EXTRA! Harvey Keitel

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Life is for living. Let's partner for all of it. Learn more@edwardjones.com hi, I'm Jane Hawley morning during a member conversation that offers insight on the broadcast on this episode, Mason talks to Harvey Keitel the first show I think it was a Little mama. Okay dog dog, no lines, there is known for his intensity and for turning supporting roles into standout performances, even when a six decade career, the former Marine says Hollywood doesn't consider him bankable. Here's Anthony's interview with Harvey Keitel and your family feel about you. You know what this is about what was it like a long story short, I said to them, to study acting. My father said something up. He said at the specter so that so they felt that your dental sewing machine operator.

They run from a luncheonette or something very slow to that some places Brooklyn one of the time chain did you get the part you put the work in those I made the best equipment Brooklyn yeah that's that's a trick. Okay some chocolate milk has to be frozen secret creamy top top when you decide you loved does it mean it sounds like it was this turn you made was pretty unexpected.

Well, that's quite a journey for this, but my time when you think your time well I want to make money hungry people thought all of money so when my acting class after Anthony Menino. I started with this wonderful director is Michael Kahn very well known in the theater world he runs with you. I think he runs the theater in Washington DC. Wonderful guy. We will young at that time you and this one kid in my acting class of young black men. I was living in Brooklyn at the time still.

He said to me he said to me, however, you have to leave Brooklyn moved to Manhattan you want to be an actor. You cannot be an actor living in Brooklyn and I said to him you understand Rufus Rufus Collins was sent. I just want to make money. I'm care about being an actor so he was fed up with me and so I kept studying so want to want to get good at it and eventually years to come. Here's a game I I understood it wasn't just me some poorly connected but was acting is doing things truthfully with the purpose was that purpose. Suppose that something in your case, what was the purpose awareness awareness and having lived a life that wasn't very creative except for the part of the Marines growing up in Brooklyn and was no real appreciation for the arts.

My family there were working-class people lower working-class people and live introduced talked of any kind. It's interesting to me that you describing the Marines as creative when it never been on Paris, I would have to get real creative. There suffer an interesting way of use of the word creative. I like the one I mean all all joking aside, I learned my first lesson about mythology classified that way about sense of truth in the Marine Corps during the night combat training class. I was out there in the boondocks with a couple hundred other recruits on Paris Island could see Hannah from your face that might come acting bright moon over center voice yells out your all afraid of the dark booms out across his field. I get scared because I was scared anyway help somebody know I was scared I was trying to hide it. No one could see me. I can see them and looked across the field. There was so wet like a box we could see the silhouette only, and this young Marine instructor said something like this, and paraphrasing your you're afraid of the dark were all afraid of what we don't know but waiting to teach you to live in the talk so that you no longer be afraid that for me was the first I heard about being so honest about what you're feeling like fear, not hiding important lesson to learn something to make us a lot of the parts you play are about the light in the dark and people and the battle goes on. Well, I just told you that's the that's the that night that young Marine open the back door fear in my awareness I was trying to hide and that we keep on my exploration of being on the planet and all the work I did after the Marines. When I got bored being a core sonographer and went to theater met all these wonderful young people thinking come from good educations pretty nasty stutterer as you hear now I don't actually you feel like you then I'm doing a good job hiding side. You killed it with that is a terrible way of you know, the kids make fun of your you friend me very naturally, world kids, it was. It was terrible and I would wish there was something I could come up with the could help heal young people to do of the bets that are and I think about it constantly, and the only thing I come up with was awareness awareness tried to become aware in the literature in the arts awareness might help them as you conquer. I started in the Marine Corps, not as badly as I did as a child and I just other times the child extended all the time ranges really, but there was no one way I conquered it was just what I'm saying now the best of my second I could give as a result of my experience is awareness of yourself. My stepfather had at any minute itself slowly went away from the woods as his experience was Buddha mind slowly went away.

