I think that Eleanor Roosevelt, who had a tremendous charisma, and I think was very beautiful in early pictures, was rather mocked later on, unkindly and rather cruelly, for being rather sort of plain, I suppose, would be the word you might use, but I didn't think she was. We have with Cynthia Nixon, I think, a very beautiful woman, but she, I think, has the same kind of charisma, same kind of passion, same kind of intelligence and the ability to convey all of those things as well as delicacy and vulnerability and, it's a wonderful performance, a very open performance.
And I think, Eleanor felt as though she was released through the trauma of the affair. And she grew into, if not a different kind of person, the person she might always have been. And I think you feel in Cynthia's performance this unleashing of the full- blooded woman, and I think that she conveys what I believe Eleanor had, which was tremendous magnetism and charisma, and I find it very sexy... both of them, ha ha.
