Lunch Break Video: Stockard Channing talks about how she’s changed in “Six Degrees of Separation”

Stockard Channing is so damned good in everything she does from First Lady Abby Bartlett in The West Wing to bad girl Rizzo in Grease.

But I don’t think this two-time Emmy winner has ever been better than in her Oscar nominated role of Louisa (‘Ouisa’) Kittredge in the 1993 film Six Degrees of Separation co-starring Donald Sutherland, Will Smith, and Ian McKellen, among others.

This scene comes at the end of this fine film and shows how Ouisa’s comfortable world as a New York City art dealer is turned upside down by a young man who shows up on her doorstep claiming to be her son’s friend from Harvard – and the son of Sidney Poitier.

Many things happen and the film is filled with a lot of smart and funny moments – and some heartbreaking ones too. Great performances all around but Channing is the anchor and this scene shows you why.

Enjoy!