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when Planes Trains does that come written funny and written for you too or is one of you guys attached first of all
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the script was fantastic it was written by John Hughes the theory supposedly he wrote it over a weekend
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and and when I got the script I think it was 152 pages long and a normal script is maybe 110 or 112. so I said to him
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God the script's so good John congratulations what are you gonna cut and he said
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but and the first draft of the film came in at four and a half hours wow but anyway
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then he encouraged John and I to ad-lib and like there's a lot of ad-lib uh scenes like in the motel room we're kind
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of giggling and laughing and then some jokes we just made up like um those aren't pillows was made up on the screen
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that's kind of the that's the line of the big trailer lines he was he was so sweet and we got along
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so great in fact we made a deal at some point about three weeks in we said with ad-lib
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a scene and then they'd have to cover the ad-libs so a scene that might take an hour was now starting to take three
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hours and we said we made a deal no more ad-living We're Not Gonna ad-lib anymore
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but he would make me laugh so much he would do a a Gladiator movie uh like an Italian dubbed Gladiator
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movie where he would he would say the Latin Italian and then his lips would keep moving like it was done
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[Laughter] yeah he was shot down before your queen Centurion and that is lips yeah now John was John was an angel I
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can still see John walk in this door right now that's what a strong and he had a great laugh he loved to laugh
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yeah that's good that's good his uh the pathos that he in uh Planes Trains and automobile yeah he really
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that moment when at the end I mean he's world-class kind of silent film absolutely uh he was just a great actor
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there was a scene in the movie that took place at the end that was trimmed down uh it's where he tells me his wife I
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want to do spoilers but it's 40 years old it's on Amazon you can order it but anyway I was I was you know two feet
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across from him I'm doing the off screen and I thought I'm seeing one of the Great Performances I've ever seen with
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his speech I got to be there