For those who can't be bothered to watch the interview and who defend him: 39:45: "I like young girls, I think most men do", "I was about to make a series of photographs of young girls, of that age for Vogue Hommes and I found it quite an interesting enterprise, because I like girls of this age and because the girls of that age, for some reason, like me. And just it went a little bit too far". She was 13, he was in his 40s. .
One of the great interviews - not for the material within, however interesting, but from 1983 a lesson on how to have an audience at the table in an intimate setting revealing personality. Today's interviews are almost all sound bite and staged gags.
I agree, we don't have interviews were the host doesn't try to make a comedy act all the time.. I wish I could see something genuine, let a person tell their story the way it is here
I could watch a interview with Clive James or Dick Cavett anytime. They are above all interviewers. Intelligent. Thoughtful and above all else, allow the guest to talk; then listen to the response and respond to that.
Very good comment to which I would only add that both interviewers did their homework on their subjects. It clearly helps too that they know when to show that they are actually listening to what their interviewee is expressing.
Look at all these comments praising a man who sexually assaulted a thirteen year old. If it weren’t Roman who did it, you lot would’ve shown your hypocrisy yeah?
80% of these comments are despicable. Absolutely disgusting. He’s talking about a THIRTEEN YEAR OLD CHILD!! A literal child. She wasn’t the first or the last. A child can’t seduce a 44 year old man. Period
That just makes me sick!! 😡😡 I have always had such sorrow for the man. He lost his beautiful young wife, that loved him so much and his first child to a horrific murder. But a few yrs later what he did to that little girl makes me just sick!! But like the little coward he is. He ran off to Paris and now the States can't touch him.
The comments here are indicative of why Epstein got away with it so long. If you have money and talent, that's all some people see. All these commenters are making this guy a demigod and he should be a pariah. That the academy even recognized him after says all you need to know about enablement of this evil.
He gave the 13 year old champagne & a "pill" according to her only interview year later. Then on the way back, told her not to tell her mother. So he knew he'd done wrong. Vile. He also raped actress Charlotte Lewis when she was 16( she was in The Pirates & Golden Child).
@@bonnie3447 i dont know the sheep tards are being softened up towards pedophilia in modern times. the media more than ever dictates whether who is good or bad Look at saville case,. jonny rotten was outcast by media for saying he was nonce back in 70s
Has Clive James slipped a truth serum into Polanskis drink? He is very honest, he's not trying to make excuses for his behaviour and hide behind the murder of his wife and other bad things in his life. How the hell did he still have a career after his conviction and this interview?
Because some of the most powerful people in world are pedophiles, that's why he's comfortable talking about it, the interviewer is trying to make it unheard of, like he was the only one who was doing it...
@@adrian72300 I agree he is not the only one doing it, but back then I can't think of any other celebrities that had been accused or convicted of sex crimes like this not unlike today with Weinstein and Epstein, Prince Andrew and the rest. How does Polanski back then still have a career and especially now in todays climate in France and other parts of Europe. He must know some powerful people like you say.
@@mrmeerkat1096 They protect each other in that circle, Judges are their underlings, most of the rich and famous are Satanist who practice these rituals, that's why a lot of people still believe the Tate murders were about drugs, it wasn't random or about Terry Melcher, they knew who was there, one of the biggest clues was the fact they roped Sharon and Jay together, they knew the connections of those people
@@adrian72300 You're probably right about this... I think Sharon wanted out of it, out of satanism and they killed her for it, that's my bet from what I studied about those murders... Roman denies being a satanist, obviously. I don't know what exactly to believe but I wouldn't doubt if they were... A handful of famous people
Why would Polanski mention that his victim had prior sexual encounters? Why would that matter? Plus, does he understand how consensual encounters are different from rape and how encounters between the underage are very different than between adults and the underage? I am sorry that this great director had such a difficult youth, but nothing excuses what he did later.
Only a true narcissist would make a statement like that..'she had prior sexual experience'. As if that would absolve him from what he did to a 14 yrs old child. Only a narcissist...
@@KG-ii2yx Would you if it were your child? Im banking that you would want justice as well. But then again, judging from your comment, maybe not. Maybe you would just turn a blind eye and 'get over it'. Peace Out, Bro.👍🤘
When I heard the first question *What do you think of snails as an animal* I instantly knew this is going to be something much better than just another interview. I loved the entourage, camera work, audio is very clear. This is all very candid. They don't make'em like this anymore
So many people say she was too beautiful for him, that he didn’t deserve her...but I think he’s really attractive. Not conventionally...a lot of it is his personality, him being an artist, his interesting past, but the way he looks too. I can see exactly what she saw in him.
even with his not seeing anything wrong with having sex with a 14 year old? I mean, I appreciate his honesty and all but he truly sees nothing wrong with his actions, he blames the press and not once acknowledges the massive difference of maturity between a grown man and a barely post pubescent girl. I mean come on.
CD Projekt DOWNGRADE@sony/ms/ubisoft.coN he made a mistake with that one, yes, but he is hardly the first or only man to do such a thing. There are still girls being married off at that age today in the world. Right or wrong, many men are attracted to younger girls - most wouldn’t admit it but it’s still the truth.. I have a very pretty niece and when I would go out with her, even at that age, I saw grown men staring at her, practically drooling, ALL THE TIME. Disgusting, but that’s biology for you. And where was her fame hungry mother? Or father? Who lets their 14 year old go off alone with a strange man? Anyway, not necessarily excusing what he did...but he isn’t a pedophile, as he is often labeled. Pedophiles like pre pubescent children.
@@geslinam9703 I know he's not a pedophile. I think your failing to see this clearly though for some reason. Yes, biology dictates attraction to younger women. Even 14 and 15 year olds if they are quite developed enough. The difference between a normal person and someone like him is a) one may feel sexual attraction but knows better than to act on it and b)one recognizes WHY its wrong (the vast divide in life experience and MATURITY between a young girl like that Polanski failed at both of those things and while his honesty is commendable, he repeatedly shows he doesn't see anything wrong with it. He doesn't see that maybe something like sex for that young, impressionable, immature MIND could really screw them up later in life. It's pure predatory behavior and makes me think that he probably doesn't give a shit about the person either. If he saw them more as a person and not some thing to stroke his ego and satisfy himself with than he wouldnt have done it, repeatedly.
CD Projekt DOWNGRADE@sony/ms/ubisoft.coN I see it very clearly. I agree that what he did was wrong. And I didn’t say you called him a pedophile, I said he was often labeled as one. As for men, if the laws weren’t what they were, likely 2/3 or more would act on their natural desires without a second thought to the maturity difference or how much damage they might be doing to a fragile young mind. So don’t even go there with me. This isn’t so much a question of morality as it is just another wealthy celebrity who though he was above the law. And “stage” parents putting their kids at risk. It’s not something I would tolerate in a partner. I was just pointing out in my original post that I could see what other women found attractive in him, not condoning anything he did.
Well yes, running away from the Nazis when he was seven, for example, then surviving a murder attempt at 16, and having his wife murdered by the Manson family. Not to defend him in respect of you know what, but that's not the only significant fact of his life.
Love the opening "soundtrack". From Knife in the Water. I just watched that. Music definitely not unlike that of Taxi Driver. This is the best RP interview of all time and I've seen is dozens of time So nice to see him laugh like that at the start of the sit down w Clive.
You see, there is so much hypocrisy in this world. Once, by any chance, you become famous or powerful or celebrity, much of your wrongdoings are pardoned and forgotten. Otherwise, as a usual person you would end up in prison as a pedophile and marked with it for the rest of your life.
@b.b581 Polanski wasn't pardoned. He fled the states never to return. Yes, I see what you're saying about hypocrisy. People who are famous or Rich, they're put on this pedestal as if they can do no wrong. Personally, I think Polanski is a pig. If he had been home with Sharon when the murders occurred, maybe all of that could have been prevented . I don't know what Sharon saw in Polanski. She could have done so much better.
I think Roman is very intelligent and well spoken honest to a fault maybe But at least admitted but everything yes he should have known better This guy has lived so much tragedy in his life God bless Sharon and their baby boy
??? life was very kind to him. p had a lot more opportunities open to him than most people. saved over & over. he repaid it by being a repulsive paedophile destroying other peoples lives. "i like young women" - they were children. king of justification. i would love to know how close he & his student rodney alcala got, carved from same block, find it hard to believe they didnt share something grim.
