i mean magic gina gershon. delaware's new bio when i read the book i thought it was such a great character i almost wish it hadn't been her because you have is an onus of playing down a talent plus it's the one project i would say in my career that actually really scared me when i read it did you know girls would become a cold i was thought it was funny but then i realized i don't think i was thinking it was funny so i decided to drag queens eleven at that and that's all ahead on larry king. welcome to larry king now a special treat to be gina gershon is our guest. musician and author and you can

find those seen it before as dubba dubba versace in the buy up or bio pic picked. up house of verse saatchi is alive to i want to take this role you know regionally i think when it was first offered to me i was a little bit has a ten for several reasons but mainly because you know she's so larger than life and such an icon and we have such an image of who she is already without really really knowing you know who she is when i read the book i thought it was such a great character i almost wish it hadn't been her because he had his own as a plane down a tele but her story i just i love the idea of. kind of she's under being under your brother's shadow who's a genius and then all of sudden having all this responsibility and tragedy laid upon you kind of going down the drain and becoming an addict coming out and then she really found her voice which is amazing that she had a lot of hope and a lot of guts she's incredible i respect her now is it tough to play. who won we've

see who is satirized on saturday night live who is a public figure so we know her yeah so is it tough to play someone we know yeah absolutely i mean i've played people who are alive and who are real but they're not isn't and you know when she's satirize i mean everyone like my it is such a funny job with her and and she's just kind of a big character of herself almos but when you really get into this story which is really like the family drama it's it was imperative you have to get to the real person and make a three dimensional person try to figure out what's really going on. you know yeah it's and you are i had to really focus on and i'll be done all the work is still doing stuff i finished doing a.d.r. and looping probably a week ago lifetime i mean we finished it we finished it and i k i went away for a holiday and i came back like all right so doing a.d.r. it's coming out i was like are you insane that's leaving is when you do the voice

right yet you did the voiceover with the words we're going to show a picture of you side by side with the real you can we put that up look at that it's amazing. how do you like the way you look you're the one on the left by the way audience how do you like the way you look i love the way i look there i wish i wish i looked like that throughout the entire film but when you have the lighting in the right place then it really helps with the illusion of looking more like donna did you spend time with her i've never met or did they want you to meet her. you know they didn't say one way or the other and originally i thought i did but i i have played people who are actually living and. you kind of once you meet someone you feel so protective over them and i think subconsciously you start shying away from things that you may not want to reveal about that person so actually it's weird that we've never met we have so many good friends in common and it seems like

our paths sort of cross and she's in new york writes and she is in new york and she's in italy and even me or i live in new york we've never met and we have really really good friends in common so about her accent. and did you find it i think i found it you know there's a lot of video in a lot of you know i listen to everything i want to sleep listening to or i listen to her before but you know this is the lifetime version of the movie and i think sometimes on t.v. you know i guess they like you to be understood because if it were if it were up to me i would have i wish we could have had subtitles because i was on a jihad and everything is like animals and everything else but i don't know we have to hear what you're saying so i had articulated to a little of that or is it hard to go but do. i have to smoke a lot of cigarettes before as i haven't read it the more is kind of down here alive larry actually no i mean going into my weird russian thing outright. i don't get that on one side here and i don't do it what do you thing she'll think of your

performance or do you think she'll think. i have no idea i hope she doesn't hate it i mean i don't i was really i really do truly respect her and i was johnny johnny and rico cantone who's fantastic and he really looks like john what we want people to is always in this film she would look at this family drama i think is definitely a family drama i think it's you know lifetime they tend to do redemption stories especially they're strong with women. i think she's an incredible woman and i think what she went through and how she came out of it is very impressive and so i you know i think you come out with a real respect for who she is what she went through i think the family unit that southern italian bond that they have it's it's a really unusual story a little out of his clothes do you do that is an issue of i like her such well yeah there's a question about you i told you this before one of us been bugging me for years.

