Kevin Spacey
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258 appearances
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first heard Jun 2024
last heard Jun 2024
Kevin Spacey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We had no scene together, but I remember him coming in, and they put him down in the chair, and they put cucumbers, frozen cucumbers on his eyes, and did his neck, and then they raised him up and did his face, and then I remember Nicholson went like this, looked in the mirror, and he went, Another day, another $50,000. And walked out of the trailer.
Oh yeah, he started out as a chorus boy, dancer.
Yeah, yeah. The guy knows how to move. I've known Walken a long time and I did a Saturday Night Live where I did, we did these Star Wars auditions. I did Chris Walken as Han Solo. So good. And I'll never forget this. I was in Los Angeles about two weeks after And I was at Chateau Marmont. There's some party happening at Chateau Marmont. And I saw Chris Walken come out of, onto the balcony.
And I was like, oh shit, it's Chris Walken. And he walked up to me and he went, Kevin, I saw your little sketch. It was funny, ha ha.
Well, I mean, it might have been the first moment an audience saw him be betrayed, but it certainly was not the first betrayal he'd experienced. And once you start to get to know him,
and learn about his life, and learn about his father, and learn about his friends, and learn about their relationship, and learn what he was like even as a cadet, I think you start to realize that this is a man who has very strong beliefs about loyalty. And so it wasn't the first. It was just the first moment that, in terms of the storyline that's being built,
Night Takes King was the name of our production company.
No. I think power is an afterthought. What he loved more than anything was being able to predict how human beings would react. He was a behavioral psychologist. And he could know, like he was 17 moves ahead in a chess game, he could know if he did this at this moment, that eventually this would happen. He was able to be predictive and was usually right.
He knew just how far he needed to push someone to get them to do what he needed them to do in order to make the next step work. You've played a bunch of evil characters. Well, you call them evil. But the reason I say that, and I don't mean to be snarky about it, but the reason I say it that way is because I never judge the people I play.
And the people that I have played or that any actor has played don't necessarily view themselves as this label. It's easy to say, but that's not the way I can think. I cannot judge a character I play and then play them well. I have to be free of judgment. I have to just play them and let the cards drop where they may. And let an audience judge.
I mean, the fact that you use that word is perfectly fine. That's your, you know. But it's like people asking me, you know, was I really from K-Pax or not? You know, it just entirely depends on your perspective.
I absolutely believe that Wandering around in someone else's ideas, in someone else's clothes, in someone else's shoes, teaches you enormous empathy. And that goes to the heart of not judging. And I have found that I have been so moved by, I mean, look, let's, yes, you've identified the darker characters. But I've played Clarence Darrow three times. I've played a play called National Anthems.
I've done movies like Recount. I've done films like The Ref. I've done films in which that doesn't exist in any of those characters, those qualities. Pay it forward. And so it is incredible to be able to embrace those things that I admire and that are like me and those things that I don't admire and aren't like me.
But I have to put them on an equal footing and say, I have to just play them as best I can and not decide to wield judgment over them.
Without judgment.
Yeah, I mean... One of the things that I've been focused on very succinctly is the idea that every day is an opportunity.
And I also think that, look, I grew up not knowing if my parents loved me, particularly my father.
and more succinctly, who he became. It was a gradual and slow and sad development. When I've gone back and now I've looked at diaries my father kept and albums he kept, particularly when he was a medic in the US Army, served our country with distinction.
When the war was over and they went to Germany, the things my father said, the things that he wrote, the things that he believed were as patriotic as any American soldier who had ever served. But then when he came back to America and he had a dream of being a journalist, Or his big hope was that he was going to be the great American novelist. He wanted to be a creative novelist.
And so he sat in his office and he wrote for 45 years and never published anything. And somewhere along the way, in order to make money, he became what they call a technical procedure writer, which the best way to describe that is that if you built the F-16 aircraft, my father would have written the manual to tell you how to do it. I mean, as boring, as technical, as tedious as you can imagine.
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