Or I'll be in a hotel room in Tokyo and there she will be, on the television. "I'm always opening magazines and seeing pictures of her in advertisements. (Hepburn became almost as well known for her second career as Unicef goodwill ambassador as for her first.)įerrer thinks that even if he wasn't doing what he does for a living, he would still be haunted by Hepburn's face and voice. Since his mother's death from cancer 10 years ago he has been running the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund, a charity affiliated with Unicef. He grew up in his mother's 18th-century farmhouse on Lake Geneva, and moved to California after college to work as an assistant director, with limited success. He has a lethargic way of talking, speaking west coast American with a Swiss accent.
He hasn't inherited her mellifluous voice, though. And at 193 centimetres he may seem inappropriately tall, but actually his mother was pretty tall, too (173 centimetres) she just seemed small because of her gamine features and tiny waist. But you can see the resemblance in a certain light, especially when it catches his dark brown eyes or the shape of his nose. The photograph shows a scrawny, bespectacled man with buck teeth who looks like he has escaped from a mental institution.įerrer, an ursine 43-year-old who today is mildly scruffy in an open-neck shirt, doesn't look much like the dainty, stylish Audrey Hepburn either. He really does look like her, doesn't he?" "Check out the photograph of him on the back cover. Clearly he hasn't been around too many pregnant women!" He shakes his head. He reckons he was born just after the (Second World) war and my mother was too young to realise she was pregnant. "It's by some guy who claims to be my mother's illegitimate son. "Look at this one," he says with a flicker of amusement in his eye.
On a coffee table in Sean Hepburn Ferrer's office in Santa Monica, California, there are several biographies of Audrey Hepburn, his mother.
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