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Castaway
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An actor known for dark, dangerous roles in Dangerous Liaisons and In the Line of Fire; co-founder of Steppenwolf Theatre.
On the island
Eight records
When the Leaves Come Falling Down
I've always so loved his voice. He always has this sort of hopeful sense of loss. Um i particularly like this this song.
I would just sit on the sun porch and um listen to this song and I can just remember listening to it so many times, just another f fat kid in the Midwest on the sun porch who's supposed to be asleep.
Here's a man who knew how to look right. Frank even always had the right hat. I mean Chairman of the board.
Well, Tom Waite, um, I think he's an incredible poet. This is one of Tom's great songs ... Kentucky Avenue reminds me very much of that.
This is the one of the songs, one of the cuts from the soundtrack of Dancer Upstairs by the great, great Spanish composer who also does all of Pedro Almadovar's films, Alberto Iglesias. Just I think one of the most gifted composers working in in the movie business today, in my opinion.
I always quite liked a lot of rap. See, I I can understand all the complaints sort of about misogyny and this and that and this and that. I I mostly see it as funny and poetic.
Yeah, this is uh from Bruce Springsteen's fantastic album, Ghost of Tom Jod. This is called Highway Twenty Nine and there's a a great line in it, I think, for human behaviour.
Who Knows Where the Time GoesFavourite
Nina Simone, um this was taken and recorded during a night where apparently she was tired and uh she didn't yes, didn't wish to do what she'd been asked to do. And um when she feels like being a tragedian, really no one's even in her leap.
In conversation
Presenter asks
1:11How would you explain never having nerves on the stage?
It is very strange. I can remember in the very early days of Steppenwolf when we had an opening night, we had a little sort of niche under the make up table and I would just put on my makeup and go to sleep and they would have to sort of wake me up and say, Hey, um the show's starting.
Presenter asks
3:21Why didn't you need to know how to tap, how to cane, how to read [braille] when you played the blind man in Places in the Heart?
I went for almost two hours, and looked around, and I saw, I think, what I needed to see. Um normally I don't do that kind of work, but principally because I'd rather make it up. I think analytical or behavioural study. Really at some point will land at imitation, not imagination.
Presenter asks
6:29How violent did it get [with your brother Danny]?
Oh, very violent. I mean, I knocked him through windows, I chased him with the fireplace poker, I slit his throat with the butcher knife, we hit each other with bats, with fists. He tried to run me down in a car once in the yard. I mean not good.
The keepsakes
The book
William Faulkner
I find him extremely funny and of course quite brutal and sad too, but often really witty and very underappreciated for that, I think.
The luxury
If I don't have my coffee in the morning, I find it very hard. I'm not actually functional until I do. So I would have a cappuccino maker.
Presenter asks
13:54What was new and different about the Steppenwolf Theatre company?
Well, I think it was just um very visceral, much more so than was the norm, uh, or than probably in fact had been seen before.
Presenter asks
26:32What was the single most important thing that you learned about yourself [in therapy]?
I learned to look more carefully at other people at what they were saying, which often had little to do with what they meant.
Presenter asks
30:06Do you have any single great regret?
I'm sort of the opposite of Edith Peeoff, who of course famously regretted nothing. I regret most things.
“I think analytical or behavioural study. Really at some point will land at imitation, not imagination.”
“I've always been um uh absurdly vain. I mean, it would be funny if it weren't so sad.”
“I'm sort of the opposite of Edith Peeoff, who of course famously regretted nothing. I regret most things.”