Tracy Letts
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But again, they're leads.
They were never character...
They were leads with a kind of character actor sensibility, but they're leading men and women, and Duvall was rarely that.
Maybe what can be meant was simply England's greatest actor, America's greatest actor.
They came to it gradually, just the way his career developed so gradually.
I think people finally realized...
They started to do the math.
They started to go, wait a minute.
They started to put all of the math of that together and go, well, maybe he's the best.
Maybe he's the best out of all of them.
Philip Seymour Hoffman might have been the comp, but the longevity issue is sadly really the issue.
I mean, by the time Duvall makes Apocalypse Now, he's older than Phil was when he died.
And Duvall's got another 40 plus years of a career after that.