Dr. Peter Weller
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668 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Dr. Peter Weller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then I did a couple of improvs with Kazan and Mindblower. Yeah. I mean, to do a 15-minute improv with a guy. Why was it Mindblower? Because the guy had a sense of what you wanted. und was Zeit, Ort, Charakter, Umstände definiert. Und das ist die Methode. Und wie man es lebt, besser als jeder, den ich jemals getroffen habe. Und jeder gibt ein Hommage.
Ich meine, LeMet hat es gemacht, Nichols hat es gemacht, und so weiter. Al wird es machen. They just go like, okay, that guy had a sense of reality. And he comes out of the group theater, which is the Russian, which is Corman. Odettes. Odettes, yeah, man. Odettes. Odettes. Wow, what a gift. Huh? Yeah.
Weißt du, die Geschichte, die er mir erzählt hat, er wollte Andy Griffith gar nicht. Ich glaube, er war in Sardis und der Agent brachte Andy Griffith zu ihm. Und Kazan, ich paraphrase diese Sache, aber er denkt, wie kann ich hier rauskommen, dieser Kerl ist falsch. Und er geht in den Bad, als Entschuldigung. Und Griffith hat ihn gekostet. In the kitchen, coming through the bathroom.
And goes into this rant about, I'm the guy, I'm the guy, I'm the guy. Mr. Kazan, you don't want anybody. Just by firing up in this... He needed to get it out of them. And then he said, he is the guy. Und manchmal sitzt du mit einem Mann am Tisch, der nicht der Mann ist.
Ja, mit Jimmy Woods. What the fuck? I know. That movie's nuts. I know, man. Jimmy Woods, one of my oldest pals. These are all pals to me, man. I came up with these cats. Yeah, well, what do you know about that movie? Anything? No, I know nothing that he, it was his son's script and he shot it there.
Ja. Well, anyway, that's what New York gave me, all those people and the method and a process and gifts and some great directors.
Oh, der erste Film, den ich mit Cliff Robertson gedreht habe, hieß Man Without a Country. Es war ein TV-Film. Es hat fünf Läufe. Ich habe mich dazu eingeladen. Also du arbeitest nur. Ja. Aber das erste, was ich als Substanzen gemacht habe, war, dass ich Streamer war.
Gene Reynolds und Alan Burns, die Leute, die Mary Tyler Moore begonnen haben, haben mir diese Rolle gefordert, basierend auf einem echten Mann. That Showtime later did a movie of an Orthodox Jew disappeared out of high school and resurfaced in New York as the head of the Neo-Nazi American Party under George Lincoln Rockwell. Rockwell? George Lincoln Rockwell. That was the guy?
George Lincoln Rockwell was the head of the Neo-Nazi American Party. This guy, true story, is a guy who was an Orthodox Jew, bullied, and then disappears for two years and resurfaces under a different name, working for George Lincoln Rockwell. How about that for a victim? He becomes a victimizer. It's like Wie Stephen Miller, der für Trump arbeitet. Ja, ich will das nicht ausdrücken, aber ja.
Also haben sie mir das gefordert und Rick sagte, dass sie mir nicht wirklich Sachen anbieten, um nach L.A. rauszukommen. Und ich habe es in der Fifth Avenue Bibliothek recherchiert und dachte, oh mein Gott, ich muss das machen. Also habe ich es gemacht. Ich und Brian Dennehy haben es gemacht und das war das erste, was ich gemacht habe. Und aus dem habe ich einen Film gemacht. Was heißt das?
It's the Lou Grant, first season of Lou Grant, it's the second episode, and I forget what it's called. Okay, got it. I was friends with Ed Asner forever, who was one of the great cats ever. Oh yeah, he's great, I talked to him. What a dude.
Good. Can you tell me what it's about? Because I don't know.
Yeah, man. But you know, people forget the heads of that is don't be mean. Hey, don't be mean. Wherever you go, there you are. Because remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
And those are all pals to this day. Lloyd and Lithgow and Goldblum. Yeah.
It's become a cult movie. We... It's become a unique film. It was indemnified into the Lincoln Center Library about some years ago. And Lithgow and I put on a tuxedo and went to celebrate it. He said, what are you going to say? I said, I don't know. I don't know what to say. And the guy introduced was Kevin Smith. Comes out in a New York Rangers hockey jersey.
Talks about it for 30 minutes about its racial divide with... Blacks and Rednecks and the social drip down of it. It doesn't feed you any genre. And it sort of plunges you into the middle of... And it defies its action. And Lithgow keeps looking at me going, I didn't know that. Did you know that? So we don't know what it is. But Dennis Haysbert said it's about love. Okay, I'll take that.
I just had an amazing time doing it. I'm so glad those cats are still friends. Yeah.
You know, Mark, the cliché that I saw, Olivier said the best thing that anything you can get out of this theater film is love. Yeah. It ain't the glitz and the glamour. Yeah. It's love. And truth? And truth? Well, I think love is truth. Yeah, sure. I think those are equanimous.
So, when you're reading that at 23, and your eyes are on the gold, and your eyes are on, like, yes, to do good work and to be recognized by your peers, but also to make a buck, really, the best thing you take out of this is love? Come on, man, it's a little touchy-feely for me, man. I already just came out of this love generation shit, man. I'm in New York.
I want to get something harder than that going. Now, It's the truth. The best thing that ever happened to me in my entire career, it doesn't matter, the accolades, yeah, the money, sure, fine, okay, great. But the love, the friendships, the people that I retain, that I can say thank you to, are really the gold.
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