Tracy Letts
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Jane Alexander, Catherine Ross.
We've got to jump in with Ike, The War Years.
He goes back to TV for the first time.
Yeah, directed by Boris Segal and Melville Shavelson, who also wrote the screenplay.
And I guess it's about Eisenhower's relationship to –
The character played by Lee Remick.
I've never understood what Duvall had a problem with it, right?
The scene, he felt some stuff was cut out.
I mean, how much was cut out of that film, but he felt it was cut out for quote unquote political reasons that, that he had tried to give a performance, a more nuanced character and,
And that Coppola had cut it and just left in kind of the cartoon stuff.
I don't read it that way at all.
He admired the movie, but he was always a little angry about the cut.
Directed and written by Louis John Carlino, based on a book by the great Pat Conroy.
I rewatched it for this.