just. created for us since we started this twenty three years. plus we have red. head was washing the city of rivers when i was thirteen and i spent the summer translating all of this. with. all next on larry king. larry king now very special guest is the creator and executive producer and writer and iconic host of inside the actors studio james lipton the one and only who this year was seen just twenty of them a nomination james is also a director playwright choreographer lyricist author and academic it's an honor to welcome you sir it's an honor to be here thank you very much you've done so many things in your life to awards still matter to you oh you bet you do you know why

why because. it's an honor just to be nominated within that lies the kernel of a great truth it is an honor to be nominated thousands of shows out there that was a better show than mine i'm sure and yet year after year were chosen by. coeval is inside the actor's studio ever get old to you know. what keeps it fresh guests i do have to say this to you every guest is different every guest is unique every guest has his own life and entailed to tell inside the actor's studio how did that show. was a member of the studio and. we had for years had been a very reclusive organization. nobody was allowed inside it was a private place and and it had it didn't charge any kind of admission price or anything and as a result it was going broke. and one night after

a meeting went to bed was worried about what was going have to happen to the studio and i had this notion that. somehow or other we could save ourselves by creating for the first time. a school. and we did create the school the school took off within three years it was the largest graduate drama school in america and then i had one category that wasn't covered that was people whom i knew worked with members of the studio who were too busy to be on the show more than once in their lifetime and so i wrote to them and said would you come and do this and everybody answered and i sent word back into the television community and said these people lived to say something worth preserving however the television that's how it was born and you describe your style and well i think will ferrell is already done sufficiently but my style is is preparation is

all the preparation you do you don't do that so much you are much quicker than i am in life but everything is in the preparation it takes me two to three weeks or more to prepare for every single guest and i work seven days a week esther and i work twelve hours a day and there are actors and directors and writers and writers when you research that was then you know a lot going in need i do but but the guest is not because there is absolutely no pre interview we go out there and we go up to it's like it's a circus there's a tight wire up there with no net we're on the i'm on stage with him for four hours it's a masterclass of the actor's studio drama school of pace university and so we're up there on that tight wire with no net for hours and neither of us knows what's coming next isn't that wonderful any when you're not been able to get well. brando as opposed to. the. cats after you and i'm sure you have to everybody i did

couldn't get but the one person i want of the most. when i was asked the answer was always the same i was dean for ten years there to drive to school and i have answered the night that one of my students has achieved so much that he or she comes back and sits down in the chair next to me will be the night i've waited for since we started this thing twenty three years ago and it turned out to be bradley cooper. he was a student he was i auditioned him if i had turned him down he would have gone on to a different career what did you see in him i saw in him what i see in our decisions i auditioned everybody what i was doing very applied and it is a unique accessibility to the so i can't this it's very difficult to describe but if it's not there it's not there and if it is you spot it would you recognize your sister in

a crowd that's what happens to me when i see that and i went down to the stage and i said to him if we accept you are you ready for three years with us and he started to cry and said yes he cried again we came on the show as everybody knows wept bitterly walked on the stage he's as comfortable in theaters or using film he is the elephant man that was his master's degree thesis in our school how about that yes he did on broadway and he did it on broadway what a man. some actors can be difficult correct they can be who had problems with one the reason being that i have only one criterion is this factor a writer director have something to teach our students is a master class and nobody has ever let me down there's a relationship between the guest and those masters to be candidates out there it's a very different relationship and it colors the whole event had your being an actor

. makes it better for you of course and i hope it makes it better for the guest colin firth won the oscar after he appeared on our show for the purpose of publicizing his candidacy and he wrote me. a letter saying no one has ever. taught me as much in the time that i was facing him and who knew as much as i did about my own craft i i don't but i wish i did you grew up in detroit and that city is revitalized now things are jumping in detroit that's what i hear i hope it's true what was it like growing up there. look my father was a poet he was a very famous american poet beatnik poet my mother was a teacher. the net result of that was that we grew up without a nickel in our achievements i mean the poor times and we were very very poor so it was tough my father who couldn't wait for me to read his poetry taught me to read when i was one and a half years old i could read when i was one and half years old i doubted that

later in life and my mother said i can prove what she said i used to take you on a trolley up to see how many and ferndale you would sit on my lap and you would read everything that we passed i'd walk a mile for a camel you would see people thought i was a puppet a public. a ventriloquist and you were a puppet they thought you were a puppet and when i was three i was writing i wrote when i was twelve i wrote three novels none of it very good but nevertheless that was the influence of those two people my father and my mother until he left and vanished you and i are both known mr trump for a long time and i know thirty five years i think i know him as a what do you make what i make my relationship with him of course had nothing to do with politics as long as political friends but a real friend when when i. used to do one me. it was for a two hundred fiftieth anniversary show and. he was on the show he tweeted out the

nicest things anybody's ever said about me congratulating me and say it was an honor to be on the show and his son donald jr is every year the radio city music hall christmas spectacular i take him and his family there their family to me and therefore when the. time came for the election i recused myself for the obvious reason that i didn't want to get into a political argument with somebody who has been a really really good for and did you have a mentor who helped you start what was her greatness her greatness was that she understood thoroughly the stanislaw school system and taught it in a way that i was able to understand and that others have been able to understand it changed my life it taught me what a teacher teaches what a teacher does and it taught me the craft. i'm not a great actor god knows but anything i know about i have to use but i've had stanislav ski actors also tell me their praise for example anthony quinn

