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after her dreams, and that she has such
support from the women around her.
Bruce: You’ve got a lot going on right now.
Diane: I love it. I also have a son, Nick
DeLaurentis, who is in college at DePaul
University and is a performance major
playing the upright bass. His dream is to
play in a symphony, but in the meantime he
also plays guitar bass in an indie band
called Swatches. They write their own music
and just got on Spotify!
Bruce: It’s great to be that busy, isn’t it?
I have a comedy show with my daughter.
It’s on YouTube and it’s called Liv and Di in Diane: It is. Some people ask me if I’m
LA. My daughter’s a filmmaker and she and looking forward to retirement and I just
I did a YouTube show. We have a great think that would be so boring. I want to do
relationship and a lot of fun doing the what I can in life until I can’t do it anymore.
episodes on YouTube. It’s hilarious because They’ll be a time when I have to slow down
not every daughter has an 80s babe mom. so I want to create and do as much as
possible now. Like, this weekend I’m
Bruce: Your daughter is also acting? playing a medium in a film. I’ve never
played a character like this before.
Diane: Acting and directing. She did an
episode of the Cool Kids on NBC. She had a Bruce: A feature film?
small part. Vicki Lawrence and Martin Mull
star on the show. My daughter did a guest Diane: Yes, it’s a film called No Respect for
spot that will be showing this year. Her the Living. It’s an action/horror film. Horror
name is Olivia DeLaurentis and although is very big. Many people love it. To me,
she has done some acting, she’s first and that’s where the drama is.
foremost a filmmaker. You can see her
Bruce: Do people associate you with horror
sketches and web-series on her and her
films because of Amityville II?
comedy writing partner Sydney Heller’s
YouTube Channel Barely Legal Comedy. Diane: Honestly, I wonder how people will
remember me, but I think they’ll remember
Right now, Olivia actually has written a
me for a variety of films. Last American
project that is being produced by a woman
Virgin, Better Off Dead, and then Bill and Ted,
who believes very strongly in her. This will
which is the biggest commercial success.
be Olivia’s first feature film. Audiences are
going to flip out when they find out who
else is involved! Olivia will direct and act in
the film as well. I am so proud she is going
