Rowena King
(Heather)

Q: How would you describe this movie?
A: It’s a story that tracks the life of essentially a great character and what really happens to a person when transformation happens on a dime. He has this opportunity and gets drawn into a world that he’s not comfortable with and suffers many consequences as a result. The story really charts a circle of somebody’s experience is experience through his publishing world, his marriage, a close affair and mortality. He faces his mortality in this film and believes he’s going to die. So what really becomes important when we’re all looking at the finish line is really what this film illustrates.

Q: Your character does some things that are not all that likeable. What’s your take on Heather?
A: Heather really represents the antithesis of Rob’s home life. She’s the dark city, the greedy publishing promotional side, the darker side of life and the enticing world of fame. We’ve all known Heather. She is also a tragic woman in her own right in that many women have to use their jobs and their power to get what they want. It’s all they have. She doesn’t have a family life. She’s very much involved in the PR and that sort of world. She’s cut off from what we would assume would be a balanced figure.

Q: What’s Heather’s relationship with Rob?
A: Rob’s a good-looking man who’s written a great book, and Heather’s in charge of publicity. She takes the opportunity, abusing her position of power and her knowledge of the city and instructing him to sell his book. She uses that for her own benefit by not only enticing him in the whole publishing world but also trying to entice him into her bed and trying to create a rift between him and his wife, Allyson.

Q: What about this story makes it a good holiday film?
A: The holiday time is a time where all of us take the opportunity to look at the year and where we are with ourselves and with each other. The story of one man’s experience, summing up where he is within himself and the journey of how he gets there, is a nice story for Christmas.

Q: Where does the drama come from in A PERFECT DAY?
A: The drama in A PERFECT DAY is the antithesis of fact that it’s not a perfect day. As we follow this man’s experience and journey from the beginning all the way to the end, the characters that he meets along the way create the drama that really drives the story and exposes the drama in their own stories.