@@joydot7620 Think before writing. Having his wife murdered and living as a child during the WW2 isn't easy. People like you didn't live 1/10 of this and you're crying when your turtles dies...don't insult one of the biggest film-maker of all the time.
@@gentilgarsep are you seriously justifying what this piece of garbage did coz he survived war and lost his wife in a horrible way? I think you should follow your own advice and think before you write too. There’s absolutely no excuse in this world for peodiphilia no matter what you experienced in life. He may be a great film maker but nothing changes the fact he’s a piece of a human garbage .
I am not defending or accepting bad actions. However, Roman had a "star crossed" karmic chart. He lived through the Nazis in WW2 as a child in a Krakow ghetto. His mother and father were taken and killed in concentration camps. How he survived and became a gifted creative writer and film director, was a miracle. How he survived the murder of his young wife and unborn son would have been enough to send anyone to the madhouse. All of this in a very short period of time in his young life. He needs our understanding.
There is only one mistake in your comment: His father was taken to the Ghetto, yes. But only his mother died in the gas chamber, not him. His father survived and reunited with Roman, who was living with another family.
@@ratacataviousbrown4702 I think he was not defending him, he just says that Roman also suffered, more tragedies than any human being, so whoever has a mental problem is not strange to anyone. Roman was face to face with the Nazis being a child, his family was taken away and he was alone for a long time. They killed his wife and son. Violation will always be a condemnable and atrocious act, but that does not take away or reduce what he suffered. Many would have taken their lives. Roman Polanski is not a hero, in any sense of the word. But it is not fair to cut his story to a crime, he lived more than that. I am not defending him what he did with that girl, he is repulsive and always will be. But she forgives him and that nobody can change it.
Clive James, what a great wit and conversationalist he was. When Polanski begins to get tetchy and a little smart arsed (his line about having the manners to wait until the end of the meal before discussing his fondness for teenage girls), James diffuses the situation with his witty line about the fois gras.
I'm not sure sure he was trying to be a smart arse. Maybe a little bit but he wasn't trying to be rude. He could see that Clive James had obviously left that topic to later on to make sure that even if he cracked it and walked out (or stayed but been grumpy, evasive and guarded for the rest of the interview) that he'd have 40 minutes of good interview footage. He was kind of conveying that he's not stupid and he can see why he waited so long to bring it up. He knew. Clive knew. The audience knew. There was no reason to play dumb about it when it was blatantly obvious why Clive had waited so long to bring it up. But rather than directly say it he hinted at it in a roundabout, humorous kind of way. He was sort of saying: "I see what you did there. That was a good strategy to hold off for so long before bringing this up". That said it was obviously a very serious topic and he obviously shouldn't have done what he did to that girl so it was his own stupid fault that Clive had to question him about it.
It was the 60's. You have to remember kids who reached adulthood in the 60's had lived through war. The 60's were like a release valve being opened. You can't judge then with the morals of now..that's if you think pc culture has the remotest thing to do with morals that is!
You mean the part where Polanski literally stated himself, that he has an attraction to young girls like Samantha Geimer ? Who btw was 13 years old when he had sex with her at Nicholson’s home ? After giving her a quaalude and alcohol ? Those words ? ( ( Perhaps he didn’t say the last part here. But it is part of the court record. ) Her mother was a little angry about the sex, drugs and alcohol when she found out. You know. She wasn’t hip What a b**** huh ? But yeah Polanski just stated that he has an attraction to underage girls . Which is the very definition of pedophilia Then said he was getting antsy. You see the judge started getting a lot of grief because Polanski was receiving preferential treatment. Well I mean he was rich. A well known guy and all. What’s the harm right ? It’s Hollywood ! That’s how it works ! What is everyone so uptight about anyway right ? But hey. Polanski was a man of the times ! He had French citizenship He just boarded a plane. Got right out of the US. Took care of that little problem. Went to France. Problem solved ! As he explained. That Geimer girl ? Well at 13 she was experienced. So it was her own fault ! Right ??? Right ????? Besides she has said she was so embarrassed that now a few years ago she just wants to forgive him and go on. So what the heck. Let’s just move on. The man is brilliant. No harm done.
Wild how many people here are defending Polanski in spite of his open admission that he likes little girls. Yeah, Chinatown was fucking brilliant, but he OPENLY ADMITTED THAT HE LIKES LITTLE GIRLS.
I was in LA that summer, I was a wild groupie, ev one in the biz was so scared of who was next...freaky time.... Sharon was a darling, loved by all, wrong place/wrong time.
The wording 'Tragic Marriage' does not sit well with the marriage he actually had with Sharon Tate. She was murdered and had nothing to do with the marriage being tragic - it just ended tragically as did her life along with 4 others. The shock must have destroyed him. He is about the only person who is truthful about his feelings or thoughts towards younger girls. I suspect the two words that come to mind are Director and Couch!
Wonder what Nastassja Kinski thinks of the latest accusers. One of them says she was as young as 10 when she met Polanski, and has pictures to prove it.
A very special human being. People regarding him as a criminal are ignorant fools, frustrated individuals who are only good at howling with the mob and do not come remotely close to his greatness. When a mother brings her daughter to a famed 40 year old man womanizer to take half nude pictures in a hot tube, what responsability does she have ? The girl was 13, yes, but was not childish in any way in her actions, having had several lovers and taken drugs before. What Polanski did was wrong and he paid a higher price than anybody (check the details with all other cases of the sort the same year in the same state), but comparing him to a predator roaming around schools and attacking little girls is plain stupid. Samatha Geimer forgave him years ago and has never ceased since then to ask people to leave him alone. With the coming of internet, all the useless losers found a way to give their moronic lives a thrill by hating someone and something they can never be.
So basically you're trying to trivialize child rape. Right on, you open minded, art-understanding genius. By the way, 90% of his movies aren't that good. Way overhyped, deal with it.
haha. Yeah, sure. A 13 year child was thrown in by her mother and drugged and anally raped by an adult male. No of course you couldn 't call him a predator or her mother an absolute idiot. And all the people who coment on this are useless losers. Do you have daughters? Would you throw them to a 40 year old pedo? In this interview he says that he always liked young women. And by saying young women he means very underaged girls. I can only fear what you think about young girls yourself when you write a comment like this.
Ignoring the previous "despicable" posts, I have have admired the work of both Polanski and Clive James for many years now, It's too bad that the U.S., with rare exceptions, seems to be off limits to them. Polanski did submit himself to justice until it became evident that justice wouldn't prevail. 'Chinatown' was a masterpiece and James' 'Fame in the 20th Century' was one of the best television series I've ever seen. Thanks for posting!
@Hunks Appreciated it's unfathomable how this incident would have effected her life, beyond the crime itself. She's been the victim of 10,000s of angry and ignorant letters and now online posts.. most people would want to "forgive and forget" and not have their life defined by such harassment. It's coercion on a scale that is unfathomable & definitely doesn't "let him of the hook" either, no matter what she says.
@@dazeofheaven you do realise that the mother of the young girl knew about Romans’ par chant for younger girls and allowed her daughter to be left alone in his company. Some people in Hollywood would do anything for money. Even pimp out their own children.
Both Roman and Charles Manson understood that a child can adapt to a bad situation because they don't understand what bad is. Or at Least somthing to compare it to. Today as I write this it is August 9, 2019. 50 years from the day his world was turned upside down.
15:26.... why he fell in love with Paris, because of the colors & creative variety.. as compared to Eastern Europe which was mostly all grays & geometric shapes.. no personality ... no expression ..” As a New Yorker living in 2019, I can relate to desiring an environment that is colorful & fun... 🌈🎊🧜♂️🤗
@@hornet5761 I have visited Eastern Europe several times ( 1974, 1980, 2019, 2024) to connect with my roots and maintained a close relationship with my grandparents who left Eastern Europe because of communism. I have visited Hungary, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia. The contrast between these countries and the West ( Germany, Austria, France, Netherlands) for example was stark. Yes the gap is becoming less prominent now but have you ever seen remnants of the bleak Soviet apartment blocs? The stark infrastructure. It was dehumanizing and depressing! What happened there remains in the psyches of the people who lived it even though some people are unable or unwilling to acknowledge or see it. Polanski knows exactly what he is talking about. Flippantly dismissing the tragedy of Eastern European occupation as if it that experience can just be erased Woof/Poof with your remark is pointless!
He drugged and raped a young girl... I don't think going to dinner and having a laugh with someone like that then promoting his films is a good idea... or WTF were you thinking... is my other response! @39:00 stop promoting people like this under the guise of being artists!!!
