Belinda Balaski (Winnifred Swanson) interview

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What is your favorite quality about a director?
It’s so important for a director to have a vision and be able to communicate that vision to you while empowering your creativity. That way everyone is on the same page and working at their peak together. Joe Dante and Dick Heffron are my personal faves as they both trusted me enough to listen and allow me the freedom to write scenes in every show I ever did with them.

When I read the FOREVERWARE script for Eerie, Indiana with Joe, I immediately asked him for a wig. He was like, “What for?” I was like: “I need it!” He was so not into it, but allowed me to choose! Heather MacRae was my old college roomy and I wanted to “recreate her”! As it turned out the producers liked my wig (and my character) so much they wrote me into a 2nd episode and gave me a child (with the same wig/wardrobe!).