During an interview on Interview, Christoph Waltz and Caleb Landry Jones made risky statements to say the least about the talent of Marlon Brando, the centenary of whose birth is on this occasion.
In the magazine Interview Magazine a conversation between Christoph Waltz And Caleb Landry Joneswhich caused quite a stir due to how the two actors seem to agree on it Marlon Brando, the cinema legend whose centenary is this year and to whom the retrospective of the Torino Film Festival will be dedicated. Let’s see together what the two actors said and in what context.
Christoph Waltz and Caleb Landry Jones from the dogs to the demolition of Marlon Brando
In the article that appeared in Interview, signed Christoph Waltzthe Oscar-winning Austrian actor, who achieved success in adulthood thanks to the role in Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino, converses with Caleb Landry Jones taking inspiration from Dogman, which the actor played for Luc Besson, initially talking about amenities such as overly restrictive laws on smoking, the behavior of dogs of which Waltz declares himself to be a great fan and much more, and then focusing on the role of editing in cinema and obviously on the actor’s profession. And at a certain point, out of the blue, the name of comes up Marlon Brando. We report that part of the conversation, hoping to be as faithful as possible to the content, which has not been reworked for writing and is therefore very fragmentary and colloquial, not always easy to understand:
CLJ: On set we had those Hollywood dogs that acted a little differently because they were trained differently. The less experienced ones didn’t do the scene correctly and we had to explain to them that they had to do it several times. The beauty of having seen it several times is in having seen the finesse of the editing. It’s fantastic to work with someone who knows cinema inside out. It takes a lot of responsibility away from the actor and crew. W: I totally agree. Because I think it’s bullshit (to say) that it’s the actor who saves the day.
C.LJ. I think sometimes you get more than you bargain for, and it’s amazing. There’s that great video on Youtube about behind the scenes of The Score with DeNiro And Brando who do a series of takes in a row. And Brando climbs the mirrors to capture something alive, anything that didn’t belong to him. Maybe it’s selfish of Brando to work this way. CW: And now it’s Brando’s centenary. CLJ: Really? CW: I read two articles and found them both irritating, with this posthumous beatification… CLJ: Out of arrogance? CW: No, for the sake of making… C.LJ: An icon? CW: Yes, a myth. And it’s ridiculous because he was a bastard. CLJ: Yes, big and big and scary.
CW: At first it was great. No one had ever seen anything like it. CLJ: Two nights ago I looked Missouriwhich I had never seen. Arthur Penn (the director, ed) is great and there are Harry Dean Stanton And Randy Quaid, which I love. But Jack Nicholson he messes around and Brando does it too. The people I saw it with said “Nicholson is perfect” while I thought “hell he is”. Brando is confused, but there is logic in that madness. I know people say he was “complicated” and all that, but I don’t know if the people he worked with were always ready to… CW: I don’t care about that. I find it hard to watch“. CLJ: Yes. I remember hearing you talk about Brando and thinking “he’s frustrating and full of himself.” You’d think that after a year at the theater (with A Streetcar Named Desire, ed) had achieved something. But then I think she created some of the frustrations that are in the film.
At this point the conversation, already quite confused, moves on to talking about other things, about actors like Harrison Ford and John Wayne and again about dogs. The impression is that the two were returning from a dinner with abundant libations. From what we understand, they both save early Brando, but perhaps forget classics like The Godfather, Last tango in Paris And Apocalypse Now. Sincerely, feel Christoph Waltz who defines him as a gigione (“ham”, in English) has the effect of an ox calling a donkey a cuckold. As far as we are concerned, Marlon Brando he was perhaps the greatest actor ever, gifted with an unrepeatable charisma, and it seems quite distasteful for two actors to talk about him in this way.