I respect his honesty, but would have been more sympathetic to him if he would've spoken with remorse about his actions with that child. It may be true that a number of people secretly have those thoughts, but, thankfully most do not act upon them. There are reasons for the age of consent. If you can't grasp those reason than you need to see a psychologist immediately.
@@annlanders978 She was 13, THIRTEEN. Five year olds say they're "almost" six, and people trying to spin facts. This is what she looked like, when 43 year old Polanski sodomized her, as she cried: encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTztZh52C5NcGgtLP3NoLuq2n9moVx2rtRjiah_Sur0yLUXYode
Now I understand being a great artist doesn't mean you're a good person too. Having sex with a minor is illegal and doesn't matter if you like "young girls" or she was consensual, he made a big mistake.
This interview and the comments are making me sick! Two men are casually sitting down and eating their food while discussing how men like young girls(under age girls) I don’t care how old this interview is, we still live in a world like that! They are just not open an honest about it, like some People commented on this! I don’t care if he was the greatest artists on the planet! Still not a good human being! We have a lot of great artists that are a decent human being.
Very true! He ran away to france to avoid prison. And he had a life and a career there while the 13 year old girls he abused suffered their entire lives. Disgusting.
@@normadesmond6017 wrong... the girl testified there was no wrongdoing...it, like was said,..just happened... now,its distasteful as fuck... but at least if you try to boast some sort of point,..make sure your points are factually correct
The girl was 13 when this happened. He called her a young woman. 13 is not a young woman, it's a child. He invited her into the house of Jack Nickolson. gave her quaaludes, then had anal sex with her. Would you call that "no wrongdoing"? "It just happened?" Does this "just happen" to you sometimes? When he had a vey good chance to spend the rest of his life in jail, he escaped to France. And thank god this thing he did will haunt him until the day he dies.
@@normadesmond6017 again,I cant stress enough how bad the situation is..and how disgusting the man is for even thinking about this ..like this.. but here is the deal,..from what age is a human able to think.. birth?..10..20..50?.. the account of the girl was very plain,..and yes it changed a few times,..but the account that held was, she knew what she was doing... again, I wasn't there..and if I was,I probably killed the guy... but here Is what i mean with the statement.. if the girl testified she knew what was happening,. It really blurred those fucked up lines for him,and visa versa. It's called... no wrongdoing in the form of she acted upon the situation..now again,before you start screaming and hollering again... its fucking disgusting,in any way or form.. and even if she was fully in love ( because that shit really happens) france should take him,and cut his pecker off.. dont take my words wrongfully.. its wrongdoing from his part in any..any case,.. .but there is that 1 factor that blurs that fact...the fact she in the lead up told..she knew what was happening..that's all
We can appreciate fashion in this video, for instance the restaurant bar is quite obscure!!! But nowadays peaple wouldnt like it anymore as most including myself find it depressing.
32:12 I don't know if it's true but the story goes that Polanski very briefly suspected Bruce Lee may have had something to do with the murders because the glasses resembled the pair that Lee wore, but once Polanski saw Lee wearing them after the fact, he ruled him out.
Roman was against having children cause his mother was pregnant and was killed in the gas chamber. Sharon waited past the time that he could have wanted her to abort the baby to tell him she was pregnant. He slowly grew excited for the birth of his first child and they were both taken away from him due to being murdered.
@@trinefenner13 when they got married Polanski wasn’t exactly rich and famous. he was very successful and doing just fine for himself, but it wasn’t till Rosemary’s Baby that his career really took off
@@trinefenner13 Jay was pretty famous and rich himself. He was a famous hairdresser for men and had his own line of shampoos etc.... He did a lot of Hollywood actors hair. I think it was simply sharon just fell in love with Roman. I don't think she would hurt Jay for nothing.
Rosemary's Baby gets better and better with repeat viewing because you see things you missed before. Just a really smart cool movie. One of the best of all time.
Actually those are the two movies that are worth watching. The rest didn't age well, sorry. Most of it was bullshit when it was released already though. This man is way overhyped
At one point Roman thought Bruce Lee was involved in the murder. Hence why he talked about ''someone wearing glasses'' as Mr Lee used to wear similar glasses.
I wonder what Bruce Lee would have thought about the rape case if he was still alive today? He'd probably side with the 13-year-old, other accusers, and Judge Larry Rittenband. Polanski blamed Rittenband for his handling on the case, accused him of being a media darling.
He reacted badly to the judge because he did a sleazeball by extending the sentence. I think he did that to raise his profile, as he had a celebrity on his case.
Traumatized by childhood memories, intellectual, intelligent, creative and attractive. All of those things yes. But what one does in their career, their talent, what you appreciate about them and their achievements is separate from their personal actions and their consequences. One the night Sharon was murdered, he was with someone else. He forced Sharon into having sex with multiple strangers. She wanted a normal marriage. He didn’t. Did he love her, I don’t know. He wanted her, on his terms. Was he her by her loss. Yes. I don’t think true, pure love does this to another person. To love, cherish, honor is just as meaningful if not more then his need to be adored and to use his intellect as an excuse for doing what you want without regard. I’m sad for him, his childhood experience of horror, the loss of Sharon. But not sad for some of his choices. His success becomes meaningless..
I think you need to understand that people are complex, especially after having been through what he's been through in his most formative years as a child. You kind of get a fucked up, detached relationship to "love" and how you love, how you accept love.
wow, you were actually living with them to state these things as a fact? I don't know if I'd be so bold, even just anonymously behind the keyboard.. anyways, these times were different in regards of morals, and life is complex. And I also think, Sharon's family wouldn't have been and continue to be in such close contact with him if the abject things the media wrote about the couple were true.
@@Muirmaiden No, it is literally being "complex", as the human mind is a complex and paradoxical thing. Entire psychological community would be laughing at your comment. You are all about emotional logic ,which is no logic. A person can be both a predator and complex, you do realize these go hand in hand and are not mutually exclusive. I bet you believe in good and evil too, as oppose to attachment patterns from early in life?
This is an excellent interview. Clive James did a great job and Roman Polanski was very candid and matter of fact, as usual. I see Polanski's point about the "age of consent" being different in different places. At a given time in history when ages of consent were lower a sexual encounter with a girl who was two weeks shy of her fourteenth birthday would not be a violation of the law. (It was not a violation of the law in California until 1889.) That being said, Roman Polanski is a pedophile by his own admission. He has what used to be called, in criminal slang, "short eyes". He is very frank about it and states his fondness for young women/girls with confidence. He doesn't appear to regard this taste of his as being problematic at all. One wonders how he would approach the issue of "age of consent" if he were writing the law. Everyone with "short eyes" is not sensitive and intelligent like Roman. Roman is not a predator, perhaps. How would we know? However there are a lot of sexual predators around. It wasn't aesthetic considerations that led to age of consent laws. He contends that the judge in his case was out to get him and wasn't treating him fairly. That may be so. Of course none of his troubles with the law would have happened if he were not a pedophile who thought he could get away with breaking the law, as others had, without serious consequences.
In the 70's and 80's, he tended to frustratingly hesitate to take responsibility whenever discussing this incident. I'm just glad that he settled the issue with Samantha in the 90's, and gave her and her mother a long overdue apology.
We don't know the circumstances of that encounter with the "girl". Maybe she looked older and acted older and he didn't know. Maybe they were both drinking or doing drugs and who knows what happened then. I wouldn't call him a pedophile because of this one incident. I am tired of people lumping him in with real predators like Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby etc.
Roman is very intelligent, one of the best directors of all time, I absolutely love him and the way he responds to these arrogant questions is amazing. He is impressive honest and true although the press tries to make him in a place of shame. It's just impressive how honest he is.
I’m not particularly a “fan of Clive James per se. That said, it should be state that he he was an accomplished writer, critic, essayist (and novelist and poet and television presenter and radio broadcaster and translator) & author. Who for fifty years, managed to maintain three distinct reputations in three distinct English-speaking countries. In his own right. I also know a great deal about Polanski’s reputation background and career. This is a fascinating interview. Very personal . I feel that in the chosen setting , it allowed for a very open and personal dialogue. At a perfect time in Polanski’s life . He was always reluctant previously to discuss his life. All perhaps allowing him to be most open and tell his life’s story. He revealed the most about his life in this interview compared to any other. May I ask ? What about the exchange/ questions makes you feel the questions were arrogant ? What about Polanski do you admire most ? His directing and film making ? Polanski never gave others the time of day. Today he would never sit with one like this. It was Clive James reputation particularly that brought about the interview in the first place. But am interested to know why you are so critical of the interview.
