35 Burst results for "Dustin Hoffman"
THE EMBC NETWORK
"dustin hoffman" Discussed on THE EMBC NETWORK
"That's what it is. It's interesting because you could see like you have this appreciation for the fact that you are in a very small community of people on the planet that can actually have steady work in something that you really, really love as far as acting. It's like, I always said to myself, glad if I could be a studio musician for the rest of my life and get called every week to do this album and that album in this album, I would be so happy, you know, that type of thing just to be a regular working musician or working artist. But it gives you that appreciation that you have that I'm actually a regular working actor and people actually call me to do these things. That's a great thing. But you pay your dues and the other thing too is it's called show business. Exactly. The business part of that. I wrote I sat down and wrote out a business plan. Wow. Where are all the weight? What are all the avenues that myself as a performer could generate revenue to feed myself? So, you know, I can do voice-over work. I can do corporate video where I can do film and television. I can do stage work. And have I checked all those boxes? If I introduce myself to all of those people and all I want to do is work. So I know you're thinking to open yourself to possibilities and say yes. What's up with calls me? Yes. Yeah. Exactly. And also treated like that like a business too. You know, I think a lot of that gets kind of lost, you know, it is show business and you got to show your business and you have to get out there and one of the things that I talk about sometimes with Dustin Hoffman about loving the craft so much, right?
Monday Morning Critic Podcast
"dustin hoffman" Discussed on Monday Morning Critic Podcast
"I'm going to direct it. And I'd say send the script, Dustin, but a script never arrived, sadly. For years, never did. So he obviously didn't get to do it. But maybe, but we kind of bonded on that. And I love that as an epitome of what I was striving to do for film. Yeah, it's amazing because I've always heard you being you're always in total support of the actors and to hear that kind of justifies that and makes that certainly concrete. Is it weird to see Dustin Hoffman go from before you before you're shooting kind of just, you know, a guy that's talking to you about whatever. And then back into character. Is that a strange transformation that you see unfold? It's funny again because in that pre-production, he said to me, you said, you know, and we're only 5 days out. Kind of working days out from shooting, starting to shoot. And he said in the office there, he said, you know, I haven't found Raymond. And I said, you better hurry up. We've got 5 days. We roll cameras next Monday. I said, you've been hurry up and find him. And he said, yeah, so again, that's what I find so wonderful about actors is that they have to find and become confident in this weird character they have to play or nasty character or bad character or good character or whatever type of character. And Dustin was struggling to find that he obviously found it. And I think he found more and more of it as the film went on, suddenly, subtly found more and more, which was lovely. And it was just and he was so lovely because when he was nominated, he always said Tom should have got nominated. Because Tom had to change character. He said, I did. I had just had to stay rain man.
Monday Morning Critic Podcast
"dustin hoffman" Discussed on Monday Morning Critic Podcast
"So many times because I never thought that the photography I was doing was. Pretty enough. I hate using the word pretty. But pretty enough, because a lot of cameramen do shoot for the prettiness. I've learned that in early days, and they argue for it. And I didn't want to do that. So I'm pretty amazed at privilege. I must say, and humble by the fact that 5 nominations for films that I was hoping would just be simply the cinematography that suited everything that the director and the script wanted. Yeah, and I have to say, you know, you mentioned your shots and you're lensing. I'm going to tell you there's, I probably see 90% of the movies in a given year and I have for a long time, but two of this two of the shots that have stuck with me that I'll never shake. Do they both come from rain man? One of which is when Tom Cruise is making a call with Dustin Hoffman. They're in a phone booth. They get out, they go in the car, and then we kind of move to a cloudy field and the sun is coming, breaking through the clouds. I don't know if you know the scene I'm talking about. It's one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. Do you know what scene I'm talking about? Yes. Yes. It is. I loved working on rain man. Rain man was such a fantastic ensemble film, in a way, because Dustin and Tom were bouncing off each other. Finding those two characters that would end up brothers and loving each other is such a heavy emotional demand and working through pre-production, dastin was so amazing. He would be wandering around the production office and he's not needed. He's not doing anything on film in testing or whatever he just wandering around. And I said to him about a week out, I said, Dustin, you don't need to be here. We're here. We're doing all our pre-production. You could go home and play tennis and have a beer or something. And he said, no, I don't know. He said, I love walking around this around the office in New Orleans. Crap you guys talk about and I love that because there was this amazing actor. Who wanted to be part of the process of the making of the film as well. So later, there was a funny moment that
Bloomberg Radio New York
"dustin hoffman" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"To have you here. Thank you. Congratulations on the memoir. Thank you. As well. And I think there's a theme in there that people may be surprised by, which is faking it until you make it. The idea that you as an actor got your confidence as you were going through your career, not the other way around. Tell me about that. Right, yeah. I was sort of a badass on screen way before I ever felt like that in real life. But the roles I played actually had an impact on me personally and that I, and I think exactly, as you said, pick it to make it that I was practicing being somebody confident and comfortable in the world. And it was like, you know, an opportunity to try it on. And then incorporated in my real life. How long do you think it took? How old were you when maybe you felt like a badass in real life? Well, maybe around someone in Louise was the first time that I felt like, yeah, I could be kind of like this person. Yeah, I mean, if you go on a crime spree with a woman on a road trip, exactly. I haven't really gone on any crimes for years yet. But, you know, it's there. The potential is there. We will definitely come back to thelma and Louise. But that was in your mid 30s. So maybe around the book is called dying of politeness as part a dedication to your parents. Who I was fascinated, even changed the spelling of your name. To avoid awkwardness. Right. Well, it wasn't that they changed it. My real name, why are you giving him was Virginia? And since my aunt was Jenny, they didn't want to have the same nickname. So my three year old brother actually came up with Gina. I don't know how you spelled it when he said it out loud, but my mom always made it. And later, she said, people seem to love the way your name is felt. I said, yeah, I just tell them you didn't know how to spell Gina. She said, oh, no, no, I grew up in an Italian neighborhood. I know exactly how to spell it. Well, why did you just fill it with two ease? Well, I didn't want anyone to think it was China. So like vagina. Yeah. As in the and I was like, oh my God, my whole identity is based on fear of a vagina. And fear of kind of stepping out of line or drawing too much attention, which is a big part of what you talk about growing up. Absolutely. Absolutely. And yet you went on to be an actor to be the center of attention. That's the weird thing, was that from minute one, I wanted to be an actor from when I was three or something, and which is to invite people to look at you, but I didn't want anyone to look at me out of order to be smaller and take up less space, but maybe it's only in hindsight, maybe I realized if I could pretend to be somebody else. I could be more, you know, have a fuller life. I could pretend to be someone else. Because you started with modeling as well, which is the ultimate look at me. Right, right, exactly. Just about unwanted looking though, it's interesting. A lot of your writing, a lot of your work is about women. But it's the advice from a male costar, quite early on, Dustin Hoffman. He gives you a line if you are going to have unwanted advances. From male costars. Tell us about that. Yes. He was giving me advice every day when I was working with him and he said, you know, never sleep with your costars. It's just a bad idea. It's not good. So here's what you say. And he told me to say, thank you. You're very attractive. I would love to. But I don't want to ruin the sexual tension between us. And then I had to use it on somebody who was Jack Nicholson. Yeah, not just anyone. I was still, I had done tootsie, but I was also still a model. And my bodily agent took me in a couple other models who were also actresses wanted to be actresses to LA and he knew Jack Nicholson for some reason. So every night we had dinner with Jack Nicholson for this week and then one time I got back home to the hotel and it was a message Gina, please call Jack Nicholson. Okay, and I love mister Dickinson. This is Gina the model. And he says, hey, Gina, when's it going to happen? I was like, why didn't I realize this was going to be what it was about? And but then I was like, I know what to say. So I said, well, Jack, you know, I have a feeling that we're going to be working together someday, and I would hate to have ruined the sexual tension between us. And he was like, oh man, where'd you get that from? But it worked. Did you say Dustin Hoffman? Yes, I did. Okay. Because what's interesting about that line and in the book, you are exploring your responses and criticizing yourself as well as times. You call yourself a wimp, you say all these sorts of things. And of course, it's the power of hindsight. Right. And experience. But that particular line Dustin Hoffman gave you is still about flattering the male ego. Yes. Exactly. Because it included, I would love to. You're very attractive. Right. So would you still use that sort of line or what do you make of that? Has it stood the test of no, I wouldn't need that need that line now. I just like, nah, you know, whatever, but I suppose it shows you the precariousness of the women's role. In these working environments. Right. Right. Yeah. That he felt it would be necessary for me to boost their ego at the same time. Instead of saying, no, I'm not interested in you. Yes.
