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 Robert Duvall
Interview By: Michael Dance What's most striking about Robert Duvall is that he seems like such an unaffected guy. Here's the legend from the Godfather movies, with over one hundred acting credits to his name, sitting at a table being questioned by five or six reporters, and he keeps interrupting himself to ask us questions. "You all live in New York? Where you from?" And when our time's up and he's about to be whisked away by a publicist, he stops to ask us where a good place to eat lunch would be. But then, upon closer inspection, Duvall has never followed the normal celebrity path. He's always been a character actor, not a leading man. He doesn't live in L.A., or even New York -- he lives in Buenos Aires. He likes doing TV even better than doing movies. And yet the guy's a legend. He starred in Lonesome Dove. He won an Oscar for Tender Mercies. And in Apocalypse Now, he uttered, according to the AFI, the twelfth best quote to ever be heard in a movie: "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." "People will usually say that line like only they know it and only I know it, and they're the only ones that know it," Duvall says, amused. "Course, when I was getting ready to do The Apostle, I met with preachers all across America, and they all claimed they didn't go to movies. And one said, 'Oh, I think I know who Mr. Duvall is,' and he called back after doing some research and said, 'Yeah, you had a famous line in a movie where you said, I love the smell of gasoline in the morning!'" Duvall cracks up. "He had it all wrong." Duvall is officially here to talk about his role in We Own the Night, the new crime thriller out now that co-stars Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, and Eva Mendes. The conversation, however, flows freely between the movie and a variety of his favorite topics: his love of Westerns, dancing the tango (a passion which resulted in his 2002 movie Assassination Tango, which he directed and starred in), living in Buenos Aires, and assorted upcoming projects he's excited about. On the movie: "My character was interesting, a guy that's a widower, who's trying to balance two sons that are so different, not that they're directly with him, but that aspect of a family, trying to keep the semblance of a family after the wife is gone...and I was called in as a replacement. I came in after they had started, but James [Gray, the director] is good at explaining things. He's a terrific director. He's an actor's director, more than most. A lot of them have their fingers crossed, and [do takes] again and again and again, and they don't know what they're looking for. |
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