told me i love the status of skin method that he thought gary cooper was amazing hooper didn't have status laughs he said there are those who believe that. by the grace of god and their own don't need any kind of system. but on occasion that deserts them what happens when they act by the grace of god not will but badly that he said is when you need a conscious trained learned technique that will bring you back to the center of the moment. you're ninety i'm eighty three kid i hate being old. i wish i were young i don't want to not exist do you fear death. you know i feel very remote from death i don't feel remote in the sense that i

don't have increasingly as time goes by. friends who had done elizabeth camp from my arse who ran the ad to department where a school died last weekend and all of us at the studio are still trying to cope she was a genius so i see death around me i. don't look forward to that moment but it's not something that preoccupies me i'm too busy living why do. like praises look up to actors so much because they represent us because they are up there on the shore or on the screen doing things saying things being things that we know in our heart of hearts we also are and it resonates in us and as a result we form a relationship with them that is not like any other relationship in the arts it's

funny albertine i was a very good friend when i see him on stage he did very well in ross work. he became that person and he'd always how we had dinner after the show but on the stage he was that person he is transformed for that moment by and by by the way technically transformed he was trained thoroughly by the strasberg and is absolutely a product of the actor's studio and when he what happens is that when the camera turns he is literally transformed and is not is not up to you know for the time that he is being x. or y. or z. the willing suspension of disbelief that well i have to do that that's what the audience most right is willing to suspend disbelief and there are actors who enable you to do that very readily because they so thoroughly inhabit the character that

they have chosen to play you like the british school of acting like it. was a great actor sure. the british school of acting was bypassed by the system which jumped over came to america with a group theatre and as a result there are two different kinds of acting but for example i don't have kids was on my show he said while i was studying at the rada studying this classical technique which which is more present teisho and. he said that i was secretly taking lessons with a teacher the stanislaw system so he he combines them both when you combine them both your talent can't be taught technique can and so if you bring a wonderful talent to the table and at the same time you learn. ironclad technique then you get the great ones the really great it's up next to good talents

guilty pleasures strange jobs was twenty time emmy nominee james lipton an american treasure stay with us. on the trial the. documents that tell the story about the. corporate media uses to talk about the. i got a pretty clear picture about how disturbing. corporate conduct is. these are stories. of my own home. all the world's a stage and all the news companies merely players but what kind of parties aren t.

american players are to america offers more artsy america first leg in many ways the news landscape just like to see the real news big news good actors bad actors and in the end you could never hear all. the car companies all the world's a stage all the world's a stage all the world's a stage and we are definitely a player. rejected tonight is a common goal that not defect by the corporate media. would you go after the corporations that just more your live profit over people at every turn. back it's not for me it's like medicine it's like a cancer to all the stress that the news but still under redacted tonight is

a show where you can go to cry from laughing about the stuff that's going on in the world as opposed to just regular crying we're going to find out what the corporate mainstream media is not telling you about how we're going to filter it through some satirical comedic lenses to make it more digestible that's what we do every week hard hitting radical comedy news like redacted so night is where it's at. with james lipton and i have them with us i understand you developed a product called needs ease to help with arthritis you bet tell me about it well i studied ballet so many. yes well you studied ballet you jump a lot you learned a lot you take it in the knees and as you probably know i sure. developed arthritis much more at a much younger age than other do i did when you developed arthritis i had arthritic pain in the knees i would wake up at night and uncomfortable for the child wake up

time after time after time what does the doctor tell you the doctor or the orthopedist tells you sleep with a pillow between your knees the problem with that is the pillow migrates and then i had an idea i thought to myself one night what if somehow that hello small neat were attached to you what if it were actually killing your need so that no matter what position you took during the night you were comfortable and you stopped waking and i stopped waking up i took it to a panel of physicians and they they worked with me over a three year period developing the final product which is knees which is unlike anything else i'm going to get it you get it in. the head of pain management of the hospital for sick special surgery has been following us for three years and said there is nothing on earth like it if there were i would know it how long you suffered with it for years since i stopped dancing and so you have no pain at night none none that abs not once once i was asked to give my knees does somebody else

for a night i did and i was up half the night and i thought my god i've been spared this all these years other people can be spared it works got to pay more attention to chronic pain sufferers. and look at all who do look at you have done over all of medicines those people killed pain i know i know we play every game of if you only knew it was a secret talent you have a secret talent that i have. larry i still convincing myself that i have any talent at all person you would trade places with for days i would trade places with pope francis think of what i could accomplish in twenty four hours pleasure i love boxing boxing yeah i watch boxing and i and i know that i know that it's there's something wrong about that but i like watching like mayweather. yeah i did when he