The Dan Bongino Show
The Evolution of Viruses Is Simple
"And speaking to medical professionals with background in this space they told me the evolution of viruses is actually quite simple It is very rare if not nearly impossible for a virus to have maximum infectiousness What we would call the R nought its ability to reproduce in a host it's almost impossible to have that with high fatality And then when you ask them to explain you go no no I saw that movie outbreak with Dustin Hoffman Guy sneezes in a movie theater instantly kills like 50 people Well why is nature generally not produced viruses like that Well you know when you think it through it's pretty simple to figure out If a virus is that contagious for one guy sneezes in a movie theater and affects 50 people in a movie theater and kills them instantly then you don't have 50 people walking around with the virus that can then spread it to other people You know why Because they violated the golden rule the dam bongino show and got dead Their dad You see how that works It's almost impossible to have a virus that is both highly contagious and easy to catch And that's maximized It's not impossible but it's not common in evolutionary the evolution of viruses and virology Again this is our my daughter what do you know about that I just told you not much that's why she acknowledged from other people These were very smart people have told me It is really difficult for that to happen in nature Because you'll kill off your host instantly That's why coronavirus was so perfect as a bioweapon Think about it The virus you have this asymptomatic spread period where these people are carrying the virus and they don't know they're sick
Doin it! with Danny and Jenny
"dustin hoffman" Discussed on Doin it! with Danny and Jenny
"I'm like, I'm going to the emergency room. My tooth hurts. And this is the guy, I break everything. I have no knuckles gone, that knuckles gone from like boxing fractures. And same. My break stuff all the time. Do you get the thing where people have to point out to me that I'm bleeding? Like they're like, hey, like Jenny, your arm is bleeding. I'm like, oh no, shit. How about that? Oh, okay. But the tooth pain is like a hole. I had exactly bun, like everything you're describing is what's happened to me. I had an infection. That kind of pain was like, it was so, it was unbearable. And I couldn't go to the emergency room because we're under a bucket. I didn't want to go to the emergency room. That's like the worst place to go right now. Everybody's sick. I pulled at you though before, like at home. Like this tooth is killing me. I have to get it out right now. Oh my God. Like castaway, did you have like when Tom Hanks remembering castaway? We took that ice skate. My thing was I just kept, I just kept pushing it, right? Like from the inside. I just kept pushing it to finally came. Oh my God. I can do it, but the infection part is like, I was given a prescription for the name of the ship. No, no, no, like an antibiotic. It's okay, Danny. It's okay. He's about to get a blanket. When I was like 6 years old, I didn't do my dad was not the most attentive dad and he wanted to go see a movie and he brought me. And the movie was marathon man. I don't know if you remember this movie, but in it, it was Dustin Hoffman, and he's getting drilled by Lawrence Olivier is like a Nazi dentist and he's torturing him by taking his teeth..
Bloomberg Radio New York
"dustin hoffman" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Pretty's In-N-Out She's a TV star so she's sometimes she does some radio then she jets off to do some TV but we'll take whatever we can get there All right it is fed day Bloomberg will have full coverage beginning at 1 p.m. Wall Street time Tom Keane surveillance team We'll take you through it Our next guest here as it relates to the fed says a good scenario for the fed is beginning to look as difficult as bringing a jetliner down safely on the Hudson River John authors senior editor for Bloomberg opinion Sully got it done Our fed chairman get it done I mean if he does then he deserves to be played by Tom Hanks Okay And it could happen but it is not very easy Can you play you in the movie John authors Who's going to play you in the movie That would be That would be Robert Redford or Dustin Hoffman who at this age look a bit more like me than they did when they were in all the presidents meant Anyway I think A soft landing is getting harder to achieve because inflation has lasted longer than expected and because the labor market as we saw from the jolts numbers yesterday really is very tight and because the first quarter GDP numbers are very strange but if the economy is already slowing down and the fed still has to do a lot to bring in inflation that doesn't all go well for engineering the soft landing There hasn't been one If you define a soft landing as being one with the fed gets through an entire hiking campaign without prompting a recession It hasn't been one since 94 and that was the Allen Greenspan hiking campaign that triggered the entire emerging market debt crisis in the 90s So it's difficult But you could say from inflation I'm going to equity guide so I'm always glass half full We've kind of piqued already from an inflation perspective maybe last month There's arguing.
Daily Pop
"dustin hoffman" Discussed on Daily Pop
"Who can make us feel stupid and Hollywood. Please welcome Mayim Bialik. I mean, really, I just, I'm gonna just feel like a dance. Do you know what? But she doesn't make you feel like that. And welcome, okay. With the boots. I'm just wearing my new boots for you. Honey, that's jeopardy. Money right here. That's jeopardy. Right here. Y'all better y'all better scan over those boots right here. I love that you do everything. You're a neuroscientist, you're a host, you're an actor, now you're directing as they made us, what made you want to take on this challenge? I don't know. I'm still trying to figure it out. You know, my father passed away 7 years ago. And I wasn't like, I should write a movie about all the feelings that come up when you're grieving someone. But in, you know, in the process of kind of grief, I started having all these memories, you know, things come up. And a lot of them were accompanied by music in my head, and I was like, I think I should write this down, but I still was not thinking, I'm gonna write a movie and turn it into a, you know, a thing, and I'm gonna cast Dustin Hoffman and Candace. Yeah. It was really just like, we're as creatives, we feel compelled sometimes. But it did help you heal though. Yeah, I mean, my feeling is like all the healing I did before and in that process, then made me able to like get it out of here and put it on paper. But I started writing it in prose. It wasn't a script. I didn't even own final draft, which is the program. I've never written a screenplay. What did I tell y'all?.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Will Smith Is in a Living Hell
"You see the latest, the Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith video. Did you see this thing? Came out yesterday morning. She's giving him shit. You know, filming him while he's not ready to be filmed with an iPhone and asking him about, oh, let's talk about red table talk at about this woman who's gonna help us. He's like, yeah, you know, I don't want you to use that. You know, I'm very particular about my social media image and don't use me for your clout. It's very uncomfortable. And it was filmed three years ago. But now there's talk that the ugly ill rapper August alsina who had affair with Jada apparently that had said that Will Smith approved of. What else can I say? He's castrated individual. The talk is that August alsina is now going to open up more about the fairy head with the $1 billion movie star's wife because could you imagine? Go back in the old days. Imagine even like, guys like Steve McQueen. Dustin Hoffman, a big movie stars. Could you imagine them having wives who had open affairs with guys 25 years younger who had won fucking dead eye and it's so gross, what Jada Pinkett Smith has done to Will Smith that as bad as the smack was on Oscar night as bad as I feel for Chris Rock. He'll get through this. Will Smith ain't gonna get through this. He is in a different kind of hell. Chris rock is in an embarrassing situation, but everybody's on his side. Will Smith is in a kind of hell that only he can get himself out of.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Lady Gaga's 'House of Gucci' Is a Bust
"Let's talk about the House of Gucci. It's getting killed by critics. And that has to be killing Lady Gaga because I think she's gotten addicted to getting great or near great reviews and her acting work. I mean, I don't want to see her in fucking Tony Bennett saying, I know what's coming on in the next couple of days. I've been seeing ants for it. I'm not paying attention. When is it on? Where is it appearing? I don't want to know. I just think it's so silly when a young spry pop star sings with an old decrepit man. I love Tony Bennett, but no one can listen to his music anymore while he was alive. But he didn't die right. He's almost dead. I forget. I know he's right there. He stops singing. He retired. Thank God. You can't keep singing people. I mean, do you just want to see him walk on stage and say, hi, I'm Tony Bennett. Is that all you care about? You know he can't hit those notes anymore. Just get his albums. Don't make the guy sing anymore. But Lady Gaga did this thing years ago, okay, Tony and Levi, okay, great. It's a cute novelty thing. Enough. But now she's in the House of Gucci. And look, I love that she's Italian. I remember when she was named Stephanie germanotta and she was a hostess at a restaurant in Greenwich Village called Palma. Great restaurant. She had this ability to sing that nobody knew yet. She knew, but she's turned into a magnificent singer and a decent actress. I like the stars born a lot. House of horrors, people dig. I haven't seen it yet. I heard it's pretty good with her in it. She did not nail this Italian accent. I told you the second I saw a preview. Nope, don't go near this movie. It's gonna be awful. It's gonna be so much of a charade, I said Adam Driver is too Jewish to play an Italian. I didn't know he was Jewish. To me, he looks like as my father would say, his face looks like the map of Israel. He just looks like a Jew. There's nothing wrong with that. There are plenty of people Dustin Hoffman looks like a Jew. Plenty of you guys look like a Jew and plenty of people look Italian and Puerto Rican or whatever. Irish. He looks a Jewish. I can't believe he's not Jewish. But he still mastered the Italian accent better than Lady Gaga.
