Written by James M. Tate / 8/13/2019 / No comments / alfred hitchcock , bruce dern , interview , karen black , karen black interviews , quentin tarantino , seventies , thriller
KAREN BLACK RELECTS ALFRED HITCHCOCK & THE GREAT GATSBY
Karen Black on Alfred Hitchcock during the filming of Family Plot |
There’s a story, he was on an elevator and he started this terrible story at the top of this building, you know, and everyone in the elevator could hear him as he was talking to a chum. “Oh there was a terrible murder. The body was on the floor. There was blood all over.” And he was telling the story and he was about to solve the problem of the crime very quickly and say who did it when the elevator doors open, and everybody had to walk out. And he knew it. He was just doing it to be funny.
Alfred Hitchcock birthday 8-13 |
Nobody at the party had their name on the place card. And they would go on to find their name; find that it wasn’t there. And they would go around again. And he would watch that… He was very playful. He just loved all that.
But in his work, you know, it’s a little bit like Quentin Tarantino’s work. I met Quentin the other week and I told him that he was like Hitchcock in that he keeps people on the edge of their seat – you don’t know what’s going to happen next. He’s playful. It’s a fabulous characteristic for a director to have
Quentin Tarantino |
I got him a dictionary… He always liked dictionaries. I got him a big red, golden dictionary… Goodbye present. He was a very warm-hearted guy. Very warm, very alive. And very shrewd. It had to be right. He wasn’t gonna put up with anything that wasn’t up to snuff. And at the same time, he would sit and talk to me, and I’d say, “Where did you get the suit?” and he sat looking and looking for the tailor inside the suit. And the A.D. – the assistant director – would come up to him and say, “Mr. Hitchcock, we’re waiting for you." And he’d say (imitating voice), “Aw, but I’m waiting for you.”
It was like that. It was a very interesting combination.
Karen Black in black in Alfred Hitchcock's final film FAMILY PLOT |
TAKEN FROM A PHONE INTERVIEW WITH KAREN BLACK |
I sort of closed in on that role with all my heart: a wonderful miracle. I got to England and I sat in front of Jack Nicholson – I mean, Jack Clayton, across his desk and I read a scene. And he said, “Don’t say advertisement, say advertisement like you did just now.” And he said, “And never, ever, ever say the scene out loud again before we shoot.”
I think what was interesting about that character in that movie is, you know, the Mia Farrow character and Lois Chiles character are women filled with ennui… [Spells word] E-N-N-U-I. They’re tired of life with a kind of high-class social weariness to them.
Karen Black with Bruce Dern in THE GREAT GATSBY |
She really had a goal. She really had something she would give her life for.
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