 Shortly before the film was due to air on British television in December 2012 , Hedren gave an interview to the Daily Mail in which she repeated her claims about Hitchcock : " He made it very clear what was expected of me , but I was equally clear that I wasn 't interested ... Nobody is denying that Hitchcock was a brilliant <unk> and I enjoyed working with him before I realised he was starting to take an almost obsessive interest in me . " Other actresses have spoken about the close attention Hitchcock paid to details of the leading ladies ' characters and appearances in his films , but they said that no harassment was involved . Eva Marie Saint , who starred in 1959 's North by Northwest , told The Daily Telegraph " Hitchcock was a gentleman , he was funny , he was so attentive to me , with the character , and he cared about everything my character Eve Kendall wore . He had an eye for the specifics of the character . " 
