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Post by Nove on Feb 12, 2008 23:20:07 GMT -5
Michael was surprised to get a part in "Boarding Gate" as the character wasn't the usual kind of character he plays. He was flattered to be asked and very interested in somebody like Olivier Asayas,a great filmmaker. Michael loves shooting pictures out of America specially in Paris and a dream to work with Asia so he said with a rakish smile.
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Post by Nove on Feb 14, 2008 6:27:46 GMT -5
Michael says that when you have to work in a movie with a woman and you have to do certain things with a woman that requires cooperation,it can be a bit complicated if the woman is a pregnant dog,or if she is a c**t,or if she is a self-centred ego-maniac,which many of these starlets are. So I was a little concerned about Asia. Having never met her,I didn't know what I was getting into. I liked her films but then when she walked on the set she had a can of beer in her hand with a napkin wrapped around it and a straw and the second that I saw what was in her hand,I new we were gonna get along just fine.
She's a spitefire. Oh,God. I love her. I think we had a good-whatever works on film-chemistry. I sure would like to do something else with her,I really do. I think that somebody needs to write a script or somebody needs to find something for her and me to do. Something else. Now that we know each other,if we did something else again,knowing what we learned from each other doing "Boarding Gate",then we could probably do something fantastic.
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Post by Nove on Feb 14, 2008 19:01:54 GMT -5
Michael was asked if the onus could fall on him as a writer if he had considered writing a screenplay for him and Asia. His reply was---The stuff I have is Americana: American cops,robbers and killers that kind of thing. It would have to be something that would cross the line between an American and a European storyline. I'm counting on someone to come up with something for us.
Playing the part of Miles Rennberg was confusing for me as I was confused with the character. I didn't know what the f**k to do. I mean the guy is on the internet and he is a stockbroker and he's a businessman with an office and staff. He wears nice shirts,suits,drives a nice car. I couldn't relate to him at all..I didn't know what the f**k it was. I think it that maybe it is good that I didn't because I put myself in the circumstance of the guy,Miles. I didn't understand Mile's dilemma. So I just played the dilemma. You know if you make a movie,you put a guy in a suit,sit him behind a desk,well by God,there he is: He's a businessman. Then it's done for you. It is created around you. It isn't an intelletual journey. Acting for me isn't some f**king mystery. It is what it is. I don't have any training. I don't have any talent. I'm not lawrence Olivier. I never will be. I'm not interested in Shakespeare but believe me,I tried to read some of that nuts and it's kind of confusing. Very prophectic and profound but okay...
I was flattered by being asked to do something by Olivier Assayas,I was confused. Why did he think of me? Of all the people he could get? Wow.
He never explained it to me. Whatever it was,I had reached a point I'm weary of playing these tough guys and shooting people and killing people.
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Post by Nove on Feb 17, 2008 22:29:45 GMT -5
Nobody remembers me for "Free Willy",I'm the guy from"Reservoir Dogs"and"Kill Bill". In reality,I've been married to the same woman for over 10 years and I've six children. I'm a lot more like Glen than I am Mr Blonde. Or maybe I'm somewhere in the middle. I don't know. Humprey Bogart,I think,made something like 40 pictures for Warner Brothers,always being the f**king hoodlum and shooting straight from the hip. Because only Bogie shot like that. He played all these tough guys until John Huston had the realization that he use Bogie for the "Maltese Falcon" and everything changed for Bogie. He became a leading man and his whole career changed.
I feel like a leading man trapped in a bad guy's body but it was kind of like that for Robert Mitchum. Then look at "Ryan's Daughter" and "Heaven Knows Mr.Allison". I mean look at the remake of "Cape Fear". You've got Robert De Niro and Nick Nolte and they were nuts! Look at Mitchum and Gregory Peck. It was all underplayed,very subtle and It's a better film.
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Post by Nove on Feb 19, 2008 8:42:20 GMT -5
Michael was asked what point in his career and age would thinks naturally progress for him.
