Travicity
02-08-2011, 03:42 PM
SIGOURNEY Weaver clearly has a sense of humor!
The actress has revealed how she reveled in a false tabloid report linking her romantically to director Roman Polanski — because the affair was the most entertaining rumor she’d ever read about herself.
“I was on the cover of some English magazine saying I was having a big affair with Roman Polanski because somebody had taken a picture of me in a cafe with him in Rome, talking about doing Death and the Maiden together,” Weaver said.
“He actually called to say, ‘Should we sue this magazine?’ And I said, ‘Oh Roman, this is the most interesting thing that anybody has ever written about me. Please let’s not sue them, let’s encourage them!’”
Weaver recently insisted she considers being a parent and a wife is more important to her than being a Hollywood star.
“I think most of my life changing experiences have been as a parent and as a wife — for a mother, just getting your child through the school system is a heroic job, and when I think of my life, I don’t think of my work, I think of my real life,” she said.
“You know, at home I have my family and I have all the different things that I care about, like human rights. There are lots of causes that I work for and when I’m in New York I end up just spending a lot of time on them. I don’t begrudge it all, I’m saying that I keep incredibly busy.
“I love to be with my family, I love to do nothing, I love to read, to be in the garden, I love to take walks, play with my dogs and to cook — I am incredibly boring.
“My perfect day would be spent in the country, out in nature with the dogs and my husband and maybe my daughter and her boyfriend.
“We would hike up some small mountain with a picnic, then have a swim and cook hamburgers or something and then go to sleep.”
The actress has revealed how she reveled in a false tabloid report linking her romantically to director Roman Polanski — because the affair was the most entertaining rumor she’d ever read about herself.
“I was on the cover of some English magazine saying I was having a big affair with Roman Polanski because somebody had taken a picture of me in a cafe with him in Rome, talking about doing Death and the Maiden together,” Weaver said.
“He actually called to say, ‘Should we sue this magazine?’ And I said, ‘Oh Roman, this is the most interesting thing that anybody has ever written about me. Please let’s not sue them, let’s encourage them!’”
Weaver recently insisted she considers being a parent and a wife is more important to her than being a Hollywood star.
“I think most of my life changing experiences have been as a parent and as a wife — for a mother, just getting your child through the school system is a heroic job, and when I think of my life, I don’t think of my work, I think of my real life,” she said.
“You know, at home I have my family and I have all the different things that I care about, like human rights. There are lots of causes that I work for and when I’m in New York I end up just spending a lot of time on them. I don’t begrudge it all, I’m saying that I keep incredibly busy.
“I love to be with my family, I love to do nothing, I love to read, to be in the garden, I love to take walks, play with my dogs and to cook — I am incredibly boring.
“My perfect day would be spent in the country, out in nature with the dogs and my husband and maybe my daughter and her boyfriend.
“We would hike up some small mountain with a picnic, then have a swim and cook hamburgers or something and then go to sleep.”