Andy Garcia
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217 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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Peaceful. Powerful. That's cool. And so you see, okay, so now it's, oh, there it is. Now it's just got to, are you willing to stay in the game to get to the light? And of course, the light continues to travel away. But eventually you reach that light and you go, but at least you have this kind of, the focus gets narrowed where you're not just going like, how can I break through?
There's a breakthrough that happens. It has to do with opportunities, representation that gets you in front of people where you can now actually have an opportunity to get a job. And slowly that's what happened. I got a job in a movie, oddly enough, in Miami called The Mean Season, which was written from a book from John Katzenbach, who was a criminal writer from the Miami Herald.
Kurt Russell and Mariel Hemingway, Richard Bradford, dear friend of mine. We played cops and there was a young Cuban cop written, you know. The fact that it took place in Miami, there was a part that wasn't, let's say, a Mexican gang member or something then. And it was actually my wife again, you know.
the intuition it was i remember we were at the house she said i got home from from one of those sessions she said uh i just saw an entertainment tonight it was like the first year it's like the first entertainment show that was on television i think they're doing a movie in miami called the mean season with kurt russell and mariel hemingway you should ask phyllis she was my manager at the time very good manager very helpful phyllis carlisle and uh
see if there might be something there. So I called her. She goes, look it up, but just because, she goes, honey, just because it's in Miami, you know, there might not be a part. I said, just check it out. There might be Well, of course, there was a supporting part that was part of the story, playing a young cop. And I went to meet the casting director. We had a nice time.
I didn't read or anything for her. She says, I want you to meet the director, Philip Bourchaud, a wonderful Canadian director who did a great movie called The Gray Fox, which I had seen. And sadly enough, he passed away after our movie, very young, for cancer. And I went to meet the director and got the part like that. It was like buying a hamburger. It was so simple to get that part.
But it took seven years to get that part. And from then on, I never had to work in any other profession in my life.
this woman believes in me should she yeah yeah yeah yeah i guess it goes back to to the exile experience you know subconsciously i think you're like trained to to continue forward you know
continue one step at a time and you know crack it just crack it keep keep at it keep at it keep at it that comes from you know our our parents basically keep at it keep at it i know i don't have anything to show for it right now but Keep at it. Seven years of I don't have anything to show. Well, you know, it got a little bit, you know, I was year four or five.
I was providing for my family, but I wasn't I was working doing voiceover work. I wasn't really working as an actor. I was working, you know.
creates fear what's interesting what's interesting when you have a child for me anyway what's interesting is it empowers you the stakes are higher therefore you gotta either sink or swim you know and uh you you know it's like you now you're representing not only yourself as an artist you're representing your wife and your family and that little girl.
So it's sort of like you're going to have to shoot me between the eyes to take me out. No time for doubt? There's no time for doubt. And like I said, I think there was a power, the thing. And about that time also, you know, in that moment, the light started to appear, you know. A spiritual light as well?
I guess so. I mean, it wasn't like a religious thing. It was... Clarity. Yeah, sort of certain clarity. And I think it also has to do with, you know, really all this time is always focusing on the craft. and studying and exploring the craft and getting to know your instrument and where you are as a person is grounded, you know. So so, you know, you understand what who you are.
and what you have to say and why you want to say it, you know.
No doubt. And when the craft is mixed with inspiration, spontaneous inspiration, then the art form comes about. But the craft roots you in the ability for that magic to happen. You know, without it, you, you know, you kind of you're you're acting. You know what I mean? Yes. Early teachers always said they might get caught acting, you know, instead.
is the untouchables because i thought that was sort of your big break well yeah because that was a uh commercial success that movie and the whole world saw that film and that helps you a lot you know because now you become not just you know just an actor looking for work you somehow become recognizable or marketable in another film or get that guy and you know
But that came by a series of things that happened, starting with the movie in Miami, A Mean Season, and... I remember they had offered me a reoccurring part in the show Cagney and Lacey, which is a show I would do voiceovers for. But in those days, it was so odd because television, if you were in a television series, it was sort of like taboo. Then you wouldn't be considered for films.
Really, it was like... No, either or.
And everybody who was in television had dreams of being in movies. Yeah. And that was not anymore. But in those days, and I made a choice to not take the gig. and just roll the dice, you know, stay in the voiceover and look for my next film. And this movie came about with Hal Ashby, Jeff Bridges, called A Million Ways to Die.
And they were looking for the antagonist in the movie, which was a character that they say was patterned, you know, like they were looking for someone like Hector Macho Camacho, the fighter. Street, urban, tough, slick, aggressive, you know, yeah.
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