Keep It!
"dustin hoffman" Discussed on Keep It!
"Bitch. You're okay. I sort of didn't didn't anticipate this happening. But over halloween. Weekend of the people. I had a ton of plans and generally speaking executed them on friday and saturday and by the time. Halloween came around. We have to put these out to pasture because they will just go out. I'll fucking day and it's like days of wine and roses like drunk. I was like. I am sitting at home. I am like looking through my hands. I you know. I looked like a character bergman drama so i decided how am i gonna to comfort myself and i realized you know some of my favorite movies that star meryl streep i hadn't seen now in like fifteen years. The problem with being a movie fan is that you have to kind of like keep these balls in the air for yourself like a movie that you love. You may not have seen in twenty years and you're operating off that impression so you don't even know if it's accurate anymore. I was a different person. Fifteen years ago. Whatever so i decided to watch two movies. I have long loved. Which are kramer versus kramer and silk when kramer versus kramer where she's You know the divorce. Say of dustin hoffman. Who is this White collar asshole and she walks out on him and their kid and he she leaves him to raise the kid for about a year and a half and then there's a a courtroom scene divorce team where she gives a speech that meryl streep herself wrote And she eventually won the academy award for best supporting actress. He won the academy for best actor. Let me just say about this. I know it's so weird that she hasn't done more writing because she's one of these like for real brilliant people but in this movie. They kind of acknowledge this. They say that dustin kaufman's character has a temper. Excuse me he is fucking scary in this movie. And dustin hoffman routinely scary in movies and this brings up a point. I wanted to ask you guys. Do people really yell at each other and movies anymore or in real life. Well yes if it's a talent. Perry movie No trope seventies movies. Now we're like people get into fights. Send like scrimmage over a and stuff. it's just not how things are done anymore. I wonder if it's because of things like email and being able to settle things not in a face to face confrontation away or something shows now instead of having it out. I love arguments. No because like some of my favorite scenes are like vanessa williams insulted. Be like fuck the family or a lucky.
Now Playing - The Movie Review Podcast
"dustin hoffman" Discussed on Now Playing - The Movie Review Podcast
"The same david was asking them for is. If you're gonna come to my house. Showed me some respect. Just wander in and take a beer and now it's being thrown back at him if you're gonna come down and come to our church show some respect. Yeah and then come back on him. Dave is going to say thou shalt not covet night neighbor's wife. I thought that was pretty good too now. It felt like there was something going on. Like i felt like cards were roundtable. Charlie and david are more or less announcing knew each other. We don't like each other and amy's caught in the middle. It becomes increasingly so when amy jumps into the middle of the fray and tries to protect the simpleton jeremy from tom. Jeremy is going to say that. Tom's daughter is his girlfriend and she's giving him every indication that she is and drunk. James woods just don't have it look janice kinda got that character in the original like she was someone that was young trying to act more mature and go and do that whole kind of thing here. I don't know your head cheerleader. This is the best you could do. Yeah that is i agree. Why would this head cheerleader again. She seems to be in the mold. Of what amy was. Yes he was the head cheerleader and then she turned into a tv actress. Why would this girl be going after. A mentally incapacitated middle aged man. I think it's to piss off her father. I actually think it's less about him and getting sexual experience and attention and more about. Yeah i know that this is going to set off my dad. That is the conclusion i came to. I just wish things were clear in this again. Just some characters instead of characters. I agree this one did not make a whole lot of sense to me because it may be to piss off her dad and yes women due date men to piss off their fathers but it seems like she was legitimately into him to by the end. Yes the fact that she's not turning it into some carry style prank where he's going to be humiliated. She really wants to do him in the locker room. I didn't see that coming but again some women do that to get back at their dad's. Yeah it certainly works and yes. James woods is wailing on this guy. And amy jumps in the middle and david's her for that he doesn't want to get involved at this point. He wants to keep into himself and the conflict is basically. Don't socialize with these rooms. It hurts that they don't have the vietnam backdrop right. I get that. Football is violent and they're trying to say that that's part of this culture here and maybe people are quick to temper. And all of that. But i feel like we're missing that subjects from the last movie. Yeah and that's what i was saying like. You're going to remake this. Okay you gotta find some kind of context to put it in football being popular in the south. Okay you're gonna have to do a lot of legwork to make that work for me. I maybe kind of see it but that is the problem for me is trying to put it in to again. This is stuff that applies to now in america like there is kind of the civil war vibe going on where people not getting along to violence breaking out in our capitol buildings and yet this doesn't feel like any of that stuff were experiencing no because they kill flutie and they should've killed flutie like flutie made sense to last time. But why okay. Look i just had a fight over religion with this asshole from la so my immediate thought is. I'm going to run home real fast and strangle their cat in a noose what we do know that it is charlie. This time he will apologize for it. Yeah that does not make sense. He does not seem the type to kill the cat. And it wouldn't hurt david as much as it would hurt amy. So what's he trying to accomplish. It sets off her suspicions and we see kind of playing out as it did last movie. Her trying to guilt david into taking action. Instead of a man mantrap to set up. I think this is just a beer. Trap they're setting up in this one it is but why do that again like. I feel like that's definitely one you go to like. We weren't aren't gonna do bear traps. We aren't gonna hang kittens. We've got to come up with different kinds of shocks because the producers said hey straw dogs kittens hanging and bear traps. Put it in the script. I agree maybe. Laurie didn't have the room to do it but i feel like he could have made. The case will be crucified. If we redo those elements we have to come up equivalents. If he's saying a screenwriter knows binary is not working too hard to make changes. Yeah there's a balance maybe you do have to have the same basic characters the same scenarios in a new setting but you do not want do the bear trap thing exactly as it was done before. You don't want to kill the cat. This way going hunting. I guess that's fine. I mean that is part of the culture. They set that up in the first seeing the fact that david would be tricked. Go out and hunt a buck and you know alan behold does end up killing one. Yeah but again they try to make this more of a thriller. David almost get shot. And then it just seems like it's regular hunters that mistook him or something but like again the setup expectations for when i watched that original straw dogs which never happened. Just this moment of david sitting there on iraq looking foolish waiting for geese pop out of the bushes here. Just make this a dump thriller then but it seems like they can't do that. I'm kind of going with this thing. It's about the same to me. is the last one. I find it to be apples-to-apples. He kills the year and feels bad about it. Just like dustin hoffman killed the quail and feel bad about it. I'm not seeing these huge differences that you guys are seeing from last time. Yeah you're right. It's apples to apple. Flavor jolly ranchers. Maybe like one actually like apple flavor jolly ranchers better than apples. I knew you're going to say that the dried apples. Let's put it that way like with with no juice. No puffiness to them. I feel like you've taken everything interesting out. They've tried to put something here. But it's just not working whether that's because the studio wouldn't let lori do what he wanted to do or they just thought. Hey this is good enough for contemporary audiences. I just don't feel there's a richness to this one like there was the original. I think that the southern versus coastal works just as well as the us versus uk. I think that there is more. Strife between coastal versus southerners than there are between americans versus the english. And i'm along for the ride with us one again. I think scars guard is a better. Charlie in comes across as more sympathetic at times than whoever was the actor last time. Yeah i will agree with you on that one. Because i watched this one. I i'm like okay. Charlie is going to be a big character in the original. And i kept forgetting who charlie was in that one. He never really stuck out to me except when they needed him to and certain scenes but charlie feels like much more of a character in this remake or maybe he's just an actor that we've seen before so we pay attention to them. I mean i think that's the affected. I have scars. Guard is totally right for this. I guess he's okay. I guess all of them are okay. It's okay my struggle is that none of them are really nailing it part of why you couldn't do the slow. Boil building of tension. That i like so much and you have to cut through quicker and make it simpler and just connect the dots is. We're not getting the performances. We're not getting that tension. It's just not interesting to watch. These people play off each other. It's all feeling very tv movie. I'm fighting this crew. More interesting than the druze in the last film. And why do you think that is..
