Kristin Scott Thomas

Tiny, tiny, tiny.

Was he kind?

Super kind, yeah.

No, really a generous, spirited person.

Did you keep in touch?

Yes, we did.

Yes, we did.

But the problem with people like that who are so talented and so...

Extraordinary is there are a lot of people who are protecting that.

And so to try to get through this wall of people who, for various reasons, some of them good reasons, some of them less good reasons, want to kind of.

keep you away that was quite that was a learning curve i mean the whole thing was just a mad mad mad moment and um but we did keep in touch because many years later i was doing publicity for a film i think it was richard iii and i went on a tv show morning tv breakfast tv and you have to get up at the crack of dawn and go along and they're all being very chirpy and everything's sort of

And it was in New York and I had a very big press schedule and

I go on the thing and they get asked the question, what was your first film?

It was with Prince.

I hadn't heard anything from him since then.

And then a bit later on in the day, I got a call in the studio where I was having my photograph taken saying, and there was a bit of a kerfuffle in the studio, Prince wants to talk to you.

Oh, I'll just take that.

I love that.

And then we stayed in touch since then.

But I love the idea that he was watching Regis and Kathy Lee at seven o'clock in the morning.