David Marchese

Well, I try.

But in the biography of you, a lot of people who you worked with and are close to you refer to you as having a real anger inside you.

Where does that anger come from?

Also, your dog just came in.

How does anger fuel you?

I feel like if I'm going to have an expectation that the person is going to engage with me at a certain level, then I owe it to them and to myself to be as prepared as possible as a way to earn the right to have the kind of conversation that I wanna have.

That said, my next question is a goofy one that I just want to hear some details about the story behind it.

But in the biography of you, and this is an anecdote that's also repeated in a great profile of you by John Lahr from The New Yorker.

Where they're describing a misadventure in Macau in 1986 where apparently you, you know, as one does sometimes, you dangled a pushy paparazzo over a balcony.

Then were sort of jailed after for, because you were in Macau filming Shanghai Surprise with Madonna.

Then you went to jail briefly, but you bailed.

Broke out of jail and escaped from the country, and this is the detail that I need more information on, escaped from the country by jet foil.

More, please.

How did you find the jet foil?

Was there a jet foil waiting for you?

Did you know how to drive a jet foil?

So it wasn't that exciting.

Yeah.

I was secretly hoping there was kind of a more of a James Bond element, but mystery solved.

There was an interesting quote by you.