He wanted as much fat as he could get so he could do that trimming process and get exactly the performance he wanted. He only gave very specific takes to editors and had them glue them all together for him. PHOTOS Inside THR’s Tonys Actress Roundtable with Idina Menzel, Jessie Mueller, Sutton FosterĪlthough your father won two Oscars, Billy Wilder said he was a ham that needed the fat trimmed away.īilly Wilder was wonderful and he loved to poke fun at people who loved to poke fun right back. During Tribute, he wrecked a vintage MG that he bought from Bill Bixby. For How to Murder Your Wife, he wrecked an Aston Martin. He wrecked a magnificent sports car for pretty much every film he ever did. What’s the one thing people would be surprised to find out about Jack Lemmon? She called me and said, ‘You need to come over and talk to your father.’ When I got there, I didn’t need to say a word. He’d fallen down, hit his head, cut it open, had a bloody dishtowel hanging off the side of his head and finally the maid couldn’t take it. He had a final night where it got out of control with broken glass all over the floor. He spoke publicly about his alcoholism and I wonder if you remember the night he gave it up? And my old man’s going, ‘Jimmy, what are you doing?’ Suddenly here I am in the middle of this incredible party with these gods of the silver screen and they’re all giving a concert for me, singing songs for me. I sneak my little head out and Cagney saw me and runs over and grabs me, ‘Oh, look who we have here!’ and throws me in the room. And the friends are Gregory Peck, Shirley MacLaine, Jimmy Cagney and Jimmy Stewart and on and on. I remember he took me back to his bachelor pad after he and my mother got divorced and he tucked me into my bed, gave me a kiss goodnight, sung me a lullaby and he goes out and invites some friends over. Was it a big deal for you living among so many icons? PHOTOS David Rooney’s Top 10 New York Theater Picks for 2013 I was 6 or 7 years old and these guys went, ‘I think it’s time for you to leave,’ and they yanked me out of there. We used to live at Harold Lloyd’s old house-my mom rented it from him-and sure enough there’s this helicopter in a low lazy circle and these guys in funny suits and funny glasses standing around watching Marilyn Monroe and JFK having a frolic in the pool. That was when you were a kid living a few doors down from Marilyn Monroe in Santa Monica. He’s Jim West of The Wild, Wild West.’ And as the kid was running away I thought to myself, ‘I didn’t know Dad was famous. I was on the playground and this other kid comes running up to me he goes, ‘Hey, my father’s more famous than your father.’ I go, ‘What do you mean?’ He says, ‘My father is Jim West of The Wild, Wild West, he’s more famous than your dad.’ And I thought about it for second and I turned to him and said, ‘Well, sure he is. The day I finally realized who exactly my father was, I was a kid at Carlthorp School in Santa Monica. It’s a difficult question to answer because there’s no basis for comparison. How many times have you been asked what’s it like to be Jack Lemmon’s son? Lemmon: He was born in an elevator because his mother, who called herself G.G., short for gorgeous grandma, was at a hot poker game when her water broke and refused to get up from the table. The Hollywood Reporter: Is it true your father was born in an elevator? Lemmon recently talked to THR about growing up with a screen icon, the night his father gave up drinking and the day he caught Marilyn Monroe and JFK canoodling in her pool. “Obviously, as his son I have a number of his personality traits, but I’ve worked extremely hard to find his voice and bring that out as opposed to just impersonating him,” says Lemmon about playing his dad. PHOTOS Tony Awards: Best and Worst Momentsīased on Lemmon’s 2006 book, A Twist of Lemmon, the play is written and directed by Hershey Felder, a veteran of the one-man biographical genre, and features the younger Lemmon playing his father talking about his life with his son, an unseen member of the audience.
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