Tracy Letts
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You think that's what it was?
You know, you've all married four times, no children.
So as we get into some of the more workaholic ways, it's like kids will put a real crimp in those plans.
I've got to jump in here with CBS Playhouse, The Mod Squad, and five episodes of the FBI.
I point it out because now it stops.
With True Grit, it stops.
So it's almost as if he is making a real career decision here.
I've done enough of this TV.
He had done 30 or some episodes of television.
And he said, that's enough.
And I want to make movies now.
And his stock was starting to rise a bit in the movie world.
And so he calls it quits.
And yeah, makes True Grit in 69.
So he plays Ned Pepper, a very memorable part.
Well, in the screenplay by Marguerite Roberts, Hughes very closely to the Charles Portis book, as does the Coens adaptation.
Just, you know, why would you go in and screw with that unbelievable dialogue?
I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man, right?