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56 MacDirectory INTERVIEW hard was it go through all of that again? BC > It has been quite an experience. To have to re-live it and feel every moment and then try to express it. The movie is not quite as broad as the book, the book went off a lot while the movie is more about me and Lizzie. It is so hard to put into words, but I'm very excited about it. MD > Have you cast yourself yet? BC > When I first started thinking about it, I approached it as if it were me, and it was difficult. So I had to look at the being as a character, not as me, but at the same time this person had to have the essence of what I was. Plus I was looking at myself 15 years ago, not as what I was today. What was amazing is that once I came to a place of getting that, that was when the person who I knew had to be Billy showed up. I just kind of had to step out of the way a little bit. MD > So where are you with the film? BC > We're still waiting to go into production. Currently, we have 60 percent of the financing. We have most of the cast in place, but we don't have Elizabeth Montgomery cast, because that is a difficult role to cast. Right now, we're looking for equity investors, who are just individuals who invest in films, because as soon as you get a studio involved they are going to start putting their fingers in and changing things. Our goal is to have a finished product for distribution, because I want this film to be my vision. MD > What is that vision? BC > This film has so many different levels. One is that we as gay people are kind of put in a different world as far as what spirituality is about, and here this story is about this out gay man who starts having these incredible spiritual experiences and starts finding his own truth. It's making a statement, just like "Bewitched" was, about the underdog and someone who was out on the sidelines. (Another is) the memorial to Lizzie, and that is a statement, and it is a very clear statement, (because) she touched so many people. She was just a phenomenal being, a phenomenal, magical being. Billy Clift's book "Everything is Going to Be Just Fine: The Ramblings of a Mad Hairdresser" can be purchased online at Amazon.com. Previews for "Everything is Going to Be Just Fine", the film, can currently be viewed on YouTube.