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