Vanessa Redgrave on Joan Didion: 'I worshipped her as a writer' by Vanessa Redgrave

Joan Didion was someone whom I had long worshipped as a writer. However, we became friends and colleagues when David Hare and the producer Scott Rudin invited me to take the solo part of Joan herself in the stage version of The Year of Magical Thinking. The book had been published in 2005, and David was planning to direct it as a play on Broadway. He and his stage designer, Bob Crowley, presented a series of backdrop…

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