they would have learned something after serving as george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to invade iraq. but the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinguishable. on. hollywood legend. the truth is the script can change and the role if i know what 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. villainous when i was young i think the best tended to be if you're not conventionally good looking. and. i think that's really where i made my reputation take that they used actually. as some of the.

nations to go off and 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 sink or grazie it's all next on larry king. larry king now our special guest as well the iconic actor nominated for two academy awards and a golden globe throughout his decades long career his extensive resume includes films like. the english patient american psychosis. shadow of the vampire boondock

saints and the spy the mantilla ji just to name a few well him is currently lending his talents to two netflix films death note and what happened on monday costarring glenn close his highly anticipated movie film as the floor of a project that's 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 and i will 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 it 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 weird to grow 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 they cut a lot of. get a lot of play. this film is takes place in an extended stay. economic motel in the center of disneyland and it really follows through the eyes of the children the lives of these people that live there and i play the manager of the motel and it's it's a contested role for mainly because it's very complex is not an extraordinary person it's not an extreme role i don't have big scenes of transformation or 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 there's 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 and he was 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 i 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 roll but entering the world and 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 about your. it is a good thing is 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 is 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 never work with the child. is this brooklyn princes scene stealer as she of course often children i scenes the owners because these aren't these they're kids

first and act and act or second so 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 was 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 so 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 just so 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 tom boy or zorba the greek everything mattered at that minute i think that's a good approach 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 as villains 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 a villain as 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 repertory 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 you know 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. the company i was there every day what's the first thing you look for when you say i'll do this you know something the cause 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 your letter thing i like that i don't like there to overthrow are beautiful i thought i thought it was kind of misidentified that was kind of at the height of her. and she had a sex work out and everything with sex excesses like were going on i did she was cool what role broke off for you oh 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 catherine there goes first film called the loveless a little independent movie i think certainly to live and die and i lay 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 what your part of. right but that's coming next year. yeah and 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. oil struggle there's probably economic reasons.

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 are 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 run who directs and stars and he plays parole yeah and he's fantastic and it was difficult i mean really i 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 which is the off that the writers will write oh they've always approached it with the stars that all the call was you know who's innocent you're johnny depp michelle pfeiffer i don't forget people and new people like josh gad.

daisy ridley and every january although i cannot attend 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 the shooting in london most of it. rapid fire question round of if you only knew by our producers stick with us. for decades the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big money corporate interests. a lot of boys that's how it is in the news polter in

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a solid alternative to the. liberal or conservative and as you can see from his bar graph we don't skew the facts either talking at lefties talking at righties oh there you go above it all so look out world is in the spotlight now i have no idea how to classify as when it actually took me way more time than i care to admit. was wonderful one of the great talents his new film the florida project among seventy three others. will be out october sixth i want to 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 would be

a secret if i drew. cute best advice you ever got. maybe. moves movies fast biggest risk you ever took i'd say a shane seeing 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 there i'm an immigrant so when challenged in different ways is rome special it is it's an open museum the people are fantastic god is homeless something but it's always no your oh yeah no guilty pleasure you know i basically eat clean and basically of a gun 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 is there a t.v. series you'd like to guest star on i don't think so. something you're awful at not me things. damn. this is terrible how did it 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 i need a nice bathtub every day oh yeah who would you trade places with for day oh probably a political figure just to see really what's going on but. you know this indian saint that hogs millions of people a mom. of one of the air 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 in the vocal and lucky you larry on his 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. that i was just be kid really for you know before adolescence. before you got 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. join 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 dream i 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 what would you say absolutely. now you travel what are you here. 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 camorra. you know it's very difficult to talk about because you want to 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 formed in 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 what other ways so yes yes yes so that great great entertainer gave it away at the road as you know what the story as but still it's telling the story would have run a must be great to work with he's from testing you know. you know we you know is performing it 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 are different habits you 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 over here i mean you know he was in a row 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 a 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 or audience 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 is the character have to do do i want to do these things. and do i have to learn something to do then is it something close to me is it something far away from me irving regret turning something. probably but i don't you know what it could assure there is no good you don't do this 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 may be a success in the 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 you know it's really wrapped 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 crime and you know there's a lot of physical stuff and there's a lot of effect stuff so. there's a lot of prep in 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 are the most common things in the world aaron john on the larry king albert 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 in love love her work in the theatre and in film. directors whenever i see a good movie i say yeah if it's present doc shaffer on twitter 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 that 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 wanted to get close to him enough that you know it would all be inspection 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 a water 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 are 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 involved 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 a gauge that was done seems like to work with he was good he's going to hard on me he does you know i had a brief scene with them and finally got to have you ever watched a movie you won in and wish you were in that sure. this is great meeting is great thank you having you would have a big thanks to my guest will be sure to see is no netflix films death note and what happened monday. will and will start in the florida project coming to theaters i'm told those six as well as one of the stars on murder on the orient express coming this november there's always you can find me on twitter at kings things see you next time.

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