hey folks next up on dennis miller plus one great actor and a cool cat i flew cross-country with him once not saying that gives me an end of knowledge meters a good hang for 6 hours and he's funny as hell and he got it andy garcia absolutely great as benson and godfather 3 to my way of thinking the best thing in the movie although i enjoyed the movie more than many others course in a touchable sort place george the just. cracker jack actor got a new project that on a b c and we will talk to him about it right after this and then a stellar plus one. hey folks welcome to dennis miller plus one got a great actor for a cattle me award and golden globe nominated actor andy garcia you know of course known from godfather 3 the untouchables the ocean's 11 franchise and he now stars

in the a.b.c. show rebel which airs thursdays at 10 pm please welcome andy garcia how are you my friend i'm do that is a little brule no complaints over here. always look inside out and yet well you get the lou wasserman answers you get the jerry depp are due next scarf on you always look good. i watched rebel because a jock john corbett sir friend of mine and obviously i'm a fan of yours and katie it got out of the box pretty well tell tell the viewers about the show. the show always based on nods written by chris of burn off was a maybe c so runner for. grey's anatomy and also station 19 and this is her original show based on or inspired by the life of the brockovich katie place

a fictional character. inspired by by aaron media i'm just a consumer advocate i guess you would call her and if people remember the movie that does do the roberts you see even soderbergh did an album for me and it basically follows her exploits you know i played a lawyer who she kind of works for and lures me into try her cases all the time old friends very old friends and. replace one of one of his 31 of her 3 husbands the current one and we have a great cats that is very well written and. it's. a nice gig close to home as they say i like the fact in the 1st episode that you come in do it reluctantly because ironically the case that she's working on at that moment which involves a heart valve let's say at andy's last i don't want to screw the pooch on the plot

the let's just say he is brought back into the fold reluctantly i thought that was a nice touch on the writer's part yes yes said it becomes a very emotional journey for him because of us and the discoveries that happen in that process for new discoveries what. i do enjoy now at the end is that it's funny how you get older you get more pragmatic about things and obviously it's a great part and you had that big media emotional scene and it also has a groovy sort of fun vibe to it in certain ways but it is nice when it's down the street from to look for clear and you don't have to schlep a pontoon boat out to it. yeah our on a plane or on you know it's a boot bucharest there or you know which i don for most of my life and i'm less than a don of you know it's a blessing but sometimes. you you know those those kind of films they go

a little cold. beyond the backbone a little bit you know because you're traveling a lot in this case you know i have a still kids in town and i got. i got a baby on the way i'm going to be a grandfather so you know i'd like to at least half the year know that you're you know there's a you say a little steady cast stream and and you know on the days off you're close to the golf course and close to the grandkids you know the kind of thing. we're talking and it's our city and i want to i want to encourage you to watch rebel it's thursdays at 10 pm on strict caste over there case a golf sonnet and my friend john corbett and he plays let's say the albert finney part although there's a twist on it but a he's if you remember doesn't remember a slash but he plays the functional or her obi wan kenobi she doesn't have an actual law degree he does so it's a crucial give it a watch on thursdays you know any the other night i'm cruising through and i catch

the beginning of the godfather i missed the 1st i missed the 1st minute and i know by you i can see how important it is to have but you're in for the rest of the film there's no way they set that hook and you can't get off it right. i know. any any of the godfathers and especially wanted to for me because i don't know i'm not in them so you kind of those are the movies that made me almost aspired me to be an actor especially godfather one and whenever you see it on t.v. you know it's a you're in the your god here we go again you know at that time was when i 1st started acting you know those movies changed my life so to be a part of the trilogy down the line there was a you feel like someone's going to you the whole thing about you're going to wake up one day and it was just all a dream you know but those movies you can't turn him off you know i remember i used to have a v.h.s. of godfather wanted and then later too and i would watch those v.h.s.

