Interview: Kristin Scott Thomas
Kristin Scott Thomas isn’t what you expect at all. You imagine formidable in the English sense of the word; a mix of Four Weddings Fiona and English Patient but in the flesh she’s actually more formidab-le – using the French connotation – terrific, breathtakingly attractive and energetic.
Though by her own admission the past few months have not been easy: ‘I have had a pretty rough time recently. I feel like I’ve climbed a mountain in some way. I’ve realised I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I’m not around to please anyone anymore, and it’s a huge relief. ’
What does the 47-year-old, newly single actress put this confidence down to? ‘A mixture of therapy and growing older and being more comfortable with myself helps. Now I feel if people don’t like me the way I am, tough…’
Read the full interview in our March 2008 issue.
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Interview: Cameron Diaz
‘I want to be a big, fleshy, voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum but I don’t have one. Ageing has made all the difference. I’ve got a better relationship with my body,’ says the impossibly likeable Cameron Diaz.
Nancy Meyers, who directed the thirty-six year old actress in The Holiday, describes Cameon Diaz as ‘a human antidepressant’. And you get it the minute you meet her: there’s something inherently grounded and sincere – despite the hair, the eyes, the model looks. And in recent years, her credibility has risen more academically due to her proactive work as a conservationist.
Daughter of working-class parents, recently deceased Cuban father Emilio and native American mother, Billie, Cameron retains her earthly clutz charisma by keeping close to her roots. She’s the first to explain she came from the wrong side of the tracks and that her break into acting was an accident. She was a Levi’s model who went for a bit part in The Mask [1994] and was given the lead by director Chuck Russell…
Read the full interview in our April 2008 issue.
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Interview: Christina Ricci
It’s small wonder that Christina Ricci has an uncanny ability to channel profound psychological distress, as she has done in the Ice Storm, Monster and Black Snake Moan: her psychiatrist father treated his patients at home with a variation of primal scream therapy ‘His office was in our basement, and we could hear all the screaming,’ laughs Ricci – and she has been in therapy on and off ever since she was a teenager.
So how does the intense, intelligent 27-year-old feel about portraying troubled characters such as the abused teenage Rae in Black Snake Moan?
‘She’s a damaged girl. I feel so strongly about victims of rape and incest. You see these girls that society judges as sluts, but if you’re exploited as a child, you exploit yourself as you grow up. Yet we still point fingers. I’m glad the film brought that out in the open…
‘I like to take risks. I like a challenge. Being an actress has enabled me to experience things which I’ve never dared to do in my own life…’
Read the full interview in our January 2008 issue.
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