“In this week’s
cover story, featuring interviews with Glenn Close and Janet McTeer, the stars of
Albert Nobbs, there were a few nice moments with McTeer that, sadly, landed on the cutting-room floor. One of them dealt with McTeer’s work on the new film
The Woman in Black, a thriller starring Daniel Radcliffe and releasing today into theaters nationwide. She told
Metro Weekly:
“I really don’t have a ton to do in [Woman in Black]. I play Ciaran Hinds’s wife. Ciaran and I have worked together many times and all we do is laugh from start to finish. And Daniel Radcliffe, of course, was just delightful, I have to say. Absolutely delightful. Somehow, I appear to be the only English actor who wasn’t in a Harry Potter movies — I don’t know how that happened.
“Daniel and I hadn’t met before and it was so lovely to watch a young actor transitioning from all of those things he did as a kid to now being a young adult doing young adult kind of roles. And he’s so clever. He’s a very, very intelligent young man and such a nice man for somebody who has gone through that whole uber-uber fame at such a very young age. I think that’s quite tough on the kids during their developing years. He just turned out this incredibly hard-working, very concentrated, absolutely charming young man. I thought he was delightful.”
I also asked McTeer a question I frequently pose to straight actors I interview: “Do you remember the first time a gay person came out to you?” Her response:… “
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