Interviewing Elisabeth Shue

I've been a huge fan of actress Elisabeth Shue for the past 20 years, so it was a big personal thrill to speak with her at length Friday night during the special screening of her director-husband's film "Teach" at a Creative Commons event in San Francisco.

We chatted about the third child she's expecting (at age 42!), my 6-year-old, Larry Lessig (she's a huge fan), the movie "Teach" (check out the original 90-minute version too, she suggested) — just about everything except Hollywood. For those not in the know, she starred in the films "Leaving Las Vegas" (for which she won an Oscar nomination for best actress), "The Karate Kid," "Hollow Man," "Palmetto," "The Trigger Effect," "Back to the Future 2 and 3," "Cocktail," and "Adventures in Babysitting," among others.

She consented to taping a quick video on behalf of Creative Commons, and she was gracious, charming and funny during the few minutes we spent on it. Her husband, Davis Guggenheim, is on the board of Creative Commons.

Here's the video, in both MPEG-4 (for PC and Mac) and gorgeous H.264 formats. Here is a Flickr photo gallery of Elisabeth and the Creative Commons event. Here is a torrent of Elisabeth Shue photos for easier download.

And here is a 3 1/2-minute of Davis Guggenheim discussing "Teach," (in mp4 and H.264 m4v), available for free download here.

Some days, it's good to be a citizen journalist.

Cross-posted to Real People Network.