When I met Richard in 2012, it was for an interview we were doing with Simone Boyce. It was, in fact, the first on-camera interview I ever did with Simone, and I didn’t really know what to expect. You hear stories about how this actor wants to be presented this way, or in that light, or how you can’t ask about X, Y, or Z… So it cheered me to quickly learn Richard was not one of those kinds of actors. He was in the middle of a whirlwind PR tour—-had just flown into L.A., in fact—-and was a little punch drunk from jet lag. If I had a descriptor, I would say he was “giggly,” and though that may not sound too flattering, it’s only to highlight what a cheerful, warm and open person he is in real life. Anyone in the world could be excused for a lack of patience after having gone without sleep for numerous hours on end, but he was the opposite: patient to a fault with my n00bish camera handling and nerdtastic questions. What struck me the most was his […]