:08:02
George had the idea
to take young people...
:08:06
because Elizabeth Taylor,
Rock Hudson, and Jimmy Dean...
:08:10
were all in their 20s...
:08:13
and, as the film progressed, to age them.
:08:18
So that was
kind of a revolutionary thing to do.
:08:22
One of the characteristics
that marked my father...
:08:25
was a tremendous self-confidence
in terms of making films.
:08:31
In getting from Los Angeles
to the location of Giant...
:08:36
in Marfa, Texas,
we went on this one splendiferous train.
:08:41
A big, long train with everybody on it.
:08:44
It was an incredibly fun...
:08:46
and interesting event just to get there,
because there were so many of us.
:08:51
We had Elizabeth Taylor playing,
and she was 24 years old at the time.
:08:55
I must say that I was,
besides becoming really a friend....
:09:00
I mean, she was such a sweetheart.
:09:04
I had such great respect for her...
:09:09
for what she did in that movie.
:09:11
Here's a 24-year-old young actress,
playing at the end of the movie...
:09:15
so believably that older Leslie Benedict.
:09:19
She was wonderful.
:09:21
I knew Elizabeth when we were children...
:09:24
but I hadn't seen her in,
well, I hadn't seen her for three babies...
:09:28
and I think she had two sons
at the time maybe.
:09:32
One thing that brought us right away
close together were our children.
:09:37
Because we were both concerned,
as parents, of leaving our kids at home.
:09:42
So that was an immediate sharing
of thoughts and feeling together...
:09:47
togetherness as two mommies
who were working parents...
:09:51
who had their kids at home.
:09:54
Then we both discovered
we loved flowers.
:09:58
I am a flower freak!