The Rewatchables
"dustin hoffman" Discussed on The Rewatchables
"It's a big reason why movies were released in december was because of its ability to give these movies this long shelf life. So i mean those kinds of showcase movies. They don't happen as much anymore. Just because i think there's a sense that they're culturally insensitive. We haven't quite sorted out now how to portray people with disabilities by letting people don't have those disabilities up on camera. It's very naughty. Subject there was a knotty subject. Did you guys get a chance to check out. Pauline kale's review of this movie keeping highlight. She really liked the chopper saying oh no it was essentially one of her one of our points is like i just don't understand why autistic person didn't play this role like this. This entire movie is built. Is like basically like to make dustin hoffman. Feel good about himself from playing this part and it's it's like a real pat. I mean i guess. That's that's period. Pauline or whatever but she really gets after it. She was as feisty as my mom. After like four chardonnays. They're really really dropping swords left and right. There's a great line in that review. That's like Something along the lines of you know. Of course it's making people cry. It's wet kitsch. Described it as wet. Which is a dagger but on the other hand. It's like even now you watch. This movie is emotionally affecting. It's hard not to get wrapped up in everything that they do in the movie. It's also like our idea of what's said to medal is completely perverted. Now because this is way closer to the last detail that it is the like you know. I am sam or something but like it gets once you read it through so many iterations of probably like studios executives being like no. There needs to be a moment. Charlie realizes he's wrong and does something amazing to correct what he's done. You know that wouldn't that wouldn't have happened. This movie is a notes meetings triumph. When you think about how many directors and screenwriters they went through in double figures if you combine the two numbers and then fundamentally just trying to figure out what was the tension between the two brothers and then apparently by all the research often was the one that unlocked he was basically like cr- the tension has to be that cruise cannot reaches guy and he's probably never going to be able to reach the sky and that's what the tension is as they go on this road trip and once they had that the movie kind of took off but it took three years to get there. Isn't it amazing when movies like that when best screenplay to the idea of like almost all of raised dialogue being stuff that dustin hoffman observed someone else saying and then yeah put in the movie and the naive credited to two different screenwriters wrote two different scripts in a movie. It's fascinating we. I want to talk about the oscars..
The Drunk Projectionist
"dustin hoffman" Discussed on The Drunk Projectionist
"Don't worry about that. Actually, I don't even have way to pick up insurance, you know? Today we're on the streets of New York, discussing midnight cowboy with author Glenn frankel. Dustin Hoffman always took full credit for inventing that moment. He said that no one expected the cab to be coming into the crosswalk. That's not exactly true frankl says. Dustin's version is great, except when you go back and look at all those assaults script beginning in the fall of 1967 like 8 months before its film. There's a taxicab jumping into the crosswalk. The taxicab nearly bumping dust and Hoffman's rasso Rizzo was already in the script. Hoffman didn't come up with that moment. He did, however, come up with the I'm walking here line. Frankl has more on that and lots of other behind the scenes insights on the making of midnight cowboy. The Dustin Hoffman John witt movie was directed by John schlesinger and based on a novel by James Leo Hurley, both schlesinger and Hurley were gay, but they were careful about treading to explicitly on the subject of gay sexuality. It was, after all, the 1960s. Before stonewall, and before the American psychiatric association, stopped referring to homosexuality as a disease. A lot of psychoanalysts were practicing conversion therapy techniques. Conversion therapy wasn't invented in some baptist church in Arkansas somewhere. It was really invented in New York. The freudians midnight cowboy today on the drunk projectionist. I'm Todd Milne. My name is Glenn frankel, and I'm the author of shooting midnight cowboy. Art sex loneliness liberation and the making of a dark classic. He long little doggies well you know will be your new home Booker. Get along little doggies it's your man so tell me about the first time you saw the movie midnight cowboy. Oh gosh, I think I first saw it in 1969 in the summer of 69 in New York. I was finishing up my sophomore year at Columbia University. I was in New York myself and you know a young guy, a young lonely guy walking the streets of New York because I didn't have enough money to do anything else. And the movie connected with me for a number of reasons. Partly because it's so steeped in New York of that time. And because it tries to, you know, it's based in Times Square and Times Square was a place where I wandered around, mostly to go to double features. You could go to double features for 50 or 75 cents in Times Square. I remember seeing the wild bunch down there. And the Woodstock, the documentary, you know, was playing on east side for three bucks and playing in Times Square for 75 cents. So I related to all that part of it. And also to the great Dustin Hoffman who had become a sort of iconic counterculture figure with the graduate, his first movie, which came out in 67. And here he was two years later, doing an entirely different role doing it beautifully showing that he could be a real actor not just a sort of leading man celebrity guy. He looked short, he had a large nose he looked a lot like me and my cohort of people in New York. So for all those reasons I found the movie very attractive and it's stuck with me then and it's stuck with me ever since. So when you went into the movie theater and you saw Dustin Hoffman's name first before anybody else's name, or you're thinking this is going to be a Dustin Hoffman movie. Yeah, of course it was going to be a Dustin Hoffman movie. I mean, there he was, you know, on the movie poster. And there he was first in the title and this guy John voir, whatever his name was, you know. I'd never heard of him and nobody else had too, except for some cognitive off off Broadway or people who'd watched. I don't know. Naked city reruns on TV. But this turned out to be Jon Voight's movie. And Dustin Hoffman didn't come on until like the 25th minute of the movie. But by the 25th minute of the movie, I was already captivated by Joe buck, the character voice plays. So for me, it wasn't a problem. Turned out there was a bit of a problem for Dustin himself for a while there. He wasn't too pleased about that. Terrific sharing. Are you speaking to me? Well, I was just admiring that colossal shirt. I mean, that is one hell of a shirt. I bet you paint a pretty price for an am I right? Or I ain't cheap. Birds. I say it's all right shirt. I like birds. Don't want to have a you know cheap stuff on my back. Sure. Hi, cowboy. Got a cigarette. You write. It was as if he finally came to understand that the name of the movie was midnight cowboy, not midnight razzo. Yeah, that's a very cruel sentence. There's some truth to it. He wanted this part. He wanted to show that he was a character actor. He wanted to show that he just wasn't a pretty boy or a semi pretty boy. You know, movie star. Remember, both these guys and a number of their contemporaries all came up, you know, going to acting school in New York, working off off Broadway, developing their craft and their art. They were serious actors with a capital S they had no idea that they'd ever get into the movies or go to Hollywood. I mean, Dustin Hoffman did not look like Cary Grant or Robert Redford or anyone like that. So this was a big shock to his system, if you will to become a suddenly a big time not only a big time movie star because of the graduate, but a kind of counterculture icon. The graduate is a generation gap movie and it comes down on the younger side of that gap. Hoffman had already campaigned for gene McCarthy running who was running for president on the Democrat trying to get on the democratic ticket in 1968. So Hoffman was not just some sort of new great actor who it was surprising to see somebody so ethnic looking be so successful. But he also had the right things to say politically. And here he is, you know, coming in on this role looking grizzled looking so different. That just sort of sunk in the idea that he was somebody special that we could relate to as somebody.
