Exclusive BoK Michael Gladis interview: a preview!
Yeah. Michael is just lovely. Eeeasy to talk to. Here a couple of nuggets.
On Joan:
I have the feeling that probably, and Christina and I have never talked about it, and Matt and I have never really talked about it, but my guess would be that somehow Paul finagled his way into a getting date with Joan, and it turned into a few dates, and maybe they slept together, but she was probably way too much woman for him. And like she says in episode 12, he probably opened his big mouth pretty quickly and that just put the kibosh on the whole thing. But there is such a great chemistry and I think that has partly to do with how wonderful an actress Christina Hendricks is. We’re very good friends in real life, so we love doing scenes together. And it seems like Matt really loves to play on that tension. You’d like to think that maybe there was the possibility of something with Paul and Joan, but Paul just ruined it with his big mouth.
Michael’s hopes for Paul’s future:
Well, I think the track that he was on with going down south, and joining that movement. For Paul I would love nothing more than for him to continue to be a part of the kind of radical social swing that was the mid-late 60s. Protest movements and all that. So when Vietnam does fully kick in, let Paul, even though even though he’ll be on the upper end of the age scale that can be fully involved, whether he’s a poseur in doing it or not, let him be there. I would love to see him in the thick of it.
On Orson Welles:
I remember my grandmother comparing me to him and I had no idea who he was, so I asked my mom if that was a good thing, and she said it was.There was a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful film written about Orson Welles, by a New Yorker writer named Hilton Als. And I was tipped off that they were auditioning for it in 2001 when I was doing a film in Canada; a submarine movie with Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson. And so I got my manager to send me the script and I met with the writer and went through a whole bunch of auditions and they cast me. And I was so excited that I was going to be playing Orson Welles. And then the financiers of the movie said to the director, Who do you have to play Orson?, he said This guy Michael Gladis and they said Who? No, no no no, get a star, or we pull the funding. And he said, No no no, this is the guy who has to play him. So they pulled the funding. And it never got made. So since then it’s sort of been my dream and mission to help get that film made.
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January 9th, 2009 at 6:00 am
Can't wait to read the rest! What a shame about the Orson Welles movie. I always have been fascinated by him.
January 9th, 2009 at 6:23 am
Now it's my dream to get that film made too.
January 9th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
That can be MW's backup plan.
January 9th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Also, while boorish, if you were Paul sleeping with Joan, you would want to shout it from a mountain top, a la Ron Burgandy.
But the first rule of sleeping with Joan is — you do not talk about sleeping with Joan.
January 9th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Been there, done that, shouted.
January 9th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
In the DVD commentary for "The Hobo Code" during the scene at PJ Clarke's, when MG & CH pair up, VK says with unbridled glee, "Look at their little dance!"
January 9th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
They were a really sexy couple. And again in NvK; their barely-awake dance.
January 9th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Indeed. IIRC, RS comments on it in NvK.
August 21st, 2009 at 10:42 pm
[...] Name: Paul Kinsey Relationship Status: Presently single, after having once dated Joan and Stella White, who ditched him after the two traveled to Mississippi together. Where We Last Saw Him: Enjoying the Downtown scene, and attempting to get involved in the civil rights movement. What He Is Hiding: A stolen typewriter Likes/Dislikes: Pipe Smoking/Conformity Quote: “Sterling Coo is positively Cro-Magnon. I have a friend—I’m not even going to say what agency—but all they do is smoke Mary Jane and play darts. And honestly, I think they’re the best store on the street.” Ladies Room What Michael Gladis Has To Say: “Well, I think the track that he was on with going down south, and joining that movement. For Paul I would love nothing more than for him to continue to be a part of the kind of radical social swing that was the mid-late 60s. Protest movements and all that. So when Vietnam does fully kick in, let Paul, even though even though he’ll be on the upper end of the age scale that can be fully involved, whether he’s a poseur in doing it or not, let him be there. I would love to see him in the thick of it.” — On his hopes for Paul. [...]