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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because he said the worst thing that could possibly have happened happened in my first two days. And after that, I was like, I know what I'm doing, and I knew I had to reshoot it, and it was absolutely right.
Two other little things to share with you about Sam, about the way he is. You wouldn't know it, but the original script opened and closed with a trial. Ricky was accused of Lester's murder. And the movie was bookended by this trial. It's a very different movie. Which they shot the entire trial for weeks. Okay? Wow, yeah. And I used to fly in my dreams.
You know those opening shots over the neighborhood? I used to come into those shots in my bathrobe, flying, and then when I hit the ground and the newspaper was thrown at me by the newspaper guy and I caught it, the alarm would go off and I'd wake up in bed. I spent five days being hung by wires and filming these sequences of flying through my dreams.
And Sam said to me,
Yeah, the flying sequences are all gone and the trial is gone. And I was like, what? What are you talking about? And here's my other little favorite story about Sam and that. When we were shooting in the valley, one of those places I flew, this was an indoor set.
Sam said to me in the morning, hey, at lunch, I just want to record a guide track of all the dialogue, all of your narration, because they just needed an editing as a guide. And I said, sure. So I remember we came outside in this hallway where I had a dressing room in this little studio we were in. And Sam had like a cassette tape recorder and like a little microphone.
And we put it on the floor, and he pushed record. And I read the entire narration. And I never did it again. That's the narration in the movie. Because Sam said, when he listened to it, I wasn't trying to do anything. He said, you had no idea where these things were going, where they were going to be placed, what they were going to mean.
You just read it so innocently, so purely, so directly that I knew if I brought you into a studio and put headphones on you and had you do it again, it would change the ease with which you'd done it. And so they just fixed all of the problems that they had with this little cassette. And that is the way I did it, and the only time I did it was in this little hallway.
Yeah.
See, it's funny. I don't think of the roses, and I don't think of her body in the poster, and I don't think of those things as the beauty.
Yeah, and in fact, I'll even tell you something that I always thought was so incredible. When we shot the scenes in the office where Lester worked, the job he hated, there was a bulletin board behind me on a wall. And someone who was watching a cut or early dailies who was in the marketing department saw that someone had cut out a little piece of paper and stuck it. And it said, look closer.
And they presented that to Sam as the idea of what that should, that could go on the poster. The idea of looking closer was such a brilliant idea, but it wasn't, I mean, it wasn't like, it wasn't in the script. It was just on a wall behind me and someone happened to zoom in on it and see it and thought, that's what this movie's about. This movie's about taking the time to look closer.
And I think that in itself is just beautiful.
When I was at my lowest point, yes, it scared me.
Because he got there. He was given the opportunity to reinvent himself and to try things he'd never tried, to ask questions he'd never asked, to... to trust his instincts and to become the best version of himself he could become. And so Dick Van Dyke, who has become an extraordinary friend of mine, Dick is 98 years old.
And he says, you know, if I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself. When I spend time with him, I'm just moved by every day, you know, he gets up and he goes, it's a good day. I woke up and I learn a lot about, I have a, a different feeling about death now than I did seven years ago. Uh,
And I'm on the path to being able to be in a place where I've resolved the things I needed to resolve. And I won't probably get to all of it in my lifetime, but I certainly would like to be in a place where if I were to drop dead tomorrow, it would have been an amazing life.
It was November 1st of 2017, and then Thanksgiving Day of that same year.
I have heard, and now quite often, that everybody has a Kevin Spacey story. And what that tells me is that I hit on a lot of guys.
I did a lot of horsing around, I did a lot of things that at the time I thought were sort of playful and fun, and I have learned since we're not. And I have had to recognize that I crossed some boundaries and I did some things that were wrong and I made some mistakes. And that's in my past.
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