Vanessa Redgrave

Not that much, but it's the eyeline is in a hurry and you're trying to make your 12 hour day.

Let's stay on the Girl Interrupted tip because you play Cynthia in 1999-ish is Girl Interrupted opposite an incredible ensemble of women that includes, let's do the laundry list, Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea Duvall, Elizabeth Moss, Brittany Murphy, Mary Kay Place, Vanessa Redgrave, and Whoopi Goldberg, among some others.

Jared Leto.

Okay, we're not putting them on this list.

Can we take a look at that clip real quick, Sam? Oh my God.

I'm gonna dip down.

We're in Vanessa Redgrave's office, by the way, which is huge.

That's right.

number five is um uh more of a genre edit um i could not believe that there was not one made for tv movie in this lineup And there have been some really good ones.

The three that come to mind for me are The Gathering Storm, the Albert Finney, Vanessa Redgrave movie about Winston Churchill, which is magnificent.

The Laramie Project is fantastic, is a fantastic made-for-TV movie.

And One of my personal favorites, You Don't Know Jack, the Al Pacino movie where he plays Dr. Jack Kevorkian.

Just the way he like positioned the actors and stuff like that and the costuming and just everything is so, so cool.

is it horror at times for sure i would consider it more of like a like a drama like a very serious drama at times but there's definitely horrific moments especially because like you know it deals with satanic panic and you know witchcraft and sort of uh political corruption it's got like everything in it oliver reed is just unbelievable in it as uh the priest And then the lady who plays the main nun, Vanessa Redgrave, she's amazing.

I mean, the whole cast just kills it in this, especially the guy who plays sort of the doctor who is sort of like... determines if you're like a witch or like like doing like witchcraft or whatever he is like an amazing villain in this as well i can see why this movie was like banned in a lot of countries after it came out because like for like 1971 there is some fucking really shocking stuff uh in this movie there was like it's like a lot of i could see like religious people are really going crazy for this because there's a lot of stuff that would be considered sacrilegious uh even today Especially one scene involving... nuns in like an orgy and that's all I'll say about that but man the movie is fucking it's wild it's crazy but it is I loved it I cannot take my eyes off of it I was never bored and it was you know almost two hours long there's one scene involving a fucking alligator that is is outrageous and made me laugh out loud and I was like it happened early in the movie and I'm like what am I in for here? But then it, after that, the movie like totally go, it just completely goes straight.

Um, but I loved it.

But useful because obviously I could go to set and watch Saoirse work and think, oh, how can I sort of mirror what she's doing so that I can continue that with the rest of the story.

And how was it sharing those dinners with the wonderful Vanessa Redgrave as well and those conversations that you were having to build the character? What was that like?

I mean, I had actually met Vanessa once because I think she shot almost the entirety of her part completely separately in a studio.

But I think we had a really good conversation about the character.

She was magnetic.

Vanessa Redgrave.

I couldn't take my fucking eyes off her.

Every time she was on screen, I was fucking glued to her.

But his successor now, maybe I can screw with him.

And it's all just about a land grab, but it turns into this giant religious literal witch hunt of Vanessa Redgrave just being too horny for Oliver Reed and deciding that she's going to burn him to the ground for it.

Very literally.

If she can't have him, he's going to burn.

So what else am I going to do? And then accidentally falls in love with exactly the wrong dude.

And it's all these things just kind of cascade into this.

Because the other thing that really kind of cinches this for him is Vanessa Redgrave is so good in this.

She's really, really good as Sister Jean.

This is...

I loved Oliver Reed's performance, but honestly, it's Vanessa Redgrave's movie.

I was floored by what she brought to the role.

I thought it was wonderful.

Redgrave was at it.

Vanessa Redgrave of the Workers' Revolutionary Party.

She was WRP at the time, you know.

30,000 there yeah and she obviously is still a very much revered figure within republicanism within Sinn Féin to this day I