If 2025 years, slowly going away and painfully so as you have it when you start acting to study acting but no sooner like you hear me now and never interfere with acting talking a little about taxi driver in that part will Marty had want me to play the campaign worker Albert Brooks played and I said let me play the pimp. He said three lines I sent limply the pimp. Why I was living in Hell's kitchen at the time used ice to see what she will.

The pips along the long there anyway and the Marty said okay and I found a guy was trying to find someone to do something about being a parent I knew nothing about and member approach over that time I was doing the salesman at circle square theater George Scott directed with wonderful actress Harvey. She did the member Molly Brando Teresa Russell right to resurrect it to this one prostitute there and that before I went into the theater. I said, can I ask you a question.

Can I talk to for second month. She's dressed in a trade I said well that's my name on that cart over there outside the theater and I said doing a movie playing in the movie this girl standing there looking at me like this. You know I'm trendy.

I sit and play pimp and I don't know anything about being would you talk to me about it and she looked at me and said get out here you crazy.

That was it. Okay and that I found a guy found a guy this guy and took him to the actors studio session/document to monitor these rehearsal studios downstairs and for about two weeks we improvised scenes that were not written taxi driver.

I play the girl he'd improvise with went with me work and then I began playing him and he played the girl and after those two weeks. Also, do something really silly in those two weeks she was taking me to meet some people. There were no not doing illegal things I wired myself to record you. I wired myself. I said submittal placement. Take myself so I said that they cannot see you cannot get court people over me. I mean that Lycos tape and I said to him, I have to tell you this. You know, wired said what I said I take myself so I can record it easily nuts to get us killed off item but my shirt think all the people for what we were hoping to get authenticity in in Pulp Fiction you take another pretty small role, but make it very long. No small parts only small actors thinking Stanislas so that there never seems to dissuade you. You see something about small roles palaces live here anymore. Pulp Fiction taxi driver and three lines to be human. I good training I was looking to meet the grates to be said about what a lot to be said about above them. Yes, those magnificent teachers training that's available when you went through.

In the 80s that a lot of people look at is kind of a low. For you in terms of roles in this country at least, I want to work with the stupid lowlifes you did go through.

I went to Europe. Yeah, it seemed that the Europeans wanted to work with me. Yeah, Bertrand telling you.

Yes, my mom proud to see him introducing next week in Morocco film Festival there, honoring him for a lifetime career. Yeah so actress friend of mine said let's go see this movie the clockmaker of St. Paul French director.

We went, I saw this magnificent cinema that I wasn't aware of and I said that's the kind of director want to work with about a months time. I read an article. Someone pointed out to me Bertrand telling you he said Harvey Keitel Secunda vector want to work with and Bertrand telling you he and I got together on this movie deathwatch rummage night lover.

She was great that you showed at the Moroccan film Festival and Hollywood didn't seem interested in me. The Europeans did delivered mullah J. Campion got stereo Argento and others I can't think will when you think at that.

Writer others afterwards. Sure what you think about point in time Hollywood singles interested gosh if I knew then I bottled it and sell it think it's mostly just now do because everything is box office.

Not that things don't have to be box office. They have to be, but not everything went right now it's everything. So if you have been fortunate enough to make it to the top tier at the box office. You have not made it to place the cold bankable we can get a film done that leads you to struggle along with the rest of us to get some stuff do you well you share Marty's feelings about marble felt. I read what you wrote about Marvel films and I mean the said there isn't a person that's brighter, more passionate about film than Marty Scorsese. Smart about it.

I feel the way he does about that, I'm trying to express now by Hollywood's pension desire and other bankable the makeable other bankable to be bankable is essentially to be a star just do you do you not think of yourself as a star. I myself was a former Marine who got lucky really lucky because where I came from no education, so to speak.

Wasn't that encouragement to go toward the arts. Chris was absent like a vacuum so I'm just grateful for the luck I've had people I met, including the Marines, Drew Barrymore, all my get mad.

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