"I can remember when I first started working," says Linney. "I had an agent who said to me, 'Is your passport valid'? You're going to need it.' I had no concept I would be traveling around the world like this. None at all." As it happens, Linney's future projects may include appearing in London theater, though right now, she stresses, nothing is confirmed.
When she is not working, Linney divides her time between Manhattan and her other main base, the Rocky Mountain town of Telluride in Colorado. This is where she lives with the hunk I saw her with in the lobby - fiance Marc Schauer, whom Linney met when he worked as a volunteer at the local film festival. Schauer is not connected to Hollywood in any way, though that's about all there is to know about him, as true to form, Laura Linney elegantly stonewalls all my personal questions.
"All I can say is that I'm in a good place," she says. "The best place I've ever been."
Might she try for children?
"Who knows!" The eyebrows arch, the "aghast" smile is back. "We'll have to see what happens."
Linney is more comfortable discussing the extreme differences between her two homes. So, which suits her personality better, Manhattan or Telluride?
"I think I need them both now actually," she muses. "I love what living in a remote, beautiful place does for me. I feel that it's important to be around nature. It's very healing to watch the animals walk by, to see things die, to watch flowers come and go. You know, see the changing of the seasons."
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