Kevin Spacey
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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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Then, at a certain point, the wig changed and it had little highlights in it, a little more color, a little more... The makeup became a little... The suits got a little tighter. And then finally, a third wig that was golden highlights and sunshine and rosy cheeks and tight fit. And these are what we call theatrical tricks.
This is how you... An audience doesn't even know it's happening, but it is this gradual... And I just always felt that that was such a brilliant way because he knew what I felt about Jack. And when you watch The Apartment, it is extraordinary that he doesn't ever change.
And I did my thank you speech and I walked off stage and I remember I had to sit down for a moment because I didn't wanna go to the press room because I wanted to see if Sam was gonna win. And so I was waiting and my phone rang and it was Lemon. He said, you're a son of a bitch. I said, what?
He goes, first of all, congratulations and thanks for thanking me because, you know, God knows you couldn't have done it without me. He said, second of all, he said, do you know how long it took me to win from supporting actor? I won it for Mr. Roberts and it took me like 10, 12 years to win Oscar. You did it in four, you son of a bitch.
Well, I mean, some people think Clockwork Orange is a comedy. And I'm not saying there aren't some good laughs in Clockwork Orange, but yeah, you know, it's...
Well, if it's a line, it's a line I cross all the time, because I've tried always to find the humor. Unexpected sometimes, maybe inappropriate sometimes, maybe shocking. But I've tried in, I think, almost every dramatic role I've had to have a sense of humor and to be able to bring that along with everything else that is serious. Because frankly, that's how we deal with stuff in life.
Sure. Well, I mean, you know, it's like... the great Mary Tyler Moore show where they can't stop giggling at the clown's funeral. I mean, it's just one of the great episodes ever. You know, giggling at a funeral is as bad as farting at a funeral. And, you know, I'm sure that there's some people who've done both.
Yeah, and I also think that the film was powerful because you had three very honest and genuine portrayal of young people. And then you had Lester behaving like a young person, doing things that were unexpected. And I think that...
The honesty with which it dealt with those issues that those teenagers were going through, and the honesty with which it dealt with what Lester was going through, I think are some of the reasons why the film had the response that it did from so many people. I mean, I used to get stopped, and someone would say to me, when I first saw American Beauty, I was married.
And the second time I saw it, I wasn't.
And I was like, well, we weren't trying to increase the divorce rate. It wasn't our intention.
But it is interesting how so many people have those kinds of crazy fantasies. And what I admired so much about who Lester was as a person, why I wanted to play him, is because in the end, he makes the right decision.
Absolutely. Written and directed by... Yeah, can't take credit for that.
There's some family scenes gone awry in that movie.
Well, with Annette, I just adored working with her. And we were the two actors that Sam wanted from the very beginning. much against the will of the higher-ups who wanted other actors to play those roles. But I've known Annette since we did a screen test together for Milos Forman for a film he did of the Les Liaisons Dangereuses movie.
It was a different film from that one, but it was the same story. And I've always thought she is just remarkable. And I think that the work she did in that film, the relationship that we were able to build. For me, the saddest part of that success was that she didn't win the Oscar, and I felt she should have.
Well, I'll share with you a story that most people don't know, which is our first two days of shooting were in Smiley's. the place where I get a job in a fast food place. Yeah, it's a burger joint. Yeah. And I guess it was like maybe the third day or the fourth day of shooting, we'd now done that. And I said to Sam, so how are the dailies? How do they look? He goes, which ones?
I said, well, the first smileys. He goes, oh, they're shit. And I went, yeah. No, how were they? He goes, no, they're shit. I hate them. I hate everything about them. I hate the costumes. I hate the location. I hate that you're inside. I hate the way you acted. I hate everything but the script. So I've gone back to the studio and asked them if we can reshoot the first two days.
And I was like, Sam, this is your very first movie. You're going back to Steven Spielberg and saying, I need to reshoot the first two days entirely? And he went, yeah.
And that's exactly what we did. A couple of weeks later, they decided that it was now a drive-thru because Annette and Peter Geller used to come into the place and ordered from the counter. Now, Sam had decided it has to be a drive-thru. You have to be in the window of the drive-thru, change the costumes, and we reshot those first two days. And Sam said, it was actually a moment of incredible joy.
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