What happened with Ms. magazine?
Lucy Lawless: What happened there was, the problem with phone interviews. They’re often too unreliable. When you see it in print, I sound like a iiiiii-diot. When I said I was shocked to be called a feminist, I didn’t mean I was shocked and disgusted. I was shocked because it never occurred to me that [Xena] was a political show. [The interviewer] said: Are you political? What do you mean, political? My father was a politician. What do you mean? My mother was a suffragette. Do I vote? Do I want to stay out of politics? It means such different things. Another reason that [interview] came across so poorly, I have been terrified of this whole role model thing. It’s one thing for Xena to be it but another for Lucy Lawless to be somebody’s role model, and I thought that was too heavy a burden. It’s a bit intimidating. Since I’ve been here [in NYC] this week, I have met a heap of women that seem to be incredibly inspired by the show and not inspired to be like Xena but inspired to be themsel
