KeirDullea

I think my favorite scene was where I’m dismantling HAL’s brain. It reminded me a bit of a famous movie and also play called Of Mice and Men when Lenny is speaking with George regarding their plans to start a farm. This is a scene that comes at the end of the film after Lenny has indadvertedly caused the death of a young woman. Now there’s a posse that is looking for him intending possibly to string him up. This discussion of their plans to start a farm has been heard throughout the film, and so with some love and compassion, with a hidden pistol behind his back George reviews their plans with Lenny and half-way through their discussion he shoots him behind his back to avoid him being killed by a posse of men. In some way, emotionally, that scene from Of Mice and Men affected the way I played the scene with HAL.

2001: A Space Odyssey

On the first day of shooting, Stanley noticed my shoes and felt they weren’t right. We stopped shooting for the rest of the day until they found the right pair. Let’s face it, feet don’t play a huge role in films.

I’m often asked: was Kubrick a task master. The answer is no; anything but. He never raised his voice, he had a quiet droll sense of humor and was a man with great curiosity.

Most of my work is in live theatre. I’ve done a few films in the last 10 years one being a film that Robert De Niro directed called The Good Shepherd. I also appear in a recent release:Space Station 76 and coming up in December in New York and Los Angeles is my most recent film: Isn’t It Delicious. However, the peek experience of my acting life took place a year ago at the Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, when I was asked to portray the role of Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. I played the son (the Paul Newman role in the film) in the first Broadway revival of that play. To be asked 40 years later to come around full circle was a remarkable experience. I channeled the actor Fred Gwynne, famous for playing Herman Munster.