before we close out the first chapter of this interview ok why are you a major star you are extremely down to you are drop dead gorgeous and you know people know you why aren't you. julia roberts. i think that was a great complement that was very nice you know maybe it has something to do i mean i don't know you know i've been working actress for a long time and i don't have any complaints i'm very fortunate you know i have never julie someone like julia roberts who has very commercial you know and she's done big movies i think in order to become i've really kind of always done underground you never got more food roles to do big movies. i did a couple on a couple times but there was never really great parts that i wanted to do and the one time i may just like you have to do this it was one of those movies and i

really had a miserable time so i don't know movie was do you really want to say that he was so mean driven when he was like the sylvester and he's fantastic stallone's the movie just to me felt silly after a while no offense to anyone who worked on it but you know i think my choices like i remember when i had to abound which is a movie i really loved and i really wanted to do especially after showgirls which everyone thought it was only one thing and i was like get me a real like acting job you know not that it wasn't but it was a certain sort of movie and i remember my agents saying you cannot take this movie it will ruin your career and i was like why it's a fantastic part these guys who are unknown directors you could tell five minutes sitting with them like i think these guys are geniuses i think they're really really good and so i remember having to leave my agency i said it you'll get a commission but i'm taking the movie because i loved it and so i've been told my

choices and that you make your own decisions yeah for better or worse maybe that's i don't know why it's i don't know you're known for very risque roles you someone called you magazine the n.c. seventeen women a label that many pictures get you did killer joe and show girls just sort shouldn't process like what do you what do you what does gina say i will do this what do you have to like it's very it's kind of a weird random gut reaction i sometimes i'll read something and i just see how to do it as i'm reading it and immediately i connect or sometimes if it's a part that i read that really scares me that i might a high can play that why would i want to play that and i really push it away in a very aggressive way i ultimately realize oh i think i have to play it for a b. and c. reasons. you particularly. well i mean i like what i like and i love doing comedy and i love doing drama i love doing weird parts it's really

a combination if it's a direct if the director's amazing i'll do anything with you like theater i loved it or that's what i was raised and brought up on tell me about killer joe movie i loved i was captured by hard to believe it was a play yeah did you have a chance to do the play to you know it's i never did that it's the one project i would say in my career that actually really scared me when i read it they sent it to me as a play all of that on a tele project i would say scared me but i ended up doing it but the killer joe when i read it i thought oh my god this guy's a great writer like great characters blah blah blah and then i got to the end like oh there's no way i'm doing is eight times a week i thought i psychically emotionally i couldn't handle it so. i didn't do it and then when it came back of course was william friedkin and matthew is just like i am doing that he was on and he was with us he raved about you i really do i did use. you do you come to the door naked from the waist down in the first scene and i

ended up my merch announcement didn't seem closing shame when you were engaged it chipped a bomb. there's no way to put this what was that like to play about well that was a scene that scared me about the play that i it's so this role and so. i remember just saying to to billy friedkin and to matthew i said you know what. i don't want to talk about it i don't want to discuss it we're going to do this in one take which how he shoots anyway i said just show me where to go and matthew and i never even spoke about it i trusted him as an actor he trusted me we discussed the movements of where we should go and i was like let's go for it i didn't want to think about it i sometimes over intellectualize things i do think about things quite a bit and i just felt for a lot of reasons this was seen better to let happen and not just you know maybe i'm weird are those are great people it's a fantastic had a lot to say about us about violence about corruption about so many

for and really big and most of it while the play i mean he's such an amazing director i'm so pleased that i got to work with and it was such a great cast all around that it was really it was scary because you know you rehearse it rehearse it out of matthew told you we basically kind of did one take we were lucky to so you kind of have to come with your game on you know and but they're such great characters and you have believed directing you have caleb deschanel shooting it tracy letts who wrote it a great cast it was heaven you know great movie thank you you are a gay icon. what makes someone a best is a bit middle. of share what makes someone a gay icon why why do gays like you do you think i think you like me because of showgirls and because of bound those two movies. i don't know spoke to

them and they're like to me from there when you have them as a fan base they are really loyal fans so i think after that they were there you know did you know girls would become a cult hit which he did. i you know when i went into show girls i i was really obsessed with all of his dutch films you know they're hoping dutch films so i thought oh it's going to be so dark and intense and you know i got on to this oh ok wow this is a different it's like going in the wizard of oz the black and white to the colorful to the technicolor so i thought i always thought it was funny but then i realized i don't think everyone was thinking it was funny so i just drag queens will love me after the show and. probably a lot i've done a couple stupid things i realize as you start to get older it's the one thing i'm starting to notice that you actually have regrets which i don't really believe in regrets i try not to because i think you have to go with those floors or judge

