Stay ConnectedAlex Simon has interviewed the biggest names in world cinema. The Hollywood Interview is a collection of those talks, past and present, with the iconic veterans, young iconoclasts, and future innovators of the world’s greatest art form. Each interview is wrapped in an audio experience of the artist’s work and Alex’s filmic commentary.
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Alex has an amazing conversation with William Sadler! Being directed by Dennis Hopper and Frank Darabont. Developing characters and being in the zone on Broadway. Being a badass in Die Hard 2. Adding layers to Hayward in Shawshank Redemption. Stretching comedy with Bill and Ted as Death. His relationships with George Carlin, Keenu Reeves and Don Johnson. Playing the iconic US Marine Chesty Puller that led his own father and uncle in WW2.
This interview is a true insight into the art and process of a pure actor.
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Films As Diverse As Wargames, Blue Thunder, Nick Of Time And Bird On A Wire Kept John Badham One Of The Busiest Directors In The Biz, Having Literally Not Stopped Working Since 1971. His 2006 Book I’ll Be In My Trailer (Co-written With Craig Moderno) Has Become Required Reading For Virtually Every Neophyte Film Director In The Business.
2020 Finds Badham Releasing A Second Edition Of His 2013 Best-seller, “John Badham On Directing: Notes From The Set Of Saturday Night Fever, Wargames, And More”.
The Book Offers An Engaging Look At The Psychological, Technical, And Managerial Elements That Go Into Helming A Film Or Tv Show, With The Second Edition Featuring A New Section Called “A Director’s Survival Guide To Episodic Television.”
A Veteran Of Over 30 Films And 50 Tv Episodes, Badham Supports His Insights With True Stories From His Own Directing Career As Well As Wisdom And Anecdotes From Leading Actors, Producers, Cinematographers, And Directors Including: D.J. Caruso, Gilbert Cates, Martha Coolidge, Richard Dreyfuss, Jodie Foster, John Frankenheimer, Patty Jenkins, Sydney Pollack, Brett Ratner, Steven Soderbergh, And Oliver Stone.
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ALEXANDER SIDDIG joins Alex for a personal journey through his film acting career. From "A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia" reprising a role made famous by Alec Guinness, to the Roger Corman-like new movie "Skylines" released by Vertical Entertainment in select Theaters, Drive-ins, On Demand and Digital December 18th, 2020. SKYLINES YOUTUBE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/MuuqzLwgMhY
Deep Space 9, Syriana, Kingdom Of Heaven, Cairo Time, Munich Cell, Gotham, Peaky Blinders, Game of Thrones are all discussed.
They explore Alexander's exposure to identity culture growing up in Britain of the 1970's, and the quest for fairness now for minorities of all identities.
Dealing with pandemic isolation, Alexander Siddig has connected world wide with a community of caring people determined to make the future better and more inclusive. Join them at sidcity.net
Alexander would be thrilled if you supported Doctors Without Borders as they are heroes, in the most dangerous places, saving lives and giving their own to heal everyone.
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Sigourney Weaver. Revered as the leading American actress who combines indomitable strength with old world elegance, Sigourney Weaver comes by both naturally.
Sigourney Weaver sat down with Alex over lunch at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons, looking every bit the elegant lady in a tailored red suit and discussed her movie career from Annie Hall (her first screen role) to Alien to Heartbreakers, Working Girl, Galaxy Quest and everything in between. Alex covers her relations to directors like Woody Allen, Ang Lee, Mike Nichols, Ridley Scott and Peter Weir and actors like Mel Gibson, Ray Liotta, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Gene Hackman.
This interview reveals the true devotion to her craft and shows her growth as an actor.
Sigourney Weaver was voiced by Marisa Ferrey.
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Alex looks back during these tough days of global pandemic to his days of underage sneaking into R rated movies. Raging Bull, Two Minute Warning, The Exorcist, Taxi Driver and of course a generation's first love - Pretty Baby and Brooke Shields.
Enjoy this cinematic tour through a teenager's lens. Also Caligula, Black Sunday, King of The Gypsies, Death on the Nile, A Bridge Too Far in the background.
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We are so sorry it has been so long since our last episode. Between COVID19 and societal strife it has been a rough year. The show must go on! We are back and have a full slate planned! Please support us by going to www.patreon.com/thehollywoodinterview and become a patron. With support we can get more episodes out faster and celebrate movies and the moviemakers. And you get SWAG!
Enjoy the continuation of this deep dive into the state of cinema as Alex chats with producer/director Danny Wolf about films like The Irishman in a world of Marvel and Star Wars corporate franchise fare.
Will DVDs and Bluerays disappear? Discussion about The Highwayman, Both Eyes Open, Parasite, Blade Runner and The Wild Bunch. Midnight Movies (Rocky Horror and Dolemite) and Horror.
Look for "Time Warp" directed by Danny Wolf on VOD in Spring 2020. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1639665/?ref_=ttfc_fc_dr1
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Cult Movie expert Danny Wolf joins Alex Simon for The Hollywood Interview Late Show to discuss controversy over Martin Scorcese's "The Irishman". The two filmmakers expose the evolving appetite of the movie going audience in the age of Marvel fandom.