and if you think about how they've restored i'm going there are new technology how beautiful you can see the movies in their original photography because of the 6 the definition we have in our televisions now is poster watching them on v.h.s. . it's because they're beautiful they just have obviously restored godfather 3 with a new you know france is it a new added on its golden excellence. the godfather code or the death of michael corleone too and it's a beautiful movie a very moving i saw a picture of francis the other day and he looks so happy was up at his winery slash ranch i don't know that well so i don't know what he has up there in northern california but he was standing is turned out just the sort of threads that you can see he digs he was near book shelf there was a bottle was light he had the biggest smile on his face and i thought in a way he's turned into a nice avuncular convivial godfather himself i'm very happy for him later in life.

not so little he has a tremendous amount of land there with all his wineries he's got a little boutique hotels all over the world you know about housing things want that he started to be tales and yeah he is like i mean i always thought that that francis because not only is in the you know sublime director but he was also he has a perfect professorial sort of quality about him in terms of teaching and bring you along and taking youngsters a philosophical in his approach to filmmaking and i always thought that if there was a zeus you know like he would be like zeus in the pantheon of the gods you know that there's a lot of gods in film directors but to me i always felt that he because of his nature it was like in his character is the meter i always saw him at you know at the top of the pantheon there no. yeah you know i think of him as like our

generation's william wyler and the way you know they're great guys hoxha could put together a great movie but then there are guys who have the great look the great feel and then they had this and they know how to get a care i mean for god's sakes a kid wrote patton before he ever even got to the godfather so you obviously has its teeth down on the human condition it. a salute you know that opening scene or badness incredible he always really you know he has this to be idea of doing the godfather which is interesting you know he did it because he had the dough. well it's the best money that that taubes ever spent because just from the opening scene i saw at the wedding i was saying who better to design go take tells them francis ford coppola because the palette and that film and i know i work 10 an hour with the gore and it's absolutely staggering just the palette it's like a say saw him with a hand guns. no doubt about it no doubt about it it's exquisite piece of work and i

had a great fortune of. hanging with gordon willis you know going to dailies with all my godfather 3 i'd go to dailies with them and i just watch what he was doing and ask them questions because i was always interested in not only acting but the other side of the camera and so that movie was amongst other directors i work with but specifically that movie was like a master class because i saw it come together from its inception and then into the for the staging of photography watching the dailies you know on film with gordon every day see how the movie really came together you know it was really a great experience for me you know and when i think you and godfather 3 i can't believe a dream like that comes true for a book you know when andy says to the extent that i've read what he says that it inspired and i think it really got his kitchen to be a heck it opened him up to try acting the godfather so to end up an episode 3 to be

nominated for an oscar and then be able to take your beloved father the ceremony it's about as big a homerun as a young actor can get right. it's more than a homerun like i told you. it's beyond degree an achievement of a dream for me personally because it's too it's too surreal to think that that actually could happen you know and and the blessing of having to actually take in my father there which was you know for a conservative cuban man that had no association with showbusiness nobody in our family for his son to say i'm going to hollywood to become an actor it's like oh my goodness gracious we lost them you know and not that he was a supporter of my mother was supportive but you know ice parents they go that's you know what's going on here you know where he's got a family business why is he going over there kind of thing and and i always joke that i'll respond to my father who would have

a conversation with my mother say. i i love my son but he's no humphrey bogart you know. you know our brother turned out to be a bit of a great bogart you you're always swore you were power and you were action well i think about the untouchables and to me it's one of the great characterizations we'll talk to him about that we'll talk about the call a little we'll talk about as i said the show rebel whatever stories days 10 pm on a.b.c. give it a tumble he plays cruz and also talk to him about directing and i think he's got the clear and more of a hispanic tilt a father of the bride that sounds like fun all that with our guest andy garcia right after this on dennis miller plus one.

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hey folks welcome back we're talking endings are seeing and i think he's a great actor man everything i see and the any knocks out of the park i love them is mr stone in the untouchables by the way he's got a new show cut called the rebel and it's the 1st foray into network television but the pedigree on the show is unbelievable the rest of the cast show runners got grey's anatomy bonafied so they're going to kill the show over on a.b.c. rebel it airs thursdays at 10 pm give it a glimpse. i always thought that one of my favorites a column of films and listen i know he and francis q. magine that hang out those guys are all hanging out at. fred's this is to me as you said this zeus but certain right below it hold their own thunderbolt was a guy like that tell me about it. well. brian was a very. organized type of director in my view you know experience and

