00:00It's pretty easy, it's pretty easy. I think I'm gonna probably know all I said this line
00:15You want to win you got to be like this tight Pat Riley and winning time you want to win
00:23You got to be like this
00:25tight
00:27And I proceeded to punch a chalkboard which they had tethered to the ground with a lot of sandbags
00:33So it wouldn't go flying and it didn't move
00:38Practically broke my knuckles sort of the double we both ended up with like ice packs. It was kind of the
00:44invention and birth of
00:46Celebrity athletes and the power that they had and the allure that they had and the cultural
00:52Significance of that and how it's shaped a lot of how athletes are idolized today. It was a wild time
00:59You know, there's a much more wild time a much freer time. So definitely very entertaining
01:06Good legs
01:08See legs. I wonder how I delivered that. I'm curious, but it's a funny line. It was something like that. Is this from King Kong?
01:15It's been a while good legs
01:18See legs, it was such a gift to work with Peter Jackson and at the time I think it was Universal's biggest
01:26Movie wonderful cast and of course the lore of King Kong. I loved that movie
01:32I knew the significance of it to Peter and it was the movie that made him want to be a filmmaker and
01:37he had all the success off of Lord of the Rings and I had never done a
01:43Proper studio film like that and and yet it was very much like a large-scale independent movie
01:50He had complete kind of auteur creative
01:54autonomy, he just had more toys and material and
01:59Technology and time which was very interesting. It was a nine-month endeavor the more
02:05complexity and depth in the characters and the more room there is for an actor to
02:11Exhibit truth and frailty and flaws human
02:16characteristics
02:18in a world with
02:20monsters
02:21supernatural
02:22Superheroes the more it seems relatable to me if it doesn't possess that I'm not that interested somehow
02:30Personally, but I can see how they're
02:33vastly entertaining. Oh
02:36Oh
02:39That's nice
02:41You stop neglecting his needs or I'll start fucking with yours. That's from Detachment
02:48My character was Henry Barthes. I believe he was talking to someone in the old age home about not caring for his father
02:57You stop neglecting his needs or I will start fucking with yours. My father
03:03Was a public school teacher so I grew up product of public school
03:07But I also seeing how much my father had given how thoughtful he was and he was a great great teacher and his students loved
03:13him and spoke to me to kind of honor the sacrifice and the
03:18Patience to be a good teacher and to be there to help guide
03:23the many kids who kind of need guidance some people are really willing to help and be thoughtful and
03:31Help them align with an understanding of self and that they have opportunities ahead of them
03:39It's pretty obvious. I'll play the piano again on Polish radio
03:45hmm
03:46King of the Hill
03:49Okay, the pianist did I say that in Polish in the movie? Oh, that's interesting
03:55Not these days
04:00In life you you make choices and then you don't know why I had been offered an
04:06Opportunity to do quite a big studio film in a supporting role
04:12and didn't quite relate to
04:14The role and didn't have any other work lined up and I had passed and had I had taken that film in retrospect
04:20I wouldn't have been available to have done the pianist
04:22I was definitely right for it
04:24but there are many people that were vying for this role and life-changing opportunity and
04:29a remarkable thing to be a part of celebrating the survival of the human spirit and also acknowledging the enormity of
04:37Suffering that's existed and during the Holocaust and that time in history
04:45Okay
04:48Francis here's your belt
04:52Wes Anderson's
04:58Darjeeling limited I throw my belt that Owen Wilson
05:03Francis yeah, here's your belt
05:08Wes is a very precise
05:11Unique filmmaker. He has a real clear vision of what he wants and knows it Wes will now create
05:18Animatics, it's kind of moving storyboards so that everyone
05:22clearly understands the specificity the detail that
05:26fits within the world that he's trying to create and then we all figure out how we can
05:31Conform to that and also come alive and it's lots of fun. It's quite
05:37precise work I
05:39said this line in a movie
05:42hmm, I
05:43Don't remember evil spelled backwards is live
05:48That's a good line. What was it? Oh
05:53That's great, I don't remember this line I haven't seen
05:57Summer of Sam I have not seen this film in a very long time. I love this movie evil spelled backwards is live
06:02I thought you would give me if you were gonna give me summer of Sam you give me something like it's all in the attitude
06:07It's all in the attitude. You want to know something really crazy the
06:12Costume designer brought me in for a fitting and we started looking at her