What a great discussion. I respect his authenticity & artistic genius. I’m glad I know a bit more about his background story. Unfortunately, at first, I only heard about the scandals ... ~ I think he’s a genius in directing & cinema, and I think he proved himself again & again. ~ When Polanski is dead & gone, his films will go on .. How terrible to lose his wife & child in the brutal house attack.. I don’t think he ever got over that...✨🦢🌸✨Wishing him peace & Love. ☕️🍓🥗
I really am happy to read your comment. It shows understanding and empathy. And a willingness to see a man as he is. This is rare. It also shows, tell me if I'm wrong, that it is making you as hungry as it made me....🥗🍟🥩🐌
The man’s life was tragic. He has had a brilliant career. That much is true. He also openly just admitted (without being prodded) to having a “strong attraction to young girls” . The girl in question was 13 years old at the time. Did anyone here know that ? He also gave her a quaalude and champagne before having anal sex with her. At Jack Nicholson’s home ! Then when he felt his ore-arranged plea deal (that went beyond the bound of CA law at the time giving him preferential treatment) was about to fall through. He fled the country never to return. Basically a fugitive from justice. He then proceeded to victim blame and shame. Everyone praised him. I’m simply astounded. It is shocking. Stunning. Absolutely stunning.
@@april-tui3524 I was sexually active at the age of 14. 3 months before my 15th birthday. My partner at the time was 21. That was in 1989. My parents never called my boyfriend a paedophile. My mother took me to our family doctor and we all agreed that I should start taking the pill. My parents even let my boyfriend stay over with me in my bedroom. Perhaps they trusted me because I wasn’t a typical “young” girl at the time. Not everyone matures at the legal sexual age of consent. Some of us matured far quicker.
What a life ( Roman Polanski ) dealt a hand in life as tragic as one could imagine , small handsome man super intelligent . Interviewed by Clive James( rip) also very intelligent individual as well. Womanizer himself in his life . Great combination great interview. Thanks for posting . Nothing like You tube !
"Womanizer"??? It was a 13 year old little girl that he drugged and sodomized at 44. See, you might be able to be Ok with that, but thank God for Men in Prison. When a piece of garbage gets in Prison for raping a 13 year old, they torture this animal until he's dead. You know why? Because there has never been a case where a person like this didn't reoffend after release. So if the general public would allow children to be hurt, at least there are some who won't let that happen.
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Sharon Tate to me is,one of the most beautiful purest looking actresses we have had.
Continue to be sad about her death😥
Sharon, Sharon, Sharon.....God Bless you and Baby Paul.
Sympathy for this devil
For those who can't be bothered to watch the interview and who defend him: 39:45: "I like young girls, I think most men do", "I was about to make a series of photographs of young girls, of that age for Vogue Hommes and I found it quite an interesting enterprise, because I like girls of this age and because the girls of that age, for some reason, like me. And just it went a little bit too far". She was 13, he was in his 40s. .
Maybe it was because she looked much older than 13, which is why he seen her as 18.
Because no adult woman in her right mind would want you.
@@Onmysheet He knew she was 13, and says so in the interview. He is disgusting.
He is such a pos. So much priviledge yet so much contempt. Moron.
@@topologyrob As are the people who admire him in the comments, would they admire Jeffrey Epstein, this is very disturbing!
"Love carries the seed of tragedy". My god, that hit hard.
One of the great interviews - not for the material within, however interesting, but from 1983 a lesson on how to have an audience at the table in an intimate setting revealing personality. Today's interviews are almost all sound bite and staged gags.
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Thanks for recommending this to me David 👌🏿
You are exactly right , id nearly watch it again after reading this comment, Great speculation
I agree, we don't have interviews were the host doesn't try to make a comedy act all the time.. I wish I could see something genuine, let a person tell their story the way it is here
@@anaseymour4556 *where the host
I could watch a interview with Clive James or Dick Cavett anytime.
They are above all interviewers. Intelligent. Thoughtful and above all else, allow the guest to talk; then listen to the response and respond to that.
Dick Cavett?
Very good comment to which I would only add that both interviewers did their homework on their subjects. It clearly helps too that they know when to show that they are actually listening to what their interviewee is expressing.
*.... watch an interview
I could listen for another hour. Thanks for posting
Disturbed
Look at all these comments praising a man who sexually assaulted a thirteen year old. If it weren’t Roman who did it, you lot would’ve shown your hypocrisy yeah?
Disney isn't better, is teaching homosexuality to children
@@abrahamlupis9354 We're talking about Roman. Not Disney you dumb clown
@@abrahamlupis9354 what the fucks that got to do with this?
If this was Weinstein, the comments would be uproaring.
80% of these comments are despicable. Absolutely disgusting. He’s talking about a THIRTEEN YEAR OLD CHILD!! A literal child. She wasn’t the first or the last. A child can’t seduce a 44 year old man. Period
That just makes me sick!! 😡😡 I have always had such sorrow for the man. He lost his beautiful young wife, that loved him so much and his first child to a horrific murder. But a few yrs later what he did to that little girl makes me just sick!! But like the little coward he is. He ran off to Paris and now the States can't touch him.
The comments here are indicative of why Epstein got away with it so long. If you have money and talent, that's all some people see. All these commenters are making this guy a demigod and he should be a pariah. That the academy even recognized him after says all you need to know about enablement of this evil.
@@bluxe7372 exactly
He gave the 13 year old champagne & a "pill" according to her only interview year later. Then on the way back, told her not to tell her mother. So he knew he'd done wrong. Vile. He also raped actress Charlotte Lewis when she was 16( she was in The Pirates & Golden Child).
She got over it and forgave. Why can’t you? ruclips.net/video/H5dIdoaDgN8/видео.html
“Love is the seed of tragedy”
He said, 'Love carries in it, the seed of tragedy.'
I love your saying.🌹
Great interview! Greetings from Poland 🙂
Back when interviews had class regardless of the topics discussed.
clive james was masterful. p was oblivious, but then so are his fans.
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This interview would never happen today. He openly admits being attracted to children and that would cause uproar. Great interview though.
@@bonnie3447 i dont know the sheep tards are being softened up towards pedophilia in modern times. the media more than ever dictates whether who is good or bad
Look at saville case,. jonny rotten was outcast by media for saying he was nonce back in 70s
Oh shuddup. Not classy to interview and flick food amongst your teeth;.
Superb .. Great idea an interview over a meal without too much hype , which is what we are saturated with now..
Great interview but boy did I love the adverts. Thanks for uploading
When will someone ask him about the set design of “Fearless Vampire Killers”? A bloody overlooked masterpiece….
One of my favourite Polanski films. Perfect blend of humour and horror. Beautifully shot and a haunting score.
Has Clive James slipped a truth serum into Polanskis drink? He is very honest, he's not trying to make excuses for his behaviour and hide behind the murder of his wife and other bad things in his life. How the hell did he still have a career after his conviction and this interview?
Because some of the most powerful people in world are pedophiles, that's why he's comfortable talking about it, the interviewer is trying to make it unheard of, like he was the only one who was doing it...
@@adrian72300 I agree he is not the only one doing it, but back then I can't think of any other celebrities that had been accused or convicted of sex crimes like this not unlike today with Weinstein and Epstein, Prince Andrew and the rest. How does Polanski back then still have a career and especially now in todays climate in France and other parts of Europe. He must know some powerful people like you say.
@@mrmeerkat1096 They protect each other in that circle, Judges are their underlings, most of the rich and famous are Satanist who practice these rituals, that's why a lot of people still believe the Tate murders were about drugs, it wasn't random or about Terry Melcher, they knew who was there, one of the biggest clues was the fact they roped Sharon and Jay together, they knew the connections of those people
@@adrian72300
You're probably right about this... I think Sharon wanted out of it, out of satanism and they killed her for it, that's my bet from what I studied about those murders...
Roman denies being a satanist, obviously. I don't know what exactly to believe but I wouldn't doubt if they were... A handful of famous people
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He's always really honest, I've seen other interviews and he talks about everything like that although here he seems even more blunt
If I had a 15 year old daughter, I think twice before I let him take her to dinner...
Spot on.
Why would Polanski mention that his victim had prior sexual encounters? Why would that matter? Plus, does he understand how consensual encounters are different from rape and how encounters between the underage are very different than between adults and the underage? I am sorry that this great director had such a difficult youth, but nothing excuses what he did later.
