I never ever wanted to see this...and I still refuse to. It just sounds awful and I hate akwardness.

What the fuck happened to her face?!?

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Wait 'til they get a load of me. Boop. Boop. Boop.

She can't say the word "lust?"

And what's so interesting about him being interested in her pleasure? That's not a normal thing? Maybe she needs to find better lovers. >_>

She looks like Jack Nicholson's Joker.

http://hammarnas.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/amd_jackjoker1.jpg

...but this isn't painful. I don't know what you're talking about. Notoriously painful?

I don't see it.

So... they disagree? This is a bad thing? I'm not a big fan of talk shows, but if I had to watch one, I'd rather it be one where the host and guests engage in actual dialogue instead of just the usual "oh-my-new-movie-is-so-great". I thought this was pretty OK, as far as these shows go.

"I just grin and bear it." Looks like she no longer has a say in the matter.

No vote because I could no longer stand to watch it. I too am not a fan of extreme awkwardness.

Interviewer Michael Parkinson considered this his most difficult TV moment and thought Ms. Ryan was rude towards other guests. Meg Ryan thought he acted like nut/a disapproving dad ( http://business.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=598&id=521652006 )

Reading some comments on this interview on YouTube people are quite divided. I wonder whether men are more eager to defend Michael and women more eager to defend Meg? I generally see too personalities clashing held in prison by the eye of the camera and guests sitting with them. They both are defending their persona and interestingly play with this interviewer/interviewee situation.

Woohoo it gets sifted this time!:)

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Parkinson, Parky, Meg Ryan, painful' to 'Parkinson, Parky, Meg Ryan, painful, in the cut, jane campion' - edited by Eklek

I got the feeling, too, that it was a clash ... between genders, between generations, between an artist's way of analyzing a character and the consumption by the audience, perhaps between cultures. I didn't like this movie -- can't even remember it, except I didn't like it. However, I was very impressed with how articulate Ryan was about the director's and her choices.

It reminds me of an interview on The Actor's Studio between Lipton and Mike Myers, of all people. Myers was enormously intelligent in his responses, and Lipton -- who you would think would know better -- kept moving the conversation into a mundane level, and not listening to what Myers was saying. Myers appeared to be as frustrated with Lipton as Ryan appears with Parkinson.

Holy crap!!!

I just clicked thru to You Tube and watched Part II of the interview.

Therein lies the legendary painful stuff.

My god, Parkinson was a complete invasive twit. He didn't ask questions -- he laid out his psychoanalysis of her in an incredibly invasive manner and got huffy when she didn't say "oh yes, oh my god, you are completely correct about me."

Watch the body language -- he leans into her more and more as he (mildly) attacks her, she leans back more and more, then he says -- well, you are certainly uncomfortable being interviewed.

I also read the article linked above. Parky says "she was so rude, she turned her back on the rest of the guests."

What a jerk. He never asked the other guests any questions, he never included the other guests, and somehow this is her fault?

What a twit.

>> ^bareboards2:
Holy crap!!!
I just clicked thru to You Tube and watched Part II of the interview.
Therein lies the legendary painful stuff.
My god, Parkinson was a complete invasive twit. He didn't ask questions -- he laid out his psychoanalysis of her in an incredibly invasive manner and got huffy when she didn't say "oh yes, oh my god, you are completely correct about me."
Watch the body language -- he leans into her more and more as he (mildly) attacks her, she leans back more and more, then he says -- well, you are certainly uncomfortable being interviewed.
I also read the article linked above. Parky says "she was so rude, she turned her back on the rest of the guests."
What a jerk. He never asked the other guests any questions, he never included the other guests, and somehow this is her fault?
What a twit.


I disagree with your analasys. Parkinson - the show - is about often 'invasive' questions, it's a show to get to the heart of the interviewee, and presumably they know this or they wouldn't attend. Parkinson is an old pro, and i seriously doubt that he would have asked ryan on the show under false pretences 'No invasive questions' and end up probing her invasively. I can't see that happening, i may be wrong, but at least my comments on the matter involve more thought than yours, and if you are right then it is by coincidence.

The body language of meg ryan reminds me 100% of how my step sister used to act towards my dad when she returned from HER dad's house. Her dad would feed her lines and lines of bullshit to turn her against my dad, so when she drove in a car in the front seat with me dad, she squeezed herself against the opposite door, legs crossed away from him, leaning away, and meg ryan looks exactly like that. What does that mean? Really, not a lot, she could just be comfortable in that position, but from my point of view it looks like she's trying very hard to get away from him at times in this interview. I believe parkinson leaned towards her and sat forward in his seat to close the distance and try to give a decent showing for people in the audience and at home - if he had sat back or god forbid mimicked her body language, sitting stance then the controversy would have raged even harder, and that's undeniable.

As for parkinson's comment about her being uncomfortable in the interview - well, you've missed a trick there. He is not sitting aggressively forward, waving his hands erratically to make her shy away from him and then saying "LOOK AT YOUR POSTURE YOU ARE CLEARLY UNCOMFORTABLE." For this you must strain your intellect and look past the literary meaning - the discomfort comes in the way of her brief answers whenever he asks her anything other than cosmetic. She reams off a speech when talking about her character in the film or the director of her latest film, but when asked about herself, she replies "no, not really" and other such briefeties.

Parky did actually ask her guests for interaction in the 2nd half of this interview, when he asked trinny and susanna (a vacuous british pairing who comment on other people's appearances with regard to style) about her shoes. She was complimented and basically said "uh thanks" and no more was said on the matter. No insight into shoes, no returned compliment (from my point of view this was a blessing). For some people this is a social faux pas, at least return the compliment. People see it as arrogant.

Anyway, this video is something that provides nothing other than potentially a desire to make you go and look for the 2nd half, it's a crap video if you ask me, but this appears to be the growing standard on the sift. Include a link or a message to the 2nd half and i'll retract these comments, but please put SOME thought into your sifts at least? I mean, you could at least watch them to make sure they contain the content which you summarise in the summary.

^Hey, is there any need to insult me and aggrandize yourself? "But at least my comments on the matter involve more thought than yours." Jeesh.

I didn't miss his attempt to include the other guests -- however, that was way into the painful part and it wasn't the most scintillating topic. At that point, to me, the interview was way into Uncomfortable Land. Could Meg have expended more effort in playing into the vacuousness of that interchange? Yeah, she could have. I actually admire her for not doing so.

I take issue with how you characterize my description of his interview technique -- I did not say the things you ascribe to me. Rather than get into a back and forth with you, I'll just leave it at that.

My first post on this subject said that I thought that Part I showed a clash of cultures. I have watched some British talk shows and been surprised at how it appears that American celebrities can be ignorant of the nature of the shows that they are on. If you are correct that Parkinson typically does this kind of thing in an interview, I suspect that Ryan wasn't prepared for it.

I was a fan of Meg Ryan years ago -- her RomCom persona on-screen wore very thin over time. This interview, however uncomfortable it clearly was for both parties, has kindled my admiration for her. I liked how she discussed the characters, I thought she was pretty brave in her answers to his questions that clearly felt invasive to her. Yes, she was remarkably guarded and unprepared for his style of interviewing -- given that she started out behind the eight ball, I thought she hung in there really well and made some brave choices under the circumstances.

Well, this is all a tempest in a teapot. This happened years ago. And here we are discussing it as if it were Something Important.

Righto, take off your cranky pants, dannym3141 - link to second half of the interview is amended. Enjoy!