Pleasant morning acting like an idiot in front of two of Hollywood’s most stunning leading ladies. Walked into my Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman interview at the Dorchester Hotel to find Scarlett talking about a dream she’d had the previous night. Apparently Barak Obama had made her a senator (Scarlett is a big Barak fan). So I sat down and started quizzing them about the US election for five minutes (Natalie is backing Hillary). Then the producer gives me the five minute heads-up, and panicked, I rush through my questions, which are already a mess as I’d anticipated time with each actress separately, rather than a threesome. So to speak. Anyway, ended up asking Scarlett about her love of cheese. Which at the time seemed to me to follow naturally from a corset and lunch discussion. But apparently not. Heard Natalie whisper: “journalists are weird” as I left. Guess I blew the menage a trois. You can watch the interview here
© 2008 simon
