When I heard Monday that Lynn Redgrave had died, I thought about her performances, yes, but I though even more about an interview I did with her in 2005.

The interview was to talk about a show she was bringing to Connecticut College called “Sisters of the Garden.” The piece was about the bonds of an artistic family, something, obviously, Redgrave knew a great deal about.

She played members of the musical Mendelssohn and the Boulanger clans in this one-woman tour-de-force, and Regrave could easily pull from her own experience, and she spoke warmly and openly about that.

She told me, “Certainly, (acting) is something I love and share with my family — my sister and I, and my brother and my nieces, the whole acting gang — because we do the same thing. We can talk about it and ‘How did it go at rehearsal today?’ and it means something. It’s much the same with these sisters (in ‘Sisters of the Garden’), who were brought up living and breathing music.”

She spoke, too, about her then-recent filming of the Merchant-Ivory movie “The White Countess,” which focused on members of the Russian aristocracy who lost everything in the Bolshevik Revolution and fled to China.

She co-starred in that with sister Vanessa, and Vanessa’s daughter, Natasha Richardson, who died in 2009 after a ski accident. “White Countess,” which was filmed in Shanghai, was the first time that Lynn had worked with Natasha.

“What was lovely was my sister, Vanessa, and I and Tasha were able to play members of the same family. It was great to be with them, and we had the fun of being back in the hotel, being all girls together,” she said.

I asked Redgrave, too, about one of my favorite performances of hers, as the loyal housekeeper Hanna in “Gods and Monsters.” She said, “I just loved turning into her. When the film finished for me ... I didn’t get out of my costume for about an hour. I didn’t want to say goodbye to her. (Some characters) have such a hold on you. You’re sad not to be able to meet them anymore.”

What was your favorite memory of Lynn Redgrave?