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Frost/Nixon must have stirred up some old emotions for you.
I certainly hadn’t really thought about Nixon interviews for a very long time. I think it’s quite exciting when you look at a part of your past that was wonderful, and I’m glad nobody forgot it even if we put it behind us, it was still something put in historical perspective, and by someone we didn’t even know at the time!
Sure, Peter embellished upon it, but it was a drama anyway—time was ticking on, money was needed, and research had to be done, David had to be prepared, and then he had to go on and do it. So you know to look back thirty years and say oh, wow, yeah that was interesting that was something I’m glad I was part of. Of course, I wasn’t part of the interviewing, I made sandwiches. But I went to the tapings and I had drinks with Nixon and I got to know him and I had a dialogue with him, so you know it was amazing saga if you like for English people to come over to America and do that.
Especially because it’s become such an instrumental part of American history.
One always hoped it would be and time has told that it definitely was. So in that I’m not the least bit fussed about the clothes I wear in the movie, or the handbags I carry. I never would have worn a strapless dress to meet Nixon, that’s for sure. But in the end they did a really god job, so I don’t have any issues at all.
RELATED: Listen to David Frost's conversation with Frost/Nixon star Michael Sheen and read The Daily Beast's interview with former Nixon aide Diane Sawyer.
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