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For Kevin Kline, working withSigourney Weaverhas a few benefits, he reveals in the new issue of PEOPLE: “It’s always fun. She makes me laugh. I don’t have to bend over to kiss her,” quips the actor, who stands 6-foot-2. Weaver is 5-foot-10 and a half.
The two actors, friends for more than 40 years, first met when they were tapped to cohost the Obie Awards, honoring the best of off-Broadway shows, back in 1981. Since then, they have costarred in three movies: the 1993 comedyDave, the 1997 dramaThe Ice StormandThe Good House, a romantic dramedy about Hildy (Weaver), an alcoholic New England real estate agent who rekindles a romance with former high school flame Frank (Kline).
Weaver also recalls how one of the movie’s two directors said to Kline during the scene, “You’re kind of looking around.” Kline says he remembers turning to his right. “I was probably noticing the lady who was the dog handler, and said ‘What the hell is she…?’ Maybe she was also an intimacy coach,” he jokes.
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Despite being close pals who both live in New York, Weaver, who shares daughter Charlotte, 32, with husband Jim Simpson, 66, and Kline, who has two children, Greta, 28, and Owen, 30, with wife actress Phoebe Cates, 59, don’t actually hang out all that often.
“I don’t socialize with anyone. So it’s not like I picked Sigourney out not to socialize with. I’m kind of a loner,” says Kline. However, when the twodosee each other, “we pick up right where left off,” says Weaver.
The Good Housepremieres in theaters Sept. 30.
source: people.com
