Interview on GMTV, June, 1997, transcription & comments by
Jules & Vip Mehta
Anything inside < > is a comment added by the transcriber.
MP = Male presenter
FP= Female presenter
TH= Teri
Teri is wearing a short dark beige sleeveless dress with a pale pink
rose print.
MP:Welcome back with a very special guest this morning...Only one
Hollywood star who knows how to pick up her leading man is Teri
Hatcher. First as Lois Lane it was Superman, now she's setting her
sights on James Bond. Not only that, but last week- look at that
fabulous photograph (pic of Teri in the red sheet)- she was voted the
sexiest woman in the world by the readers of FOR HIM Magazine and if
all that wasn't *enough* -Teri is here now, Goodmorning Teri-...
TH: Good Morning
MP: Now you're set to become a Mommy
TH: Yeah...Yeah...
MP: Congratulations, times about 5 there I think. How are you feeling?
TH: Good.For about 4 months.Through all..Didn't have morning sickness,
through all the tiredness.So just feeling good now.I think I'm just
starting to feel it move which is *amazing*.
MP:Extremely exciting, now you're over *here for the Bond movie which
must be really exciting too...
TH: It is, really fun.It's a great crew. You know, I've never worked on
a movie before like this where it's so family oriented. There are
actually people on the crew who are second generation, third generation
Bond, you know, people...electricians, whose fathers were Bond
electricians, it's quite a family organisation.
MP: There you are with Mr Bond
himself.
TH: Oh yes...Isn't he handsome?
FP: Mmmmm
MP: Well yeah, if you go for looks, talent and personality...Yes...
TH: Well, if you go for that he's o.k.
MP: If you go for that... yes . What's your character like
in the movie?
TH: I play Jonathan Price's wife, who is the villain- he's the villain
in the film- and I've also had this great love affair relationship with
Bond in the past, so when we run across each other it's apparent that
there's an emotional history there and I sort of mean something to him,
and then I sort of help the plot along and you know I become like...I
help the good guy and help the bad guy.
MP: And you were fine during all the filming? Cos it doesn't show a
tiny bit, does it Fee ?
FP: It absolutely *doesn't*. You're as slim as a reed.There's not even
a tiny little bump there.
TH: Thank-you...I can just say that this area has gotten a lot larger but I guess that's not, I guess that's not
bad for a Bond film. No we...I have two days left, luckily. We've
finished most of it.It just, sort of, all worked out. There was no
special planning that went on or anything, it just... the timing all
worked out.
MP:What a great time to have a fabulous cleavage, when you're in a Bond
movie...
TH:Yeah, exactly, it was for the dress
MP: Mother Nature has been very kind to you Teri. The fabulous
photograph we showed at the beginning, I've got a copy of it here from
FOR HIM magazine. This is the picture that they published in their
issue which gave you the title 'most sexy woman in the world'.I mean,
how does a girl like you react to that?
TH: It's so funny...
MP: You think so?
TH: I think it is. I mean it's flattering.I guess, somebody said
there's only two blondes in the top ten, and I thought... Sorry...
FP: Don't worry, I'm not blonde underneath
TH: And I thought that was good for brunettes.And...Um..Gillian
Anderson won last year, and I think she represents a really
intelligent, smart, sort of character, the way Lois Lane is, and I'm
happy that *that's* what's being considered sexy and...
FP: She was very similar reaction to you actually...In that she was
quite embarrased by it.
TH: Yeah...
FP: She was on quite recently with us and we asked her what it was like
being constantly voted sexiest woman, and, as I say, her reaction was
so similar to yours.
TH: Well there's such a difference, usually, I find, in Hollywood
between the image that's being presented in the press and who the
person really is. And also Gillian is a mother and we're both in our
early thirties and all of those things are good for women... that
*that's* what's being considered sexy and I'm proud of that.
MP:You talked there about the way things come across in the press about
tv people and the way it is in real life.Superman, TNAOS as we call it
here, is what you're extremely popular over here ,we hear all these
stories and, it's happened about our own show,about the stars falling
out that you and Dean who plays Clark Kent/Superman had fallen out.
What's the story there?
TH: Oh we just *hate* each other . No, you know,
there is *no* story. There's never been a story.Initially, in the
States we have those tabloids too, the story was we were having an
affair, and then it was we hated each other, you know, all this, all
the facts...nothing legitimate at all, but you know, what can you do?
People print the things, you can't really fight about it.But no,he's
great. We've always had a good working relationship and in a way it's
almost like a marriage, we spent so much time together.
MP: I think you can tell that when you look at the show, let's take a
look at a clip...
MP: And Lois is the only girl who knows when he takes his glasses off
he's a whole different person.Is it good fun doing that? It looks like
it...
TH: Yeah it *was*.I mean, I say *was* 'cause it's finished
now.
MP: That is the news, official? It's now finished?
TH: Yeah...
FP: Which leads me on to...We have had lots of phone calls from
viewers. One lady says will we ask you if you have plans to do another
series?
TH: Another tv series or another year of Superman?
FP: Superman, I think she means...
TH: Oh...umm...Well... No...They cancelled it in the
States. Warner Brothers did. So... That's sort of how it works.
MP: Oh well, it was good while it lasted...
TH: Yeah...
MP: Real life hubby, are you missing him?
TH:**Desperately** we were on the phone until 2.30 am last night.I
just, I can't...I think it's something to do with the pregnancy, you
have this great nesting urge. I just, I'd nothing to say, but we were
on the phone for two hours. I was saying: "So where are you in the
house?" He was like: "I'm in the kitchen", I'm like: "Are you having
coffee?". You know... 2.30 in the morning and that's what I'm doing.
But I miss him...
MP: Aww...Well listen Teri why don't you have a look at that monitor
there, we have a bit of a surprise for you...
Cut to clip of Jon Tenney in a tux, not live...
JT: Well, I just have to send a special wish to my wife who's far away
in London and say...I love you and I love the giblet that's on the way
MP/FP: Awww
TH: Oh my God! I'm gonna cry... That's so
funny, the giblet thing I have to explain...
TH: I know...
MP: Stop Teri, I'm off
FP:Give me one too!
TH: We originally thought that it was, the baby was due at
Thanksgiving, but it's actually due earlier than that but when we
thought it was going to be Thanksgiving, first we were thinking pumpkin
pie...You guys don't have Thanksgiving but we have like turkeys and
things and so we started calling it the giblet, so that's where it came
from.
MP: That's where the name came from...
TH: Yeah.That was *very* nice. That's the nicest thing anyone in
Britain has done for me!
MP: Well we planned that surprise for you, 'cause you're not just the
sexiest woman, but the nicest and the funniest and the fairest and we
want to wish you all the very best...
TH: Thank-you very much...
MP: with the giblet, whatever flavour you have, boy giblet or girl
giblet, and enjoy your year as sexiest woman in the world, 'cause it'll
go on forever...
TH: 'Cause next year it will be the galaxy ...Yeah
right...
MP: Then the universe
TH: Yeah...the universe
FP: Great to see you, thanks a lot...Still to come
< aside while FP is speaking> MP: And good luck with the Bond.
FP:They're still talking these two, shall I do this and you can carry
on there...