06:17look book and
06:19ideas
06:20for the character and she had my mom's book my mom's photographer and she had her book red light which has
06:29Images of punk and that my mother had photographed as a reference to dress me and I said
06:34I'm 24 years old. You got my mom dressing me funny still, but she did it was really interesting
06:45It's a quite ornate
06:47Sentence structure if I learn you ever once laid a finger on my mother's body living or dead. I swear to God
06:53I'll cut your throat. Oh, this is another Wes Anderson film. This is Grand Budapest Hotel. It took me a second
07:00I learned you ever once laid a finger on my mother's body living or dead. I swear to God. I'll cut your throat
07:05No, I love that film so much. It's really kind of timeless movie full of wonderful moments and
07:11People and the experience of making it was really special. Um, it's probably one of my favorite films of Wes's all-time. Yeah
07:22Everything that is ugly cruel
07:25stupid but most important ugly
07:29Everything is your fault. This is from The Brutalist
07:34My character Laszlo is speaking to the foreman on a construction site and basically telling him off
07:43He's you
07:45We look back fondly at the 50s and the lens is somewhat nostalgic
07:49But it was a it was a very difficult challenging time
07:52I think especially I guess the immigrant perspective of coming to America and
07:58Disconnect between how one's dreams of seeking safe haven and the freedoms and hopes and dreams of what the American
08:06Dream may provide and then the harsh reality of that and the oppressive nature of the hardships that people endured at that time
08:14I think this it became very
08:17Something I became very conscious of my friend
08:21Owns the Marble Quarry
08:23So I helped with securing a vast location for the film and the storytelling that's it's really so beautiful
08:30It's like a seven-year ongoing endeavor for Brady and Mona his wife and creative partner
08:35It's an amazing amazing script and he made an even more amazing film out of it
08:42Okay
08:45That's good, I don't remember saying this so much I know what you want even before you say it
08:53I
08:58Know what you want even before you say it. Yeah, give me a hint a TV series. Oh
09:04Depends on how you say it. I got you
09:07It's from Peaky Blinders
09:10Luca chan Greta I
09:12Know what you want even before you say it see now. I remember the line. I
09:18Know what you want
09:20Even before you say it I kind of
09:24Yearn to play a character like that my whole life. I grew up in a neighborhood in Queens with a lot of Italian Americans who?
09:33idolized gangster mafia lore filmed and a
09:38number of them were affiliated with
09:44Some degree of criminal
09:47You know, there are lots of people in this world that are
09:52Affiliated to some extent and I feel it's life imitating art because it is
09:59Somewhat glamorized in some of the great films of the 70s. And of course, there's something wonderfully
10:06Powerful about those characters and
10:09There is something alluring to them especially in a working-class community and I'd like to do
10:16Several movies like that. I mean, it's really fun. It's like it's a great part
10:21I don't know. It's great to emulate in real life, but it sure is fun to play in a film
10:29This planet is a game preserved
10:32And we're the game yeah, it's easy
10:35That was a blast. That was Royce in predators. This planet is a game preserve
10:43I'm ready to game that was a movie
10:46I grew up loving like I remember cutting school and sitting with my friends in the front row watching
10:53Schwarzenegger and predator and interestingly when they came to me with this
10:57They didn't want me to put not interesting, but they didn't want me to play Royce
10:59They wanted me to play another part and I advocated for why?
11:04I'm right to play Royce and why?
11:07soldiers don't often look like
11:10Schwarzenegger and it's more about an emotional hardness and a military tactical awareness and
11:16Intelligence and that ultimately was what defeated the predator even in Schwarzenegger's film. Not his brawn. I
11:23I
11:25Do remember this line this was many years ago. This is like in
11:301996
11:31Or jeez, I guess no matter how many times you hear that song play in the Major League Stadium on a warm afternoon
11:40It's still emotionally evocative
11:44Well, that's Danny hammerling a baseball player and angels in the outfield
11:53Stadium on a warm afternoon
11:55still emotionally evocative just like my
11:59one break that allowed me to stay in LA and not go back to
12:05University and stay and pursue my career because I didn't have the resources to do that and I made a
12:12Promise to myself that if I didn't get work within
12:16that window
12:18Which I did cheat a little on I would come back and it saved me
12:24or at least allowed me to keep pursuing my dreams of
12:29being an actor
12:40You
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