KST on Donny & Marie
Transcribed by Pen McKissick
Donny Osmond: You know what? There has been so much heat on the new Harrison Ford film, Random Hearts. And I had a chance to talk with Kristin Scott Thomas, his co-star. A wonderful, wonderful actress. She's the one that sets sparks flying on her on-screen affair with Harrison Ford. I asked her the question that I think every single woman watching right now wants to know the answer to. Take a look at this.
[cuts to film of Kristin Scott Thomas/Donny Osmond interview]
DO: Every woman watching right now... okay...
KST: Yes?
DO: Would love to hear the answer to this question. You've acted with some of the sexiest men on this planet... Tom Cruise, Hugh Grant, Robert Redford and, of course, Harrison Ford. This is a loaded question ... Who's the sexiest...
KST: What's it like to...
DO: No, who's the sexiest?
KST: Who's the sexiest? I don't think that... I don't think I have an answer to that, I'm afraid. I hate to disappoint...
DO: That's alright.
KST: But... um... because each one is so completely different. I mean, Hugh is just so funny!
DO: Yeah...
KST: And his humor is incredibly sexy. Robert Redford is just so handsome and kind...
DO: Did you get a little furklempt when you were...
KST: What does that mean? [laughing]
DO: [laughing] It's a Utah word, basically. Nervous. Did you get nervous often?
KST: Working with whom?
DO: With Robert Redford.
KST: Well, I was what they call in English "gobsmacked".
DO: Gobsmacked? What does that mean?
KST: Gobsmacked is like "amazed".
DO: Oh, okay. 'Cause we don't use that in Utah.
KST: No, I'm sure you don't. [laughter] Um... because every time he would go in front of the camera, you'd see him on the monitor and suddenly you'd be at the movies.
DO: That's Robert Redford!
KST: Yeah. And there he was... and there you are, just...
DO: Did you have a crush on him?
KST: (embarrassed) I'm not going to tell you that...
DO: Oh, please!
KST: No...
DO: (coaxing) Kristin?
KST: (weakly) No... no... no...
DO: Well, that was a definite "yes"! [laughter]
KST: Oh, I don't know. I certainly had a crush on Montana. I love that place.
DO: Really?
KST: It's heaven!
DO: Really...
KST: It really is so beautiful...
DO: Is that where you did Horse Whisperer?
KST: Yeah.
DO: Great film!
KST: It is great, isn't it?
DO: Fabulous! Harrison Ford. What's it like acting opposite Harrison Ford.
KST: Well, I loved it. I really did. He's a great person, because when he comes onto a set, everybody just sort of relaxes. He's got a great sense of humor - he's very dry. He's quite quiet. He can be... ah... he's kind of... you feel safe with him, you know?
DO: Kristin, I saw this film, Random Hearts, about three or four days ago. First of all, loved it. I thought you were brilliant.
KST: Thank you.
DO: I walked out of the theatre and... now, I've been married about 21 years... over 21 years. Same wonderful woman. And the first thing I did--that was I went to my office, picked up the phone and called her to tell her how much I love her, because of what this movie did to me. Is that the emotion you wanted to create in this movie?
KST: (touched) Well, it's... I'm thrilled that you've... that that did that for you. It's... it's really good news.
[Random Hearts clip]
DO: I found it interesting from a casting point of view--here you are, a British woman living in Paris. A Parisian British woman . . .
KST: Yeah, starts out badly, doesn't it...
DO: Playing a American congresswoman. How do you get a role like that from your background?
KST: Well...
DO: Is it something that you really fought for or is it just something that fell into your lap?
KST: Well, I wouldn't... I'd hate to say it fell into my lap, but Sydney just asked me to do it and I read it and loved the story. Really loved the screenplay and then he wanted me to send a tape so that I could do an American accent. So, it was like a Sunday night panic attack, you know, I had to get it in the fast post the next morning and the only way I had of doing it was getting my daughter's tape recorder and an old tape with some nursery rhymes or something on it. [Donny laughs] You know, shaking dust out of it. And, actually, I read something from a magazine - an interview of Sharon Stone, actually, and I put it on tape and then stuck it in the post the next day with a note saying 'Don't let anybody else hear this!' [laughter]
DO: When Sydney says 'Cut!', can you just goof around or do you stay in the moment? Do you have to stay in the moment?
KST: We had some very funny moments.
DO: Such as...
KST: Well, there this famous scene in the car where... ah... it gets quite... sort of... well, uncomfortable...
DO: [laughing] That's a good way to say it!
KST: [chuckling] There's this moment where we're sort of clinched and...
DO: [laughing] Use the word "furklempt".
KST: And we have this moment when we're sort of really attacking each other in this embrace, which is also supposed to be kissing and it's just really vi - and then he says 'Cut!' and I sort of swing back and say 'Blimey!' [laughter] It was just so inappropriate, you know? Blimey is not a word you use when you've been kissing Harrison Ford. [loud laughter]
DO: What is the word?
KST: I think one's supposed to go 'Ooh!' or something. I'm not quite sure what, but it isn't 'blimey'.
DO: I thought the word that you used in that scene was perfect.
KST: What did I say?
DO: 'Well, that was fun.'
KST: Yeah, well...
DO: Was it?
KST: No, it wasn't. It was hell!
DO: Oh, come on!
KST: That was really hard, that! It was really difficult to shoot, because it was really tense and it isn't a particularly tender scene if you remember, I mean, it's quite violent and desperate. There's a terrible grief in that scene, I think... which is... and it was a very uncomfortable moment and very difficult to shoot in a confined space and... no, it wasn't fun.
[Random Hearts clip]
DO: When you do a scene like that... you've been married how many years?
KST: Twelve years...
DO: Twelve years? Kristin, it's got to be difficult for your husband to watch a scene like that.
KST: Yeah. He hasn't seen it yet. [laughter]
DO: Would you let him see it?
KST: Of course, I'll let him see it. Yeah, of course.
[audience applauds as clip ends and shot returns to the studio]
DO: That was...
Marie Osmond: Did you have fun talking to her?
DO: Well, I don't know if 'fun' is the right word. It was a very pleasant conversation. I really enjoyed speaking with her. She a very intellectual woman. She lives in Paris, like I said, with her husband. She has two children. And it was a very nice conversation. I really enjoyed it. I also thought that the teaming of those two - Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas together - was great casting. The acting was great.
