COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Interview 1
This interview is between Michael Parkinson and Meg Ryan, and they are discussing Meg Ryan’s career.
The interview involved Parkinson and Ryan, along with two other people sat next to Ryan. Parkinson states “You said once that acting wasn’t in your nature” and she replies with “I did?” and Parkinson insists that she said that, and asking if she is denying that she said it. While he is doing so Ryan starts playing with her hair and shifting slightly, showing she was uncomfortable. This isn’t good when interviewing as it shows you are under confident. She replies calmly to his inquiry and says how it doesn’t come naturally to her but she does it. Parkinson then goes on interrogating her again; his posture is leaning forward towards Meg. Meg responds well throughout as she smiles as she answered the questions.
I would say this wasn’t a well structured interview from both sides due to the fact that Michael Parkinson implied statements throughout the interview, rather than asking Meg Ryan questions about her and what she thinks about acting, and her past. From the start he implied that she said that acting wasn’t in her nature and was more interrogating her than asking her questions, making the interview awkward. This is a major don’t as in a interview an important part of it is to be polite and focus more on the positives than the negatives and Parkinson did the opposite. So with that I think how Meg reacted was well, she stayed rather confident throughout.
They went on saying how she was a movie star by choice, and Ryan replied with “seemingly” and Parkinson said how she had a problem that wasn’t going to be resolved on this show. There was laughing from both and the audience but yet it seemed awkward and I didn’t really find it funny. They then went to go on talking about her past about how she wanted to be a journalist. She said how she didn’t finish, and Parkinson asked why she decided to be an actress. Meg replied with saying how she did commercials to pay for university and acting took over. Parkinson asked what kind of journalist she thought she would be, Ryan laughed, which I think is a bit inappropriate as it wasn’t a funny question and maybe it was nervous laughter. She replied saying maybe for a magazine on food or something. Parkinson then asked now that she is wary of journalists does it give her an insight as to what their after, she question this and then Parkinson was very blunt by saying “yes you are wary of journalists, you’re wary of me, you’re wary of the interview you don’t like being interviewed you can see it in the way you sit and the way you are” which is quite rude and unnecessarily, he then said if you were me what would you do now, and Ryan replied with “just wrap it up” People may think that that was rude but I think it was fair enough as he was making her feel uncomfortable, whenever she replied to a question he interrogated her a bit more.
Ryan’s only fault was being rude to other members of the interview at the end when another lady commented on her shoes. Ryan was blunt and ended the interview on a low. The interview suffered because both Parkinson and Ryan both came across as they didn’t want to talk to each other, Ryan in particulars body language showed she didn’t want to be there as the show went on and she clearly had had enough by the end when saying “wrap it up”
If this interview was set in the morning I would probably turn it off as it wasn’t very light hearted and was awkward to watch in the way Parkinson really directed quick questions to her and laughed at her a bit. It wasn’t like other interview such as on GMTV where everyone is sat around and their all discussing a topic, making jokes and giving you something easy to watch, this would be something I would watch as a last resort.
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