Only a true narcissist would make a statement like that..'she had prior sexual experience'. As if that would absolve him from what he did to a 14 yrs old child. Only a narcissist...
She got over it, forgave him and even took a bit of responsibility. Don’t you think you should do the same? ruclips.net/video/H5dIdoaDgN8/видео.html
@@KarensOpinionsMayDiffer Ask any parent that question....about 'getting over it'. Seriously.
@@soso8824 get over it
@@KG-ii2yx Would you if it were your child? Im banking that you would want justice as well. But then again, judging from your comment, maybe not. Maybe you would just turn a blind eye and 'get over it'.
Peace Out, Bro.👍🤘
RIP Clive James.
When I heard the first question
*What do you think of snails as an animal* I instantly knew this is going to be something much better than just another interview.
I loved the entourage, camera work, audio is very clear. This is all very candid. They don't make'em like this anymore
Very honest interview, possibly only independant podcasts where you can get this kind of frank conversation nowdays. Thanks for posting.
Thanks for keeping in the 1984 adverts!
Good interviews with properly asked questions always makes the interview better in my opinion.
SHARON TATE IS BEAUTIFUL
Not anymore she isn't.
Masterful interview by Clive set up as a conversation over lunch!
Not very keen on those cooked snails though. Pretty ghastly.
Excellent interviews covering such a wide range of topics
These old commercials are great!
So many people say she was too beautiful for him, that he didn’t deserve her...but I think he’s really attractive. Not conventionally...a lot of it is his personality, him being an artist, his interesting past, but the way he looks too. I can see exactly what she saw in him.
Geslina M I agree..well said
even with his not seeing anything wrong with having sex with a 14 year old? I mean, I appreciate his honesty and all but he truly sees nothing wrong with his actions, he blames the press and not once acknowledges the massive difference of maturity between a grown man and a barely post pubescent girl. I mean come on.
CD Projekt DOWNGRADE@sony/ms/ubisoft.coN he made a mistake with that one, yes, but he is hardly the first or only man to do such a thing. There are still girls being married off at that age today in the world. Right or wrong, many men are attracted to younger girls - most wouldn’t admit it but it’s still the truth.. I have a very pretty niece and when I would go out with her, even at that age, I saw grown men staring at her, practically drooling, ALL THE TIME. Disgusting, but that’s biology for you. And where was her fame hungry mother? Or father? Who lets their 14 year old go off alone with a strange man? Anyway, not necessarily excusing what he did...but he isn’t a pedophile, as he is often labeled. Pedophiles like pre pubescent children.
@@geslinam9703 I know he's not a pedophile. I think your failing to see this clearly though for some reason. Yes, biology dictates attraction to younger women. Even 14 and 15 year olds if they are quite developed enough. The difference between a normal person and someone like him is a) one may feel sexual attraction but knows better than to act on it and b)one recognizes WHY its wrong (the vast divide in life experience and MATURITY between a young girl like that
Polanski failed at both of those things and while his honesty is commendable, he repeatedly shows he doesn't see anything wrong with it. He doesn't see that maybe something like sex for that young, impressionable, immature MIND could really screw them up later in life. It's pure predatory behavior and makes me think that he probably doesn't give a shit about the person either. If he saw them more as a person and not some thing to stroke his ego and satisfy himself with than he wouldnt have done it, repeatedly.
CD Projekt DOWNGRADE@sony/ms/ubisoft.coN I see it very clearly. I agree that what he did was wrong. And I didn’t say you called him a pedophile, I said he was often labeled as one. As for men, if the laws weren’t what they were, likely 2/3 or more would act on their natural desires without a second thought to the maturity difference or how much damage they might be doing to a fragile young mind. So don’t even go there with me. This isn’t so much a question of morality as it is just another wealthy celebrity who though he was above the law. And “stage” parents putting their kids at risk. It’s not something I would tolerate in a partner. I was just pointing out in my original post that I could see what other women found attractive in him, not condoning anything he did.
My stomach began growling the moment that sizzling food came out.
mine too! Lol
Same
Maybe you should go get some take out.✝️☯️✡️
I keep replaying trying to find when the escargot were finished and the main course (chicken) started.
No shit hahahaha. Idk what it is but fuck
Not to be defended....but he has lived a life
I agree:)
Of what running away
He must've had a lot of mental hurt as well, maybe that's why the young girl rape happened
Well yes, running away from the Nazis when he was seven, for example, then surviving a murder attempt at 16, and having his wife murdered by the Manson family. Not to defend him in respect of you know what, but that's not the only significant fact of his life.
@@losttango exactly, he's not a serial molester, I really think he was in an awful place in his head but it's wrong and we make mistakes
Love the opening "soundtrack". From Knife in the Water. I just watched that. Music definitely not unlike that of Taxi Driver. This is the best RP interview of all time and I've seen is dozens of time So nice to see him laugh like that at the start of the sit down w Clive.
I wish Repulsion was actually added to the end of this. Great movie.
You see, there is so much hypocrisy in this world. Once, by any chance, you become famous or powerful or celebrity, much of your wrongdoings are pardoned and forgotten. Otherwise, as a usual person you would end up in prison as a pedophile and marked with it for the rest of your life.
Only because he fled to another country so they couldnt pursue it.
@b.b581 Polanski wasn't pardoned. He fled the states never to return. Yes, I see what you're saying about hypocrisy. People who are famous or Rich, they're put on this pedestal as if they can do no wrong. Personally, I think Polanski is a pig.
If he had been home with Sharon when the murders occurred, maybe all of that could have been prevented . I don't know what Sharon saw in Polanski. She could have done so much better.
Even though Polanski is a free man, his crime has left a mark on him.
I think Roman is very intelligent and well spoken honest to a fault maybe
But at least admitted but everything yes he should have known better
This guy has lived so much tragedy in his life
God bless Sharon and their baby boy
??? life was very kind to him. p had a lot more opportunities open to him than most people. saved over & over. he repaid it by being a repulsive paedophile destroying other peoples lives. "i like young women" - they were children. king of justification. i would love to know how close he & his student rodney alcala got, carved from same block, find it hard to believe they didnt share something grim.
@@joydot7620 Think before writing. Having his wife murdered and living as a child during the WW2 isn't easy. People like you didn't live 1/10 of this and you're crying when your turtles dies...don't insult one of the biggest film-maker of all the time.
@@gentilgarsep are you seriously justifying what this piece of garbage did coz he survived war and lost his wife in a horrible way? I think you should follow your own advice and think before you write too. There’s absolutely no excuse in this world for peodiphilia no matter what you experienced in life. He may be a great film maker but nothing changes the fact he’s a piece of a human garbage .
@@gentilgarsep Well said!!
@@kayanurshiya3778 The victim forgave him long ago and said the judge in the case was corrupt!!!!!
when I was 13 years old I would have run from him he is so creepy
He belongs in PRISON. Disgusting sexual assault pervert.
Sharon should NEVER have been involved with him. He’s evil incarnate STILL.
I am not defending or accepting bad actions. However, Roman had a "star crossed" karmic chart. He lived through the Nazis in WW2 as a child in a Krakow ghetto. His mother and father were taken and killed in concentration camps. How he survived and became a gifted creative writer and film director, was a miracle. How he survived the murder of his young wife and unborn son would have been enough to send anyone to the madhouse. All of this in a very short period of time in his young life. He needs our understanding.
Do you have any idea what he did to his young wife and to a 13 year old girl??? Don't defend a pedophile or a pervert.
He needs chemical castration
@@711ptj3 sure. and his ass thrown in jail for the rest of his sorry life. Just regret the fact that he had a life while his victims haven't.
There is only one mistake in your comment: His father was taken to the Ghetto, yes. But only his mother died in the gas chamber, not him. His father survived and reunited with Roman, who was living with another family.
@@ratacataviousbrown4702 I think he was not defending him, he just says that Roman also suffered, more tragedies than any human being, so whoever has a mental problem is not strange to anyone. Roman was face to face with the Nazis being a child, his family was taken away and he was alone for a long time. They killed his wife and son. Violation will always be a condemnable and atrocious act, but that does not take away or reduce what he suffered. Many would have taken their lives. Roman Polanski is not a hero, in any sense of the word. But it is not fair to cut his story to a crime, he lived more than that. I am not defending him what he did with that girl, he is repulsive and always will be. But she forgives him and that nobody can change it.