women turned a hustler group or turned. new but maybe they would have been as good in it you know maybe not you know maybe it would have worked out but only one year turned. to turn down you know one thing that i did that was really stupid. i didn't think any of the other day because now when i had a t.v. show that david kelly was writing and i was starring in and basically we had a very nice agreement on working i wasn't into doing t.v. at the time and i wrote some fantasy list as kill that i can't deal with this right now and that was a down move. to kill. bill is a genius david kelly's a genius snoops and that he was doing three other shows a time he's like are you sure i said what if i was in a very strange headspace at the time and i said one of you know a b. and c. i just want off the show he goes all you have to say is like i'm done and i was like really and of course everyone says oh no there's no way i'm like but i really

love david kelley he's a man of his word and at that moment i just was like i after one season i'm like this is and that was stupid i don't we all do yeah i will get personal she don't get to see and versace and with and talk about her love of cats that don't go away . why do you make a face like that. it was a. very hard to get. you can. do that or act with that her right there.

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. more news today. again flared up if these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. today. look. gina gershon stars in the house of birth saji coming on lifetime in october she is multi-talented as we said we always will be an actor first. i wanted always to be an actor first but i always did music and dancing first and you you've toured as a singer performed on broadway you play the mouth harp for the start of broadway three times cabarets sally bose great part amazing part bye bye birdie years rosie of or is and boring boring i like that too yeah going on is a great only about what is what is that is short is that. my god this is the first

one i ever had this new car you know i was watching charlie brown a long time ago when i was like six or seven and snoopy was always playing this thing like i want one of our own and i remember seeing it at the store and i actually stole it which you know is in that little clip moment that didn't last long thank god. and i stole it and i remember trying to play it and the jews are it's a it's well i go i do the pens when i was there was a jews are you but i'm a jew i could say that i was you know that your jew knowledge of yeah i know the woman who taught me how to play when i was trying to do it my mouth was all bloody and this woman who basically raised me from since i was two years old from mississippi she's like jag a minute i think she was i guess the plays on the plantation and as i really and she played it like i've never heard so here well i have to i'm not this isn't a disclaimer but these aren't the best ones to play the witless are better i don't know if this one will play. it's it's hitting if these they don't really play that

great you need like a whitlow or add ones from hungary i feel that that i can't play as one but it's not so gay gene events where gene has a book in search of cleo how i found my pussy and lost my mind as you referred to as the cat and so glad you said that it's because it's coming out in paperback next month and they made me change to kid. for people who are pussies and can say we're pussy. it's a little it's a true story about when my cat went missing in l.a. and for two and a half months i searched the streets and you know as i say truth is stranger than fiction and next thing i knew someone was you know gotham and penguin they're like can you make this a book and i said sure why not what attracted you to that why do you i guess because they're not exactly friendly. but i like about them they are their discerning they're not they're discriminate they're discriminating you know dogs i don't care who you are they're like hey how you doing i mean you could be rolling in the mud smelling like you know like i do you smell good but when you know

whatever they do this love you i think animals in general conditional love is an amazing thing i'm madly in love with my cat and he's madly in love with me it's probably weird but you know he's the longest relation of it in seventeen years are you seeing someone special i am going on the who is very happy for you tom he's a fantastic i actually he actually has a book out coming out soon what does he do he used to be a soccer player for byron munich years ago and then he got out of that business and he started a company called deed on which is really incredible outdoor furniture that has pods hanging out of trees it's incredible and now he has a foundation that basically helps kids dreams comes true and. bobby to kaiser he's a very able been married i've never been married she had no children none of my own have kind of step kids now and i have lots of his children yeah we like. it's

interesting. burn doing. is very difficult it is there you know why because i'm not the real thing and you can't tell them no power you can't discipline them though probably makes me insane but they're also old enough that you can't do that but not having any power yeah it's tricky but i have some of that mine i'm so close with my nieces and my nephews and my godchildren i have i have surrounding me with social media questions for you gary davis of facebook. what do you like to do for fun. i like to travel quite a bit and i these days i feel like when you're working so i just love being with my little gang of friends whether it's you know upstate new york or at the beach just kind of chilling out with friends as well you might. want to know. is there a movie role. if there was

