Tracy Letts

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2,850 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard yesterday

Tracy Letts’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Big Picture · The Best Movies About Filmmakers, and ‘Boorman and the Devil’ · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

Richard Burton is... I don't know what he's doing.

I mean, the documentary reveals that he maybe was not completely... Maybe he was just cashing a paycheck

just kind of playing the Burton hits and relying on his voice to get him through.

But it's a pretty...

It's a pretty dreadful performance.

baby.

I'm there.

I don't think so.

like this.

He was a very severe alcoholic, and he was drinking to great excess while they were making this film.

And...

It feels like it, and not in a way that is firing up his creative imagination, just in a way that's making him very sodden and sweaty.

And just, he's not a compelling lead

story.

He even says at some point that the exorcist, the original is about torturing a child, which is just ridiculous.

not what the exorcist is about.

The fact is that Mr. Friedkin and Mr. Borman just had such wildly different, uh, aesthetics, just a different approach to, uh, well, different things that interested them, right?

I mean, one of the things that's so terrifying about the exorcist is it's presented in this, uh,

Well, Mr. Friedkin was a documentarian, first and foremost.

So it is intensely realistic.

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