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Legendary Actor Scott Glenn — The right way to Be Tremendous Match at 85, Classes from Marlon Brando, The right way to Pursue Your Goal, The Artwork of Serendipity, Tales of Gunslingers, and Extra (#729)

31 March 2024
Bourahima


Tim Ferriss and Scott Glenn

“In the event you adore it, make it your life. And proper together with that, be tenacious. Study that crucial factor about being knocked down is getting again up. And in case you can put your self within the spot the place you say, ‘I don’t care what number of instances I get knocked down, I’m getting again up each single time and going after what I would like,’ that’s the reply.”

— Scott Glenn

Scott Glenn’s appearing profession spans practically 60 years. His spectacular movie resume contains performances in Apocalypse Now, City Cowboy, The Proper Stuff, Silverado, The Hunt for Purple October, The Silence of the Lambs, Backdraft, The Virgin Suicides, and The Bourne Ultimatum. Extra not too long ago, Scott has appeared on the small display as Kevin Garvey Sr. in The Leftovers, the blind sensei Stick in Marvel’s Daredevil and The Defenders, and because the retired sheriff Alan Pangborn in Fortress Rock. This 12 months, Scott will return to HBO to hitch season 3 of The White Lotus.

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#729: Legendary Actor Scott Glenn — The right way to Be Tremendous Match at 85, Classes from Marlon Brando, The right way to Pursue Your Goal, The Artwork of Serendipity, Tales of Gunslingers, and Extra

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Need to hear an episode with Scott’s TV son on Apple TV+’s upcoming Unhealthy Monkey sequence? Take heed to my dialog with Vince Vaughn right here by which we mentioned growing grit, highschool trauma, sharpening appearing chops by way of improv, rejection inoculation, discovering tone in storytelling, increasing consolation zones, and way more.

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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

SHOW NOTES

  • [07:10] Idaho vs. Los Angeles.
  • [13:26] Apocalypse Now, self-confidence quickly after.
  • [17:26] Burt Lancaster’s film star classes.
  • [23:06] The beginning and loss of life of Wes Hightower.
  • [32:22] Catching the eye of James Bridges.
  • [35:42] Scarlet fever.
  • [37:29] From Marine to police reporter.
  • [42:12] Berghof Studios and parental recommendation.
  • [50:44] Changing to Judaism.
  • [53:36] Lao Tzu: the final word mystic?
  • [58:16] Letting go together with Killer Joe.
  • [1:02:53] “Loopy Whitefella Considering.”
  • [1:08:31] Getting out of the best way and Erwan Le Corre.
  • [1:11:51] Classes from the “morally phenomenal” Marlon Brando.
  • [1:16:26] How Scott’s childhood bout with scarlet fever knowledgeable his life’s course.
  • [1:19:05] Every day routines and workout routines of an in-shape 85-year-old.
  • [1:35:12] Securing a serendipitous ability set.
  • [1:42:13] Thailand discuss.
  • [1:46:18] Growing floor luck.
  • [1:47:04] How Scott met and fell in love along with his spouse.
  • [1:53:04] “Simply dance.”
  • [1:53:46] Mistakenly calling Rudolf Nureyev Russian.
  • [1:55:57] Poetry.
  • [2:00:01] What Laurence Olivier knew concerning the worth of tenacity.
  • [2:01:41] Parting ideas.

MORE SCOTT GLENN QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“I understood, due to the best way I’ve realized every thing in my life that’s essential to me, is you study by apprenticeship, not from a e-book or going to highschool. No less than I can’t.”

— Scott Glenn

“I did one audition they usually mentioned, ‘, you’re not likely superb. We wish to offer you issues to work on.’ And I mentioned, ‘What the fuck have you learnt? Who have you ever labored with? As a result of I used to be simply doing improvs and work with Marlon Brando, Vittorio Storaro, Francis Coppola, Dennis Hopper. They usually accepted me as an equal. What have you ever completed? You’ve completed this and this. You possibly can’t even fucking direct site visitors.’ So that they kicked me out of Common.”

— Scott Glenn

“I finished off in Wyoming at one level. Folks will need to have thought I used to be nuts. I acquired out of the Jimmy and I walked right down to the aspect of the highway and I took this invisible Wes Hightower and threw him within the floor and broke his fucking neck and known as Carol at a pay cellphone. I mentioned, ‘Wes Hightower is lifeless. I’m coming house.’”

— Scott Glenn

“Crucial single occasion in my life was scarlet fever after I was 9 years previous that I wasn’t presupposed to have survived. … However that have turned me into an athlete, turned me into somebody who had realized to not solely dwell with, however fall in love with, my fantasies and my creativeness.”

— Scott Glenn

“What provides performances on movie their juice or electrical energy is their diploma of spontaneity. … And full spontaneity will not be watching your self in any respect. Full spontaneity is being within the now so fully that you simply actually don’t have a previous, and extra importantly, far more importantly I feel with appearing, you don’t have a future, which suggests plans on what you’re going to do within the scene dissolve after which lastly disappear.”

— Scott Glenn

“Once I have to study one thing, the perfect trainer on the earth materializes proper in entrance of me.”

— Scott Glenn

“I’m keen to fall on my ass in entrance of individuals. The embarrassment of screwing up and being clumsy and falling on my ass in entrance of individuals will not be nice sufficient to maintain me from doing it. And that’s the trick to being pupil.”

— Scott Glenn

“The factor concerning the pandemic that I spotted is lots of people who have been in love with one another needed to uncover whether or not they favored one another or not.”

— Scott Glenn

“In the event you adore it, make it your life. And proper together with that, be tenacious. Study that crucial factor about being knocked down is getting again up. And in case you can put your self within the spot the place you say, ‘I don’t care what number of instances I get knocked down, I’m getting again up each single time and going after what I would like,’ that’s the reply.”

— Scott Glenn

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