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Actor Eric Roberts has appeared in more than 700 film and television projects, building one of the most extensive careers in Hollywood. From memorable roles in The Dark Knight and The Expendables , to cult classics The Pope of Greenwich Village and King of the Gypsies , and of course his Academy Award-nominated performance in Runaway Train , Roberts has become known for bringing intensity and depth to a wide range of characters across film and television. Now he's sharing the story behind that remarkable career in his memoir, Runaway Train: Or, the Story of My Life So Far . In the book, Roberts opens up about his rise in Hollywood, the challenges of navigating fame, his struggles with addiction, and the personal journey that helped him rebuild his life and career. Roberts recently stopped by the LifeMinute studios alongside his wife of more than 30 years, actress Eliza Roberts, to sit down with editor-in-chief Joann Butler for an in-depth interview. The couple--who have collaborated on several recent projects--talked about the memoir, their life together, and the lessons he's learned from decades in the entertainment industry. This is a LifeMinute with Eric Roberts.
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00:00Hi, I'm Eric Roberts, and you're watching Life Minute TV. Only the best for you.
00:09Legendary actor Eric Roberts has appeared in hundreds of film and television projects throughout his decades-long career.
00:17Now he's telling the story behind it all in his touching memoir, Runaway Train, or The Story of My Life
00:23So Far,
00:24opening up about fame, family, and personal struggles along the way.
00:28He recently stopped by the Life Minute studios with his wife of more than 30 years, actress Eliza Roberts, to
00:34tell us all about it.
00:36This is a Life Minute with Eric Roberts.
00:40Woohoo! Eric Roberts in the house! Yay! In real life!
00:44The last time we spoke was 2022, four years ago, and since then you've written a memoir,
00:50which is also an audiobook that I just finished that's absolutely beautifully done.
00:55Oh, thank you so much.
00:56Why did you feel now, like it was just time to do it?
00:59Well, I didn't start with just my childhood memories.
01:04I kind of got right into what I thought might be inspiring to other young actors,
01:09other young people who have questions about me.
01:11Because I'm asked the same thing every day all over the world,
01:13in like cars who pass me by on the internet, people that meet me.
01:17How do you do what you do?
01:18So I kind of explored that.
01:21This is a book of scar tissue, the scars I can live with and the scars that I hide.
01:27If it had been left up to me, though, quite honestly, I'd have written a book about my marriage and
01:33my wifey.
01:34Because that's my life.
01:36Besides my work, I'm an actor and a husband.
01:38That's what I am.
01:40Having been married just shy of half my life, I think I've become a little bit of an expert on
01:45it, and I've got the wife to prove it.
01:47You sure do.
01:48But I also took the time to make references and talk about my experiences with my two most talented, talented
01:56directors, Bob Fossi and Chris Nolan.
01:59I just had a great time writing the book honestly, and my wife kept me honest.
02:03I would take her pages, and she sent me back to my room with corrections.
02:08And we did that for months.
02:10And I also had this great co-writer, Sam Kashner, who did the huge Vanity Fair thing on Obama.
02:15He was my co-writer after he and I met and doing an interview for Vanity Fair, and I fell
02:22in love with him.
02:24Whenever I read actors' books, it's always the same story with different words.
02:30It's always how they grew up, and it was a struggle.
02:33And they accomplished this and accomplished that, and now they're happy.
02:36And now they have this, they have that, they have this.
02:39And it's kind of formulaic and kind of predictable and a little bit boring.
02:46So I tried my best to be somebody hanging out at your dinner table talking to you, as opposed to
02:54an announcement, you know.
02:57I was never going to write an autobiography.
02:59But then everybody on the streets asked me, when's your book coming out? Strangers.
03:02And then publishers started calling me from all over the world, going, when are you going to write this book?
03:06Because we want to publish it.
03:07So my wife comes to me one day, and my wife, who I do listen to, comes to me one
03:13day and says, you have to write a book.
03:15And I said, but I'm not a writer.
03:17She says, well, I'll help, but you have to write a book.
03:21And I said, but I don't really want to write a book.
