Andy Garcia
speaker
217 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
Andy Garcia’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
Yeah, and so I read the script. It was written by Oliver Stone, the initial script, because it was changed by the time the movie got made. And I said to the agent, I said, I know who this guy is. I grew up in Miami. I know who this guy is. Get me in, get me in, get me in. But God bless him, Lin Stallmaster was the most powerful, most important casting director probably at the time and legendary.
I remember he said to the agent, I know Andy, I saw him in that movie. He's a wonderful young actor, but he's more like the diplomat's son.
And I said to my agent, get me in, get me in. And she kept insisting, insisting. God bless her, Jerry Scott. And insisting, insisting. And I went in there and I got an audition. And I knew when I went in there that I had to be that guy. It wasn't like I'm showing up as Andy and then I'm going to show you who the guy is. I just went in as the guy.
I didn't want any doubt that that was somebody else. And I did a series I read for him. You know, I just rolled the dice. I just went in as the guy. I remember I used to smoke at the time, and I lit a cigarette in the room like this. And he said, I'm sorry we don't smoke here. And I said, I don't give a fuck. I don't give a fuck. You were deep in the character. I was in. I went all in.
And actually, I talked to a third person. It was a guy. I said, Angel's guy's name. He goes, Angel doesn't give a fuck what you think, man. And poor Lin was going like, oh, actors. Fucking actors, you know? And so he said, can we go? I remember this to this day. And I've told this story before, but... I remember to this day, he said, can we go to another room to do this?
And I said, wherever we're going, I've already been. And wherever you've been, I don't need to go.
Oh, completely. This guy killed people in the movie. He was a Coke dealer, young kingpin in L.A. who killed women. What does he know about, you know? And so anyway, I read and he said, can you...
hal is coming in a couple hours can you hang around to read for him now hal ashby is like a hero of mine you know the last detail harold and maude you know being there coming home i mean he's just a great inspiration to me and of course jeff bridges the wonderful jeff bridges and i read for hal and uh he gave me a part right there that day
Well, I was saying that because of the 8 Million Ways to Die, the character was so crazy, it got a lot of attention. And that's when they were putting together The Untouchables after that. And I got a call that they were interested in me playing Frank Nitti, who was the killer in The Untouchable, the play beautifully by Billy Drago. Remember, dressed in white and very lean, you know.
almost like feline kind of quality he had. And I read the script, and I said to my agent, no, no, I want to play this young Italian kid, one of the Untouchables. And he says, yeah, honey, but they're interested in you playing. I said, tell them no. I said, I won't go after that part. So they gave me, and I met Brian De Palma, and I read for him, and they gave me the part.
So that movie, that's how that movie came about. And that movie was very successful, of course, gave immediately other opportunities at Paramount. Mr. Frank Mancuso was the head of the studio, who was like a second father to me. And I started working at Paramount a lot, you know. And it was a wonderful time. In fact, they wanted to give me like a three-picture deal.
Mr. Mancuso is the most honorable person you ever want to meet in your life. He is a godsend. To me, to my family, to this industry, I mean, he's really like a second father. And his son is my brother, and I'm a godfather to his daughter. I mean, we're very close. But at the time, they said, they want to give you a three-picture deal. And I said, let me talk to Mr. Mancuso.
And he told me, we want to keep you here. We want to give you a deal. And I just shook his hand. I said, Mr. Mancuso, I don't need a deal with you. As long as you want me here, I'm here with you. I don't need a piece of paper. I'm here for you. And that was it. And we did a bunch of movies together there, including The Godfather.
And what was curious about The Godfather was that in those early years, early 80s or whatever it was, when we were kind of looking, I wasn't even married yet. I was like 79, I guess, or something like that. They announced that there was going to be a Godfather 3, and there was this young part in the movie.
And they were thinking about Stallone or Travolta, people who had been prominent at the time. And I remember thinking to myself, that's my part. Because that's the movie that made me, in high school, when I was my senior year in high school, that time I saw The Godfather and that's what changed my life. I said, I want to be, that's what I want to do with my life.
That was the quintessential moment. We're talking about the virus or whatever. It was watching Godfather Part One. And I said, I want to do that with my life. What was it about it? Well, I think you identify with the people in it, with Al and, you know, the style and Brando and, you know, Bobby Duvall and Jimmy Conn.
And you saw people that were like you, you know, they were like, oh, I see I could see myself in that family, in that world. And also the quality of it. That's what I wanted to be. That's what I wanted to do. And be careful what you wish for. But I remember thinking, that's my part. And of course, the movie, I had nothing to show.
I would have never probably even got a chance to audition for it because it was... But because the movie never happened at that time, and it was delayed almost a decade, by the time it came around, I was on my fourth movie with Paramount doing internal affairs, and Mr. Mancuso came to have lunch with me on the set and said, what are you doing in September? I want to talk to Francis.
I want you to be... this young fellow, Vincent in The Godfather. I said, I'll check my schedule and get back to you. But ultimately, it was Francis' choice. I screen tested. I was the last person to screen test, actually, after a whole summer of people screen testing. And I kept saying, can I just go in and read for him? Don't worry, don't worry. I'm worried.
Every actor in town is screen testing for this show. But Mr. McCusack, you know, obviously he was very supportive of me, and I read for Francis, and he gave me a part, you know. Internal Affairs, criminally underrated movie.
Showing 121–140 of 217 · page 7 of 11
← Previous
Next →