True cinephiles, Danny and Alex cruise through the subject of modern film history touching upon Taranatino, De Palma, Friedkin, Frankenheimer and John Waters. Cult movies and other movies discussed include El Topo, Serial Mom, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Jackie Brown, The Maniac, Pecker, Polyester, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Killer Joe, Sorcerer, Assault on Precinct 13 and Ronin. Even Magnum Force and Clint Eastwood are touched upon. As always the discussion is woven into a movie audio experience.
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Helen Mirren recounts her career. Playing English queens Elizabeth I and Elizabeth II. Caligula, Excalibur, Gosford Park and Prime Suspect. Alex and Helen discuss her early years at the Royal Shakespeare Company and her Russian heritage. Religion and Hillary Clinton.
Helen Mirren was voiced by Fiona Cooke of Extraextracasting.com
Hang out for a Special Feature at the end of the interview - Fiona Cooke of Extra Extra Casting gives a behind the scenes look at Casting for Background Extras. It is a fascinating look at the business of casting all those other people on screen.
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Dennis Hopper and Alex discuss big roles; Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet and True Romance. How sobriety was a big part of the Hopper career rebirth. How Dennis invented the music video. Film financing and screenwriting.
Dennis Hopper was played by Vernon Scott. Vernon is an actor and voice actor. He can be found on Facebook.
Please be aware there is mature language including racial slurs in this episode.
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The Hollywood landscape is littered with tragedies, broken promise and self-destruction. Many promising artists stumble once and never recover from that initial fall. In the history of American film, there has never been a phoenix-like story of survival and rebirth quite like that of Dennis Hopper.
Surrounded by some of the film, art and political world’s most significant players: James Dean, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Martin Luther King, Marlon Brando, John Wayne, Miles Davis, and dozens of other legendary names; Hopper discusses his impressions and interactions with them all in Part 1 of this expose of Hollywood history.
Dennis Hopper was played by Vernon Scott. He can be found on Facebook.
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Patrick Swayze passed ten years ago today, September 14, 2009, at age 57. Of the over 600 people I've interviewed since 1996, Patrick was, by far, the nicest. A real person. No pretense. No diva, movie star nonsense. Just another guy that I was having a chat with. In a time when we see ex-Nazis (and other despots) living to the century mark, the untimely passing of someone like Patrick Swayze is made all that much more palpable. Our interview is recreated here and, I hope, captures the spirit of our meeting.
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Patrick Swayze was played by Ben Warner. He is thebenwarner at Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
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Even the most seasoned (and jaded) journalists are faced with a subject who brings butterflies to the stomach, akin to what we felt at our first school dance. The prospect of chatting with the iconic Lauren Bacall had this effect on me. It was 2007 and Bacall had just finished work on Paul Schrader’s “The Walker,” opposite Woody Harrelson. Our chat on the phone became one of the great conversations, and personal connections, of my life. Most journalists avoid “phoners” whenever possible, as a conversation via Alexander Graham Bell (or Verizon) is rarely as intimate or revealing as a one-on-one chat. Originally, I was to interview Miss Bacall (aka “Betty” to her friends) at The Four Seasons in Beverly Hills. A longtime New Yorker who resided in the iconic Dakota Apartment Building, she had cancelled all LA press due a cold. Her publicist offered me twenty minutes on the phone as a consolation, and of course, I said “yes.”
After 90 minutes of extraordinary conversation, this episode of The Hollywood Interview covers a vast and golden age of Hollywood as Bacall recounts it, from Bogart to Hemingway, Bette Davis to Robert F. Kennedy. Bacall responds to Alex’s deep filmic knowledge with stories never heard before. Names drip from her lips like Hepburn and Harold Pinter, John Huston and Howard Hawks, Kirk Douglas and Woody Harrelson. Directors like Robert Altman and Lars Van Treer. Lauren Bacall also shares her political disappointments and hopes for the future. Her political comments still ring true.
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Thanks to Deryn Warren for playing Lauren Bacall. Deryn is a pre-eminent actor and director in Hollywood. Connect with her at https://www.linkedin.com/in/deryn-warren-6b94a313/.
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Sidney Lumet was the first director I interviewed whose one-sheet posters hung on my wall as a kid. He was an idol, an icon, and an inspiration. I wasn't yet 30 in April 1997, when I met him at The Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills for our interview at the press junket for "Night Falls On Manhattan," one of his solid, authentic urban dramas that blended crime, politics and personal revelations that became his signature. Lumet's body of work is one that will carry on for the ages, and remains one of the cinema's most diverse. It is unlikely, given the vast changes in the movie business since Lumet's entry, that another contemporary filmmaker will ever assemble one to rival it.
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Thanks to the talented Jonathan Coogan for his voicing of Sidney Lumet. For acting and voicing contact Jonathan at jonathancoogan.com or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Jonathan.Rosenthal.Coogan/about?lst=584764309%3A503595955%3A1566316128 or just call him at 323-791-8633.
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