Tracy Letts
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We can get you a second-hand motorcycle that you can learn on.
And Torn's mad about it, and he says that wasn't the deal.
And then they reach out to him, and they wanted him to get his shoe and calf measured for the boots that he had to wear.
And Torn said, that's it, and quit immediately.
So they're out on the road filming the movie, and suddenly the guy they've been rehearsing with for weeks can't appear.
James Caan recommends Robert Duvall because they had worked together on Countdown and Shirley Knight had done an episode of Naked City with Robert Duvall.
So they both had associations with them and they tell Coppola, you should hire Robert Duvall.
And they changed the history of movies, really.
I mean, that's the first time Coppola meets Duvall is working on this film.
I think Frank Burns wouldn't mean anything to us were it not for the TV show.
I think the TV show kind of solidifies Frank β Larry Linville, who was great as Frank Burns, overtly comic performance on the TV show.
But I think he's what cements Frank Burns in the β
I was surprised that I didn't know anything about it.
It's like, how does a movie with Jon Voight and Robert Duvall, that's not terrible.
How does it just have no footprint at all?
It's not a terrible movie.
It's kind of interesting.
Jon Voight's very good in it.