Clive James, what a great wit and conversationalist he was. When Polanski begins to get tetchy and a little smart arsed (his line about having the manners to wait until the end of the meal before discussing his fondness for teenage girls), James diffuses the situation with his witty line about the fois gras.
I'm not sure sure he was trying to be a smart arse. Maybe a little bit but he wasn't trying to be rude. He could see that Clive James had obviously left that topic to later on to make sure that even if he cracked it and walked out (or stayed but been grumpy, evasive and guarded for the rest of the interview) that he'd have 40 minutes of good interview footage.
He was kind of conveying that he's not stupid and he can see why he waited so long to bring it up. He knew. Clive knew. The audience knew. There was no reason to play dumb about it when it was blatantly obvious why Clive had waited so long to bring it up.
But rather than directly say it he hinted at it in a roundabout, humorous kind of way. He was sort of saying: "I see what you did there. That was a good strategy to hold off for so long before bringing this up".
That said it was obviously a very serious topic and he obviously shouldn't have done what he did to that girl so it was his own stupid fault that Clive had to question him about it.
circa 37:30 Polanski saying he'd been asked about the nose scene from China Town by journalists ad NOSEeam instead of ad NAUSeam. Amazing pun.
RIP Clive...
Polanski on a charm offensive right from the off. James melts, giggles and wriggles out of his Y fronts. What a set up!
I just cannot believe he was married to the most beautiful woman in the world and he still didn’t feel like he wanted to be faithful to her 🤦♀️
He probably figured that if he was faithful to her, he would lose her.
It was the 60's. You have to remember kids who reached adulthood in the 60's had lived through war. The 60's were like a release valve being opened. You can't judge then with the morals of now..that's if you think pc culture has the remotest thing to do with morals that is!
@@williamtaylor5193 Huh??
@@tht8916 Some people are so worried about being abandoned that they abandon first.
I don't think Polanski comprehended in what he had in his life. He had Sharon effin Tate.
I never really knew much about Roman, but I really like this interview and the fact that he didn't let the interviewer put words in his mouth.
You mean the part where Polanski literally stated himself, that he has an attraction to young girls like Samantha Geimer ? Who btw was 13 years old when he had sex with her at Nicholson’s home ? After giving her a quaalude and alcohol ? Those words ? (
( Perhaps he didn’t say the last part here. But it is part of the court record. ) Her mother was a little angry about the sex, drugs and alcohol when she found out. You know. She wasn’t hip What a b**** huh ?
But yeah Polanski just stated that he has an attraction to underage girls . Which is the very definition of pedophilia Then said he was getting antsy. You see the judge started getting a lot of grief because Polanski was receiving preferential treatment. Well I mean he was rich. A well known guy and all. What’s the harm right ? It’s Hollywood ! That’s how it works ! What is everyone so uptight about anyway right ?
But hey. Polanski was a man of the times ! He had French citizenship He just boarded a plane. Got right out of the US. Took care of that little problem. Went to France. Problem solved !
As he explained. That Geimer girl ? Well at 13 she was experienced. So it was her own fault ! Right ??? Right ????? Besides she has said she was so embarrassed that now a few years ago she just wants to forgive him and go on. So what the heck. Let’s just move on. The man is brilliant. No harm done.
Do you like that he molested a child?
Wild how many people here are defending Polanski in spite of his open admission that he likes little girls. Yeah, Chinatown was fucking brilliant, but he OPENLY ADMITTED THAT HE LIKES LITTLE GIRLS.
I was in LA that summer, I was a wild groupie, ev one in the biz was so scared of who was next...freaky time....
Sharon was a darling, loved by all, wrong place/wrong time.
It's strange that a person can seem interesting and repellent at the same time...
Nothing interesting in him and his pathetic movies!
Nothing repellent about him. Don't judge a person you don't know based on what the media has told you, especially a great talent like that.
@@paulparoma can't believe you're saying this on a clip where he admits he's a pedophile
"Its like trying to get rid of an awkward tenant "😁
He’s like a cross between eckhart tolle & bilbo baggins
And any stock-standard rapist
Perfect description. Lol
Why aren't clever people allowed to speak to each other on television any more? Agents and lawyers, and nobody actually clever? OK. As you were.
Roman Polanski omg his childhood, his life, so much pain.
he sure knew how to share it.
no excuse
The wording 'Tragic Marriage' does not sit well with the marriage he actually had with Sharon Tate. She was murdered and had nothing to do with the marriage being tragic - it just ended tragically as did her life along with 4 others. The shock must have destroyed him. He is about the only person who is truthful about his feelings or thoughts towards younger girls. I suspect the two words that come to mind are Director and Couch!
He's charming. His accent is sexy
@@pammcwhorter877 Charming ? He is a self confessed child molester, are you serious !
The two words that come to mind are sexual predator, or , if you prefer, child molester !
Most celebrities are charming, do you think you can entice folks with drool sliding out the side of your mouth? Please someone give that man a napkin!
Polanski said he grew up the the Krakow Ghetto (as does Clive James in this interview) and not the Warsaw Ghetto which is noted above.
Really great interview.
Wonder what Nastassja Kinski thinks of the latest accusers. One of them says she was as young as 10 when she met Polanski, and has pictures to prove it.
Not true!!!!!!
@@rgreene152 How could you possibly know !
She was 15, anyway. Still not okay.
What a great interview!
he is really wonderfull. And you all suddenly become so innocent when hearing him
His wife was never murdered by Charles Manson. She was killed by Susan Atkins.
actually tex watson was the one who killed sharon
Yeah but Charles Manson was the organ grinder, Tex Watson and co were the monkeys. If it wasn't for him, Sharon would still be alive.
@@shadowwolf9482 susan stabbed her to.
@@joseph19012 Rubbish....Manson knew nothing of Polanski..He thought Melcher was still living there...
@@reginareams1478 thank you for correcting me. The comment has been removed.
A very special human being. People regarding him as a criminal are ignorant fools, frustrated individuals who are only good at howling with the mob and do not come remotely close to his greatness. When a mother brings her daughter to a famed 40 year old man womanizer to take half nude pictures in a hot tube, what responsability does she have ? The girl was 13, yes, but was not childish in any way in her actions, having had several lovers and taken drugs before. What Polanski did was wrong and he paid a higher price than anybody (check the details with all other cases of the sort the same year in the same state), but comparing him to a predator roaming around schools and attacking little girls is plain stupid. Samatha Geimer forgave him years ago and has never ceased since then to ask people to leave him alone. With the coming of internet, all the useless losers found a way to give their moronic lives a thrill by hating someone and something they can never be.
So basically you're trying to trivialize child rape. Right on, you open minded, art-understanding genius.
By the way, 90% of his movies aren't that good. Way overhyped, deal with it.
Let's not blame Samantha's mother for what happened. What happened was Roman's fault. Even he says that people should give Samantha's mother a break.
Hes a nonse
haha. Yeah, sure. A 13 year child was thrown in by her mother and drugged and anally raped by an adult male. No of course you couldn 't call him a predator or her mother an absolute idiot. And all the people who coment on this are useless losers. Do you have daughters? Would you throw them to a 40 year old pedo? In this interview he says that he always liked young women. And by saying young women he means very underaged girls. I can only fear what you think about young girls yourself when you write a comment like this.
Amen 🙏🏻
Chinatown is a masterpiece.∆
Ignoring the previous "despicable" posts, I have have admired the work of both Polanski and Clive James for many years now, It's too bad that the U.S., with rare exceptions, seems to be off limits to them. Polanski did submit himself to justice until it became evident that justice wouldn't prevail. 'Chinatown' was a masterpiece and James' 'Fame in the 20th Century' was one of the best television series I've ever seen. Thanks for posting!
And what would be justice for you ? Letting a child molester off the hock ? Its people like you that truly make me think birds of a feather Hmmm ???
@Hunks Appreciated So that makes it alright then does it? *facepalm*
@Hunks Appreciated it's unfathomable how this incident would have effected her life, beyond the crime itself. She's been the victim of 10,000s of angry and ignorant letters and now online posts.. most people would want to "forgive and forget" and not have their life defined by such harassment. It's coercion on a scale that is unfathomable & definitely doesn't "let him of the hook" either, no matter what she says.
@@dazeofheaven
Who even sent her letters harrassing her ? Who would do that ? Do you have any link for this info ?
@@dazeofheaven you do realise that the mother of the young girl knew about Romans’ par chant for younger girls and allowed her daughter to be left alone in his company. Some people in Hollywood would do anything for money. Even pimp out their own children.