03:23And she said, but you need to because you have a unique story, even though you think it's not, it
03:29is, because of what you've overcome and what you've survived and how you love what you do like almost nobody
03:36else does.
03:37She says, you have to write a book, and you have to explain who you are, because you're confusing.
03:44So I did.
03:45I wrote a book.
03:46And I would go to her with pages, and, you know, I'm an actor.
03:50I embellish.
03:51And she would send me back to my room, no, don't be doing that.
03:56So it was a long process.
03:57It was grueling.
03:59But I was so proud when I got through with it, because I got through with it.
04:03And I got through with it honestly.
04:05And it wasn't like writing.
04:06You said it was your storytelling, so you were just telling the story of your life.
04:11That's what I wanted to do.
04:12That is what it was.
04:13Yeah.
04:14And you touched on abuse as a child.
04:16It was really tough to listen to.
04:19I lived alone with my father for many years.
04:22And my father was temperamental.
04:25My father was angry.
04:28My father was dissatisfied.
04:32To watch a man in the prime of his life, in his mid-30s, sell vacuum cleaners is...
04:39It's depressing for the observer and the observed.
04:45And so that was a sad time in my life.
04:50Everybody has their story.
04:51It's how you recover that makes you either valuable or not.
04:55You know.
04:55Was it hard for you to detail all of this and go through it?
04:59It was hard, but I had help from the wife, because when I would get emotional and get like,
05:04oh, I don't want to talk about that.
05:06My wife would calm me down and say, look, here's why you have to talk about it.
05:12And talk about how you talk with me about it, she said.
05:16Just do that.
05:16And I did that.
05:18When you go through your past, you have a little bit of shame, a lot of regret, and a little
05:25bit of embarrassment.
05:28You know, because I've been more than foolish many times in my youth.
05:32And I can't even count how many times.
05:35It never bothered me at the time.
05:38And only in retrospect do I realize, oh, my goodness, I was a train wreck for a bit there, wasn't
05:42I?
05:42Yep.
05:43And so you go through who and what you are and why.
05:47And you forgive yourself.
05:49Good.
05:50I was going to say, was it healing for you?
05:52It was.
05:52Did you forgive yourself?
05:53It was.
05:54And yes, I did.
05:56Good.
05:56Good.
05:57I'm so glad to hear that.
05:58Thank you so much.
05:59I highly suggest the audio version, because you can hear your voice in it, and you're laughing, and it's really
06:04lovely.
06:07And of course, I have to ask you about your older brother.
06:09Just kidding.
06:10Your sisters.
06:11Your sisters, Julia Roberts.
06:13My unknown older brother.
06:14And Lisa Roberts, too, who's also in the business.
06:16We always leave Lisa out.
06:18Who say they didn't have the same experience you did.
06:21Yeah.
06:21Why is that?
06:23Well, they barely knew my father.
06:26I think he was only in their life for almost 10 years, and I was the oldest by a lot.
06:32Even if you have the exact same environment, if you have several children, they all have a different relationship with
06:40the grown-ups.
06:41They all have a different relationship, and they're all treated differently, even though they think we treat them all the
06:47same.
06:48No, they don't.
06:48It's a different relationship with every child.
06:51So every child has a different experience.
06:53And all I can say on their behalf is they didn't have the same experience I had.
06:59I had a horrific experience.
07:02And apparently, they didn't.
07:04I left home when they were both very small.
07:07I was not around to watch it.
07:09So I don't know.
07:11I have to believe them.
07:12Did you learn anything through writing this?
07:15Did I learn anything through writing this?
07:17I learned I'm not the person I would like to have thought I was, in that I'm not complete.
07:25In my later years now, I've grown out of dishonesty and find it to be an absolute pleasure.
07:34But I've also learned, as I grow older, honesty is also a weapon if you're not careful.
07:40What do you want to say to people who've had similar struggles?
07:43When your parents or when a parent or both parents are oppressive, you start to think less of yourself.
07:50And so my advice is to hang in there and really believe in yourself.
07:56And, you know, there's a great thing in AA, fake it till you make it.
08:00Fake it till you make it.
08:02I did.
08:03And I feel like I knew many things I had no concept of.
08:07But I just kept pretending I did up until I did.
