Was Dick Cavet pursuing personal things during that TV interview?
Yes. It was the first interview she had ever given on television. So the first 15 minutes she didn’t really know that she wanted to give the interview at all. Cavet invited her into the studio. He said… come out, see how you feel, we’ll just talk and if you are not interested or don’t like it, then we won’t do it. Very fortuitously, they were rolling the cameras and she did not know they were on…. she came in, re-arranged the furniture, criticised the carpet, changed the seating plan because she wasn’t being shot from the right angle, was talking about the theatre. And I thought it was interesting how her nerves were manifesting themselves. I tried to look into the behaviour behind the action and it was interesting to watch that many, many times. Then I turned off the visuals and just recorded the sound and listened to the way she breathed, what she chose to laugh at, and when he would ask her more personal questions, what she would do with that information. You can hear what someo
