Joely Richardson interview: ‘My mother gave away everything she owned’
msn.comVanessa Redgrave and the director Tony Richardson, who died in 1991, as well as her beloved late sister, the actress Natasha, who died following a skiing accident in 2009. “When I first started out, I didn’t like people talking about my family, partly because people always assumed what my life was like, yet they had no idea,” she tells me. “Everyone thinks we had this lavish lifestyle [Joely and Natasha spent their teenage years in Florida] but actually my mother gave away everything she had when we were growing up, so that wasn’t true at all. ”And now? “I’ve gone through a whole journey with it.
I’ve got to the point where I think, well, they are my family. I’m not going to be funny or chippy about it because they are people I love and admire.
If my career isn’t up to theirs that’s really fine. I’m very happy doing my own little thing. ”I am speaking to Richardson over Zoom and immediately she laughs at the less than professional environs of my daughter’s bedroom. “Ha ha, that toy dangling from the bed looks like a hanging body,” she says. “That’s quite apt, actually, given what we are talking about. ”Indeed: we’ve met to discuss her new Channel 4 series, Suspect.
She stars alongside James Nesbitt as an emotionally inscrutable pathologist, Jackie, involved in the case of a teenager, Christina, who has apparently hanged herself.
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