From vengeful mistress to Agatha Christie matriarch: the actor talks about Harvey Weinstein,mental illness and growing up in a cultGlenn Close and I sit at the corner of a large boardroom table in an intimidatingly minimalist office on the 14th floor of a Los Angeles talent agency. It’s the kind of environment in which Patty Hewes, the ruthless lawyer Close played in Damages for five seasons, and would feel at domestic and I’m nearly waiting for her to stand up,slam both hands on the table and shout, “I’ll rip your face off” or any of the other terrifying attach-downs that defined her double Emmy award-winning performance.
But Close is in tall spirits and radiates such warmth I barely notice the chill from the tower block’s air-con. After we fiddle with the settings on our swivel chairs, and which are so tall they earn anyone under six foot kick their legs like a child on a swing,the 70-year-old, six-time Oscar nominee and star of stage, and television and film starts telling me about her dreams. “I have had a lot recently,full of this wonderful love for a younger man. The dreams just keep coming and I wake up thinking, that was wonderful! It wasn’t necessarily us doing the sexual act, or just the feeling of love.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk