just. that you're watching. on larry king hollywood legend will in the fall the truth is the script can change and the role if i know what it is it is already before i do it that's not so interesting i like a role that's kind of a mystery to me and calls me and i have to do something to find out what it is. is villainous when i was young i think the best tended to be if you're not conventionally good looking. and those with a juicy drawl so i think that's really where i made my reputation take that they used actually. as some of the. nations. if you look

closely movie you can see me throw the thing in my hand. and plus i don't think we're in the right direction. we're a powerful country and we have a responsibility to the rest of the world when you travel here in the rest of the world they think we're crazy so all next on larry king. larry king now our special guest as well to follow the iconic actor nominated for two academy awards and a golden globe throughout his decades long career as extensive resume includes films like. the english patient american psycho shadow of the vampire boondock saints and the spy the mantilla just to name a few willem is currently lead biggest talents to two and. films death note and

what happened monday costarring glenn close his highly anticipated move home as the floor of a project is getting a lot of oscar buzz is due out october sixth if that wasn't enough well almost star in the remake of murder on the orient express coming this november are you ever out of work and like to work i like to work all right the obvious first then move on why isn't it will you. you know my father was william i came from a big family billy didn't really suit me i think i from a very young age i saw that nickname and someone gave me a just willem as a sloppy way of saying william and it stuck in and by the time i was a performer it felt kind of unnatural to change it back and then like the idea of a stage name so the joke is the irony is that the nickname became my real name what's on the birth certificate william with even the it's up

wisconsin tell me about the florida project and why it's so special for the project is a film directed by sean baker who made this film tangerine that got a lot of. got a lot of play. this film is takes place in an extended stay at economic motel in the south of disneyland and it really follows through the eyes of the children in the lives of these people that live there and i play the manager of the motel and it's it's a contestant role for mainly because it's very complex he's not an extraordinary person it's not an extreme role i don't have big scenes of transformation a big emotional scenes but the way i have to deal with people is i have to wear lots of hats and he's he's not really up to the job. and he's got to be hard with

these people because he's in a position of authority but at the same time he lives at the place and he gets to know these people it's like an extended family so there's a push and pull originals where it is it is and i understand as a young woman in brooklyn prince yes she's six years old i think you know she's a spitfire she's really great now even a club which reviews films said this is one of the photos funniest and most moving performances nice. what about him what did you see in him he was a working class guy that was making the best of kind of a not so extraordinary life. and he was he was ordinary sort of you know as lawyers ordering are you know because the world was complete and in some respects i'm very ordinary. but when i say ordinary i mean from a dramatic stand point you know there it wasn't a big juicy short show we rolled but entering the world in being part of that world

was interesting because it it required a lot of navigating variety compared to last year's best picture winner moonlight is that fair you think well. i like moonlight i like this movie what can i say larry what do you think of oscar but do you like. it it is a good things i mean this is all a movie and the fact that people responded to it so much in canada started to respond to screenings you know it's great news it's great news for the movie you'll always like to be associated with a movie that people are excited about w.c. fields said never work with a child. is this brooklyn princes scene stealer as she of course often children my scenes the owners because these aren't these they're kids first and act and act or second so. and that's when the good news is you get

a freshness and kind of anarchy and the kind of freedom and creativity and looseness. the bad news is sometimes they can't repeat things but that's ok i'll go into chic and she's like six and there were other children involved as well because the film is very much from their point of view or was it hard to do for you. it does but i also enjoyed it as i said. you know i had to wear lots of hats so some parts that light some parts were a little more difficult you know some that the directors were very good with the children and really gave them. let them go where they needed to go and sometimes that took some patience on my part but it was ok because that sort of informed what i had to do as the character so that kind of it was an exercise in patience ok you've had over one hundred twenty acting credits and you remember all the movies of course of course it's there where remember my life you cherish some more than

others i do i do but you know it's i don't look back so much anthony quinn told me once that no matter what the role he gave it his all. whether he was playing some indian chief towel boy or zorba the greek. everything mattered at that minute i think that's a good approach i that's the approach i try to have because you never know you never know where things allayed you know sometimes you read something that. is a little flat on on paper but there's other reasons that you want to do it and then you commit to it and it comes alive just out of your openness to. be there to write save it has this villain so much that you know when it comes down to it i think i play as many good guys and as villains but when i was young i think the best roles

tended to be if you're not conventionally good looking or conventionally charming and so those were the juicy roles so i think that's really where i made my reputation and for example studio movies industry movies they want you to repeat that success but my experience is i've done all kinds of roles but the other roles tend to be more in the end and realm of always work i have and. also one thing i don't think people know and it's not bragging but i think is if people are curious i've been a theater actor for many years i had my own company in new york for almost thirty years and i still continue to work in the theater there's a roadway not broadway this is very particular kind of theater i mean it's really a reparatory of unguarded this company i had was a true company in the sense that the same people were there every day working making new work and our bread and butter was basically international touring we had

a small theater in new york and then you could do that and make movies as well initially it was very difficult but now that i finished with that i do theater slightly more sporadically because when i was a. company i was there every day that's the first thing you look for when you say i'll do this you knows that something that calls you something that a promise for adventure a promise to learn something also people are very important you know you're going to spend time with people they have to be top people that inspire you and that you share a kind of passion with so i go by the people i go by the proposal of what we're trying to do and really secondarily that the role and the script because the truth is the script can change and the role if i know what it is it is already before i do it that's not so interesting i like a role that's kind of a mystery to me and calls me and i have to do something to find out what it is

a lot of the movie you did body of evidence ok yeah yeah yeah was that fun it was fun it was fun it got kind of a mixed reception i was wrong none of that good for you larry think i like the i phone lines or to overthrow or beautiful i thought i thought it was kind of mis identified that was kind of at the height of her. and she had a sex work out and everything with sex excesses like we're going to i did she was cool what we're all broke up so you know that's hard to say you know just getting working this is the breakout for you but i think it was first role i did first our role was kathryn bigelow's first film called the loveless a little independent movie i think certainly to live and die and l.a. was very important for the platoon is very important to kind of shake this idea that i could only do that once that's temptation of christ was important to you

know to kind of give people that i could carry a movie. you know you know one thing leads to the next and it's hard to know what really sets you want your part of. right that's coming next year. in fact i'm on i'm shooting i live for australia they're continuing my work there who are close i play the mentor the teacher of awkward man when it's a boy is that fun those kind of roles what. fun it's when i'm doing. it quinn. you know it is it is and i get to do some fighting and because it's underwater and we speak underwater we do a lot of it dry for wet so we're on wires and we have harnesses and i enjoy doing that physical stuff the oil is rooted oil. is probably economic reasons. and they are warner brothers as a studio there it's a lot of it's

a lot of green screen work and so it must be economic why they remaking what they remade murder on the orient express ride which doesn't sound like a necessary thing to do but it was of greats that's a great story it's a great story and it's a very good script and kind of. who directs and stars and he plays parole and he's fantastic and he was a fan and i really loved him he was really and the way he dealt with this cast was incredible because you it's a very heavy it's really a star studded cast with jesus they're off to the right right oh they've always approached it with the stars that all the call was you know who's innocent you're. michelle pfeiffer i don't forget people and new people like josh gad. daisy ridley and every january although i cannot attend to those murderers you know and the cool thing is that you know most of the time you're part of the environment

. and then you step forward for your big you know confrontations thing but it's an ensemble piece and see all these people working well in an ensemble it was quite fantastic. i think he got a lot of theater actors because he knows they're used to that but it was a really fun experience as they shoot it in london most of it next. to my rapid fire question round of if you only knew by our producers stick with us i'm scared for. your watching and hearty america that special report. that bugs me has been up by basically everything that you think you know about civil society have broken down. there's always going to be somebody else one step ahead of the game. we should not be. normalising mind. we don't need people that think like this on our

planet. this is an incredibly tense situation. on the street that looks like. this would be the last piece of the bottom. line. like i got. a pretty. quick fix.

that was wonderful one of the great talents his new film the florida project among seventy three others. will be out october sixth. board a direct no really i'm a do or not a watcher we play a little game of if you only knew who was your childhood celebrity crush. rocco welch not bad not bad secret talent and will be a secret if i do if you look. cute best advice you ever got.

maybe. move this movie as fast biggest risk you ever took i'd say a shane cheating mile life and crawling in one of with this young woman that i'm married to not along about fourteen years you live in rome and new york you know which she'll like better i like them both you know new york's my home town in rome is my no home so they're i'm an immigrant so when challenged in different ways is rome special it is it's an open museum the people are fantastic hot as hell something but it's always know yours oh yeah you know guilty pleasure you know i basically eat clean and basically a vegan but occasionally i have to have some fried fish fried fish specifically. a fried lake perch sandwich a very particular thing that i grew up with so it's like going on that line you

know that's wisconsin so yeah is there a t.v. series you'd like to guest star on i don't think so. something you're awful at. nonny things and. damn. well chris it's terrible that they come on i don't know really it's interesting what's a luxury you can't live without a lecture even thinking. i do like to take a bath and need a nice bath tub every day oh yeah who would you trade places with for a day home probably a political figure just to see really what's going on but. you know this is indians that hogs millions of people. whether they're in history would you like to experience. i would have liked to have been born a little bit earlier a little bit before this little bit before so i could have been an adult during the

one nine hundred sixty s. when i was five years old one thousand nine hundred sixty started off i was an adult and lucky you larry this period of time you've been awake awake. you must've had days of shooting where our on that first movie the loveless i remember we basically ran out of money and we had to just shoot until we were done so i think we shot for like don't tell the unions this that was a long time ago but i think we shot for like two days you know only something people don't know about you know. that i was it just be kid really young for you know before adolescence before we go to break i want to get your take on what's going on in the country oh let's start cerned me you know yes i don't know where to. doing and i'm an actor and i always have a problem you know i feel like a good express things i don't want to be

a coward i express myself best draw my work. there's better people to talk about the political situation but personally you know our leader should be a moral leader and i don't think we're going in the right direction and we're a powerful country and we have a responsibility to the rest of the world. are you troubled but what you see absolutely when you travel what do you hear. an almost industry as opposed to right right that's right you know i don't want to live i don't want to preach to the cumorah that. you know it's very difficult to talk about because you wanted as i say you want to express yourself you want to. not runaway not be afraid. but in the rest of the world they think we're crazy and and also i think the states as as foreign and the state of florida project will open

october sixth murder on the orient express when all i've come in november doesn't follow the agatha christie novel yes yes it's it's just there's twists but either way so yes yes yes so that great great entertainer gave it away at what i wrote is you know what the story as but still it's telling the story would have run i must be great to work with he's from testing you know. you know we you know is performing in knows the camera you know how to make a movie do you have to get close with other people in the business i do you know whenever you make a movie you make a little family because it's so you're with him in a tense way. for a very concentrated period of time and often i'm on location so you're out of your comfort zone you have different habits so it really makes you open to get

a know people johnny depp yeah i've worked with him many times i you know i first worked with him in platoon and he was a young oh here i mean you know he was in it's all yeah oh yeah one of my favorite scenes was with him but it got cut really all of a stone took it out yeah or a movie that was yeah i was good movie ok we have some fan questions on the internet lauren eglin on the larry king now blog what are your fondest memories from working on the spider-man film. i think very much sam raimi was had a real playful way about him he was a guy that was. you know he did was directing this movie like it was his job but i mean it was very personal to him there was no cynicism he was always sort of in the light or at least that's the way it seemed and his way of inviting you to play with things and make him laugh he was like the best ordeals for you so you would invent

things and there was a playfulness that i really loved and i love the physical stuff gloss what's the first thing that jumps out at you when you look at a script. just basically i say what does the character have to do do i want to do these things. and do i have to learn something to do with it is it something close to me is it something far away from me ever regret turning something. probably but i don't you know what it could assure there is no good you don't do this you know when you move on and also it's hard to say because usually regret it because you pass on something that goes on to be a big success and if you did it maybe of success then only hypothetical when you watch other actors work as a fellow actor do you think i would have done it this way so as you watch it like i watch it and watch it like you watch it i really do. yes sometimes

sometimes i think he you know they're in dangerous territory but you know it's just that you probably think the same thing as an audience steve among the larry king mel blog have you wrapped shooting at and yet you know where there's we're still shooting i'm on a little break and but i go back like on friday and shoot for like another month in . the middle of october like australia i do have shot there on a film called daybreakers and i sat in tasmania on a film called the hunter which was a very good film other shoots intense and you know there's a lot of physical stuff and there's a lot of effects stuff so. there's a lot of prep and the actual shooting isn't as intense as some because the pace is a little slower but the preparation and what you have to do in the course of a day is quite heavy and also you're wearing these costumes that aren't the most

common things in the world aaron john on the larry king melbourne is there an actor or director you're dying to work with. and many directors actors an actor that comes to mind is isabella ben oh i'm a great fan i've always been love love her work in the theatre and in film. directors whenever i see a good movie i say yeah. it's prison duch schafer on twitter there was sergeant elias is death in platoon choreographed or ad libbed and how many takes did it take to shoot that scene ok out as it was very you know that it was kind of neither . i nor i started at this point i know i had to get there i knew where the explosions were i know where. we wanted to have them i was detonating the hits on my body but basically it enabling them yourself yeah but the hits around me. i had to avoid them thought i also want to get close to him enough that you know it would

all be in the picture but because it was a huge shot one of the shots was a huge helicopter shot there were many cameras on this it was beautiful i'm sitting there and i got to watch it walkie talkie i'm all set to go i'm at a self-contained unit all i know is i have to run straight and i know at a certain point i've got to stop that's it and i've got all these extras chasing me but everything's up in the air on the ground so i'm by myself so basically my action is to run for my life so that was it and it was. you know it was it was a strong enough action that you know you didn't have to pretend there were a lot of reshoots no it was maybe three or four takes and the take that they used actually. some of them that nations didn't go off and if you look closely in the movie you can see me throw the the thing in my hand

when i'm detonating. the sparkle and it was all of a stone easy to work for he was great he was great i worked with him also on the board on the fourth of july i was very early in this career but i that was a dream project i mean and or i loved all the guys that i was working with and you know for people that still had kind of a fantasy of world war two movies as but also. you know we were living in the shadow of vietnam it was very it really played on your imagination so and we were working with real veterans who had a stake with the story being accurate or at least the tone being real so it was it was a very involving and great experience platoon was shot where for weapons. tough shoot yes but you know fun fun you know tough is fun when it's an gaged always

done seems like to work with it was good he's going to hard on me he does you know i had a brief scene with them and finally lose scott to have you ever watched a movie you won in and wish you were in that sure. this is great meeting it's great thank you having you would have a big thanks to my guest will of the fall be sure to see is no netflix films death note and what happened monday out now will it will star in the florida project coming to theaters october sixth as well as one of the stars on murder on the orient express coming this november and as always you can find me on twitter at kings things see you next time.

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