Greater than 50 years later, Glenn Close is recalling the piece of knowledge from a display legend that acquired her all for appearing.
The Academy Award nominee lately described her “big respect” for Katherine Hepburn and revealed how the late actress impressed her to take up the occupation whereas she was attending Virginia’s Faculty of William & Mary.
“The factor I’ve at all times liked about Hepburn is she appeared to essentially know who she was,” Shut lately advised People.
She recalled seeing Hepburn seem on an The Dick Cavett Present in 1973 whereas portray surroundings for her college’s theater.
“I bear in mind she mentioned, ‘No regrets, no regrets.’ Fabulous,” she recounted. “She was so phenomenal, so herself. So the following day I went to the pinnacle of the [theater] division and I mentioned, ‘Please nominate me for a sequence of auditions.’ And from that, I acquired my first job that fall.
Katharine Hepburn seems on The Dick Cavett Present on Sept. 14, 1973. (ABC Picture Archives/Disney Basic Leisure Content material through Getty Photographs)
Shut recalled she “went straight from school to my first job on Broadway the autumn that I graduated,” including: “Then I did theater for six years earlier than I acquired into my first film, which is The World In response to Garp, and mainly have by no means regarded again.”
The Deliverance actress additionally acquired the possibility to fulfill Hepburn and inform her in regards to the expertise after her tribute to the actress on the 1990 Kennedy Center Honors. “She was carrying a black raincoat, a white shirt, black pants and extremely polished black Reeboks,” recalled Shut. “And everybody else was in robes and jewels. And she or he regarded fabulous.”
Shut mentioned Hepburn later despatched her “probably the most unbelievable letter,” which learn, “Aren’t we fortunate to be on this horrible occupation, this terrifying occupation, and, let’s face it, this scrumptious technique to spend your life?”
Hepburn, who received 4 Oscars for Finest Actress in Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968) — for which she tied with Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl — and On Golden Pond (1981), died at age 96 in 2003.
