Tippi admitted that Hitchcock had “good sides.” She said, “He was also my drama coach. The interesting sessions that we had about how an actor develops, breaks down a script, develops a character, figures out the relationships of the other people in the movie—there was so much that went on that was absolutely fabulous and useful to me for the rest of my career.”
“He was probably one of the greatest storytellers,” Tippi acknowledged. “He knew how to manipulate his audiences. He was brilliant at choosing stories that he wanted to tell. He had a great sense of humor. He would tell jokes during filming.”
But being sexually harassed by Hitchcock negated everything. “I wasn’t interested in being the object of someone’s obsession,” she emphasized (…) Tippi claimed that she got over this “horrible” experience “a long time ago.” She explained, “Because I know people who were hurt very badly, and their lives were ruined by it. I thought, I am not doing that.”
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