Episode 38: The Legacy of Foley (Interview with Foley artist Ellen Heuer)

In this episode, Dr. Vanessa Theme Ament, Author of The Foley Grail and Foley artist on such films as Die Hard, Platoon, and Predator, catches up with Foley artist Ellen Heuer, who has worked on such films as Iron Man, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Fatal Attraction, Purple Rain, as well as Michael Jackson's 2 Bad Music Video. Over the course of the conversation, Ellen shares how she got into Foley after being a musician and a dancer and recounts production stories that will part of her upcoming memoir, If These Shoes Could Talk. Welcome to the Wonderful World of Performative Film Sound.