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John Lithgow

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
447 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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John Lithgow

I must say, listening to myself as Churchill, I still had a lot to learn.

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John Lithgow

I'm doing Dumbledore and Harry Potter with a marvelous dialect coach who's watching me like a hawk.

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John Lithgow

And she doesn't give me many notes anymore, but she certainly did the first few months.

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John Lithgow

They still have another month to go.

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John Lithgow

But they squeezed all my stuff in to allow me to do Giant on Broadway.

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John Lithgow

So my last month of work was brutal.

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John Lithgow

But then with Dumbledore, that comes in handy.

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John Lithgow

It's harder than it used to be to learn the lines, but once they're in there, I'm fine.

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John Lithgow

Yeah, my brain is a little bit tired.

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John Lithgow

I mean, 80 is, it was no surprise.

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John Lithgow

You're an old man at 80.

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John Lithgow

Well, the handy thing is I'm playing all these broken down old men.

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John Lithgow

So I get better cast every year.

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John Lithgow

Well, I had a real kind of Midwestern, small-town background.

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John Lithgow

Booth Tarkington sort of childhood up until the age of, I guess, 11, sixth grade.