was at its peak last time you were starstruck. this is going to sound stupid if you're talking about inside the studio it's never occurred i have not felt that way because what are we talking about we're talking about craft the actors craft their students out there on the drina if you're asking questions it's a masterclass there's no room in that for big starstruck best compliment you ever got the best compliment i ever got i mean nominations are a bad complement what twenty of them were the fifth most nominated television series in the history of broadcast television how about that and we are a school i'll take that as a compliment readers job you ever had the weirdest job i ever had was watching the last of nitric acid in a photo when i was thirteen i had to be enclosed in a room shack because to protect the other workers from the fumes and i spent the summer translating all of the popular songs of the time into latin in order not to go crazy and i would sing in latin and there my piping voice until the boss came in

one of. it's over you know more singing. the other workers can't stand it i'll get an actor or you wasn't bad. do you have a favorite question sure. you know what is heaven exists what would you like to say when you arrive at the pearly gates. willy nilly americans who just because of it every time somebody does i get calls for twenty four hours we had every show on television just to talk about. what is something you wish you were better at everything. strange is fan encounter. that happened once my wife and i parked our car and roger block to block on the stadia street to our house and there were five or six fire engines in the block there'd been a false alarm and they were packing up and. the firemen in the in the first one we

passed they left and what's your favorite curse word and the they all poured out and we got a standing ovation from five the five trucks as we passed them it seems that policemen and firemen who have a lot of leisure time watching the actors studio don't ask me why but they do and i'm very grateful that they do and that night was a standing ovation from five fire trucks. to tell them the word my favorite curse word. you can say here oh i can say anywhere in it isn't scatological which is not obscene it's profane and does offend people and is jesus christ when i'm upset that's what pops out right away jesus called racist so what's a luxury you can't live without. almost any week my wife and i we need to we need to run this simple life i don't. i don't think about things or

maybe my my car or home in bridgehampton i guess that would be is there something you long believed to be true and then realize wasn't. that inevitably life will be just. tell me something people don't know about you. because. i guess. the amount of things they don't know. mostly i worry about what i don't know. and have plenty of that going on some social media questions karen woo chaison who was the most difficult person on your show you're looking at him. d. thirteen fifty eight was there ever an interview where he was lost for words because from the response the interviewer gave was so unexpected when it's unexpected. i'm

sure you agree with the best possible morse when they answer comes out of left field then we're off and running then the preparation counts you have is i'm ready to go in any direction you have an example of a guess that i was sure when i asked jack lemmon about the days when roses and i. talked about my favorite scene when he stands up in front of a and says as they were trying to get him to say them and because i liked my students to hear the person on stage in person and he said my man name isn't so and i would have an alcoholic which is what they say. and it was a brief pause and i said to the students you see no pushing he didn't push you don't have to push comes he said which i have. i said i beg your pardon he's speaking as the character now or as jack and speaking is he said i'm an alcoholic and in the green room afterward his wife said to me that's the first time in his

life that he has ever said that public i interviewed him many times and never knew that good man james jay roach one if he had the chance what one movie role would you like to have played to have been referred to as a. wreck why was so special about that film. because it was a perfect movie was a perfect was a movie movie he was pretty awesome to have took place during the war and it. is just there are better movies and more important all these but there are none that are more ideal movie movies it's v. for me. start of a beautiful friendship graph the battle of fishy water. scott edward g. b. who inspired you to pursue a career in television. nobody did i just drifted into television because there was so much going on and york and then everybody started moving to hollywood because of

the cost of. property in new york and so we all began doing more and more television chris sell us how long it takes for him to prepare how much research does he have a team that helps you know i have somebody who gives me raw material they fill my computer with raw materials just from and i started the day a person was born and i gradually as i'm working in my computer creating those blue cards i see a pattern emerging i start to follow i start of a and then the end it has a beginning a middle and an end it's a narrative it's a conversation it's something like i watch king do for many years and try to emulate it thank you. very honored but one riccardo di is would love if you share a story about robin williams robin williams was on the show. it was our first two hour show asked him how he does what he does and he demonstrated with a young woman in the front row with

a past leader he did five minutes which he has admitted the people work with who have admitted and generally speaking the public has admitted is one of the greatest five minutes in the history of television in which he improvised with that media one thing after another and subsequently i said to me you know what you don't know is the young woman from whom you took the pashmina to do that great improvisation is my god daughter and we gave her the media for christmas wow. it was a tragedy of his death. tell me about it. brown did you ever try to get more brando oh marlon used to call me he would call me in the office and we would talk and i'm never going to be on inside the actor's studio why because lee strasberg said he trained me and that's a lie i was trained as a model and i was trained to come on we'll talk about what do you know about the american indian we had long conversations driving what he did he had nothing else

to do up there he didn't lark talk about acting no he didn't he spit the bit. to use a question term and he decided that it wasn't a word the. patient despite the fact that for a few brief years he was the greatest. live on the show we kissed when he said acting is lying for a living and he'd rather read the play than watch the play a lot of his contemporaries took umbrage with him and were and it isn't like you know why it isn't mine for a living because what he was every single moment of of that moment you were in search of the truth which is the opposite of lying he was talking nonsense in the end he was talking absolute nonsense but he was the greatest for a while brooke drivers please ask his favor of comedy. comedy would have to be in school just makes me laugh you are

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