08:11You have to fake it till you make it.
08:14Because if you don't, you'll get hurt a lot.
08:16So you need the false bravado a little bit.
08:20Walk into a room with confidence, even if you don't have it.
08:24And, of course, marry a wonderful woman.
08:26You lucked out.
08:27It helps.
08:27And I also suggest to every man out there, to marry a woman smarter than he is.
08:32It's a great advantage.
08:34And you mention this in the book.
08:35When did you know you wanted to be an actor?
08:37Well, I had a terrible stutter as a little boy.
08:41I couldn't talk to anybody.
08:43It was terribly embarrassing.
08:45And when I started school, it was really hard when you had to go around the room and read.
08:52Because I was stuttered by laugh.
08:53It was horrible.
08:54But I discovered if I counted the people, counted the paragraphs, found my paragraph, and learned it, I could speak.
09:01I, like, told my father.
09:03And so he said, well, you should be an actor.
09:05You should try acting.
09:06And so I started going to class.
09:09And I learned to be an actor.
09:11Amazing.
09:12I'm so glad you read my book.
09:14Oh, my God.
09:15Listen to it, which is better.
09:17It, like, floors me when somebody says, oh, man, I read your book.
09:20I'm like, oh, my God, thank you.
09:22It's so inspiring.
09:25Oh, it's so good.
09:26It's heartbreaking and uplifting.
09:29And you go through anecdotes, too.
09:31Not just about the trauma and what you've been through, but the anecdotes with celebs.
09:35You talk about all the people you've met.
09:36And it was really, really, really beautiful.
09:39You make me so happy.
09:40Oh, you make me happy.
09:43You're such a good person.
09:44Oh, thank you.
09:45It's so rare in the world, really.
09:47Except, except, I have to interject this.
09:51I haven't always been a great guy.
09:54My wife, you know, reparented, refriended, reeducated, remothered, besides being a good kisser.
10:01Yeah.
10:02Well, you didn't, you know, you didn't have such an easy life.
10:05So, and you were so young, you know.
10:07Yeah, but everybody has their story.
10:08It's how you recover and when you recover.
10:12That's a value.
10:13So, let's talk about his work.
10:15Seven hundred something titles.
10:18Is that 750?
10:19I lost count at 75.
10:22At 75?
10:23Yeah.
10:24You're missing a digit.
10:27My 20-year-old son wanted me to ask you about working on Dark Knight.
10:33From one professional to another.
10:35You pick a better spot from this height.
10:38Fall wouldn't kill me.
10:39I'm counting on it.
10:40Well, it was a big-ass movie.
10:42I had a good night.
10:42Yeah, it was a good big-ass movie.
10:45Well, we shot all the Chicago stuff in Chicago and then all the other stuff, all the Gotham
10:50City stuff, we're supposed to shoot at Pinewood.
10:52Well, we've all been to Pinewood.
10:53Okay, we're going to Pinewood.
10:55But we get there and it's, no, we're not going to Pinewood.
10:57We're going 30 miles north to the old Zeppelin hangar.
11:00Okay.
11:01It's about three football fields wide and about three or four stories tall.
11:05And you walk in.
11:07And if you're a movie geek, which I am, you walk in and it's all Gotham City.
11:12It is so amazing.
11:13And me and Gary Ullman had so much fun.
11:16It was like a dollhouse.
11:17We just went around playing dolls all day.
11:19On Heath Ledger, what was he like?
11:21Heath was lovable, sweet.
11:23Not at all what I'd heard.
11:24I had heard, oh, he's so into the part, you can't get near him.
11:26Okay, okay.
11:28But he wasn't like that at all.
11:29He was like me.
11:30He was totally approachable, totally funny, totally sweet.
11:33In fact, he's got a three-page monologue he has to deliver with all the bad guys who
11:37are all in the same room and he stabs this guy's hand with a pencil and all that stuff.
11:41Well, we all get there early in the morning.
11:43We're all in our street clothes and we have a run-through.
11:45And he starts his monologue and he gets about a page into it and he stops and he turns
11:51to us and he goes, how am I doing?
11:54Wow.
11:55He's so likable.
11:57You're doing great, dude.
