She didn't wear makeup in the film and still looked great. What a natural beauty.

Virginia is 100% spot on on all her descriptions of the valley and what it does to you. She's amazing, love her work, great film

My wife and I LOVE THIS MOVIE!! It's shot in our stopping grounds!!! San Diego and Solvang wine country. The Hitching Post has been our restaurant since 1980!!! We have the DVD and open a bottle of Gainey Pino Noir and watch it. Everything she says about the area are soooo true. Once you are there... you in a special sanctuary.. We go up there every year from San Diego.

What a stunning lady, 🌹❤️❤️

Virginia did a great job, wonderful performance, a fantastic, human, emotional film. It doesn’t matter how Hollywood sees you, all these actresses act like a victim, they can be in a play, they can make movies in other countries, they don’t always have to be in a big budget film. It’s hard for everybody, no matter what they look like, to make it in Hollywood. A career is a difficult thing to build no matter who you are.

Beautiful place, I lived near there and a friend of mine worked at the Hitching Post. One of my all time favorite movies. She is wonderful and so genuine.

I can't believe she exists... this movie means so much to me ... ty Virginia for doing this movie ... and thank you for your most profound honesty ❤️

This movie brought my husband and I to Santa Inez and it’s everything Virginia says it is- our happy, peaceful and content place. Sideways is one of my all time favorites!!

such an amazing woman!

Her interpretation of "The Valley" hit home for me, having lived in Santa Ynez for ten years. She described the feeling, the hold it has on anyone who was blessed to be part of Solvang. I miss it badly. Her acting resonates the flavor of the Central Coast. What an ensemble of amazing talent. Every aspect of the movie created a work of art.

One of my FAVORITE comedies! What a great cast! A real classic! I have travelled, and visited all the places this movie is shot at. Napa and Santa Ynez Valley are beautiful!

What a gent Alexander Payne is...!! He is definitely "in-tune".....great interview...(Thanks for this)..

They way she described the production, aging, and taste of wine in the movie Sideways was SOOOOO DAMN SEXY.

incredible character ! Beautiful.

Virginia Madsen is so elegant and classy.

great interview ❤

Hey performance in this was amazing.

Good insights on her career trajectory and the way she wants it to move.

"Everything just begins to fall away the closer you get to Santa Ynez...There is just something about that place." So true.

Drop dead gorgeous

Awesome interviews ! This movie Rocks ! Virginia is beautiful and Payne is so smart. I take this trip twice a year so my wife can visit her father. Great movie, make sure you drink a bottle of wine every time you watch it !

Shes gorgeous

Virginia Madsen is so elegant and poised, a true beauty. I can't believe Antonio Sabato Jr didn't marry this woman. They had a son together and reportedly co-parent but Antonio went on to conceive two more children out of wedlock with two other women. He's now married to some immature Asian girl who's an ex Raiderette cheerleader. I saw him on an episode of Celebrity Wife Swap and his new woman is so immature, it was ridiculous.What a step down compared to Virginia Madsen. Virginia is a class act and such a good actress.

It's so true what she says about the SYV, it feels like a whole other world out there! 😊

Very nice! Thank you for posting.

Epitome of the earthy beauty as Maya. When she came out with the "Sassicaia" line it harpooned me. I later had dinner with Piero Incisa della Rochetta, The young Marchese owner of the winery, and asked him "how the hell did you get that product placement?" I believe he told me it was Alexander's call. I don't remember it being in the book. Like many I know, I no longer drink but love the movie-the humor and tenderness. Maya's ultimate line is the sexiest in film sans sex. I particularly love the Maya message/Rainy drive full of hope and rebirth.

Sequel idea: "Fully Upright." Virginia Madsen works out in a gym lots, but gets sucked into drinking Merlot at night for the er, anthocyanins... What the hell - make the movie for the dollars it'll rake in; you guys have already made one of the best movies of all time and have already proved that you are actors, writers, directors, and producers who deserve to be in the same league - literally, in the same league - with things like Sunset Boulevarde. It's a fact. This movie will be remembered for a long long time. It's a total classic. Thanks for such great work. How can it possibly be improved on. It's up there. No question.

She talks about being without makeup up for the film and missing it - I thought she looked gorgeous without makeup. Great actress and interview.

She's a doll

She's one of many truly exceptional actresses often not noticed enough. Like Andrea Riseborough and Rebecca Hall and and the list is long.

She was great in "Sideways"

Wow...she's stunning.

thank for this wowq

Glad she came back for Candyman.

The princess in Dune, what a goddess.

it's crazy that her career never really took off after Sideways.

Virginia is great. I've watched Sideways 8 times so far and will do it again with a nice botle of chianti.

what a rad human being

Love the movie 🍿

She's adorable.

I'm a female here to say that's a bad ass white woman

She’s jammin.

Man, it would be an absolute total knockout hit if Alex Payne goes for a decent sequel if not even triple line it with a third. Yes, the first one really IS that good. Here it's friggin 2016 almost and every time I watch this one I wonder why on earth there isn't another one. Everyone could speculate with their own spin on what it should/could look like, but this cast is Da Bomb and they made this film shake!!!!

"Jack this is Mia...............Hiya!"

gosto muito desta atriz, e ela e’ tao linda🇧🇷

"I WAS 20 and sexy"....erm, slap me and wake me from my dreams. WAS......WAS....ahehm..............DAMMIT GIRL......you've still got it going on. Superb performance in the film...GREAT FILM..GREAT ACTING. WELL DONE YOU Virginia.

There should be a Sideways 2 same cast 15 years later .... lol 😆 with the right writer it could be amazing!!!

The Director seem to have the talents of a army general!:D

It’s sad that she thinks without makeup and a few pounds heavier that she’s not a knockout. This is exactly what society has done to us!

Such a wonderful character. The perfect woman in every way. Her beauty grows as she ages...so rare.

She is so beautiful. I loved her with Morgan Freeman.

She should have won the Oscar on Sideways... HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Sideways reboot series on Netflix!

Virginia deadly in shades 😎 😅

She's "Bejugged"!

Virginia is beautiful Pete Woodroffe Music

That's her color ...that shade of green

Virginia would do well, in period films ...could have played in Gladiator, or other period films ...ie, American civil war film

How she didn't win the Oscar for that movie of a travesty.

Maybe, just maybe, she was too picky about the work she chose? Paul Giamatti seems like a "let's do it, it may not be "Sideways," but I will treat it like that". Of course, Giamatti and Madsen are totally opposite "types," one the nerdy everyman and the other a blond knockout. So I can imagine P. G. easier to cast. And Virginia has to compete with other stunningly beautiful actresses who are probably gonna be younger. So it's tough. If I was her agent or manager, right after "Sideways" I'd be " okay, 75% of Sideways, good money, book it. Ten seconds later same thing. And again, like ten times, four of five years of steady work, bound to be a chestnut of a role in there to raise the profile again. Worst case scenario? you're set for life financially V.M. And to look at it objectively, like Audrey Hepburn's first boyfriend told her, "the world needs to see you on film, your heart-stopping beauty is almost like it belongs to the world. Plus your acting talent alone is a gift that needs to be shared." Sideways got ripped off by Million dollar baby at the Oscars. Chick boxer carrying this tide of political correct b. s. empowerment over a real person like Maya, and Jack. It's like the academy is such a sucker for typical "tropes." The mentally challenged underdog, or anybody playing " The Joker. "

She looks way different with makeup on

Why did she wear a hoodie to the prom?

She is nothing like Michael Madsen,

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