Both Roman and Charles Manson understood that a child can adapt to a bad situation because they don't understand what bad is. Or at Least somthing to compare it to. Today as I write this it is August 9, 2019. 50 years from the day his world was turned upside down.
15:26.... why he fell in love with Paris, because of the colors & creative variety.. as compared to Eastern Europe which was mostly all grays & geometric shapes.. no personality ... no expression ..” As a New Yorker living in 2019, I can relate to desiring an environment that is colorful & fun... 🌈🎊🧜♂️🤗
It seems your idea of eastern Europe is 40 years obsolete. Those countries do not differ from Western Europe, except there are no muslims there.
@@hornet5761 I have visited Eastern Europe several times ( 1974, 1980, 2019, 2024) to connect with my roots and maintained a close relationship with my grandparents who left Eastern Europe because of communism. I have visited Hungary, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia. The contrast between these countries and the West ( Germany, Austria, France, Netherlands) for example was stark. Yes the gap is becoming less prominent now but have you ever seen remnants of the bleak Soviet apartment blocs? The stark infrastructure. It was dehumanizing and depressing! What happened there remains in the psyches of the people who lived it even though some people are unable or unwilling to acknowledge or see it. Polanski knows exactly what he is talking about. Flippantly dismissing the tragedy of Eastern European occupation as if it that experience can just be erased Woof/Poof with your remark is pointless!
What a contrast with C.R. as an interviewer. But Polanski is consistent with his generosity.
C.R?
@@mickduncan3564 I believe Charlie Rose
Oh yeah, he was really consistent with his generosity for underage girls!
Lunch with Roman, nice!
Shameful, sick answer and rationalization by him and many men in this world.
Great interview.
the du
Except now I am very very hungry. And I replayed to find the transition between escargot and main course.
He drugged and raped a young girl... I don't think going to dinner and having a laugh with someone like that then promoting his films is a good idea... or WTF were you thinking... is my other response! @39:00 stop promoting people like this under the guise of being artists!!!
I respect his honesty, but would have been more sympathetic to him if he would've spoken with remorse about his actions with that child. It may be true that a number of people secretly have those thoughts, but, thankfully most do not act upon them. There are reasons for the age of consent. If you can't grasp those reason than you need to see a psychologist immediately.
I wouldn't call an almost fourteen year old a "child".
@@annlanders978 The law would though. In the US, even 17 is still a child. You might then choose to say "minor", but it's one in the same.
@@annlanders978 She was 13, THIRTEEN. Five year olds say they're "almost" six, and people trying to spin facts. This is what she looked like, when 43 year old Polanski sodomized her, as she cried: encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTztZh52C5NcGgtLP3NoLuq2n9moVx2rtRjiah_Sur0yLUXYode
@@zwergie256 Didn't she also say that she slept around with other guys and it's not like he raped me or smth ?
@@annlanders978 Almost fourteen is actually thirteen, I wonder if you respected Jeffrey Epstein’s honesty, shame on you.
Now I understand being a great artist doesn't mean you're a good person too. Having sex with a minor is illegal and doesn't matter if you like "young girls" or she was consensual, he made a big mistake.
Exactly
LOL adult sex with minors is legal in most US states and most of the world.
It's simply delightful hearing Roman's laughter at the very beginning.
I wonder if the women he raped feel the same
Okay pedo
I can’t believe the amount of pedos in these comments
the comments on this post are sickening
This interview and the comments are making me sick! Two men are casually sitting down and eating their food while discussing how men like young girls(under age girls)
I don’t care how old this interview is, we still live in a world like that! They are just not open an honest about it, like some People commented on this! I don’t care if he was the greatest artists on the planet! Still not a good human being! We have a lot of great artists that are a decent human being.
You need to relax, take a breath and get off your soapbox ! Sick of people like you
Very true! He ran away to france to avoid prison. And he had a life and a career there while the 13 year old girls he abused suffered their entire lives. Disgusting.
@@normadesmond6017 wrong... the girl testified there was no wrongdoing...it, like was said,..just happened... now,its distasteful as fuck... but at least if you try to boast some sort of point,..make sure your points are factually correct
The girl was 13 when this happened. He called her a young woman. 13 is not a young woman, it's a child. He invited her into the house of Jack Nickolson. gave her quaaludes, then had anal sex with her. Would you call that "no wrongdoing"? "It just happened?" Does this "just happen" to you sometimes? When he had a vey good chance to spend the rest of his life in jail, he escaped to France. And thank god this
thing he did will haunt him until the day he dies.
@@normadesmond6017 again,I cant stress enough how bad the situation is..and how disgusting the man is for even thinking about this ..like this.. but here is the deal,..from what age is a human able to think.. birth?..10..20..50?.. the account of the girl was very plain,..and yes it changed a few times,..but the account that held was, she knew what she was doing... again, I wasn't there..and if I was,I probably killed the guy... but here Is what i mean with the statement.. if the girl testified she knew what was happening,. It really blurred those fucked up lines for him,and visa versa. It's called... no wrongdoing in the form of she acted upon the situation..now again,before you start screaming and hollering again... its fucking disgusting,in any way or form.. and even if she was fully in love ( because that shit really happens) france should take him,and cut his pecker off.. dont take my words wrongfully.. its wrongdoing from his part in any..any case,.. .but there is that 1 factor that blurs that fact...the fact she in the lead up told..she knew what was happening..that's all
Fearless vampire killers great movie
I haven't seen that film yet.
@@Onmysheet It's one of Polanski's worst films, you're not missing much.
Pirates is one of his worst, along with What. Haven't seen them either.
@@Onmysheet I haven't seen Pirates.
What? is FUCKING AWFUL!!!
Polanski just can't do comedy.
@@ppuh6tfrz646 It's a spoof film, that has actually aged good, the cinematography is great, fun well shot movie
We can appreciate fashion in this video, for instance the restaurant bar is quite obscure!!! But nowadays peaple wouldnt like it anymore as most including myself find it depressing.
32:12 I don't know if it's true but the story goes that Polanski very briefly suspected Bruce Lee may have had something to do with the murders because the glasses resembled the pair that Lee wore, but once Polanski saw Lee wearing them after the fact, he ruled him out.
i've heard that too. he also suspected john phillips, maybe because roman had a sexual encounter with his wife michelle phillips.
@@lisabradford8180 Really? I didn't know that about Polanski and Michelle Phillips.
@@jameskenney9192 yeah, i read that a long time ago but exactly where escapes me at the moment.
@@lisabradford8180. It’s in Ed Sanders’s The Family.
Roman was against having children cause his mother was pregnant and was killed in the gas chamber. Sharon waited past the time that he could have wanted her to abort the baby to tell him she was pregnant. He slowly grew excited for the birth of his first child and they were both taken away from him due to being murdered.
So you're ok with Roman being a paedo?
I see why Sharon fell in love. He really is charismatic.
She ditched Jay after the first night with Roman
Yes the money and the fame were other reasons why Sharon fell in ''love''.
@@trinefenner13 when they got married Polanski wasn’t exactly rich and famous. he was very successful and doing just fine for himself, but it wasn’t till Rosemary’s Baby that his career really took off
@@trinefenner13 Jay was pretty famous and rich himself. He was a famous hairdresser for men and had his own line of shampoos etc....
He did a lot of Hollywood actors hair. I think it was simply sharon just fell in love with Roman. I don't think she would hurt Jay for nothing.
He’s unbelievably disgusting
Don't think I saw any of his films but I have seen a little bit of The Pianist. Might see Chinatown pretty soon
he is a genius. watch rosemary's baby
I did see Chinatown. I think I might have to see it again. I am very restless when it comes to mystery films.
Rosemary's Baby gets better and better with repeat viewing because you see things you missed before. Just a really smart cool movie. One of the best of all time.
Actually those are the two movies that are worth watching. The rest didn't age well, sorry. Most of it was bullshit when it was released already though. This man is way overhyped
@@paulsetefano8697 He is a pedophile, not a genius.
so good! thankyou, his last answer is IT!
At one point Roman thought Bruce Lee was involved in the murder. Hence why he talked about ''someone wearing glasses'' as Mr Lee used to wear similar glasses.
I wonder what Bruce Lee would have thought about the rape case if he was still alive today? He'd probably side with the 13-year-old, other accusers, and Judge Larry Rittenband. Polanski blamed Rittenband for his handling on the case, accused him of being a media darling.
He reacted badly to the judge because he did a sleazeball by extending the sentence. I think he did that to raise his profile, as he had a celebrity on his case.
