Natasha Richardson

[caddyman]

I find myself unaccountably sad to read about the death after a skiing accident of Natasha Richardson at the age of 45.

It is particularly mystifying since looking down her filmography, I can say with some certainty, that I have not seen any of her films though I think I may have seen her in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on TV as Violet Hunter in the adaptation of Copper Beeches.

I suppose it is just the thought of someone being cut down in their prime.


Natasha Richardson
1963-2009

Comments

[oldnick.livejournal.com]

It's sad, but it would have left me even more directly moved had it been Joely. Natasha was a fine actress though.

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

I've seen her in a couple of films that Karly has, The Parent Trap and 101 Dalmatians (the one with Glenn Close playing Cruella DeVil) but know next to nowt about her; still I, also, have found myself quite stricken by her sudden death. I think it's the fragility of life, that that we're here one minute and can be gone the next. It's Liam Neeson I feel for.

[irdm.livejournal.com]

It is a sad thing, not just to die but to die so randomly.

[ysharros.livejournal.com]

Whoa, that's a bit of a shock. :|

[thru-her-lens.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the same thing this morning. I liked her as an actress, have seen her in a few things, and it has brought home a bit the capriciousness of life. How can you die from a small skiing accident that you walk away from? Such a shame for all involved.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

The Parent Trap was her, 101 Dalmatians was her sister Joely.

[fen-wolfchile.livejournal.com]

The only one of those I've seen is Gothic, which is good film, if a tad odd.

A sad loss non the less.

[budgie-uk.livejournal.com]

I saw The Parent Trap a short while ago, one Sunday afternoon. I actually tuned in because I thought it was the original (the one with Brian Keith, Maureen O'Hara and Hayley Mills) and I hadn't seen it in years.

Although initially disappointed that it wasn't the original, I sat and watched it, and bar a couple of bits where the updating really didn't work, I thoroughly enjoyed it, and it seemed apparent that all the main cast had a blast making it. There seemed several moments where I guessed the director called CUT instants before one or the other of the cast cracked up laughing...

Edit to add: It may be entirely selfish, but the thought that she was a shade over a year older than me has been sending chills down my spine since I heard.

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

Ah, I sit corrected.

[failing-angel.livejournal.com]

I think that it might be due to the suddeness of the whole thing - from an apparently minor injury to life support. Unlike, say, Ron Silver or Pat McGoohan, there wasn't any sort of indication that it was going to happen.