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Meghan: Talk with Oprah ‘liberating’
Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has described to Oprah Winfrey how “liberating” it was to have a conversation — let alone a sit-down interview — with the television host without royal minders.
“CBS This Morning” aired a clip Friday of Winfrey speaking to Meghan about a conversation they had before the actor’s wedding to Prince Harry in May 2018.
The clip opens with Winfrey describing how she asked for an interview and Meghan recounting how there were others in the room and she wasn’t even supposed to be speaking with Winfrey.
“As an adult who lived a really independent life to then go into this construct that is, um … different than I think what people imagine it to be, it’s really liberating to be able to have the right and the privilege in some ways to be able to say yes,” Meghan tells Winfrey.
Winfrey’s interview with Meghan and Harry is set to air Sunday night.
When Meghan was asked what was right about doing the interview now, she said it was because of the couple’s newfound freedom.
“That we’re on the other side of a lot of, a lot of life experience that’s happened,” Meghan said. “And also that we have the ability to make our own choices in a way that I couldn’t have said yes to you then. That wasn’t my choice to make.”
Berlin fest’s top prize goes to ‘Loony Porn’:
Judges at the Berlin Film Festival announced Friday that the satirical movie “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn” by Romanian director Radu Jude has been awarded this year’s top prize, saying it has the “rare and essential quality of a lasting art work.”
The film about a teacher facing scrutiny over a sex tape “captures on screen the very content and essence, the mind and body, the values and the raw flesh of our present moment in time,” the Berlinale jury said as it awarded the film its Golden Bear.
The Silver Bear for best leading performance went to German actor Maren Eggert, who plays a scientist exploring life and longing with a handsome humanoid robot in “I’m Your Man.” Denes Nagy of Hungary received the award for best director for his debut “Natural Light,” following a Hungarian unit hunting partisans in the Soviet Union during World War II.
Phish guitarist to found treatment center:
Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio plans to start a substance use disorder treatment center in Vermont.
Anastasio, who is now 14 years sober, announced
Thursday that his Divided Sky Foundation has purchased a building for the nonprofit center in Ludlow.
“Like so many people in America and so many in Vermont, I became addicted to opiates,” he said in a statement. “I was extremely lucky to have access to care, and I know how important it is to be part of a recovery community. I’m grateful that we can help provide that opportunity for others.”
March 6 birthdays:
Dancer Carmen de Lavallade is 90. Actor Joanna Miles is 81. Guitarist David Gilmour is 75. Director Rob Reiner is 74. Actor Anna Maria Horsford is 73. Journalist Armen Keteyian is 68. Actor Tom Arnold is 62. Actor D.L. Hughley is 58. Actor Connie Britton is 54. Rapper Tyler, the Creator is 30.