Richard Gadd told Hollywood star Claire Danes he once wrote a whole essay about the way she cries, during a cosy chat on American TV.
Scots writer Gadd, who enjoyed worldwide fame with his TV show Baby Reindeer, made the confession as he and Ms Danes interviewed each other as part of a CNN series called Actors on Actors.
Opening up on his admiration for Ms Danes, 47, Gadd said it was ‘surreal’ to be sitting chatting to her.
He then went on to describe the impact her performance as Juliet in Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film Romeo + Juliet had on him.
Gadd, who attended Madras College, in St Andrews, said: ‘I’ll tell you a little fact. Back at school… I think I must have been about 13 or 14, and to get us to learn Shakespeare, they let us watch Romeo + Juliet.
