Virginia Madsen loves being a 'Scoundrel'
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In "Scoundrels," Virginia Madsen portrays the matriarch of a family of criminals.
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BURBANK, Calif. -- Actress Virginia Madsen was convinced she was hard as nails when she survived the loss of her first love. "My goodness, I was only 19, but I was very aware of my change and what that did to me," she says in a lounge at the Disney Studios here.
The star of such films as "Sideways," "The Ghosts of Mississippi" and "The Rainmaker" turned out to be soft as satin and a determined romantic.
"God, I hope I fall in love again," she says. "I wish he'd get his act together and come get me, or maybe I'm supposed to go get him. But I have a lot of work to do right now, and I've been raising my son, and it's hard for guys to be involved with an actress. And I get that.
"But I'm patient," she sighs, "and I know that love will arrive in its own time. That old song, 'You Can't Hurry Love,' and you can't. So all I can do is know what I want because I believe it will manifest itself in my life, and that's how it's worked with everything else."
Well-meaning friends tell her to seek out love, others advise her to wait. "So, oh, my gosh, I've done everything. So I've gone back to the idea that you can't try and you can't hurry love, that I'm just going to wait for him to walk in the door. I have a lot of friends who are longtime couples, and I sort of look to them because that's what I want," she says.
"And I think it is that moment when someone walks in the room and there may not be an instant love, but there's a recognition, there's a moment, there's a connection -- so I've gone back to the belief that the knight in shining armor will walk into the room or he'll see me walk into the room. 'You may see a stranger across a crowded room,' it's the fairy tale."
First Published June 23, 2010 12:00 am