11:58And he was.
12:00And we lost him.
12:02No, it's a shame.
12:03What were some of your other favorite roles?
12:05Well, I made a lot of movies.
12:07So I got a lot of favorites.
12:09King of the Gypsies, Star 80, Runaway Train, It's My Party means so much to me.
12:16Love is a Gun means so much to me.
12:20Purgatory, my favorite Western.
12:22Me and Sam Shepard.
12:24He plays a marshal.
12:25I play the bad guy.
12:26He has to kill me.
12:27It's one of those.
12:28It's a lot of fun.
12:28And what are you up to now?
12:30Frank Stallone, I saw you're just doing something with him.
12:33I love Frank.
12:34I like him too.
12:35Frank is such a nice, likable, sincere human being.
12:38Yeah.
12:39Oh, I love him.
12:40And I love his brother.
12:41I love Sly as a director.
12:42What a great leader.
12:44He's such a good director.
12:45So much fun to work for.
12:47One day, he's doing The Specialist.
12:49I'm in it with him.
12:50And I'm off one night.
12:51And I said to my wife, let's go watch him shoot like the fans.
12:55Let's go in there and watch him shoot.
12:56She goes, okay.
12:56So we sneak out.
12:57We're in the big group.
12:58And we're watching.
12:59He's doing a scene outside with the Sharon Stone.
13:03And suddenly goes, cut.
13:04Eric.
13:05He knows I'm there.
13:06I don't know how.
13:06Eric.
13:07I'm thinking about it.
13:08You know, we don't have a scene together.
13:09I said, so write one.
13:11I'll write one tonight.
13:11We shoot it tomorrow.
13:12I thought he was showing off for the crowd, you know.
13:14Oh, yeah, right.
13:15Okay, cool.
13:16But he did.
13:16He writes a scene.
13:17And we shot the next day.
13:18And it's in the movie.
13:19And it's in a scene where I put a knife in his eye.
13:21It's a really cool little badass scene.
13:23And don't stare so hard.
13:25If somebody could put something in your eye.
13:31And then, years later, he sends me a script called Expendables.
13:37He writes the best bad guy monologues I've ever had.
13:41This guy is such a manipulator of, like, psyches.
13:45He's so smart and so evil.
13:47It was such a good part.
13:49I love him as my leader.
13:50He was one of my favorite directors I've ever had.
13:52Wow.
13:53Yeah.
13:53Well, that's a big compliment.
13:55Yeah, he was something.
13:56Wow, that's cool.
13:57Dancing the cha-cha with his partner, Britt Stewart.
14:01It's Eric Roberts.
14:03You did Dancing with the Stars.
14:04Are you still dancing?
14:06No, I was never a dancer.
14:08Can't you tell?
14:08I did that show for the wife.
14:10It's her favorite show.
14:12Well, a little back history.
14:13Every, the first year of that show, I make a movie in China, and I get offered that show.
14:18Okay, my wife says, you're doing it.
14:21I said, I don't dance, because you're doing it.
14:22Okay, great, I'm doing it.
14:23But they wouldn't let me out in China.
14:25It was only a two-day overlay with the schedules.
14:29But they wouldn't let me go.
14:31And they ended up not using me anyway.
14:33So, it was kind of, it was kind of theft.
14:37But then, years later, they call me again.
14:40It's her favorite show.
14:42So, I did it.
14:42I didn't do it well, but I did it.
14:44Well, it's good that you tried.
14:47You've done music videos, too.
14:56My first music video I was offered was from the killers.
14:59And they called me, offered me a video, and I said, thank you.
15:02No, I don't do videos.
15:03And then, my kids and my wife tell me I'm an idiot.
15:07Call them back and say, you want to do it.
15:09So, I did, and they took me back.
15:16And they started a whole new career that all the eight-year-olds now see me at airports,
15:21go, that's him, Mom.
15:22They all know me.
15:23It's so weird.
15:24All the iconic actors do that.
15:26Yeah.
15:27Like your friend, Christopher Walken.
15:29Walken, the man.
15:30And I have to ask you about your stepson, Keaton Simon, who's a great musician.
15:35And he did the music in between the audio book, too.
