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folks welcome to dennis miller plus one got a great actor for a cademy award and golden globe nominated actor andy garcia you know of course known from godfather 3 the touchable zee ocean's 11 franchise and he now stars in the a.b.c. show rebel which airs thursdays at 10 pm please welcome mandy garcia how are you my friend and the world is a little brule no complaints over here. always sort of inside out and you get 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 an a.b.c. show runner for. grey's anatomy and also station 19 and this is her original show based on or inspired by the life of brockovich katie place a fictional character. inspired by by aaron i'm just a consumer advocate i guess you would call her and if people remember the movie that julia roberts of steven soderbergh did an album for me and it basically follows her exploits you know i played the lawyer who she kind of works for and lures me into trouble her cases all the tom old friends very old friends and some corporate place one of one of his 31 of her 3 husbands the current one and we have a great cats than a 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. andy's lost i don't want to screw the pooch on the plot the let's just say he has brought back into the fold reluctantly i thought that was a nice touch on the writer's part yes yes and it becomes a very emotional journey for him because of yes and the discoveries that happen in that process for your new discoveries what. did you enjoy knowing 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 vive to it in certain ways but it is nice when it's down the street from to look for 3 and you don't have to schlep quite

a punch and bowed out to it. yeah our on a plane or on you know it's a boot bucharest or you know which i've not for most of my life and i'm less than a done it 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 a i got a baby on the way i'm going to be a grandfather so you know how i'd like to at least half the year know that you're you know there's a like 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 street cast over there case a gull's on it and my friend john corbett and he plays let's say the albert finney

part although there's a twist on it but hey if you're a member who doesn't remember that your on a slant that he plays the killer her obi wan kenobi she doesn't have an actual law degree he does so it's a cool show 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 you 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. especially wanted to for me because i don't i'm not in them so book 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 is 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 old 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 them 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 to in their new technology how beautiful you can see the movies in their original photography because of the definition we have an out televisions now as opposed to watching them on v.h.s. . it's been good beautiful images of obviously restored godfather 3 with a new you know france is it a new added on it it's called excellence. the godfather code or the death of michael corleone and it's a beautiful movie 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 of his life 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. now absolutely he has a tremendous amount of land there with all his wineries he's got little boutique hotels all over the world you know about housing things want but he started to be tales and yeah he is like i mean i always thought that that francis because it 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 there's

a 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 characters is the meter i always saw him at you know at the top of the pantheon the no. yeah the you know i think of him as like our generation's william wyler in a way you know they're great guys hoxha could put together a great movie but then there are guys who have the great look they're 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 as a safe down on the human condition it. absolutely know that open e.c. are bad news and granted he always read you know he does this to the idea of doing the godfather which is interesting you know he did it because he needed the dough. well it's the best money that that is ever spent because just from the opening

scene i saw at the wedding i was thinking who better to design boutique hotels than 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 i say saumur with a handgun it's. no doubt about it no doubt about it it's exquisite piece of work and i've had a great fortune of. hanging with gordon willis you know going to dailies with my godfather 3 i 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 had to the for the staging the 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 had godfather 3 i can't believe a dream like that comes true from what 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 an action opened him up to try acting the godfather so to end up and 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 agree on achievement of a dream for me personally because it's do 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 view of a man that had no association with show business 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 i'm 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 all we saw that my father would have a conversation were my mothers say. i love my son but he's no humphrey bogart you know. you know my 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 so me it's one of the great characterizations we'll talk to him about that we'll talk about the poem a little we'll talk about as i said new show rebel whatever stories those 10 pm on a.b.c. give it a tumble he plays cruz and also talk to him about directing and i think it's about

the poor and more of a hispanic tilt a father of the bride that sounds like fun and all that with our guest andy garcia right after this on dennis miller plus one. of. the corporate parasites in power today might think of troll will continue forever whether they're right or wrong we have to keep fighting question more. 'd 'd i think the average viewer just after watching a couple segments understands that we're telling stories in our critics can't tell them you know why because their advertisers won't let them. in order to create

