Miranda Richardson's Steely Embrace of Stardom

[EarlyBird]

She has skin so clear, so bone-china smooth, you want to tap it with a fingernail to see if it clinks. Beautiful, yet brittle as a porcelain doll, Miranda Richardson sits for tea, holding herself tight, embracing the table, as if she might fall onto the white marble floor and shatter into a hundred sharp bits.

It would be exactly one hundred. The British actress likes things precise and controlled. Fifty-nine minutes into an hour-long interview at the Waldorf tea room, she squints at her watch and says: "We have about a minute."

You try to tame the little things when the big things are so unpredictable. "I feel like I'm waiting, not just for the Oscars," says Richardson. "It's that time in ...

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I find it funny how if she doesn't like the interview she counts down time.

[Rita, Oh Yes!]

I bet she takes note of how many minutes it takes the interviewer to ask about fatal attraction, and judges it a failure of an interview if they do it in the first, I don't know, twenty minutes?

[EarlyBird]

The interviewer must know it's going downhill if Miranda's counting every minute lol If she didn't mind the person she probably wouldn't mind As in if she got on with them and didn't find their questions stupid.

[stephowrites]

That is interesting that she counted down the minutes! I bet she really started counting down when Fatal Attraction popped up in the conversation!! Can they not let it go?!

[queenelspeth]

Maybe she didn't count down the minutes, she could have just had a good idea of when approximantely an hour was and been about right? I like how precise she is though. I'm like that sometimes. Not that anyone wants to interview me haha