![]() “I was privileged and honored to work side by side with Sly (Stallone in ‘The Expendables’). I remember watching ‘Rocky’ back in ’76 or whenever it was, then getting up the next morning, drinking eggs, and running down the street…and now here I am meeting with this guy!” – Steve Austin, The Expendables So I went in to meet Sly, it was the first time I’d ever met him, and I’m a huge fan. He’s casting a movie called ‘The Expendables.’’ Several months went by, and he’d already cast ‘The Expendables,’ but he still wanted to meet me for potentially playing the part of Dan Paine. “I was actually down at my ranch in South Texas, and my guys called me and said, ‘Hey, we’re trying to get you a meeting with Sylvester Stallone. And then, as you might expect, I freaked out completely.” – Dileep Rao, Inception ![]() So don’t get your hopes up, but…this is great!’ Then I came back and read again, and I got the job. Now, they’re going to go to London to see some people, and then we’ll know more after that. I think it was later that day that I heard from my agent, saying, ‘They’ve cut everyone except you. “They called my agent and said they were auditioning for (‘Inception’), so I flew myself back, I read for Chris (Nolan) once, and I left. But it was a great part, and I was ecstatic to be in it…and I’m still ecstatic to be in it!” – Crispin Glover, Alice in Wonderland I could see that it was written as a sequel. I thought, ‘Something must be different.’ And then I got the actual screenplay, and it was extremely different. So I looked up the Knave of Hearts in the original book online and…it didn’t really seem like a character that would require the run of the film. I didn’t even know what part it was for, so I asked my agent, and he said it was for the Knave of Hearts. But then the offer came in, and it was for virtually the entire run of the film. “I was in Australia, touring with my films and live show, and I got an E-mail from my agent, saying that there was interest in me for Tim Burton’s ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ I thought, ‘Okay, that sounds good.’ I thought it would be for a day or two, maybe a few days or something, and I would’ve been very happy to do that. Hope you enjoy the chance to reminisce as much I did, and here’s to a great 2011 for us all! ![]() I’ll just say that I talked to a lot of really funny, fascinating, and decidedly forthright people during the course of 2010, and I’ll let you dive in. I mean, you get about 20 – 25 into the proceedings, and it’s, like, “Oh, geez, I’ve still got 75 left to go? Screw this, I’m out of here.” So this time, I’m not going to tell you how many quotes are in the piece. ![]() Oh, I still think it was a heck of a piece, but I believe I made a mistake by numbering them. At the end of 2009, I took a look back at 100 interviews I’d done over the course of the year, and it was exhausting…not only for me, but possibly also for you, the reader. ![]()
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