Desperately seeking Katie...

KATIE HOLMES may be a sweetheart on screen and nice enough in person, but as an interviewee, she’s pure hell.

Softly spoken and with a lot of hesitation before every answer, she and her very aggressive PR flak deflect every single question, even the most innocuous, by talking about her character in the movie. It makes for a long and rather awkward hour together.

Dressed in a cream chiffon blouse from her own label, Holmes and Young, over a brick coloured bell shaped skirt, her long brown hair falls loosely below her shoulders. But she sits very stiffly throughout the interview, barely moving her head, as though trying not to muss her hair. Katie Holmes (32) does not look or seem to be anything close to relaxed and this barely changes, even as the time passes.