Christine Baranski on 'Nine Perfect Strangers' Season 2

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Christine Baranski talks about playing a wealthy woman with a much younger lover in 'Nine Perfect Strangers' Season 2.

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00:00Mrs. Carrington Colby.

00:02I know, I've never had an entrance, certainly in a film, that starts on my feet and works its way up.

00:15But I had those incredible Bognor boots, these furry Bognor boots, and there's a waiting list to get these boots.

00:22I would never imagine myself wearing those boots.

00:25But then we go up to the ski outfit, and we've got the big hat and the glasses and the whole look.

00:33So it's a wonderful first entrance.

00:36And then I got the boy toy on my arm.

00:38What a boy toy.

00:40Isn't he heavenly?

00:42I said it's in my contract, I think, that I should have great clothes, funny lines, and a young lover in whatever I do.

00:50You know what? Get that. You deserve that.

00:53I don't know if I deserve it, but I'll do it. I'll take it.

00:56Did you have a say in who plays your young lover?

00:59No, I didn't. But boy, when Aras showed up and looked at me with those big brown eyes, I just melted.

01:05He was such a wonderful...

01:07You're going to start rumors. You're going to start gossip.

01:09All right, let him talk.

01:10He's a beautiful human being, and it's the happiest relationship.

01:16It's the only happy relationship in the show.

01:20They really have...

01:22And it's way beyond sex.

01:23It's a deeply affectionate, tender relationship, which I loved.

01:28Absolutely loved.

01:30A woman of an age with a guy that age?

01:32Let's make that more.

01:34Taking care of her? Absolutely.

01:36What was it like, your first day with Nicole Kidman?

01:41Well, you know, we all were waiting for her to arrive because of this damn...

01:44Well, because of this actor's strike.

01:47When I say damn, I mean it went on way too long.

01:51She owed work on other projects, so we were all there for six weeks or more, sort of waiting for her.

02:01So when she finally arrived, it was really like Masha arriving, you know.

02:06She wore this insanely chic gray bodysuit with that insane, insane wig.

02:14A wig.

02:14What did you think when you saw the...

02:16I know.

02:16I just thought, all right, here we go, you know.

02:21Had you watched Nine Perfect Strangers the first season?

02:24Yeah.

02:24But, you know, ours is of a pace.

02:27You know, you don't have to watch the first one to be, you know...

02:32But it's a really fun narrative.

02:35It's a very clever idea for a show to bring nine people with these disparate pasts and problems and traumas

02:44and bring them all into a beautiful location.

02:48Into a castle.

02:49Into, like, a hunting lodge.

02:51And, you know, it was great.

02:53What did you do at night there?

02:55I imagine there wasn't much around there.

02:59Oh, well, in the Alps, you know, it just...

03:03We weren't in the Alps all the time.

03:06We were actually shooting in Munich.

03:09And I'm an opera lover and a classical music lover,

03:12so I was constantly going to hear the orchestra and the opera.

03:17And then because Munich is so close to other parts of Europe, I would take...

03:21Just jetting around.

03:22In those boots.

03:23In the train to Vienna and Salzburg and Budapest, and I even got to Poland for the first time.

03:31So, for me, it was like a paid vacation.

03:33And I have to leave their...

03:41Yeah.

03:42So, let's go look.

03:43Yeah.

03:44Sure.

03:44Yeah.

03:45So, thank you.

03:47Thank you, señor Harold publishes.

03:48I spending a bit of time with two of the trabalhösts.

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