ClancyBrown

I don't know if I can add anything to what's going on, to all of his tributes right now. I find it very upsetting that he died. We exchanged some books. I gave him a book by Greg Bear, and he gave me The Swallow by Mary Cappello, and he was just a real generous actor, a generous person, and a real being of light. Just one of those guys. It's not good that he's dead. There's nothing to celebrate about people dying, it's just a bummer all the way around. And I'll miss him.

Yeah! It was a great show to do. You know, you don't see many shows about the Depression on TV, and I thought just the beginning of it, when the beginning narration talks about the death of magic and the birth of technology, or something like that, I can't remember the exact phrase that is used, I thought that pretty much summarizes that period, and that shift in American history and human experience, where we go from believing in magic to believing in science and drawing a stark line between the two. It was fun, it was about the battle of good & evil. We had the best art direction I've ever seen on the show, the costumes were just beautiful, it was really meticulous and fun to watch. The photography was gorgeous, I always looked forward to watching it. I don't usually watch what I do, but I always looked forward to those episodes because they were so fun to look at.

As I'm thinking about it since that question, that was something that I did in the very first episode when I sent Spongebob out for a left-handed "spatuler" or something, I sent him on a wild-goose chase and then he found the goose! So "spatuler" kind of happened that first episode, and we stuck with that. The other applications of having an "r" is just as it feels right, and you do whatever you think is funny.

I think it's a speech pattern in seaside, maritime economies and regions, and things like that. Adding an "r" to everything to separate it sometimes. Plus pirates say "r"!

Arrrrr.

Hahaha!

There was not a whole lot of fun to be had, it was a strange set. You know, we were all trying to make a good movie, and the producers were trying to, you know, make money any way they could, so there were a lot of things we had to work around, do on the cheap because of those producers. I don't know, there was just a point - I wasn't getting paid anything, Sean was getting paid a lot, so you have to decide if you're going to have fun or not, so the only thing I could have on that set was fun, so that's what I had! It's not one of my favorite experiences making that movie, although I did have fun on it, the circumstances of making it were very hard. And not pleasant, for a lot of people. I think Sean was fine, Sean worked for a couple of weeks and then took his money and did Untouchables, and Christoph was having fun, because he had just won the Cesar in france, so he was living the highlife. Roxanne and I were just trying to get by, you know, do what we could. It wasn't much on the page, to the Kurgan, it was not written well, it was just kind of a big thuggish bad guy, so I had to do something to make it interesting for myself, and Russel (the director) was having fun, so he let me get away with whatever I wanted to do. He was enjoying it enough, and it was a hard shoot for him as well. Some people onsets have a harder pull than other people, like Sean, he made a lot of money for very little work in those days, so he had fun, and others of us had a harder time and had to find more ways to enjoy ourselves.