change you have to be honest you have to tell the truth artie's able to do that every story is built on going after the back story to what's really happening out there so the american public what's happening when a corporation makes a pharmaceutical chills people when a company in the environmental business ins up polluting a river that causes cancer and other illnesses they put all the health risk all the dangers out to the american public those are stories that. tell every weekend you know what they're working. for. hey folks welcome back we're talking ending garcia and i think he's a great actor man everything i see n. the ne knocks out of the park i love them as mr stone in the on touchable by the way he's got a new show cut called the rebel and it's a 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 of palma films and listen i know he and francis humans are not hanging out those guys are all hanging out at. francis is to me as you said the zoo spits it right below it hold their own thunder bolt is a guy like that tell me about him well. ryan was a very. organized type of director in my view you know experience and his movie was storyboarded when we 1st got to. to chicago we had about a week's worth of rehearsal with the principal cast and he took me into his room and 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 b. has a completely different approach more a sort of free style improvisational discovery for brian was a very sort of you know design or we had to 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 david mamet screenplay of that movie is so the story telling 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 in 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 a mom you know that takes him to trial malone sets to tallington is a bravado and ness 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 it sean connery to the mix and then it's all and then robert de niro as capone it's pretty hard not to combust into a great film in. what i think of that film i think your 1st meeting with connery or a insults in a. and 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 skills 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 when 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 know clipboards with the metal thing in the front you know and as he was talking to me say what's your great 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 giuseppe benson that we did the whole scene and then i knocked in the reverse 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 made out brian 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 john who was just poking me with that. there's a burglar piece of business there and i guarantee that diploma went back to his trailer and drew a little clipboard out shot stick figure that's out meticulous table was about it i done charles martin smith where i saw him in star man recently and then he always delivered them 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 was a dick. yes absolutely and he's also a wonderful director i used it 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. great falls montana before doing that sequence where we had tax 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 he was of this character i think was that america graffiti because what's your name what's your name for it you know you play from and he says i love movies have you done and charlie just looked at him and said well movies and you seem not to have a minimum. now that that is a great reporter stright 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 new project little closer to home for andy but a call to show on a.b.c. you gotta watch called rebel it's got katie seagal andy 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 the 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 errand brockovich thing you know you work with the paul you work with koppel i'm sure you've worked with a bunch of great directors what do you take into it and which 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've developed so it's kind of in my head visually and sort of what i want to do with it or how i see things developing 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 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 face to home people are looking to you with

a why i'm going what are we doing here you can't go like i don't know let's see what happens. you know you've got to establish some sort of idea but you see by the time you start shooting totally 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 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 used in that movie idea with jeff bridges and him a 1000000 ways to die there was no script really so it's a lot of improvisation so you were flying by the seat your past and every take and how it would just come in and go i was interesting we got that try something else. 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 vulnerable 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 they have it always affirmed let's move it down the road see where it go it's so that's got to be

a big part of as i can any time you're doing something absolutely absolutely you know the 1st will have been problems they should news never deny and always say ads are going to add to the situation or you know it's like if you watch you know carl reiner no grosser 2000 year old bag and apparently when that's not it off college just said so you were born when you you know he just lived 2000 b.c. i mean he just went off on that and is already famous you might remember all there was not jesus got what a character you know and he just went off on and called jeff eating that rode in the boot before you know they were talking about what size you're using the war you know and that's of it and that's just that's it 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 a bet is the most interesting version but it takes a good record to 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 stephen martin came and did a very funny tyrant on it i love this idea though and it's explained the twist that will be on the father of the bride i guess it will be you know that cuban american low. yeah it's a cuban american family. and i play the father. so. my daughter is married into a mexican family from mexico and they're coming into town the family is the 3rd richest family in mexico so they're coming into town too and we meet for the 1st time i will meet a 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 a daughter you got to find that wedding planner. you know in our movie is not it's not marty short of the obviously i would love money sure 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 the process of casting and we have a lot that down yet but she's part of that history handy that use it as i said. oscar nominated golden globe nominated you've seen him in great films the ocean's 11 franchise too and he has a new project that i highly encourage you to give it at someone personally invest bested in this as my one of my dearest friends is john corbett and he's a bit although i can't quite figure andy how they're keeping

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 fold but it looked a little tricky there at the end awad 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. who be hanging around wreaking havoc. there you go all right so it does take a twist it's a good visit you're with brother what your handicap now what do you plan to empty. my handicap is not i do not really play to it often but every so often i get lucky and i sneak in a low round he's just going to hands around there you know but please when you come to him i know you live up north a little bit but if you come into a way please reach out and we'll go out the let's. get around and work on the short

game we'll take the video where this there were put him on an i pad over the chipping green what or what a invitation to whack the payloader probably out it sure would a 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 ira later gator and you guys see i've done a similar plus one. i'm holland cook i invite you to climb with me both of the mainstream media buyers and from that higher fan to each to glimpse the big picture question more.

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