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"PinterestFacebookLunch Data Where: Chateau Marmont hotel, Hollywood, Calif. What they ate: Annette and Carole both had artichoke soup and roasted beet salad with buffalo mozzarella and vinaigrette.\nLunch Data\nWhere: Chateau Marmont hotel, Hollywood, Calif.\nWhat they ate: Annette and Carole both had artichoke soup and roasted beet salad with buffalo mozzarella and vinaigrette.\nCAROLE RADZIWILL: No one plays a woman on the verge of cracking up better than you: American Beauty, Being Julia and now your latest role in Running With Scissors. You don&amp;#39;t seem crazy&amp;#8212;are you?\nANNETTE BENING: [Laughs.] No! I&amp;#39;ve always been pretty levelheaded. In show business you need to have a certain internal stability. But when I study people, like the character in this movie, I feel very close to them. That&amp;#39;s part of my job, to get to a point where I can imagine that happening.\nCR: You can?\nAB: Sure. My character in Running With Scissors is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness.\nCR: This mother has no maternal instinct, and she gives away her only child so she can pursue her dreams. Yet, unbelievably, there&amp;#39;s a humanity to her.\nAB: Yes, because we&amp;#39;re not all evil or all good, and we all make mistakes to one degree or another. In a film, if you can capture what&amp;#39;s going on underneath, you can begin to make a connection between the character and the people watching it.\nCR: How come, in all the years you&amp;#39;ve been famous, I&amp;#39;ve never read about you stumbling out of a bar at two in the morning?\nAB: Because I&amp;#39;m home, asleep in my bed! I think what&amp;#39;s interesting about the whole paparazzi thing is that unless you&amp;#39;re Brad Pitt or Madonna, you can pretty much avoid it. You know when you&amp;#39;re going to an opening that you will be photographed, so that&amp;#39;s fine. And you know the restaurants that have paparazzi, so you don&amp;#39;t go to them.\nCR: I read an interview once where you talked about something called &amp;quot;scene spill.&amp;quot;\nAB: Oh, mmm-hm. [Laughs.]\nCR: So you&amp;#39;re working on a film and there&amp;#39;s a love interest and it &amp;quot;spills over&amp;quot; outside of the film. For instance, with Bugsy you were working with your future husband\u2026\nAB: It&amp;#39;s so funny. It happens all the time.\nCR: The boundaries blur, between the pretend movie life and real life?\nAB: Yes, and sometimes you end up married for 15 years with four children! [Laughs.] But in a way, I fall in love with all the people I&amp;#39;m working with, women, directors, everybody. As actors, that&amp;#39;s actually one of the real pleasures of the work. You have this weird opportunity to get unnaturally close to people very quickly.\nCR: Your family is as close to royalty in this town as it gets. Does the insatiable media scrutiny annoy you?\nAB: If you&amp;#39;re an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention. Recently a very sweet journalist asked me, &amp;quot;So who made the first move, you or Warren?&amp;quot; I thought, I&amp;#39;ve been married for 15 years, and somebody is still asking me that!\nCR: So who made the first move?\nAB: [Laughs.] It was pretty mutual. I tell people, &amp;quot;You know when you met your girlfriend or your wife or your boyfriend?&amp;quot; It wasn&amp;#39;t any different than that.\nCR: Too bad, this is where fairy tales come in handy. They are more exciting than real life.\nAB: And much more simple.\nCR: There are whisperings that you&amp;#39;re going to be nominated again for an Oscar.\nAB: Oh, we&amp;#39;d better knock on something!\nCarole Radziwill is the author of What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship and Love."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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