:20:07
I'd love to get into that kitchen.
:20:11
- What should we do?
- It's Geoffrey's only night in New York.
:20:15
- I vote to stay in.
- Good!
:20:18
We moved into the kitchen.
:20:25
- We watched him cook.
- We watched him chop.
:20:27
He did a sort of wizardry.
Leftovers. Onions.
:20:30
- (Ouisa) Peppers.
- Tuna. Olives.
:20:32
- (Ouisa) Ajar of sun-dried tomatoes.
- It was wonderful.
:20:35
- So, you're from...?
- Johannesburg.
:20:41
My dad took me to a movie
shot in South Africa.
:20:45
The camera moves from
this vile rioting in the streets
:20:48
to a villa where people picked
at lunch on a terrace.
:20:51
The only riot, the flowers and the birds.
Gorgeous plumage and petals.
:20:57
I didn't understand.
:20:59
Dad said to me "You meet these young
blacks who are having a terrible time."
:21:03
"They've had an inadequate education,
yet, in '76, the year of the Soweto riots,
:21:08
they took on great political responsibility.
Just makes you wonder at their maturity."
:21:13
It makes you realise that
the "crummy-childhood" theory,
:21:17
that everything can be blamed in
a Freudian fashion on a bad upbringing,
:21:21
just doesn't hold water.
:21:25
May I?
:21:31
What about being black in America?
:21:35
Well, my problem is I've never felt
American. I grew up in Switzerland.
:21:40
Boarding school. Villa Rosey.
:21:42
There's a boarding school in Switzerland
that will take you at age 18 months.
:21:47
No, no, no, no. That's not me. I've never
felt people liked me for my connections.
:21:53
And movie-star-kid problems?
None of those.
:21:57
I never knew I was black in that racist way
till I was 16 and came back here.