Chandra West

Where you’ve seen her:
She got her first breaks in low-budget masterpieces like Universal Soldier III, Puppet Master 4, and NBC’s The David Cassidy Story, but appears with Val Kilmer in the upcoming The Salton Sea.

Chandra on dance fever:
“When I was five years old, I told my parents that I wanted to take ballet. So ballet was the focus of my life…until puberty. Then I discovered boys and started dating a guy with a mohawk who’d come to my ballet class and freak everybody out. Shortly after that is when I quit.”

Chandra on faking it:
“My death scene in The Salton Sea is really weird. I mean, I get shot in the head. What experience can you possibly draw from? There’s nothing you can compare it to, really.

The homesick blues:
“I go back to Canada every chance I get. The last time I was supposed to go back, I couldn’t get a flight, so I had to take a bus, which was a total nightmare. You end up eating Burger King three times a day. I won’t be doing that again.”

April 2002 (#52)