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INTIMIDATING PRESENCE
Natasha Richardson, who costars in the movie remake of The Parent Trap, suffered an attack of stage fright recently during her Tony-winning turn as Sally Bowles in the Broadway revival of Cabaret. The reason: Liza Minnelli, who won an Oscar for her performance in the same role in the 1972 film, turned up to see the show. "Liza made an entrance, and the whole audience stood to applaud," says Richardson, 35. "I said, `I want to go home. I can't do this tonight. They're going to hate me.'" A couple of deep breaths later, Richardson was bravely belting it out, and the next day she received two dozen red roses with a note: "From your biggest fan in the world. Liza."
Actress Richardson likes darker roles
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Copyright © 1998 The Associated Press
NEW YORK (July 26, 1998 3:05 p.m. EDT) -- Natasha Richardson has trouble getting up for happy roles like the perky single mom she plays in "The Parent Trap."
"It's the light, bright parts I have to work at," Richardson, 35, says in the July 31 Entertainment Weekly. "It's weird, but where I'm comfortable going is where the emotionally painful stuff is. That's where I feel a connection I can channel into."
One element of the rosy remake's plot, in which twins try to reunite their divorced parents, did bother Richardson though: the fact that the parents split the two girls up when they went their separate ways.
"What kind of mother FedExes one of the twins off to Napa and says, 'It's OK, I'll never see you again?"' Richardson wonders.
She may soon get her chance at a darker screen role, co-starring with husband Liam Neeson in "Asylum." She plays the adulterous spouse of a mental institution doctor who has an affair with a wife-killing patient played by Neeson.
"I've had the opportunity on stage to play some incredible women," she said. "But I feel I haven't had that part on film yet. I hope this is the part."
