Remington Steele Interview w/ Stephanie Zimbalist - Part Two 

I recently started watching Remington on Prime video. I originally watched it, but this time I've binged at least 5 times. I never get tired of it. Thanks for making it.

Thank you for posting this! This was so informative and entertaining. Stephanie is so intelligent, beautiful and talented. I never understood, how she was able to stay in character, through all of those comedic scenes. She is both serious and dramatic, a very versatile actress. One of my favorites from RS, was the charades scene from "Vintage Steele"...definitely a classic episode, and TV program. Hats (fedoras) off to you Stephanie!... Come back to the screen for us.

Thank you so much for posting this interview. Remington Steele has always meant a lot to me. I originally found it in 2009 when I was getting DVDs in the mail from Netflix. That was a really rough time for me. I was working the crappiest job in the world, living alone in a tiny, drafty apartment, and so depressed I wanted to die. I watched the first couple seasons a million times back then. Somehow, the way it harkened the past, it made me feel like I did when I was a kid and I'd wrap up in a blanket with my dad and watch the old black and white TV. It comforted me in a way I can't describe. I was always afraid to finish the series because I felt reassurance that there was always more to see and discover. I didn't want it to end. Now, all these years later, my life is so different, I like to think back on those days and remind myself to keep perspective when life seems hard. I had no idea what God had in store for me when I was sitting alone, just waiting for death. Tonight, I finally watched the last episode. I started it alone in a crappy apartment. I finished it with my wife of eight years in a half a million dollar home with my three children asleep upstairs. I feel like I've gotten some closure. I wish I could meet Stephanie myself to tell her thank you for being a part of my life.

So glad there are reruns of Remington Steele again.

I would love to see a Remington Steele reunion. That would be awsome.

LOVE IT! So interesting hearing about her returning to RS to come back for Season 5. I wrote a paper on RS for a TV course. She speaks of it fondly regarding going back when it was originally canceled but there are interviews during that time recorded and written, that it just seemed like an annoyance to come back. They were bound by the contract and being in their late 20s/early 30s where you just want to do other things, I can imagine having fake it but then later on looking at it in another light. I'd love to see Stephanie Zimbalist and Pierce Brosnan again on screen. They can play brother and sister, I don't care.

Are they’re bloopers from the show?

Was that "I don't even know their name" a reference to Remington Steele season 1 intro?

Missed opportunity to ask about the steamy kissing scenes. 😘

She was a fabulous selection for the show. First season was the best. She looked best in her business suit.However her understanding of the show, that she was the Star, he would play a minor role as comic relief and appear in the last 2 mins of each show. When they filmed “License to Steal” it was clear both were going to be the Stars. Then they dropped the first season intro, a very provocative opening by her explaining the premise of the show. She was not happy when the second season intro it was no longer about her. Clearly the NBC executives wanted both to be Stars. It was promised to her that this was “her show.” This was the beginning of the feminism movement, she doesn’t need a big strong man. Hence her hat, I can fill that role.

I am still praying that Stephanie Z. and Pierce B. will have a new project together,film or t.v.

A couple of notes. I talked about divergence in my previous comment on part one, how life became vastly different for Hungarian Americans and those who stayed, which is why Casablanca is partially built on a factual error. Keeping in line with the “let's give exotic characters Hungarian names, nobody will notice” trend, Lazlo per the story, flees to Casablanca to avoid Nazi occupation. All fair and good for a Czech or a Slovak, the polar opposite for an ethnic Hungarian. A small war and the First Vienna Accords awarded much of Slovakia to the Kingdom of Hungary, and after 2 decades of being considered a 5th column in their country, many were welcoming. So why would he flee? He couldn't have been a communist, they either stayed behind or somehow managed to flee to the USSR. That leaves one unspoken conclusion never spelled out (since yeah the Nazis were bad, but America was still not keen on Jews), namely that Lazlo was assimilated by name but remained Jewish, and once evident what happened he fled. If one binges or watches the show in installments, looking back, maybe there's one thing Miss Zimbalist forgot that Steele even mentions in Season 5 while visiting the Soviet embassy, to see how the other side lives. RS is a time capsule of the Western world. In fact, before owning the show on DVD, I've first seen it in German dubbed in the 90s. Where Moonlighting was bought shortly after the Cold War because Bruce Willis became a big hit, RS flew under the radar for a long time. By the time RS was dubbed into Hungarian, I knew Mr. Brosnan as Bond and Miss Zimbalist as a movie actress. Speaking of division, a couple of years ago, Patrick Duffy narrated a Romanian movie on how Dallas directly contributed to the downfall of Ceausescu. Despite mixed marriages, Hungarians in Romania did not tattle to us on what happened in Dallas, so while they got to enjoy it when it originally aired, it was almost over by the time we started. Speaking of Romania, driving a stick, well… there's a “certain charm” to learning to drive on badly maintained roads in cars intentionally designed not to be comfortable.

Huge fan of Remington Steele! Thought Stephanie Zimbalist was extraordinary as Laura Holt. A very talented actress! So, I was so very disappointed by this interview (both parts). She came off as unkind, self important and just generally unpleasant. I was never a fan of her father's (he couldn't act worth a damn), but the way she describes her relationship with him was just creepy. It just goes to show that actors in real life can be so very disappointing.