Work in Progress with Sophia Bush
"dustin hoffman" Discussed on Work in Progress with Sophia Bush
"Was hard up she'd go tony. Can you pay my read. Those midnight center a check and pay her rent. And that's kind of how we kept working on the script for a few years in the script got really good and initially i had approached director. Who admired who liked the script. A lot and i said you know. Will you help us. And he was also a writer so we worked with him for about a year and then he lost interest in sort of disappeared on us and the script got to be quite good. I was deeply invested in and had a sense. I remember my father saying to me. Know you have a really good sense of story. I think you should consider yourself like. I think you're more than just an actor in actor sort of defensive with my father but thinking about local maybe one day. I would like to do that so but anyway. This wonderful script and i started trying to find another director for it and i was meeting these directors in are being meeting. I had i was like they're gonna screw it up like i can't have too hard on this thing for remember a couple of years on the script can't give it. What if i give it to somebody and they mess it up and it was the kind of material that could easily be done badly. There are lots of surgically shade traps in it and it was set in the summer of nineteen sixty nine which often is an era. That's done very badly in a and i was like scared. That someone's gonna screw it up and one day. I just thought oh. I need to do this myself. I need to step up. And say i'm going to direct myself and i've been thinking maybe i should direct a little short film produce something. Put my toe in the water in one day. I just believed no. I'm gonna do this as like a personal challenge. And i called the writer and his family's pam are you sitting down. I know we've been talking a lot of the directors. But i think i want to direct this myself but i don't wanna do it if you support. That and i thought she would get upset with me and she was like. That's a great idea. So i decided to do it myself and then it was weird because i had some profiles in actor people were like. Oh that makes sense and my agents were like. That's a great idea. Okay and out of the blue. This is how life works is improving dropped in my lap. After three years of work out of the blue. I so i had her do another rewrite for me. As director and i started gaining. My confidence vote was going to do with the movie. I get a call from an agency saying tony this script. It was called the blouse man at the time. The movie ended up being held a walk on the moon. But it was original music. You you control the rights. The bosnian right. I said yeah he said you want to direct it right. I said yeah i do. And he's well. dustin hoffman. Wants to read the script. He still dustin hoffman. Not shown the script to anybody. He said he was having lunch with a director who had read that script back in the day. When is i told you to Awards in around ten in no one bought it. He always had remembered the script. Industrials having lunch with this guy and the guy's hazardous script. I always wondered what happened with it. An dustin wants to read a book is his production..
The Culture Quest
"dustin hoffman" Discussed on The Culture Quest
"Next up. We're going back to just cinematic world and we will do rainman and nineteen eighty eight film directed by barry levinson starring. Dustin hoffman and tom cruise. Yes i really don't know how to describe it. I really like other than i think. That dustin hoffman plays an autistic person. I absolutely know nothing about this. Yeah i'm here. I do know that it won a bunch of awards. So it's supposed to be a really good movie and hopefully it will no it will stick. Yeah i've only had like references because sometimes some of them will cool like a lot of details or something like that and then some okay. Slowdown raisman yeah. I feel that i just i just know. Rain man is someone who dislike can recall things. That's basically what i know as well. I watched movie when it was like in. I don't know maybe ten or eleven and it just went over my head and i was too young to get it. I don't remember anything from it. And it's a very highly regarded film. So i don't i. I have a good feeling about this. I think it's going to be a fun fun. Choice a movie that will enjoy probably Did win best picture best original screenplay best director best actor so i think it was recognised. Yeah with regard dacians. Don't get your hopes up though. We're very critical critical. Yeah very much so we love stevie wonder though so thank you bitter and thank you borrow for staying true to our goal and thank you the listeners at home for helping us along the latest state of our quest..
3 Geeks and a Microphone
"dustin hoffman" Discussed on 3 Geeks and a Microphone
"Why we'll we'll. We'll tear them apart part piece by piece. That was actually going to go on to say that. Yeah they've done the same thing with star trek as well Exactly in notice. There's one creditor tied ailing big wins. Here miss cianci. Who j.j. abrams. Yeah oh yeah j. J. abrams is like the the angel of death. For all of these franchises. And the the the sad part is that in many ways. He's kinda like the corona virus like up on everybody before they figured out what was going on. And he's moved from nation to nation and he's like oh crap they figured out my game over at star wars and star trek quick. Let's get that deal inked. With warner brothers for dc before they figure out who i am and they're like sure we'll give you superman and batman and in the background. Someone is trying to run through the gates of the studio to stop the signing. Like dustin hoffman in the graduate. He's like you know he's banging on the glass but it's too late everything's been signed and now abrahams is going to destroy that too. That's where all the abrahams kind of looks like steven spielberg. Let's give them a shot glasses and even other properties like like indy five. I had i was excited about it. And then when i found out yes yes Holding hold on wait. Wait wait you hitting your head with a brass mallet every wednesday or something like trying to like. What yoursel tuesdays tuesday. Okay so but okay. Yes indy four sucked. There's no other way around it. And i even own it on dvd. Just so. i can bet compata- apple dumpling. Gangs looking pretty good isn't it but spielberg even said okay. We know this is bad. The last four was bad so he was on board to help out with five and then when he saw what they were doing it he even backed out and said i want nothing to do with us because he was the one that relented on four. He played a game of chicken that by his own admission with george lucas like almost a decade. Because george was like it's gotta be aliens and spielberg was like and he and harrison were like forever going to do this. I can't give into george. Well i don't think he ever wanted to make that compromise again. And i'm sure with this disney owned thing. He probably saw the very first red flags and went nope four. I would not compromise my principles on this character again. I'm out.
Diary of a Nation
"dustin hoffman" Discussed on Diary of a Nation
"They had a chart and every day had a color. Oh maybe it's possible. People have asked if he has something called sinister. Zsa were people assigned collartoo numbers or letters sort of all sorts of things. I don't think he does because my understanding is that people with sinister asia. It doesn't change. it's like the number two. You always saw okay. That's my impression. So she may be on to something that maybe he just. He has a memory. Unlike any i've ever seen like the rainman character. Played by dustin hoffman. Well i wouldn't march him off to vegas and expect to make any money off of him. But i will say he remembers the birthday of every single person he meet strangers and all strangers and all. Oh yeah he'll remember. You know the time he'd hotdog if it was four years ago. No way yeah. He'll announce certain things so our neighbor dug. His birthday is in october so on that day. Jack said stock. It's doug birthday today. You know he's like a catalogue of in such a wonderful skill set seriously..
