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Rosanna Arquette is currently starring on the big screen alongside Charli xcx in The Moment
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In an interview with PEOPLE, she opens up about how she really pronounces her name — and it’s not like the Toto song
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The Desperately Seeking Susan star also notes that there was more than one rock song written about her, including this power ballad
Rosanna Arquette has been a Hollywood mainstay for over 50 years now, since starring in her first major film, The Executioner’s Song, in 1982 when she was just 21. She later starred in pop culture touchstones like 1985’s Desperately Seeking Susan, and 1994’s Pulp Fiction.
Now, decades later, she’s embracing a big screen return with her role in the Charli xcx film The Moment, and opening up in an interview with PEOPLE about her career, activism, inspiring various rock songs, and how her name is actually pronounced.
“It’s Rose-ahna,” she says, pronouncing the second half like Anna from Frozen, and not like ‘banana.’ “That’s how I’ve always said it. But I don’t care. I’ll answer to anything!”
Rosanna Arquette with Charli xcx in The Moment, now playing in select theaters
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She suspects most people think it’s pronounced like the Toto song, especially since she was the one who inspired it.
“People come up to me about that all the time,” she says, explaining that the tune was written by Toto’s David Paich in the early 1980s, when she was dating founding member Steve Porcaro.
She says the song isn’t necessarily a tribute to her, but Paich definitely borrowed her name for the title. “I was around them all the time. They were wonderful musicians,” she says.
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Arquette admits there’s another popular song from the ’80s that was written about her: “In Your Eyes,” Peter Gabriel’s 1989 hit.
“That was about me,” she tells PEOPLE of the song that was made famous for being the theme song in the movie Say Anything. (Arquette and Gabriel, 75, dated for several years, and they lived together in the U.K. for a while.)
Peter Gabriel and actress Rosanna Arquette in 1991
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“I love musicians. Most of my friends are musicians. Chrissie Hynde is my daughter’s Godmother,” Arquette says, referring to the lead singer of The Pretenders.
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These days, Arquette says she’s just thrilled to be working again, after a tumultuous few years that included a divorce and a move to the east coast.
“I’m okay without a partner,” she says of embracing being single. “I’m so grateful for where I’m at. Even with all the bad stuff, because there’s always a lesson in that. I just know that I’m ready for anything.”
The Moment is now playing in select theaters.
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