KST on The View
Transcribed by Pen McKissick
Introduction:
Star Jones (co-host): This woman has had her mouth on the man that I absolutely adore, and I consider her the luckiest woman alive because she is starring opposite Harrison Ford in the new movie, Random Hearts. Kristin Scott Thomas is our guest today. [audience applause] And a phenomenal actress in her own right, thank you very much!
Barbara Walters (co-host): He is pretty lucky to have his mouth on her! She is divine! The movie is called Random Hearts and she is fantastic in it.
SJ: Divine woman and excellent actress!
Interview:
BW: Well, as Star just pointed out, Kristin Scott Thomas has kissed and starred with some of the most divine movie stars in our time. Hugh Grant in Four Weddings and a Funeral - she kissed him. Ralph Fiennes in The English Patient - oh, she was wonderful in that! He was pretty good, too. Robert Redford in The Horse Whisperer. This British actress is becoming one of the hottest leading ladies in this country and for Kristin Scott Thomas, her newest leading man is none other than Harrison Ford. In her latest movie, Random Hearts... (assuming Star Jones has palpitations or something over the announcement off screen and makes Barbara Walters and the audience laugh) ah, what a lucky woman and she's happily married, I don't know . . . In her latest movie, Random Hearts, she faces every woman's nightmare. It's what we were talking about, take a look.
[Random Hearts clip]
BW: Ah, but they're not through with each other! Please welcome Kristin Scott Thomas!
[wild audience applause as KST enters, waves and sits on the sofa with The View staff]
BW: In this film, you play an American congresswoman.
Kristin Scott Thomas: Yeah.
BW: You have an American accent. You're an Englishwoman with a beautiful - how do you - do American for me.
KST: No, not now. I need hours of preparation and a lot of help.
BW: Did it take hours to do an American accent?
KST: Yeah, it's quite hard.
BW: 'Cause there wasn't a touch of it.
KST: Oh, thank you. Yeah, it was quite hard work.
BW: So, let's get to the point. Your husband is in our audience. You've been married for many years - happily married. He's a doctor. See, that's what I want for you, Star, I want a doctor.
SJ: Thank you, godmother, thank you. I'll keep praying.
BW: So, if you heard - or somebody - if he were having an affair, would you want to know?
KST: Oh, I can't--I can't even bear to think about it. So, I... um...
BW: So, the answer is no.
KST: The answer is no, I would not want to know.
SJ: Sort of like the character.
KST: Sort of like the character, yeah.
BW: Like the character in the very beginning.
SJ: Sort of like the character. The character was like 'I don't want to be bothered with this.'
BW: And Harrison Ford is pushing it - pushing . . .
Joy Behar (co-host): Maybe you're still in the role.
KST: Or, I was in the role before I got there.
[laughter]
SJ: Well, I already told you that you were the envy of my heart, because you got to play a love scene opposite Harrison Ford. [to audience] And when I say love scene, y'all have to see this movie - she got her groove on, thank you very much. [audience laughter and back to KST] That's an American saying, Kristin. Tell me what it's like. Please. [audience laughter] I've gotta focus right now.
KST: [smiling] Well, um . . . (appreciative) it's good. [wild audience laughter and applause]
SJ: I knew it! I knew it!
BW: Your husband is sitting in our audience saying 'I don't want to know!'
KST: I know, but he's a gynecologist, so . . . [audience laughter]
Meredith Viera (co-host): How do you rate - you've been opposite some of the most beautiful men around. I want you to - could you rate them as kissers? Or just describe their kissing?
KST: Well...
MV: Like Tom Cruise, for example.
KST: You know, that's actually quite difficult to do . . .
BW: Really?
SJ: You could try.
KST: Um, it's funny that you said 'the most beautiful men in the world', because that is sometimes quite distracting. It's quite kind of off-putting when you know that your leading man is more beautiful than you are. [laughter]
BW: Hardly!
JB: Hardly!
KST: But, um . . . yeah, I remember when we were doing the thing with Tom Cruise. It was very dark, very late at night and we were doing this thing and I kept sort of having to pinch myself...
BW: Sex scene, or . . .
KST: No, no, no--it was sort of up against a wall type... um... sounds rather... terrible, but I remember thinking at the time 'I can't believe I'm doing this. This is really extraordinary.' And then, you know, the latest one, Harrison Ford. [grinning at Star Jones]
SJ: [grinning back] It was good, wasn't it? See! I knew it was good!
MV: Have you ever been with one and gone, 'Oh, I thought it'd be better'?
KST: [pause] Well, I can't...
[audience laughs]
JB: She doesn't want to go there.
MV: I don't mean name him, I'm just saying...
KST: ...ah...um...yes.
JB: Oh, okay. Now, well, my favorite - or one of my favorites that you've done a movie with is Robert Redford. I love Robert Redford.
KST: Hmm, I know.
JB: And, um, you did The Horse Whisperer with him, right?
KST: Yeah.
JB: And I was reading that you had a little fantasy going about him--that you wanted to elope with him. Did you tell him before or after the movie?
KST: This all came out in the wash afterwards. Um... it's true that when I was quite, quite . . . quite a lot younger, I'd seen Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and throughout all of my adolescence, sort of the perfect man was Robert Redford. And, ah . . . you sort of think of him as being the one to whisk you away on the back of a horse and take you away to happiness forever.
JB: Yeah . . .
BW: But you never told him?
KST: [embarrassed] Oh, I couldn't tell him that, no. Why am I telling you? [audience laughs and claps]
BW: Well, now, Harrison Ford knows that he's real good. Robert Redford knows that you had a fantasy and somebody out there is saying, 'Am I the one that she didn't really like?'
KST: Yeah.
BW: You know when I was reading about you... when you were eighteen years old, you had an acting teacher who said 'forget it'.
KST: Yeah.
BW: And you did forget it. You went to Paris, you became an au pair--a mother's helper. I mean, that's devastating! And now look at you! Do you want to go back to this acting teacher and say, 'nyah, nyah, nyah!' [KST and audience laugh] How did you ever get back in again?
KST: Well, I think I was very lucky in that when I left England in that time, in that period in my life when things were really uncomfortable and kind of negative, I actually--I went to Paris and I was doing all this--and I just met people who were really helpful. One of them being the man I married and--who built up my confidence, little by little--it's taken a long time. Um... I was hideously... shy, and it took me forever to--I remember the first job I ever got in the theatre, they rung up and asked me to go there, but I was so scared and so convinced that there must be some dreadful mistake and that it was somebody else they wanted, that I wouldn't go and he actually forced me into the car. He drove me there and it was in this theatre in the middle of nowhere, in this big suburb somewhere--no buses, no trains or anything like that--and he just dumped me outside the theatre and drove off.
BW: And the rest, as they say, is history.
JB: Did you get the part?
KST: [nodding] Um-hmm.
BW: You did get the part. How long have you been married?
KST: Twelve years.
BW: And two children?
KST: Um-hmm.
BW: What a nice person you are. And it's so nice to hear this story and to see that you are not just wonderful to look at, but vulnerable and very kind to come on with us. [to audience] It is a love story that I think anyone who loves love stories would like to see. Kristin Scott Thomas and Harrison Ford in Random Hearts and it opens tomorrow. You'll have a very good time. [to KST] Thank you.
KST: Thank you.
