 An exclusive interview with CLC's very own Rene Russo before she is engulfed by Hollywood and we have to go through 3 agents and a personal security force just to speak to her again. Ladies and Gentlemen, Jenny Grove ...
What have you been doing in Cambridge? serving God through...studying english, acting, directing and producing plays, hanging out with mates, planting theatre cell and leading it for a while, singing jazz, organising music stuff at clc, drinking lots of coffee with lots of people, praying loads, doing admin for clc for a year, taking the fragrance of Jesus everywhere i go... What made you get stuck in to CLC? I was taken along to the call in my first week, saw students with real vision for the city who were doing something about it and thought 'these are the guys i want to be around'. clc really is the people and they feel like my family Tell us one thing we would never have guessed about you? I used to be able to do front flips Most embarrasing moment? having senior school assembly stopped by my piercing, petulant voice shouting loudly in the corridor 'I hate you, I hate you' at two of my friends When did God become more than a word to you? when I was 12 and someone was talking about rev 3:16 and about how it's all or nothing with God, a whole life thing. Who are your hero(in)es? jc, judi dench, aimee semple mcpherson, corrie ten boom What are you afraid of? pigeons Where do you come on the Sanderson-Duffy scale of irony? intimately close to sanderson (ooh err!) Favourite film, book, album? breakfast at tiffany's, tender is the night, magnolia soundtrack (this week, that is) Describe yourself with 5 words: happy, secure, optimistic, chilled, loopy Describe an experience of God that you have had: standing in my first year room in college feeling God so close I was terrified to even move What would you do with 5 million pounds? give £100,00 to my parents who could then retire; use £20,000 to pay for drama school, and maybe another £10,000 to live off for a couple of years. give a few mates £1000; give half a million to clc; give the rest (about £4.35 million) away to charities who needed it What was funny about your childhood? funny haha or funny strange? I think my mother wanted a boy because she kept my hair very short and dressed me in trousers and everyone thought i was a boy. and we lived in Holland. and my brother was made to wear lederhosen What one thing would you change about yourself? i wish i treated everyone equally Which teacher do you remember most vividly and why? mrs crouch because she was the funniest teacher I had but she also made me feel like the things I achieved when I really tried were something special. What are the main things you've learnt from God during your time in Cambridge? that God is faithful; that his love is the most incredible thing and is unconditional; that religion is rubbish; that the kind of person i want to be isn't the most 'spiritual' or 'the one at the front' but someone who is really kind and compassionate and generous and patient and tender-hearted. What experiences have been most beneficial? where do i start? God has taught me so much over 3 years through so much stuff, but I guess hanging around portugal place, whether working or just chilling, and chatting to tim, ania and gabriel has been really significant - getting to really see what they're really about and how clc works and stuff.... Where next for you? hopefully drama school, definitely living in london.... And what are the longer-term aims? hollywood here I come....and to be much, much more like Jesus and see God's love really change people wherever i am One thing you're looking forward to in heaven? the buffet How does God speak to you? quietly and gently and unobtrusively but succinctly Do your (sleeping) dreams have significance? perhaps, although if they do it's probably not a good sign. marriage seems to come up a lot.... Favourite food? oooooooh everything. chocolate, mangoes, king prawns, haagen dazs, strawberries and always lots of garlic What would it take to get you on the dance floor? a nice offer, some funky music, and the absence of gabriel laughing at my wind-tunnel-esque dancing What are your best memories? bike rides with my mum when i was about 6 in holland; hanging upside down from lots of climbing frames when i was little; dad reading me bedtime stories What do you say when you talk to yourself? generally i only sing to myself or talk myself through ideas that are too complicated to hold in my head TV: good or bad? generally awful but redeemed by moments of brilliance such as west wing, er and 24 Which major prize would you love to win? a BAFTA or an Oscar What's your most annoying habit? correcting grammar Do you have a novel in you? perhaps but I don't think it's very good What can we pray for for you? to find God's purpose for me in london - to find the right people (as in church) to get stuck in with | 