It's been said that actors like Brad Pitt, Denzel Washington, and Jack Nicholson turn down invitations to the show.
How come?
And I'm not looking for any "because James Lipton sucks" or "because this show's LAME" answers, I'd really like to know. Obviously actors of equal or better talent have come to visit, so what's wrong with it?
Thank you for being civil in responses please.
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Magz.
It can only come up with these reasons:
1. Maybe it's because they're private person etc.
2. They don't like to come and talk for an hour about their own movies for possibly humble reasons.
3. Maybe because they're shy and don't want to get on stage. There are a lot of shy actors in hollywood. Robert De Niro for example, yet he still came.
Hm. Well thank you. :)
"Anything you say can, and will be used against you."
Magz.
Actually believe it or not when Brad Pitt was asked to come to the Actor's Studio he turned down the invitation simply because he felt that he didn't have a sufficient body of work at the moment! This was actually a few years ago, now with works such as Benjamin Button and Inglorious Bastards under his belt we could more than likely see him sometime soon sitting in the chair
shareI don't know either Pitt or Washington but Nicholson never appeared in any television show.
shareI don't think Nicholson really likes to do televised interviews in general. He's never gone too in-depth about how he approaches acting even in print. Daniel Day-Lewis is kind of the same way, as I've only ever seen one place where he's given any sort of detailed answer. This was only four years ago, and a link is provided below. Chgriffin85 seems to have the scoop on Brad Pitt; I'd never heard that before. Denzel I've got no idea about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi-VHXpNauM
I could see Denzel being similar to Nicholson and Day-Lewis. It strikes me that he's not the type who discusses his craft much. I speak under correction though.
sharei can't vouche for pitt or denzel, but jack rarely does any interviews. and he never does tv. just not his thing. i remember seeing lipton on i think it was Last Call with Carson Daly years ago when Last Call first came on (back when a few people actually bothered watching it) and he asked lipton who his dream guests would be and he said "Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando, but neither of them ever give interviews." well brando obviously can't do the show now and i seriously doubt jack is going to ever but pitt and denzel will do it eventually i'm sure.
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Some people just don't like doing interviews. Jack hasn't been interviewed in any form since the early 70s. He's intensely private and I don't think that'll ever change.
I'd like to hope it would at some point, just because I think it would be awesome to see what he's like in real life. But... oh well.
I think it is BS. Jack appears a lot in DVD extras for instance. He does many-many audiocommentaries and interviews. I think he knows he will be in good hands and will go to ITAS.
shareThat's a lot different..audio commentaries there is almost no preperation..they can do it at home. And doing dvd interviews doesn't have a studio audience..and dvd interviews arentrimmed down to little snippets ussually mixed with other people.
"That's a lot different..audio commentaries there is almost no preperation..they can do it at home. And doing dvd interviews doesn't have a studio audience..and dvd interviews arentrimmed down to little snippets ussually mixed with other people."
Well, depending on the director, writer, actor, etc. there can be some preperation, sometimes a lot of preperation (especially when it comes to historians doing audio commentaries), involved.
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