Bruce would've grimaced and shook his head
Say hi to Emmanuel for me , now that was his masterpiece
not Chinatown.
Traumatized by childhood memories, intellectual, intelligent, creative and attractive. All of those things yes. But what one does in their career, their talent, what you appreciate about them and their achievements is separate from their personal actions and their consequences. One the night Sharon was murdered, he was with someone else. He forced Sharon into having sex with multiple strangers. She wanted a normal marriage. He didn’t. Did he love her, I don’t know. He wanted her, on his terms. Was he her by her loss. Yes. I don’t think true, pure love does this to another person. To love, cherish, honor is just as meaningful if not more then his need to be adored and to use his intellect as an excuse for doing what you want without regard. I’m sad for him, his childhood experience of horror, the loss of Sharon. But not sad for some of his choices. His success becomes meaningless..
I think you need to understand that people are complex, especially after having been through what he's been through in his most formative years as a child. You kind of get a fucked up, detached relationship to "love" and how you love, how you accept love.
wow, you were actually living with them to state these things as a fact? I don't know if I'd be so bold, even just anonymously behind the keyboard.. anyways, these times were different in regards of morals, and life is complex. And I also think, Sharon's family wouldn't have been and continue to be in such close contact with him if the abject things the media wrote about the couple were true.
It is widely said and roman ojt his own mouth he couldn't be faithful
@@rustneversleeps85 Committing sexual violence on someone, especially a child, is not him being "complex". It's him being an abuser and predator.
@@Muirmaiden No, it is literally being "complex", as the human mind is a complex and paradoxical thing. Entire psychological community would be laughing at your comment. You are all about emotional logic ,which is no logic. A person can be both a predator and complex, you do realize these go hand in hand and are not mutually exclusive. I bet you believe in good and evil too, as oppose to attachment patterns from early in life?
This is an excellent interview. Clive James did a great job and Roman Polanski was very candid and matter of fact, as usual.
I see Polanski's point about the "age of consent" being different in different places. At a given time in history when ages of consent were lower a sexual encounter with a girl who was two weeks shy of her fourteenth birthday would not be a violation of the law. (It was not a violation of the law in California until 1889.) That being said, Roman Polanski is a pedophile by his own admission.
He has what used to be called, in criminal slang, "short eyes". He is very frank about it and states his fondness for young women/girls with confidence. He doesn't appear to regard this taste of his as being problematic at all. One wonders how he would approach the issue of "age of consent" if he were writing the law. Everyone with "short eyes" is not sensitive and intelligent like Roman.
Roman is not a predator, perhaps. How would we know? However there are a lot of sexual predators around. It wasn't aesthetic considerations that led to age of consent laws. He contends that the judge in his case was out to get him and wasn't treating him fairly. That may be so. Of course none of his troubles with the law would have happened if he were not a pedophile who thought he could get away with breaking the law, as others had, without serious consequences.
In the 70's and 80's, he tended to frustratingly hesitate to take responsibility whenever discussing this incident. I'm just glad that he settled the issue with Samantha in the 90's, and gave her and her mother a long overdue apology.
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@@dozogurl55 He knew all along what was right or not, F him
@@adamzanzie That was nothing compared to what catholic priests do in Poland.
We don't know the circumstances of that encounter with the "girl". Maybe she looked older and acted older and he didn't know. Maybe they were both drinking or doing drugs and who knows what happened then. I wouldn't call him a pedophile because of this one incident. I am tired of people lumping him in with real predators like Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby etc.
He has zero remorse
NARCISSISM
@@Myannasmagic1983. You nailed it. He never does anything wrong in his mind.
The start of the interview had in me in stitches!! You dont see interview like these anymore
*interviews
writer Wojciech Frykowski; , his friend and he son, they are the names never mentioned all his life.
Roman is a brilliant genius
Roman is a narcissist paedo
Genius doesn’t mean a person is above the law.
Love his work......a genius......
A pedo, and you, a pedo supporter
Really enjoyed that
Does anyone know which restaurant this was filmed in?
Love gives you the seed of tragedy
Roman is very intelligent, one of the best directors of all time, I absolutely love him and the way he responds to these arrogant questions is amazing. He is impressive honest and true although the press tries to make him in a place of shame. It's just impressive how honest he is.
I’m not particularly a “fan of Clive James per se. That said, it should be state that he he was an accomplished writer, critic, essayist (and novelist and poet and television presenter and radio broadcaster and translator) & author. Who for fifty years, managed to maintain three distinct reputations in three distinct English-speaking countries. In his own right. I also know a great deal about Polanski’s reputation background and career.
This is a fascinating interview. Very personal . I feel that in the chosen setting , it allowed for a very open and personal dialogue. At a perfect time in Polanski’s life . He was always reluctant previously to discuss his life. All perhaps allowing him to be most open and tell his life’s story. He revealed the most about his life in this interview compared to any other.
May I ask ? What about the exchange/ questions makes you feel the questions were arrogant ? What about Polanski do you admire most ? His directing and film making ?
Polanski never gave others the time of day. Today he would never sit with one like this. It was Clive James reputation particularly that brought about the interview in the first place.
But am interested to know why you are so critical of the interview.
He drugged and raped a child.
Why are so many people in love with a known serial child rapist?
Yep, I'm sure if your 13 year old daughter was drugged and sodomized by a 44 year old man, you'd be fine with that....
Great you love a psychopathic child rapist
What a great discussion. I respect his authenticity & artistic genius. I’m glad I know a bit more about his background story. Unfortunately, at first, I only heard about the scandals ... ~ I think he’s a genius in directing & cinema, and I think he proved himself again & again. ~ When Polanski is dead & gone, his films will go on .. How terrible to lose his wife & child in the brutal house attack.. I don’t think he ever got over that...✨🦢🌸✨Wishing him peace & Love. ☕️🍓🥗
I really am happy to read your comment. It shows understanding and empathy. And a willingness to see a man as he is. This is rare.
It also shows, tell me if I'm wrong, that it is making you as hungry as it made me....🥗🍟🥩🐌
The man’s life was tragic. He has had a brilliant career. That much is true.
He also openly just admitted (without being prodded) to having a “strong attraction to young girls” .
The girl in question was 13 years old at the time. Did anyone here know that ?
He also gave her a quaalude and champagne before having anal sex with her. At Jack Nicholson’s home ! Then when he felt his ore-arranged plea deal (that went beyond the bound of CA law at the time giving him preferential treatment) was about to fall through. He fled the country never to return. Basically a fugitive from justice.
He then proceeded to victim blame and shame. Everyone praised him. I’m simply astounded. It is shocking. Stunning. Absolutely stunning.
I wonder if he ever talked to Manson about killing his wife and baby
I think not.
A wonderful interview of a living legend!
Of a pedophile.
@@april-tui3524 I was sexually active at the age of 14. 3 months before my 15th birthday. My partner at the time was 21. That was in 1989. My parents never called my boyfriend a paedophile. My mother took me to our family doctor and we all agreed that I should start taking the pill.
My parents even let my boyfriend stay over with me in my bedroom. Perhaps they trusted me because I wasn’t a typical “young” girl at the time. Not everyone matures at the legal sexual age of consent. Some of us matured far quicker.
@@pampennyworth your parents should have been prosecuted, as your abuser should of. That is illegal for a reason.
@@pampennyworth horrible parents
@@pampennyworth exactly, and it’s weird when it’s consensual you got these pests out here trying to stick their nose up others business
Very interesting and deep thinker
Brilliant filmmaker and wonderful interview - just great - thank you !
@smitdiot And victim of the Nazis for being Jewish when he was just a child.
This monster admitted to liking young girl’s to think he was able to convince Sharon Tate to date and marry him sickens me .
What a life ( Roman Polanski ) dealt a hand in life as tragic as one could imagine , small handsome man super intelligent . Interviewed by Clive James( rip) also very intelligent individual as well. Womanizer himself in his life . Great combination great interview.
Thanks for posting . Nothing like You tube !
You realize Polanski admits here to child rape, right???
"Womanizer"??? It was a 13 year old little girl that he drugged and sodomized at 44. See, you might be able to be Ok with that, but thank God for Men in Prison. When a piece of garbage gets in Prison for raping a 13 year old, they torture this animal until he's dead. You know why? Because there has never been a case where a person like this didn't reoffend after release. So if the general public would allow children to be hurt, at least there are some who won't let that happen.
all "morals" aside, this man sounds smart
Agreed. You don't create the body of work like he did by being thick.