his movie was storyboarded when we 1st got to. chicago we had about a week's worth of rehearsal with the principal trast and he took me into his room where he had this movie storyboard with little stick figures and he drew himself. but he had it all kind of in his mind already mapped out and that's something that is a particular style of work with directors where things are kind of discovered as you go along with like how last be has a completely different approach more of sort of freestyle improvisational discovery or brian was a very sort of you know designed oriented director and i think it was a perfect storm in that movie because you had these visual stylist and great filmmaker along with really will one of the best screenplays you could possibly read because that david mamet screenplay of that movie is so the storytelling the

narrative through line is so clean you know it's like the magnificent 7 the guy comes into town and recruits the 3 or 4 guys that he needs to run a best of good the bad guy and they're overmatched but because of the qualities of each different person their abilities they all fill in for one another the sharpshooter gets the guy the accountant gets gets a mom you know takes him to trial malone sets the tone and is a bravado and nest is the intelligentsia to bring all these stayed together and and sort of the humanity of it all so but that was all david mamet you know that script was really a real lesson and great storytelling so i thought was a perfect storm and then you bring in sean connery to the mix and then it's all and then robert de niro has capone it's pretty hard not to combust into a gray film in. what i think of that film i think your 1st meeting with connery or

insults in a. in an ethnic way let's. get it so funny to me that he might be the bluster but you're the stone killer with the scales immediately like steps 2 and i remember he had a gray sweatshirt on your ready to do business so. they felt it was a good exchange right there. i have a funny story about that while we were rehearsing. that week before we started shaun had a clipboard in his hand with his lines so he could look out of one of those old files you don't clipboards with the metal thing in the front you know and as he was talking to me say what's your night what's your name and he would poke me with this clipboard in the center of my chest like in the movie and i was going like this guy's poking a little metal tip into my chest so finally says i said george stone he says your stone what your what's your real name and he said just happy but you know we did

the whole scene and then i knocked in the rehearsal i'm not the clipboard out of his hand after he had stabbed me like 10 times you know and then i put the gun to his thing and then francis said i mean out ryan said oh that's great let's do that so that's how that ended up in the in the in the movie because it's so i was just poking me with that. there's a during a piece of business there and i guarantee that diploma went back to his trailer and threw a little clipboard out shot stick figure that's how meticulous he was about it i done charles martin smith where i saw him in star man recently and then he always deliver good now i haven't seen him in ages i don't even know if he's still with us but he was he was a key cog in that he wasn't a. yes absolutely and he's also a wonderful director i stood on a bunch of movies he was great in that part and it was such

a joy to work with him you know he's such a beautiful actor and a mensch of a person and i remember one time we were in the in great falls montana before doing that sequence where we had tacked you know on the bridge and horses and all that you went out to dinner one night and he and he's some guy kind of said to him. hey aren't you. you're that guy and i'm. your frog you know this if because of this character i think that america graffiti because what's your name what's your name for it you know you play a fraud and he says i love movies have you done and johnny just looked at him and said what movies of you seen i'll tell you from him. now that that is a great riposte right there is his legend grows in my mind after hearing that we're

talking of the great andy garcia and we've been talking a little archibald's but the new project little closer to home for andy but a call to show on a.b.c. you gotta watch called rebel scott katie cigar and john corbett senate some other fine actors a lot of young people man there's a there is a 6 you talk about putting together a flow chart on a wall they must have one that because a lot of threads between a lot of different characters but it airs thursdays at 10 pm sort of like an aaron brockovich thing you know you work with the palmer you work with koppel i'm sure you've worked with a bunch of great directors what do you take into it and what's your approach a little more stick figure a little more hal ashby or tell me your swing thought as you go into directing a film. one of the things that i've directed i develop so it's kind of in my head visually and sort of what i want to do with it or how i see things yvel of being you know but so that's also the responsibility of

