“I really feel confident in what I’m doing”: Gene Hackman explains why he got fired from ‘The Graduate’
A major missed opportunity.
Cutting Room Floor Archives: 07/2024
The movie that wasted a year of John Lithgow’s life: “I had never been fired until then”
Hopefully he got paid for it.
“It appeals to me”: how one movie became the genesis point for Kevin Costner’s entire career
It became embedded in his DNA.
Katharine Hepburn once revealed the roles she wouldn’t play: “The parts aren’t there for women my age”
“Watch women go out of style…”
Did John Wayne’s “first good part in 20 years” live up to the self-proclaimed hype?
High praise from ‘The Duke’.
“It was a personal journey”: the role that left Al Pacino feeling “the most disturbed”
It took him a while to recover.
Steven Spielberg on the process that robs him of his integrity: “I lose it”
As one of the biggest public defenders of the traditional theatre experience, Steven Spielberg has had to fight an uphill battle because the viewing habits…