Vanessa Redgrave on why she was ready to die: ‘Trying to live was getting too tiring’

Bitch stole my role. The flew my all the way to London to audition for Julia because they wanted an unknown. Then they cast her as Julia and I played some other part with a bad wig. The director actually wrote my a letter of apology about the wig when the film came out.

that was me at r1. I'm still so upset about this. You know how I hate to lose roles. see Jessica Lange, Emma Thompson etc.

R2 lol

Do we have a Vanessa Redgrave troll?

That was a bizarre interview. The interviewer was shrill and defensive. And yet Redgrave still came off poorly in between coughing fits, giggling, moaning, farting and speaking in non sensical tongue about feminism, religion and politics.

Quite an exhausting read indeed.

Bigoted cunt should die. Slowly and very painfully.

Take a chill pill, Zionist at r6

R5 R6 Are kooky zionists who need cuddles, and less access to guns and chemical weapons

I don't know why these types of articles are called interviews when they're 70% about the interviewer writing herself into the article.

Just print the questions and the answers, please.

R9 Would be nice if they did some research first as well, and not decide what the answers will be to the crappy questions they do ask

The woman lost her brother, sister, AND daughter all within a couple years of each other.

That has to fuck you up. I feel sorry for her.

She’s still quite beautiful. Older, much older, but still very pretty.

I love her voice.

Really liked her in The Man in an Orange Shirt

I liked her in the wind and the willows TV movie.

TERRIBLE interview. Just rotten.

[quote]when they're 70% about the interviewer writing herself into the article.

I just skipped most of it. They write and write, why bother to have the interviewee there at all?

I'd love to interview people.

R16

But how many interviewees wanted to be interviewed?

American exhibitionists might love it but a lot of actors HATE it. They are forced to do demeaning, intrusive interviews on the Ghastly smutty Graham Norton show or the tedious Charlie Rose, for instance, as part of their contract.

You can see performers like Maggie Smith cringe and blush in some of her rare interviews.

I'll trade places with her anyday

I enjoyed her narration on "Call the Midwife" because we were spared having to look at her.

R17...uhhh...about Charlie Rose...

[Quote] They are forced to do demeaning, intrusive interviews on the Ghastly smutty Graham Norton show

Is he really that bad?

R21 No Graham is an extremely nice Irish gay man with a boyish sense of humour. And he giggles. Alot. Best part of his interviews is that he can ask Americans questions that would not pass the censor in the USA.

R21 This for example

[quote] No Graham is an extremely nice Irish gay man with a boyish sense of humour. And he giggles. Alot.

What's "boyish" about a schoolgurl giggler.

I find his giggling forced and fake.

People go on his show because there are hardly any interview shows to promote their shit, in England - which is odd considering this is the age of the celebrity...and typical of England.

She's possibly the least articulate guest on the Actor's Studio ever. It doesn't take away from her greatness as an actor. Actors are usually not writers or thinkers, though there are exceptions like Guinness,

I once read her autobiography - she went from one "cause" to the next. It never ended.

R23 Lol that was a good interview.

R27, Miriam Margolyes is the BEST, isn’t she? When I was over in the UK she was on some documentary series where she traveled around the US and met some Trumpanzees. She was hilarious.

R28 She really is!

It’s surprising she hasn’t retreated to North Korea by now, but she’s probably too attached to her wealth and lifestyle to become a prole.

R30, troll

What was it called, R28?

This cunt again?

Never mind, R28. I think it found it - Miriam's Big American Adventure.

R33 must have just looked in the mirror.

She’s ready, God...

Speaking of, her character in Deep Impact checked out way too early.

I met her and her sister Lynn at the Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS Annual Flea Market. I have the "Julia" DVD signed by Vanessa and "Gods And Monsters" signed by Lynn. Vanessa's first husband Tony Richardson, father of Joley & Natasha died of AIDS.

I think it's very interesting and that she is right most of the time. Smart actors and artists are correct in their positions that interviews tend to skew their subjects and in her case, take what she says out of context or completely change what she says. She is not antisemitic. She happens to be correct about the Israeli Palestinian issue. She was right years ago and she is correct now. Palestinians were thrown off their land by force and are essentially victims of an apartheid state in 2018. It's awful.

R27 Margolyes is not "the BEST".

She's a North London Jewess Lesbian who owns 3 homes and will lie to ingratiate herself with potential buyers. She's wily. And she has a caricature of a face and body.

Now, I will admit she is a good mimic and vocal actor but she's only suitable for comedy, not for straight drama.

[quote]She's a North London Jewess Lesbian

She's from Oxford, actually, Miss Know it all.

R40, your assessment doesn’t change my opinion of what shw’s like on talk shows and the like. She’s fantastic on those. And she was fabulous in Age of Innocence as the dotty aunt.

R41 North London is one of the three current addresses.

R42 Being a 'chat-show chatter' is a different profession from being a genuine actress.

Playing a childishly-named 'dotty' character reinforces my point that this woman is suitable for comedy but not drama.