Isabella Rossellini On Seduce Me, Possibly Returning to 30 Rock and 6-Foot Penises

It must be satisfying to create a project like Seduce Me that manages to be both educational and humorous for viewers. When you look back on your career, is there one project of yours that sticks out as being the most satisfying?

In terms of films that I have done as an actress, you mean?

Any film or television project.

I tend to look back -- you know, I am pretty old -- to look back at the favorite films that I have done. Obviously there are some that I like more and some that I like less. In terms of my favorite experience with a film, there was a project with John Schlesinger called The Innocent with Tony Hopkins and Campbell Scott. It wasn't very successful commercially, and yet I remember the experience of making the film as one of my favorites because John Schlesinger was such a fantastic director. I learned so much, and Campbell and I became very good friends. Obviously Blue Velvet was very significant in my life because it was controversial, and it was very pleasant shooting too [laughs]. It was fun.

I read that you couldn't stop laughing when shooting those incredibly intense and intimate scenes with Dennis Hopper.

Not me! But David was laughing a lot. [pause] And I obviously became very close with David Lynch and with Kyle MacLachlan too. We are still very good friends. So there are certain works that you do that are successful but it's also the experience of doing it that can be enriching or rewarding.

A few years ago you wrote and starred in a film for your father's centennial. I read that at the time, you were also planning on doing something for your mother's centennial which is coming up. Are you planning another film?

Well, [the film for my father] was a short film called My Dad is a Hundred Years Old. It was 20 minutes long and it was actually quite surreal. In the film, I played all the parts (including her mother, pictured right) and my father was an enormous talking belly. My mother would be 100 years old in 2015, so I haven't really planned anything. But my family was not so pleased when I made my father's film, so I don't think I want to do something about my mom because I don't want to have another fight in the family. Hopefully there will be a major retrospective for her. The Cinematheque in Paris organized an enormous retrospective for Dad, and my little film was just a part of that. So we'll do the retrospective and have a vast archive to work with, but I don't know if I want to do anything strange or surreal like I did with my dad. Some people liked it, some people didn't. I don't want to have another argument.

Your episodes of 30 Rock were great. Would you consider returning?

Definitely. I would love to go back, but I have to wait for Tina Fey to write it first. I don't know if she wants to do that but it would be great fun to work with Alec Baldwin

and Tina again. I have an enormous admiration for Tina.

Do people ever come up to you on the street and ask you about the Arby's big beef and cheddar line?

[Laughs] No, that doesn't happen. Not yet at least.

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