15:39There's another darker side of me
15:46Inside the lies
15:48He's got a song called Other Side that kind of describes myself.
15:54And he has a song also called The Medicine that also kind of describes myself.
15:59Capture, give me the medicine
16:02I used Other Side in the book because it was so apropos.
16:07And he's such a poet.
16:09Wait till you hear it.
16:10Beautiful guitar playing, too.
16:12Yeah.
16:13It breaks my heart.
16:14I love that story, too, about him.
16:16How he didn't believe that you really listened to his music, but you really did.
16:19Up till I knew all the songs.
16:22Yeah, right.
16:23You said in the book you didn't think you'd be a good father.
16:25I was raised by people who were stellar at their jobs at parenting, in my opinion.
16:33And so I wanted to be different.
16:37But I didn't really know how to be different.
16:39And I was kind of a reactive person.
16:42So that's not where you have to be around children.
16:46But I found a savior.
16:48Her name is Jan Hunt.
16:50And she wrote a book called The Natural Child.
16:53Everything you ever want to know about parenting, why and how, is in this book.
16:59And it gives all the reasons.
17:00And it's not opinions.
17:01It's what works and why it works.
17:04And it will make you a kinder, more giving, more loving, more patient person for the rest of your life.
17:12Even if you don't have kids.
17:14Because it just tells you how everything is, when you're small, everything is precious.
17:21Everything matters because it all has an impact for the first time.
17:25So everything is an explosion of understanding.
17:30So, and this book tells you how not to mess that up.
17:34And the website is naturalchild.org.
17:38Jan Hunt, you'll love her.
17:41What do you do when you're not working?
17:43Well, I have horses.
17:44Never.
17:45I'm on a horse and I'm not working.
17:47Or we have tons of animals.
17:48We have a squirrel sanctuary.
17:50We have cats, dogs.
17:52We have everything you think of.
17:53Everything but birds.
17:54And we have birds in the yard.
17:55I want to get birds, but we have cats.
17:58I've always had birds.
17:59And our cats are hunters.
18:01So we don't have birds.
18:04Animals are really something, aren't they?
18:05They change you because they only deal with you completely directly.
18:12So you learn the one-on-one with them.
18:15And it's a great feeling.
18:16Yeah, unconditional love.
18:18Yeah, especially dogs.
18:20That unconditional love a dog has is we should all take a lesson.
18:24Yeah.
18:25What was your first and favorite movie?
18:27The first movie I remember watching like as an event was actually Sound of Music.
18:34With my mother, she took me to see Sound of Music.
18:37And we sat up in the balcony.
18:38It's a big theater.
18:40And I remember being just, wow, blown away by this movie.
18:43But my favorite movie is probably Harold and Maude.
18:48Oh, wow.
18:48And also probably being there.
18:51And they're done by the same director, oddly enough.
18:53Many years apart, like maybe 50 years apart, he did these movies.
18:57But they're my two favorite films, probably.
19:01And my favorite actor is my wife.
19:04Aw.
19:05No, it's not because she's my wife.
19:07Because, you know, I didn't have to marry an actor.
19:10But she's just mind-blowing.
19:14She's a real actor.
19:14And you guys are acting together in a few movies, too.
19:17Tell me about that.
19:18Oh, yeah, we do.
19:18It's not like working together.
19:19Wait.
19:20Here's a funny story.
19:21So years ago, I'm offered a thing called Love is a Gun.
19:23I love the script.
19:25I want to do it.
19:26But it's being produced by an ex-boyfriend of my wife.
19:29And so I say, I want to do this, but I want her to play my girlfriend in the movie.
19:33He says, no, I can't have that happen.
19:35I said, okay, well, call me when it can.
19:37Click.
19:38And he does.
19:38He calls me back.
19:39He goes, I thought about it.
19:40Okay, we'll cast her in the movie.
19:42So she plays my girlfriend in this movie called Love is a Gun.
19:45She steals the movie.
19:46She's great in it.
19:48And it's me, her, and Kelly Preston.
19:50And also, a sub-note.
19:52John Travolta comes to set one day, and he has Jet as a little baby.
19:56Well, maybe two.