Bald Movies
Looking Back at Rain Man
"Today. We're talking about one thousand nine hundred rainman. Who a correct me. If i'm wrong. Jim this is like the top grossing film of the year and also did quite welford self in oscars nominated for eight one three and it made like a billion times is budget not bad. Not bad Is directed by barry levinson which you might recognize from his work on the natural. Good morning vietnam wag. The dog and sleepers is written by barry morrow and ronald bass. Maybe ronald bass. I didn't look that up. Shoot just realized which we'll talk about. We'll talk a little bit. More about barry morrow when we start talking about the impact of the of the film had on this subject matter Stars of course. Dustin hoffman as raymond ray babbitt and it stars. Tom cruise is his brother. Charlie and also val area go lino. Who i'd only known as the hot funny girl from hotshots and hotshots part do as a remember her from them. She's actually. she's playing italian in this movie. So gotcha and i wondered if like what happened to her because she was in these big movies in the eighties and i looked through her Like imdb and some does just one thing after another match kept trying to work on both sides of the pond and one contract would interfere with another contract and then that would fall through and that was delayed and she liked it. Seemed like ten years relied. Click by and so. It's a shame in a lot of big movies like the. I'm not saying this was a big movie. But she went to rainman right after big top pee wee which you know not the best. But she's in like you said she was in leaving las vegas. She was in escape from la. She was leaving las vegas. Apparently playing someone named terry jesus. We just saw that movie. And i did not. I didn't did not really must've been a minor role
Fork Report
Lynn Stalmaster, Legendary Casting Director, Dies at 93
"Lynn Stall master was the first casting director to receive an Academy Award stall Master has died at his home in Los Angeles. At the age of 93. He has more than 400 casting credits, including such classics as Inherit the Wind, The Great Escape in the Heat of the Night and Tootsie he's credited with helping to discover such major stars. Is William Shatner, Dustin Hoffman, Jeff Bridges and John Travolta. In 2016, he became the first casting director who received an Academy Award for a long and meritorious
KQED Radio
"dustin hoffman" Discussed on KQED Radio
"It wasn't even a studio movie. No major studio would touch it. It starts someone. Dustin Hoffman, who nobody had ever heard of it the time and it was really not a movie that anybody I think, including even Mike expected would end up the third highest grossing movie in history. And depression did play a lifelong role in his life, didn't it? It did really wasn't something I was aware of, because by the time I met Mike somebody his demons were put to rest. Hey, really was living in the most contented period of his life. Soto learn how early he struggled with depression and have frequently Rickard was really startling to me and quite moving. Did he sometimes seek out help in all the wrong places. Mike was not immune to the lure of substance abuse, as so many artists were, but often the way Mike dealt with his depression was through work. You know, when he felt himself really withdrawing from the world he would over and over again, trying to throw himself back into something that meant something to him, and I think that's a pretty heroic way to struggle. Had made him a great director. Stage and screen Do you think Mike Nichols is gift with actors was really unique, Perhaps because he had started as a performer himself. He developed not one language to speak to actors, but a whole syriza of languages. He had a real gift for looking at someone who was struggling with the performance onstage or onscreen. Figuring out exactly what they needed. Whether it was a firm hand or friendship or anecdotes about his own life..
Newsradio 700 WLW
"dustin hoffman" Discussed on Newsradio 700 WLW
"Would said to gather in D C across from across the country. The march of the Capitol building. As we know, we know all that part. Said What father was the violent historic scene. You went on conspiracy theories and all that. Mr Trump was apparently turned off by the chaotic scene, although not due to the assault on the U. S government, But according to Those close to the president because supporters looked low class. When an ominous White House source said he doesn't like low class things. Others indicated the president's disapproval of his supporters appearances, all attacking the capital. Rather than focusing on how to end the disorder. Washington Post, citing a source is that Mr Trump was more upset about how the mob looked low class that help was disrupting the work of government. Close adviser to the president told the newspaper. Mr Trump was the amused by the attacks. Also furious that Mike Pence declined to intervene, and we know all that part. You're up to speed. It is a 21. We're gonna call before we get to the brake and Mike, that would be you and Fairfield. What's going on? Morning, Mike. How you doing, my man find sir. What do you know? Hey, Did you ever see the movie outbreak with Dustin off then and Morgan Freeman? Um, it Z probably 90. Somewhere around here is great movie by the last. Maybe, but I'm not good at remembering what movies I've seen. Yeah. Okay. Well, if there was there was iconic scene where? Because Morgan Freeman was his boss. They were, aren't you guys and you know you have this place going on? And and Dustin Hoffman finds out that they had an anti body. You know that was being protected, you know, for, you know, for weapons reasons or whatever and anyway and he comes in, he says, Hey, my wife now has the disease, and Morgan Freeman says, You mean your ex wife. And he says, Well, what do you mean? What's your point? You said Well, my point is is you have attention for not telling the truth. You know, and and I think if there's a direct correlation between that and the defense that are happening now, because whether it's the media of the Democrats, everybody access if what happened last week in the capital Was a happen in a vacuum. And again, let me preface it by saying What happened was should never happen. Those people need to go to jail. You have to preface that because if you don't, then that means you're an ardent trump supporter. No middle ground any more. But my problem is Is the lies to take place on an everyday basis. And nobody and and of course, we have to depend on the press, which is a feudal argument. They lie a lot themselves. Nobody ever calls. I want it like, for instance, on that were huge. Read it this week. I mean, what would have happened? What would have happened? For instance, if those were all blacks, I heard a black walking that will make her yesterday say. That they would have been lynched. We would've been lynched. Now. It's ridiculous. The whole point of the summer was how easy the police and governments were going on BLM rioters. I mean, people are pretending, in hindsight, that it was a clampdown. No, it wasn't pretty much were given free rein. Not only free range, but you had some democratic mayors, whatever, whatever, whatever their party, But you had some politicians that were saying, step back, Let it burn, Let let them have their space or whatever. And then again, this isn't to me. This isn't a black white thing, but it's amazing. How quickly race became a major part of what happened last week in the capital riots and the only reason why I did it because there's no body paint with a broad brush. Nobody in the major media that ever stops. There's a wait a minute. Now. Wait a minute, Nancy, Wait a minute Shock, you know. Wait a minute. What You just said there is in Central. Where's the proof? Where's your evidence? Well, I mean, if the cops think about this if the cops and shot an unarmed black woman in the neck from 2 ft away Oh, my God. All hell would've broken what happened here? The cops shot this woman White woman in the neck from about 2 ft. Away. And all she was going to do was jump was jumped through the window. I mean, how could you possibly that You can't. I can't imagine what a tender box that would have been. Well, what's what's been the generic response from the media, Ben and phenomena and again, I think with a broad brush, but it's been pretty much deserved. Yeah. I mean, really, I mean, she deserved it. And again, there's no excuse for what happened in the capital. But for instance, the headline reads five died. Now again, Let's get back to the truth. I've died at the Capitol Hill riots. That's what the history books we're gonna record, but several of those five weren't at the Capitol. One of them died from a stroke. Well, I mean to me, It's horrible. What happened? Well, that's the three I know died there was the cop. Unfortunately, they're trying to track down his killer. And then you had there might He didn't die there. I mean, he died at the hospital. I gotta get to a break. But I'll lay this out after news, But right now I gotta get a pause. But thanks so much glad to check then that's a 25..