a blank. monster barb's on twitter will be a sequel to bound i don't know as they were trustees does it deserve to sequel. sure i mean yeah i guess i mean there is such great writers and editors writing about a relationship but how it progresses. k j m ten sixteen on twitter looking back do you think should girls have a positive impact on your career. it's a positive and negative well you know i would say mainly positive because i came out ok with that but it definitely had a imprint if that was my first movie that people noticed me and it was kind of a doozy so you had to work backwards from it as zoe on twitter are you going to return a broadway show and what news you would like to take on. i don't know you know if there is a musical that i would take on i'd rather i probably want to do an original musical

and if i'm returning to the theater on broadway there was a couple things that are not musicals out of the revival we're mutual would you like to have done there is a revival of the musical. i mean i always you know love west side story but you know there. he i don't know if i'd want to do it eight times a week i love seeing it or love to sing some of the songs but you know i don't know if i had once you do it you have to really really think ok eight times a week what am i going to be wanting to do you know a choice i loved speaking of jews i don't know where the correlation is but march of the falsettos remember that show you know i'm sure it's fantastic you know i was hysterical ok you finished the short game if you only knew i asked you which job i would do anything sharp relish at belle's alive and well living their. first version you kissed. well the first one i really really really kissed was this guy named gus and we had it we had a contest amongst all of us who could kiss the longwall you.

oh gosh how do you like i was in sixth grade healthy and six very grave is thirteen for sure know why son is in eighth grade and he's thirteen twelve twelve was this school in new york in the valley right here in the valley in the tunnels in the valley where they used to go the sewage tunnels used to go there and hide in there we didn't quite realize it was. i start of a collier street elementary school and then i went to parchman junior high and i would have gone to tough but i got into a little bit of trouble and my parents were like it's either girl school or beverly high and so i ended up going to beverly the last few years and went to a. strange job. at a very. i kind of feel there was this guy who looking back now i think he must've been a bookie and had my only job that i had at first thing at ten am on the dot i

had to bring him fruit cup from green glass it could only be from green that flats and the new york times and he had the largest lars largest rock'n'roll collection supposedly in the world every part of his of his apartment was you know coasters or banners or teachers but all over the place and in a five o'clock i had to bring him a bottle of coca-cola and oh what was the other thing something else from greenlight maybe another fruit salad he didn't leave a lot of the skinny guy doing the job yeah if god exists what would you him or her . i think i would ask like what's the plan or or is there a plan i would have. did you have a son did you have a son because he says no throw the ethical world into chaos oh my god that would free eric that that's a good one i think is a pet peeves i hate when people when you're at a party or you're just talking to someone especially if you're

a very intense conversation and just someone rudely just comes up and starts talking haven't seen you in a long time i think it is so rude and drives me crazy persia most look up to. oh my gosh i don't know oh i don't know ask all these questions all right bobby my boyfriend i do admire him i admire him greatly most surprising thing people don't know about you. i think. i'm fairly domestic really yeah you know wild i don't think i was wild i mean i think i have that side but i think i'm actually kind of shy and i really like people coming over and like making food for them and having my friends over most strongly you've ever worked on. i just finished a movie two nights ago literally two nights ago called staten island summer if they're going to call it lorne michaels produced and saw the current live people hands down the most fun i've had on a set in a very long time curb your enthusiasm was

a fun set to use it once comedians you play it i played i played the his siddig do who worked at the cleaners the whore you would a girl that was an a hole in the sheet yeah that was me like larry. or do you know you was so different it would be with the language you had him and he would cleavage you had the cleavage thought i had to clean that's what i'm a character actors are able to get everyone out of the hotel there's so much fun i mean he's so funny and jeff garlin i love you just laugh your head off doing it you must laugh so much you have to do another take you know you want to do is make him laugh anyway laughs and they're like ok we have a body so i'm told it's a great show you're a doll thank you so are you meeting you so my speech to the gym i guess gina gershon cadger the world premier of house of lifetime's. and remember you could find me on kings things that i'll see a much time. but

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commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's close and for the truth and might think. it's because when full attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on here. and our teen years we have a different breed. ok but no because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not hi. i'm if. you guys talk to the jokes well handled it makes sense that i'm.

co meets you up i'm having martin this is breaking the set well the tokyo electric power company is officially one of the worst companies in the world see there's been in another we discovered that the from a nuclear plant and this time it's one of a thousand tanks housing radioactive water you know this is really starting to get old tepco is responsible for what seems like one catastrophe after another since the two thousand and eleven earthquake first they lied about the scope of the damage then they had the fact that three hundred tons tons of radioactive water has been leaking into the pacific every day for the last two years and now another week and ten.