Talking about her scene in “The Undoing” opposite Hugh Grant, in which she played the role of a journalist interviewing Grant’s character to investigate the journalist’s murder, he said he gave Grant some tips.
“It all looked ruined when Hugh Grant sat down.” “He’s one of those British Rumpled Fellows. And his tie was asked, and I’m very OCD. So, I said, ‘Hugh, straighten your tie.’ And he goes and fixes it and and then a caller was out of his suit … and I went, ‘Hugh, fix it.’ And then he looked like Road’s Dangerfield. He should sit on the back of your jacket as much as he likes in ‘Broadcast News’, so that he’s nice and tidy. ”
She also said she believes she heard but didn’t see much in her scene as she rewrote parts of the dialogue.
In 1993, Chung co-anchored “CBS Evening News”.
With Dan Rather. She only had a job for two years and says working with Rather Lutt: “If I came back I thought I’d probably be in the ‘Psycho’ scene in the fountain,” suggesting that she would always have to look back at her partner. -Anger, noted that she was forced to do tabloid-style visits that others did not want to do.
She went to work on the ABC News magazine show, “20/20”.
During the podcast interview, she said the atmosphere on the network, where she worked with fellow journalists Barbara V. Lutters and Diane Sawyer, was competitive and compared to the 1990s feud between figure skater Nancy Carrigan and Tonya Harding.
“[W]Hey I met ABC, both Diane and Barbara were trying to get this big interview. So, when I tried to go after them, I was told I couldn’t. Barbara and Diane were the only ones who could compete for the interview and I had to get down. And I said, ‘Really?’ ”
Chang briefly worked on CNN, hosting a show called “Koni Chung Tonight” in 2002.
CNN reached out to representatives from Chung, Waters, Sawyer and Rather for comment.
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