19:58Comes to set.
19:59And Eliza worked with his manager for like many years.
20:02They talk business together.
20:04And he comes.
20:05He goes, oh, Eliza.
20:06I was offered another horrible, violent script.
20:08And I have Jet now.
20:09I can't do this kind of crap.
20:11She goes, oh, who's the director?
20:13Quentin Tarantino.
20:14But I can't do this kind of odd stuff.
20:16I have Jet.
20:17And, of course, that movie is Pulp Fiction.
20:20She goes, you have to do it.
20:21You have to do it.
20:23He's it right now.
20:24You have to be in his movie.
20:28You have to do it, John.
20:30And I was standing right there.
20:31Listen to this.
20:32You have to do it.
20:33You have to do it.
20:36I'll give it a second thought.
20:37He leaves.
20:38He did the movie.
20:39Thanks to my wife.
20:40I was there when it happened.
20:42Wow.
20:42She will argue with me and say, well, you know, a lot of people said that Eric, but it was
20:46her.
20:46Wow.
20:46That's amazing, isn't it?
20:47Gosh.
20:48What's something you'd want to do that you haven't done yet?
20:50Like, what's your dream role that you're going to get?
20:54My dream role.
20:55I want to play Nureyev after he stopped dancing.
20:59Because years ago, they were going to make a movie about his life.
21:03And they called me for it.
21:04And I said, maybe, you know, let me do a little homework and then I'll get back to you.
21:09I did a lot of homework.
21:10I love the guy.
21:11And he was also gay at a time in Russia when, if you were gay, they killed you.
21:16So it wasn't cool to be gay.
21:17And so I wanted to play all that, the whole thing, get it out there and expose him.
21:23So I did all this research, did all this homework on him.
21:25And then it didn't happen.
21:27But I had all this.
21:29And I heard these old recordings of him.
21:32And we talked.
21:33He sounded like he smoked too much.
21:34He did smoke.
21:35He smoked.
21:36He drank.
21:36He drugged.
21:37Everything.
21:38Because I am Superman.
21:39Because that's what he was like.
21:41He was so cool.
21:43And he was this beautiful man, beautiful body, beautiful dancer, beautiful personality.
21:50And he could not be confined.
21:53Did you ever meet him?
21:54No.
21:55Oh, I'd love to have met him.
21:56Are you kidding?
21:57What a guy.
21:58Yeah.
21:59That's amazing.
21:59Make that happen, Elijah.
22:00Just to shake his hand.
22:01Like, he's gone.
22:03Oh, but make that role happen.
22:05Yeah.
22:06Yeah, wife.
22:08No, but that's my dream come true.
22:10That's what I have left to, bam.
22:13Yeah.
22:13I know it's going to happen.
22:15I hope so.
22:16Yeah, I hope so too.
22:19You're so good to me.
22:24Father, it's heaven on wheels.
22:26It is so much fun.
22:28The oldest, you know, used to call me Eret.
22:30But now I'm Eret because she can talk.
22:33But it's just, it's heaven.
22:35And they're always at the house because they're across the street.
22:38I love being granddaddy.
22:40That's awesome.
22:41What's your favorite comfort food?
22:43Pizza.
22:44Pizza?
22:44Yeah.
22:45Like, you spit that one out quick.
22:46Pizza.
22:47How do you combat stress?
22:48It depends on what decade you're talking about.
22:51Now.
22:52Now.
22:53I know how you did it before.
22:54I have a very, a very, a very grown-up relationship with my wife that I got to my wife.
22:59And I say, I'm stressed.
23:00What about, well, this and this and this.
23:02And we talk through it.
23:03She's my shrink.
23:05What's your secret for success for all these years?
23:08For marriage, it's very simple.
23:10It's just honesty, which is difficult about everything.
23:15Difficult.
23:16And intimacy.
23:18As long as you keep it going.
23:20And I love chasing my wife.
23:23I love it.
23:24What would your current self say to your younger self?
23:27Just be sweet to everybody.
23:29It doesn't matter.
23:30You know, make an effort with everybody.
23:31For just a second.
23:33It doesn't take time.
23:34You just have to be sweet to everybody.