a director to be you know just to have some sort of a game plan you know but i'm really open with the actors i want to see what the actors are doing or how they're moving what's you know what they're bringing to the table and then be able to adjust on the fly too to that dynamic but you have to have some a game plan or else you know things don't people are looking to you with a wipeout going what are we doing here you can go like i don't know let's see what happens. you know you've got to establish some sort of idea but usually by the time you start shooting their authority you have you've scouted you know you've gone through. a period of working with your d.p. and your designers and all that so things are kind of set up for them the actors to play within that environment which is also an important element for me is to to give the actors the freedom to try something you know like hal ashby used to say think about how was he never pass judgment on what you did and use it in that movie i did with jeff bridges and him a 1000000 ways to die there was no script really so it's

a lot of improvisation so you're flying by the seat you're passing every take and how we just come in and go i was interesting we got that try something. but he never put it in you never try to put it like negativity into it like that doesn't work because once you say that doesn't work we as actors you start editing in your head oh what doesn't work and what do i need to do to make it work and as opposed to just being free and present with your fellow actor take care of the objective of the scene and let's figure it out you you need europe you have your objective and i have mine and let's see what happens so i'm a bit of that also had kind of i worked that way as an actor so i kind of will respect that with other actors you know. you know and it's such a ball or a ball process not that i'm a great practitioner but i've done a half dozen films i i've always found it so frightening in a way everybody is on

a bit of a confidence game it can go in stammer owen stumble an inadvertent people's gaze but you are to me it why not always affirm it's like the great improv coach del close call his set in chicago or in an improv always affirm what's moving down the road see where it go and so that's got to be a big part of as i can any time you're doing some absolutely absolutely you know the 1st proposition news never deny and always say adds you know add to the situation or you know it's like if you watch you know carl reiner no grocer 2000 year old man and apparently when that's not it off just said so you were born when you you know he just 2000 b.c.e. i mean he just went off on that and is already famous people you might remember all of there was not jesus god what a character and he just went off on and called jeff eating that rode in the boot

before you know they were talking about was seisure of the war you know and that's a and that's a that's a that's the spirit of it you know it's a it's a building block you know so let's let's see what version of the scene is about is the most interesting growth but it takes a grip you want to work that way at the end of the day. i see we've got a 3rd reboot of a classic spencer tracy killed it knocked it out of the park and then steven marty came and did a very funny tyrant on it i love this idea of the enemy to explain the twist that will be on the father of the bride and guess it'll be you know that cuban american low. yeah it's a cuban american family. and i play the father. my daughters married into a mexican family from mexico and they're coming into town the family is the furred richest family in mexico so they're coming into town through and we meet for the

1st time i will meet the group for the 1st time and i meet the family for the 1st time and it's about those 2 cultures coming together and finding common ground eventually you know. i think that you have to somewhere i don't know who the actor would be for it but the wedding planner guy soucie i think you know we've been talking about casting to some degree how important this that's a key for all after the father and the daughter you got to find that wedding planner. you know in our movie is not him it's not marty short of the obviously i would love money short to do it but because he's he is sublime but it's it's in this case it's or it's a woman and. we process of casting and we have a lot that down yet but she's part of that history handy that is it as i said. oscar nominated golden globe nominated you've seen him

in great films the ocean's 11 tranches 2 and he has a new project that i highly encourage you to give it to tom one personally invest best at this as my one of my dearest friends is john corbett and he's at it although i can't quite figure andy how they're keep it a minute because it seemed pretty bleak at the end of the 1st episode but i'll hang in there and see how they bring him back into the fall but it looked a little tricky there at the end a while and andy plays the erin brockovich character names rebel katie seagal he place her actual legal partner it's on a.b.c. thursdays at 10 pm assure me that john's going to be in it for a while he won't tell me. it would be hanging around wreaking havoc. there you go all right so it does take a twist it's a good visit here with brother what your handicap now what do you plan to empty. my

handicap is not i did not really play to it often but every so often i get lucky and i sneak in a low round he just kind of hands around there you know but please when you come to him i know you're live up north a little bit but if you coming to l.a. please reach out and we'll go out the lake how could a rounded work on the short gable take the video with this so we put him on an i pad on the chipping green what or what a invitation to whack the pe lota probably out it sure would be great ending garcia good luck with the show brother it's good to talk to you likewise that is all the best my friend thanks for having me all right later gator andy garcia and dennis miller plus well. listen stumbling online algorithms dictate what you get to want to go to portable dock t.v. slash downloads to get killer television it's completely free i'm talking award

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