The Digital Story
Backup Is Not a 4-Letter Word
"If, you've ever seen Dustin Hoffman in the movie the graduate. You'll recognize what I'm about to say. He received sage advice for his career in just one word now remember this was the nineteen sixties. That one word plastics? Will I have just one word that should be at the foundation of your backing up an archiving strategy automate Absolutely automate. So I'm going to be covering a few techniques today but at the heart of the process for your backing up in archiving and I will make a distinction between the two you need to have as much automation as possible. If indeed, you're truly going to have a system that is up to date in liable and all that good stuff. Now, in my case, I have I cloud in dropbox I cloud grabs, files of that are on my neck or that go into photos, and that's a lot of files I have the big plan to two terabyte plan and all they have to do is pay the. Bill once a month and I'm good to go. I don't have to think about it. Any further than that in dropbox grabs files out of specific folders again, just takes care of it. All to do is pay the annual fee and I'm good to go there as well. Now, you may choose a different service but I encourage you to bring as much automation as you can into your backup plan because the more automation you have the stronger your plan will be now before I get to my five tips in addition to automation I, just WANNA share a note on the difference between backing up in archiving, they are not synonymous. Backing up is what you do during the project to ensure that you don't lose your work if you're working on a wedding. You probably not going to get it all done in one night or in one sitting. So you back up so that when you come back to your wedding, you know you can just pick up and go. But as something weird happens, you haven't lost your project. But when you're backing up, you're not backing it up in the final state you're backing up a work in progress. Archiving happens when the project is over. In case, you need to revisit it for whatever reason. Now, archives are the final version in general you don't save all the incremental backups that lead to the final version you say, the final version itself. So archives are the final version. They don't need to be as quickly accessible as your backups, your backup she want right there on the flash drive or wherever you happen to be using. Their the works in progress archives the final version a writing. Now regardless of if it's an archive or backup, you need to have a system, right you need to have a system for managing both from this point forward I'm going to use a more or less interchangeably, but I want you to understand that archives are longer term backups are more works in progress. Right here are five additional thoughts to consider when endeavoring. To. Preserve your work. Okay. This start out with the classic three to one rule. I'm sure you're familiar with this and if you're not, you're going to be in just a few seconds three, two one. Well, what does that mean it means three copies of your data one primary copy into backups. Two types of storage media local drive you know network, you know whatever happens to be two types of media and one copy off site or in the cloud in the cloud qualifies as offsite three, two, one, three copies of your data, two types of storage media and one copy off site or in the cloud. Now, I do both offsite and in the cloud. So I have a copy of that goes to my home, right my. Primary. Copy is here at the studio I have it backed up on a hard drive here. So I'm actually like at four something like that, and then I have most of that data in the cloud. Well. So I like both offsite in cloud, but you know one or the other the thinking being that you can be as fastidious as possible backing up your data if you have it on a hard drive next to the computer. And something happens at that particular location, rather be theft or some sort of natural disaster or whatever. Then you still lose everything. So off site is important because chances are good that you know something that ten miles away on a server hundred miles away that if something happens to your locally that you're offsite copy will still be accessible case with three two, one, three, two, one, three copies, two types of media and one copy offsite. Number two don't erase your memory cards until three two one is in place. This is something that have advocated for a long time. Or at least consider your memory cards, one of those three
Asian Enough
Dante Basco Discussed Landing the Role of Rufio
"You work asked. How did how did that come about like you had started out as a dancer one of your first credits is in moon-walker. Yeah yeah me. And my little brother Dion. We're in Walker. I was actually his understudy in moon-walker and we did the bad video but we did the kid. Bad video friends would allow those kids today. I mean mercer tantrums in the video. She's like the executive producer showrunner of of fails to share. We've known each other since we were like twelve. The way dancing works. You have the casting you have to have a cast like exact behind them because people get hurt all the time when you dance so we did that. We Young. We're gases when he came to L. A. But when I did hook the pretty remarkable thing about hook is so my little brother. Dion hadn't auditioned for another character in the movie. And I remember calling my managers when he got the addition. Because we're like you gotta give me an audition for this movie because you know the one thing we knew is it's Robin Williams playing grownup Peter Pan. And you're like that had captured the imagination of the world like. Oh my God like Robin Williams is Peter Pan. That's who he is. And so we were all excited about the movie and Spielberg and and whatnot. And so I ended up getting audition for other character. Rubio we know in these characters are and then my other brother. Dr Ian got an audition for Rubio too so we both went in together. This the thing about being brothers L. A. And Act against all audition and continue against each other and to this day and it's like was the TV show like last season where they're like. Oh it's between you and your brother during both on the board like whatever like was going to get it so good like but we've all trained together and go of the process understand that you're not really in competition with each other you know but we've been through a lot as brothers and different these days almost be really close. Yeah I mean it's hard to be Asian actor in. It's hard to be an actress. La I always say it's hard to be an actor in La. Probably want hard jobs in the world as far as to work and then on top of that it's hard to be an ethnic actually and within the ethnic spectrum it's hard to be Asian ethnic spectrum and even within the Asian spectrum to be Filipino. That particular Asian is super strange. The people because they're like are you. What kind of Asian Asians that? We wrote this role for you like a brown skin kind of are you. So why are you so ten and then even within that little like Filipino? It's like it's you know I'm one of four brothers that are like very close in age like you're the boss brothers like at our performance that our performance that we're all here in the audition so it. I've lived a very unique experience except where I've brothers that lived with me. Oh we are definitely going to ask you about one of the few experiences. You had playing a specific Filipino. American character in the great debut debut But I I want to ask you lower living in this hook. Moment your audition you said before that in a way your upbringing in paramount helped you in. Yeah House. The unique thing about that particular project is I went in on me and my brother both went in. We put the auditions on tape with the with the Catcher in Jefferson. There's a picture of that day too. We both dressed up like how he thought loss was addressed up. I remember like bracelets on this. Weird like floral shirt and so We had the addition and then I got a call back like the eight my managing like. Oh so Steven Spielberg wants to meet you. So I went to Amblin which is on the universal lot in the whole lot. All great but there's like this one sections like Spanish villas like that stevensville offices. We went there and this is like before. Ps Ten does like here. Like a mall arcade in his office which is crazy and so we're they're playing video games and he brings me in and then he doesn't even me again we talk. We talk about a lot of stuff you talk about rats so Rizzo and talked about Dustin Hoffman. Because I know his playing hook at that time and we talked about films we talk about other things I did and then do you want me to read. He's like no no. You're good I just wanted to meet you and I was like what I walked out. My mom had to go. I don't think I got it like I read. You know and then a few days later they offer me the part which wild so read the part one time. When I was on the set I remember sitting on the pirate ship and I was like. Hey Steven like never auditioned like read the roll one time and someone offered me the job. How did that happen and Steven was like Yeah Dante. Like at of all the kids we. You're the only kid that scared me. And but you know when I think about it now inside. I'm living in paramount right. And this is ninety one. You know kids were getting shot in my school. Like my best friend. Like one of our friends got killed his girlfriend. There was like guns everywhere drugs. We you know there's like life and death situations going on every day. There was like a big race war blacks breast of Mexicans. Where where what side are you on? Oh we need to get out of here at lunch or like you know it's going down and when you're dealing with like that kind of environment to degree the lost boys gang. I just the leader of the gang and so I think some of that was you know brought to the surface when doing the character and I think that kind of resonated with Stephen. I think that Kinda helped my the whole thing so