23:36And it's fun.
23:37And it makes everybody else be sweet to you.
23:41What's to lose?
23:42Tell us about your current roles.
23:44What's new?
23:45Well, my new favorite movie is called Hippo.
23:48The boy was Adam, also known as Hippo.
23:53The girl was known as Buttercup.
23:56Call me daddy before you hang up.
23:57Please, just once.
23:59But that's about that.
24:00I narrate it.
24:01My wife stars in it.
24:03My wife is phenomenal in this movie.
24:06My wife is one of the better actors I've ever met, let alone married.
24:11And she's such a good actor.
24:14Oh, my God.
24:15And I think that's half my attraction to my wife is her talent.
24:21Because she's this monster actor.
24:24But she's this sweet, passive, kind, considerate, quiet person.
24:30So you don't see it coming.
24:33But you'll see it in Hippo.
24:35She's phenomenal.
24:36What's it about?
24:37Coming of age story.
24:39But it's a coming of age story, dragging it over the rocks.
24:43It's really, it's rough.
24:45In fact, the most gentle thing about it is my narration.
24:49In fact, you know, my wife is over here.
24:52Can I bring her?
24:53Yeah.
24:54Hey, wife.
24:54Come here.
24:56Hey, wife.
24:57We've traveled the other world together.
25:00And we're always on vacation.
25:02We have so much fun.
25:03It's so rare.
25:04It's so beautiful.
25:05We're never on vacation.
25:06No, we're never on vacation.
25:07Location, but that's for us.
25:08Yeah.
25:09In fact, my vacations have become when I come home.
25:15That's why I'm on vacation.
25:17I have the animals.
25:18I have the wife.
25:19I have the grandchildren.
25:20Yeah, it's fun.
25:21Oh, that's awesome.
25:22What other projects are you guys working on?
25:24Okay, so in addition to Hippo, we did a movie called Man's Best.
25:30And it has a dog.
25:31So we all love a movie with a dog.
25:33And we actually play husband and wife.
25:35So unusual.
25:37We play husband and wife.
25:38But it's a really, and it was shot here in New York.
25:41It's a really meaningful story about how a family is affected with the loss of,
25:48you know, one of its members and how the recovery can make you a little crazy.
25:54And you can get your sanity back from a dog, from an animal.
25:59Because they're pure love, as Eric said.
26:01It's a really good showcase for a lot of, for the writer, director who stars in it.
26:07There's a lot of emotion to it.
26:08It's a very emotional journey.
26:10And how do we see these films?
26:11How do we find them?
26:12Man's Best is currently on Film Freeway because it's just starting its festival tour.
26:18So pretty soon there'll be something, or very soon there'll be something to see.
26:22You know, things find a home these days.
26:24Thank goodness.
26:25Yeah.
26:25There's one called Love in Storytown.
26:27And that is about to come out.
26:30Storytown, here we come.
26:32And that's, you know, a Hallmark special.
26:34And it's really cute because Eric and I do a lot of Hallmark.
26:37And Beyond the Rush, where he plays a very corrupt and kind of almost evil,
26:42but he has his reasons.
26:44Very corrupt judge.
26:45Judge.
26:45And I play the lawyer who's trying to basically put him in jail.
26:50She's trying to right my wrongs.
26:52But Amina Savari is in it.
26:54And Kathy Moriarty.
26:56Kathy Moriarty is wonderful.
26:58Oh my God.
26:59It's, you know, it's like, forget us.
27:01It's a great cast.
27:02So should I duck out now so you guys can finish?
27:04I love you.
27:05See you in a minute.
27:05I love you too.
27:06I never believed in marriage.
27:08I thought it was a stupid institution on the face of the earth.
27:10How can we do that to two people for their lives?
27:13How can we do that to somebody?
27:15Really?
27:15But I highly recommend marriage.
27:18Oh my God.
27:18You are so lovely.
27:21You are.
27:22You're such a beautiful person.
27:23Oh, thank you.
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27:32Yeah.
27:34Oh, yeah.
27:37Oh, yeah.
27:39Oh, yeah.
27:40Oh, yeah.
27:43Oh, yeah.
27:44Oh, yeah.
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