Robert Rodriguez
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 16 Nov
Robert Rodriguez’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But then years later, I went back to him, and no one was hiring him. And so I met with him. I said, okay, I'll meet with him. I was like, holy shit, he still has that charm and everything. So I put him in, gave him a small role in Once Upon a Time in Mexico, and I kept writing him more scenes later. He was broke.
I mean, I gave him money to go buy his own suits because he always dressed to the nines in his movies. It's like, look, I'm all out of time costume designing this thing. I'll give you some money. Go buy your own clothes. You're always going to dress. He came with these Billy Martin suits and stuff.
I said, I'm going to put a bullet hole in the back of one digitally just so you can keep, because he wanted to keep the clothes so that you can keep the clothes. Thanks, brother. And then I put him in Sin City and it relaunched his career. But he was always a dream to work with. And I would hear from people later, oh, he's been difficult again. I was like, really? So he'd come back again.
No, again, 100% of the time, I've never had any difficulty with even the difficult exercise one. So it makes you think. And you know that because you have anybody you want on your show. But... It makes me wonder, what environment are you putting them in that makes them like that? Because somebody once said that about Redger Hauer. It was amazing. Hard to work with. Really? No, it wasn't at all.
Loved him in stuff. Blade Runner, The Hitcher. Bruce Willis, people would tell me it was difficult to work with. I was like, Bruce? I've worked with him four times. Let me tell you, this is what Bruce is like when he walks in the set. Hey, Hefe, what's going on, man? Hefe means boss. Does that sound like somebody who's difficult? That's going to be somebody who's just so happy.
One time I was doing this Kobe Bryant Nike commercial. I was going to be in with Kobe. I was directing it. And I was working out at the gym where Stallone works out, Gunnar Peterson's gym. And Bruce was there. And I was trying to get an actor to do a cameo in this commercial. I was shooting that weekend. I was working out because I was going to be on camera.
And so then I go to Bruce and I go, hey, what are you up to? And he goes, ah, I'm just looking for a job. And I said, well, are you a basketball fan? Because I'm shooting a Kobe Bryant commercial Saturday. Why don't you come by the set? It's downtown. You play this role. Bring a couple of suits because it's very last minute, but last minute replacement. Yeah, yeah, sure. I'd love to meet him.
Okay, good. So I went back to the Nike people and said, Bruce said he's going to be in it. Well, we'll call his agent. No, no, don't call his agent because he probably didn't tell him. And he said he'll come down. I think he will because he's cool like that. Oh, we think we should call him anyway. So they call the agents. The agents go, Bruce Willis is not going to be in a Nike commercial.
Well, he talked to Robert. Okay, I guess he is going to be in a Nike commercial. So then we're down there in the set, we're downtown LA, we're filming Kobe, we're filming everything else, and it's like almost time for him to show up. And they're like, are you sure he's gonna come? He said he would, he said he'd bring two suits.
And now I'm thinking how ridiculous that sounds that I told him in the gym and said, come down with a couple of your suits from your own closet, like there's no wardrobe, there's no time to get a wardrobe fitting, and just show up. He shows up, shows up, does it. He said, I'll film you out in an hour, because he knows how we work together. Had a great time, he's great in it.
Takes off, brought his two suits.
That does not sound like somebody who's difficult. No, it's the environment that you put these people in. Totally the environment you put them in. Because I was watching, like, Dog Whisperer, and it's like, if you have a pit bull, some of these guys can be alpha male pit bull, if you put them in a situation where aggression is needed.
Like, if you have a chaotic set, and producers are coming down going, yeah, no, you can't wear that, you can't talk like that, of course you're going to piss these guys off. But if you put them in an environment where they know there's somebody who's the boss, I mean, they show up. It's my studio. I'm operating the camera. I'm the DP. I'm there acting with them.
We're shooting it in record time, getting them out of there fast. They're having a ball. Pitbull just wants to follow. He doesn't want to, he doesn't want to fucking take over the show. And so everyone's really, that was my theory on it anyway. I think it's just the environment because they always say, oh, if you have a dog that's misbehaving, it's the owner. It's the owner and the environment.
It's not the dog. There's nothing wrong with the animal. The animal is fine. The animal could be very calm and assertive and even submissive.
Well, they're also just going to have to protect themselves.
They have to protect themselves if this environment is fucked up.
Those are the guys that are going to drive you up a wall.
We've all encountered those executives. Yeah. Yeah. I remember I talked to Mick because I'd heard, you know, he'd been in trouble and something. So I thought, maybe his head got big in trouble. So I said, well, what was wrong? Everything had to be what Mickey wanted to say, what Mickey wanted to wear, what Mickey wanted to do.
So, okay, well, maybe he's gone back to some... I'm about to work with him again. So he comes. No, he's a dream again. So at the end I go, man, you always bring it, brother. What... you're always bringing it. It's just so great to see.
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