Tracy Letts
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Who doesn't like Whitney Houston?
So when he and James Caan were in Ogallala making The Rain People, they became friends with this family of rodeo folk.
And he stayed friends with them, and he went back over some years, continuing to shoot them,
He said, he claimed that he was shooting him in the style of a Ken Loach movie.
So he was aware of Ken Loach.
He has talked about Ken Loach over the years.
I saw him cite him multiple times.
So that's, and it took him years to do.
He was doing it with his wife at the time.
They eventually put this movie together.
And then he and his wife got divorced and she took the movie and it hasn't been seen since.
They had decided, Philip Kaufman had decided that he was the first.
I was really kind of looking forward to it.
I thought it was going to be like camp, like a Russ Meyer Valley of the Dolls.
I thought there was going to be kind of a camp element to it.
Laurence Olivier and Duvall chopping it up.