Gene Wilder
đ€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You're putting me on.
No, it's pronounced I-gor.
But they told me it was Igor.
Well, they were wrong then, weren't they?
I was writing every day, and then Mel would come to the house and read what I'd written, and then he'd say, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, okay, but...
We need a villain or we need whatever it was.
And we'd talk a little bit and then he'd go away and I would write all the next day.
And he'd come and look at it.
And then one day when he read the pages I'd written about Dr. Frankenstein and the creature sing and dance to Putin on the Ritz.
He said, are you crazy?
You're just being frivolous.
Well, my temperature rose, and after 20 minutes or so of arguing, my color went from red to, I think, blue or purple.
And then all of a sudden he said, okay, it's in.
And I said, well, why did you put me through this?
And he said, I wasn't sure if it was right.