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"Daddy okay. Hook the nineteen ninety-one cult favorite reimagining of a Peter. Pan Lor starring Robin Williams. And Don Bosco you are. I'm just GONNA cut right to an icon. Come on come on man and you have been ever since this this role Rubio and we have so many questions for you. But we're going to start is what has revealed meant to you over. The course of the time. I mean is changed over the years. I did Rouphael when I was fifteen. Start when I was ten before was an actor. I was I'm from me and my brothers from the bay area right. And we're all artists and actors and musicians and poets and we start as break group in the Bay. Area called Street freaks. We popular was in the bay area. Kid You know grew up going to forty niners games in Oakland as games and we ended up dancing for the forty niners and the Oakland A.'s. Halftime shows thirty. Four thousand six hundred that kind of stuff then. We got scholarships the Ballet Company ballet and so we start studying ballet and it was like a real billion Elliott thing kids from St that they picked up and start the world ours and so like being an actor. Artists has been in my family's story since my earliest memories of whatever we were doing you know and so by the time I was fifteen and did hook it was like I mean I was you know somewhat prepared for it because I was studying acting for so long and studying the greats and then I was very much whereas work with greats worked with Spielberg maybe at the height of his powers. Dustin Hoffman is. He's on the Mount Rushmore of the actors. That changed the face of acting the seventy S and whatnot. You Got Robin. Williams is the Godfather improv acting. In one of the great you know give me. The list goes on Maggie. Smith said Bob. Hoskins is like every day is like what's going on here and so I was really prepared to just really do a great job but that never prepares you for character lasting twenty five years later. It's like now I've been Rubio longer than I haven't been Rubio. You know so you know you walk around. And now it's like it means something different to a whole generation as people tattoos of your fifteen year old face on their body crazy. Which you've seen with your I've seen with my own eyes. I've signed people's bodies at kamikaze tattooed on you know. And they name their kids after Rubio and their dogs after Rubio and it means something to just the people at large as far as like this rebel spirit you know and then in mean something completely different to a whole generation of Asian Americans where I get a lot of like. You're the first cool Asian that I ever saw on television as exactly what I was about to say. It's you and I'm dismayed that you hear so often not here and again when you're young you don't really think about it when you big movie in your teenager like even though I was like a trained actor and a pretty solid artists at fifteen is like I just WanNa be cool like plea at the for. The love of God can come out on Friday in theaters and when I go to school on Monday. Ken like some people. Think I'm cool. Where are you going to school at that point in in southern California I was going to school in Southern California? I was in high school Limit town called paramount. And it's right. You know right next to Compton. The crazy thing was this is the nineties s in we got into some trouble me and my brothers in the middle of shooting Hook. We got caught shoplifting. At Serena's mall yes. I needed some isotoner gloves. We needed some isotoner. Glove would use gloves and southern California. I don't know Jerry Rice War on I duNno had some is anyway. We got caught. My parents got so and again when you grown up in the neighborhood and paramount which is like site content but it's more Mexican than black and it's you know gang violence in the nineties and we have friends run drugs. Everything's a lot going on in your young mind like shoplifting is nowhere near anything else going on a neighbor but we got popped. We got in trouble and I was actually in the middle of shooting. Hook which is super strange and the guy that Catis history does mall was like watching. Because he'd seen me in a movie called perfect weapon he's like that's that do from perfect weapon and then. Oh my God. He's they're stealing isotoner gloves So we ended up getting bused to Orange County and started and finished our school at Orange County. The and then I was there when the hook came out. So it's kind like I was a kid in school and the movie came out and I went from a school. I was like predominantly black and Latino to a school in Orange County. That was I think there was twelve black kids in school And like it was like predominantly white. We were like. What are we doing here so that was a school that was that you were in? Hook was coming. Yeah that was I was in when he came out and I was. They thought it was cool. I mean we were cool are here with me and my brother like three. Brown brothers walking around campus with high hair and Super Hip hop kids and then the big movie comes out. And you're like that kid from that movie. I kinda always wished I was in my old school when it came out. Because know you get the extra On the hometown new school. And it's all weird already now. Super
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A gentler Gotham? NYers anxiously wait out coronavirus
"In the movie midnight cowboy Dustin Hoffman says that famous line while crossing a crowded street in Times Square as a taxi almost hits him now we're living in a very different New York City no swearing at yellow cabs for cutting into crosswalks no irritability dodging slow walking pedestrians no pushing forward in lines supermarket shoppers are anxiously and awkwardly sidestepping each other trying their best to keep six feet away under threat amid a global outbreak new Yorkers have become downright polite Julie Walker New York
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A gentler Gotham? NYers anxiously wait out coronavirus
"In the movie midnight cowboy Dustin Hoffman says that famous line while crossing a crowded street in Times Square as a taxi almost hits him now we're living in a very different New York City no swearing at yellow cabs for cutting into crosswalks no irritability dodging slow walking pedestrians no pushing forward in lines supermarket shoppers are anxiously and awkwardly sidestepping each other trying their best to keep six feet away under threat amid a global outbreak new Yorkers have become downright polite Julie Walker New York
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A gentler Gotham? NYers anxiously wait out coronavirus
"In the movie midnight cowboy Dustin Hoffman says that famous line while crossing a crowded street in Times Square as a taxi almost hits him now we're living in a very different New York City no swearing at yellow cabs for cutting into crosswalks no irritability dodging slow walking pedestrians no pushing forward in lines supermarket shoppers are anxiously and awkwardly sidestepping each other trying their best to keep six feet away under threat amid a global outbreak new Yorkers have become downright polite Julie Walker New York
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A gentler Gotham? NYers anxiously wait out coronavirus
"In the movie midnight cowboy Dustin Hoffman says that famous line while crossing a crowded street in Times Square as a taxi almost hits him now we're living in a very different New York City no swearing at yellow cabs for cutting into crosswalks no irritability dodging slow walking pedestrians no pushing forward in lines supermarket shoppers are anxiously and awkwardly sidestepping each other trying their best to keep six feet away under threat amid a global outbreak new Yorkers have become downright polite Julie Walker New York
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A gentler Gotham? NYers anxiously wait out coronavirus
"In the movie midnight cowboy Dustin Hoffman says that famous line while crossing a crowded street in Times Square as a taxi almost hits him now we're living in a very different New York City no swearing at yellow cabs for cutting into crosswalks no irritability dodging slow walking pedestrians no pushing forward in lines supermarket shoppers are anxiously and awkwardly sidestepping each other trying their best to keep six feet away under threat amid a global outbreak new Yorkers have become downright polite Julie Walker New York
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A gentler Gotham? NYers anxiously wait out coronavirus
"In the movie midnight cowboy Dustin Hoffman says that famous line while crossing a crowded street in Times Square as a taxi almost hits him now we're living in a very different New York City no swearing at yellow cabs for cutting into crosswalks no irritability dodging slow walking pedestrians no pushing forward in lines supermarket shoppers are anxiously and awkwardly sidestepping each other trying their best to keep six feet away under threat amid a global outbreak new Yorkers have become downright polite Julie Walker New York
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A gentler Gotham? NYers anxiously wait out coronavirus
"In the movie midnight cowboy Dustin Hoffman says that famous line while crossing a crowded street in Times Square as a taxi almost hits him now we're living in a very different New York City no swearing at yellow cabs for cutting into crosswalks no irritability dodging slow walking pedestrians no pushing forward in lines supermarket shoppers are anxiously and awkwardly sidestepping each other trying their best to keep six feet away under threat amid a global outbreak new Yorkers have become downright polite Julie Walker New York
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A gentler Gotham? NYers anxiously wait out coronavirus
"In the movie midnight cowboy Dustin Hoffman says that famous line while crossing a crowded street in Times Square as a taxi almost hits him now we're living in a very different New York City no swearing at yellow cabs for cutting into crosswalks no irritability dodging slow walking pedestrians no pushing forward in lines supermarket shoppers are anxiously and awkwardly sidestepping each other trying their best to keep six feet away under threat amid a global outbreak new Yorkers have become downright polite Julie Walker New York
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A gentler Gotham? NYers anxiously wait out coronavirus
"In the movie midnight cowboy Dustin Hoffman says that famous line while crossing a crowded street in Times Square as a taxi almost hits him now we're living in a very different New York City no swearing at yellow cabs for cutting into crosswalks no irritability dodging slow walking pedestrians no pushing forward in lines supermarket shoppers are anxiously and awkwardly sidestepping each other trying their best to keep six feet away under threat amid a global outbreak new Yorkers have become downright polite Julie Walker New York