Here’s what happened…

Its amazing how much of our lives we spend planning.

Meeting Linda Hamilton, however, happened to be such an occurrence.

First things first: Linda Hamilton is amazing.

I wont be offended.

So, the interview that followed was less formal than usual, but, hopefully, no less insightful.

All I can say is that if you get a chance to meet her, do it.

Linda Hamilton:Here we are!

And how are you doing?

Very good, very well.

And how are you dealing with the endless journalists, who are pretending not to beTerminatorfans?

[Laughs] Thats always fun!

This is not a problem for me.

I mean one gets used to it, for one.

[Laughs] Because youre still little!

Im not as little as I look, I dont think!

I know those fans, because I have been doing a lot of fan conventions for the last year.

I saw you were over here last year, but I couldnt make it.

How did it go?

I dont know where.

Those are… boy talk about your intense day or weekend!

Youre meeting 5000 people, one at a time and trying to give every single one of them…

So being nice to them I think is just about anything anyone can ever do.

Why would you do anything but be nice, if youre going to do those things?

Its like why would you do this if youre not into people, you know?

The film,Holy Water, how did that come about?

Because the director thanks you in his notes, for being really helpful towards the whole film getting made.

[of him] I was a champion of the film for the longest time.

I wish that I could say I helped get financing, maybe me being Linda Hamilton did.

Truly, when I read the script… Do you know what I mean?

I keep saying I may not be Miss America, but I will be Miss Congeniality every time.

Im going to go on toTerminatornow…

Ok!

Just because I cant help it!

you might talk about it!

I may as well disclose it now.

[I had well and truly been stripped of formality by this point!]

At what point did you decide to embrace that?

Was that because ofTerminator,or was it something you already had an interest in?

I mean I was sent to LA because I trained in New York.

And is theatre what you are actively pursuing now, more than film?

I have nothing to prove, I have soooo wept!

There is not enough of that in the world.

Plus its sort of the final frontier.

My heart melts a little.]

Just your voice was used inTerminator Salvation.

How strange was it not just to revisit that character, but to do it from beyond the grave?

But after a while it went on like a pair of comfy jammies and there I was.

And negligible, really, but still fun to go in and see it.

Ok, one last one…

[She jokingly whispers] But which one!

Okay Ill go for something lighter.

Whats the first kind of nostalgic feeling that you have when you think about filming in the 80s?

What does it bring back for you?

Oh, my god!

Its really aging, its hard!

You know, that kind of intimacy, the forced intimacy, all of those things I remember.

But that, to me, embodies filmmaking.

Those moments are… you wouldnt trade them for the world.

And you just go, How am I doing this!?

How am I doing this!?

Thank you for taking the time to talk to us!

Go to your girl.

Holy Water is released in cinemas from February 5th.