I'm hoping for that. I think that sooner or later,if you don't try to take destiny into you're own hands,you are just going to continue to be pegged,used and manipulated as a gun for hire. "Well lets get Madsen,yeah! There's a crazy guy in this movie. Lets get Madsen. He'll be great!" Meanwhile I would rather ride off into the sunset with the girl. I would like to leave the building unscathed. I would rather save all the people in the town and then leave. Why is "Shane" the greatest film that Alan Ladd ever made? It's because George Stevens realized that Alan Ladd was gonna be believable in a heroic role. He didn't need to be a killer, if he is gonna kill for the right reasons,that it would be looked upon in a completely different way. Because there is a really fine line between good and evil. Most of the best leading men were good at being leading men because they new the other side. I mean look at Gregory Peck in "Duel In The Sun",one of the only times he played a nasty guy. Look how incredible he was in that movie. He was such a bastard,rottento the core but he was charming when he was right. Wow! He could have been one of the greatest film villians in history but then when you look at "To Kill A Mockingbird", he will go down in history as one of the greatest leadingmen. The only way it's going to happen to me is if the pictures that are playing over here (are seen by) the right people. I did a fight - I played a prize fighter- called "Strength and Honor" that has been playing over here,which is a 180 000 degrees different fron anything I've ever done before. I did a cop thing called "Vice",where I played a policeman who is very f**ked up and has to do a lopt of violent things but at the end of the movie there is a lot of redemption and I've got "Boarding Gate",so I just have to hope that if anyone went to see these three pictures,perhaps someone will finger me.
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Post by Nove on Feb 21, 2008 6:16:27 GMT -5
Michael says he's sick of the USA and fed up with all that Hollywood bullnuts and that celebrity witch hunt. Ale Balwin calling his daughter a little pig,Paris Hilton is going to jail,Mini-Me is in rehab and Anna Nicole drops dead in a hotel. What the f**k is going on? David Hasselhoff is a drunk,eating a cheeseburger. His family gives the video to the news. If Alec was mad and he called his daughter a little pig,I'm sure it probably really hurt her feelings but if the media is going to attack him for doing that,then how much harm did they do to her by playing it over and over on the news. They did the same thing he did but they made it worse. how can they claim to be caring about this child,when they f**k it up and made it worse? Okay,Paris goes to jail. Play around in your little cot for a couple of weeks and then when it's over,you will get back in your Rolls Royce and you will go on. I'm disgusted by all of it. I'm so f**king sick of it. It makes me want to take my kids and move to Europe...There's a lot of bullnuts and I don't want my children growing up with that stuff. I love my country. My God I love my country. My father's brother was killed on the beach in World War II. My cousin was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam and he got the bronze star and a purple heart and he saved a couple of guys. I love my country.
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Post by Nove on Feb 22, 2008 9:55:37 GMT -5
Michael spent a while in Paris doing "Inglorious Bastards" and it was a good opportunity to bring his family over to Europe Johnny Depp thought it a good plan. Michael loves Johnny Depp since they starred together in "Donny Brasco". He's a good cat says Michael.
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Post by Nove on Feb 22, 2008 23:23:36 GMT -5
Talking about shooting in Paris and "Inglorious Bastards" what now for Michael? He's just finished "Hellrider for Tarantino and then had to go straight from the set to Lax. Tarantino is in Cannes writing "Inglorious Bastards" Which they hadn't at that time started shooting. He's still out there promoting "Death Wish".
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Post by Nove on Feb 26, 2008 22:42:35 GMT -5
Michael talks about the media frenzy that goes on.
I'm not worried about media frenzy. I'm worried about my children being in a place where nuts is going on. If you are an architect,you draw pictures or houses, if you are a swimmer,you swim. if you are an actor you act. I tried to do many things before this insanity. I was an orderly in a hospital. I went to school to be a paramedic. I was an auto mechanic in a Chevy dealership. I drove a tow truck.
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Post by Nove on Mar 1, 2008 7:52:16 GMT -5
Michael didn't take acting lessons. He tried briefly but thought it was all bullnuts, Then he went to Steppenwolf for a while in Chicago and met some great people. Johnny and Terry Kinney and Gary Sinise. It was a basement theatre company and Michael had an interesting time. He didn't learn much not into pretending to be a palm tree or drink a fake cup of coffee.
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