Joomla! site syndication http://www.thecelebrityinterviews.com 2010-03-10T22:13:01+01:00 http://www.thecelebrityinterviews.com http://www.thecelebrityinterviews.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2007-10-22T14:10:52+01:00 http://www.thecelebrityinterviews.com http://www.thecelebrityinterviews.com/content/view/14/2/ Glenn Close Interview Glenn Close was an incredibly smart woman to interview; someone I immediately respected. A lot smaller than I expected. For someone who had been a bunny killer, I don't know - I just thought she'd be larger than life. (I think this is the common problem lots of people make with Hollywood stars - gasping in shock about how 'small' they are - when of course they're only somewhere between 5 and 6.5 feet tall rather than 3 metres tall as they appear on screen!But Glenn - along with a handful of others - really was petite. Also reserved, mature, honest, guarded, almost scared. She was a biggie for me to meet. She's just such a phenomenal actress, with or without her Oscars, and for me and my age group, she was almost an institution because of her character's notoriety from 'Fatal Attraction'. The interview was with about 3 other journalists - the guy on my left was from a British magazine and already slanting towards the gossip-y angle. He came in with an agenda and didn't want to quit till he got the quotes he was looking for. Lots of journalists work like that. They already have the all-important 'angle' of the story pre-determined and have written most of the copy - and just want a few quotes to drop in to flesh out the story. I prefer conversations. I prefer discussions that have no map of where they're destined to end. I love that I don't know what I'm going to hear, and perhaps learn.By the end of the interview I had made a real connection with Glenn and while the British journalist made her excrutiangly unhappy, I was the only one she looked up at when the interview ended to say (almost whisper) thank you . I'm a big one for the thank you's. I always say thank you, and I appreciate when someone I've interviewed thanks me for the experience too. I am a total ANTI-autograph hunter, as a journalist. I have nothing against fans who ask an actor for an interview - absolutely understand that - and I had my own autograph book when I was a child - BUT I can't bear when journalists ask someone they've just interviewed for their autograph. It's just amateur, I feel, and demeans your own job. For me - while we're conducting the interview (and outside of the interview) - we're absolute equals - they're doing their fantastic job of interpreting other people's lives and characters for movies; and we're doing our job of writing about them and their film. [I also have an experience when I was in Std 7 about taping someone that maybe set me up for life...] On the way to Glenn's interview, I read Premier magazine on the tube. It had excerpts from Glenn's diary, written during the filming of '101 Dalmations'. In it she mentioned that she had farted on set...something that in the pre-Britney Spears stepping out of a car with no knickers on era was not really spoken about - and it was about this point that I began the interview... text/html 2007-10-22T12:28:59+01:00 http://www.thecelebrityinterviews.com http://www.thecelebrityinterviews.com/content/view/13/2/ Emma Thomson Interview, 1995 Emma was just gorgeous. She had her legs curled up on the sofa and it felt like we were a group of best friends who's gotten together for a girlie chat. There were about 3 other journalists. At that point, we all believed she and Kenneth Brannagh were happily married and Britain's movie star royalty, but just days later her and Kenneth announced their separation. In retrospect, as you'll see when you read the interview, she actually was frank about how difficult the relationship was and the writing was on the wall, so to speak - but none of us wanted to read it. If Emma could be every girl's best friend, one's life would be perfect. She's wise, she listens, she's interested and interesting. She wasn't there to just promote a movie. She took the occasion to have a conversation. She's one of those - those top stars - who is genuinely interested in the human condition, that quality which always produces the best actors - people who are able to truly empathise with another character, with another person's life and feelings. At the time of the interview, Emma lived in West Hampstead (perhaps she still does), and I lived nearby in Hampstead - and, to be perfectly honest, I used to often wish I knew her well enough to pop in for a cup of tea (or bottle of wine) at will and just chat and chat and chat...The film we were doing the interview for was 'Carrington', the true story of artist Dora Carrington. text/html 2004-06-12T11:54:06+01:00 http://www.thecelebrityinterviews.com http://www.thecelebrityinterviews.com/content/view/1/2/ Welceome to The Celebrity Interviews, a collection of interviews with some of Hollywood's hottest players - including actors, actresses, directors and producers. The interviews on this site have been conducted in person with the celebrities. text/html 2004-08-09T08:30:34+01:00 http://www.thecelebrityinterviews.com http://www.thecelebrityinterviews.com/content/view/2/9/ These celebrity interviews are mainly with real stars. Not the I wanna be famous generation, but the ones who worked their way to the top. The ones who inspire all of us to live our dreams, follow our passions. text/html 2004-08-09T08:30:34+01:00 http://www.thecelebrityinterviews.com http://www.thecelebrityinterviews.com/content/view/3/9/ Yesterday all servers in the U.S. went out on strike in a bid to get more RAM and better CPUs. A spokes person said that the need for better RAM was due to some fool increasing the front-side bus speed. In future, busses will be told to slow down in residential motherboards.