Beat Punks by Victor Bockris

Author:Victor Bockris [Bockris, Victor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781497653061
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

VICTOR BOCKRIS: Are there only a handful of really good film makers in the world today?

NICOLAS ROEG: There are a lot, but only a handful are being looked at because film is a very young art. Have you read Mankiewicz’s book All About Eve? In the preface he writes about the actor and where did action begin? One day in a deep dark cave everybody was sitting in their bearskin, leopard or tigerskin clothes and someone shrieked out, got up, stuck two feathers up his ass and danced around and behaved like a chicken. And then he went back and sat down and put on his tigerskin trunks. The next night someone said: “Why don’t you do that again?” He said – “What!” And that’s where acting is. It’s not learning about projecting. Performing is a very serious thing. It begins in the cave when someone says “I’ve had it! I’d just as well run around and look like a chicken.” I like the performer, and the nearest thing to a great performer is the balladier. It’s not really so far away from its roots. The balladier’s job was to tell stories and sing ballads. Richard Couer De Lion was saved by the balladier … I was asked about David Bowie: I’d spent twelve hours with him when we first met and when I went back to Los Angeles someone in the studio said: “Well, it’s very interesting, but can he act?” I said “But this man has had 40,000 people spellbound on his own, sticking a finger in the top of his trousers. What actor could command 40,000 people to look at them because even David says he’s not Joan Sutherland. They’re coming for his performance and what he has to say. They wouldn’t come for Warren Beatty. So what do we mean by actor?”

BOCKRIS: Is there any way you can describe the difference between working with Jagger and Bowie?

ROEG: I think that’s an amazingly static question. It’s a question that I’m sure every woman – and damn it why not say this – is asked about their different men. Every woman is continually asked: “How can you go out with a little thin guy and also a big strapping guy?” I don’t know. They’re both interesting. There’s no answer to that.

BOCKRIS: But don’t you find that some actors tend to turn you on more than other actors?

ROEG: Of course. But at the time, it’s like a love affair. You know, is it true? Were you really in love with him? Were you really in love with her? You can never say yes of course I was. You just say – “Not like you” – because the new one is the new one. Actually your question, to an individual like myself, is very much like life and can be applied to life. Which actor did you prefer? Which love did you prefer? Well I don’t know. You fall in love two, three, four times, maybe twenty times, fifty times, one hundred and fifty times, three thousand times … it doesn’t matter.

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