning Xena)," SAYS
ONE OF DRACO'S MEN.

BR Voiceover -
        "Yeah, fat chance!  Now you get the feeling, Lucy, like Xena, would
turn autograph hunting into a blood sport."

LUCY -
        "I've started to notice people look at me in supermarkets and things
now but..."

BR -
        "It's going to be hard, isn't it, with it going on TV here.  You're
going to find yourself a lot more known because you've had this wonderful
anonymity up until now."

LUCY -
        "Yeah, I'm trying not to get defensive about it because I do find it
really alarming when confronted with it, particularly here (in New Zealand).
But I'm determined not to get cross (laughs).  I'm determined not to become
reclusive.  That's the natural reaction, I think is, 'Oh, I'm not going
there again, I don't need that', but..."

BR -
        "You ARE a Warrior Princess.  They should be very careful trying to
come up to you when you don't want them to."

LUCY -
        (Laughs) "Damn right!"

THEY END WITH A CLIP FROM SINS OF THE PAST WITH XENA SAYING, "You're with
Draco, tell him Xena says hello," THEN SHE CONKS HIM OUT COLD.

HOST -
        "That's one dangerous woman!"