opposite andy garcia in modigliani, and i hadn t lost enough weight so i remember at the cannes film festival, someone said, picasso was a little bit overweight, can someone explain. i said between the rose period and the blue period, there was the porkadelic period, where picasso used to paint with doughnuts in his hand, and the whole press just put their heads down and wrote it down. so, i think there is a frustration that i was pigeonholed but i think what happened, when i said people need to know you, it has taken me about 30 years for people to know me and trust me, that they don t think i am some kind of terrorist cell who has been a sleeper cell here and is finally going to blow himself up on live television. i just wonder, if with the benefit of hindsight and a career that has proved to be a great success, you can now say that you regret maybe sometimes when you bit your tongue at the degree of prejudice and stereotyping that you experienced? again, to be specific, you were in
as you can hearfrom my voice, there was a tall, then, high cheekbones english pounds screaming to get out. but how frustrating for you. oh, so frustrating. i m being serious. you walked into an image which then it s taken you decades to sort of develop, evolve, and move beyond. yes. look, at the end of the day, it took a long time before i got my first lead role. i remember playing picasso opposite andy garcia in modigliani, and i hadn t lost enough weight so i remember at the cannes film festival, someone said, picasso was a little bit overweight, can someone explain. i said between the raised period and the blue period, there was the porkadelic period, where picasso used to paint with doughnuts in his hand, and the whole press just put their heads down and wrote it down. so, i think there is a frustration that i was pigeonholed but i think what happened, when i said people need to know you,
"Who Is Modigliani, and Why the Long Face," an art workshop focusing on Amedeo Modigliani, will take place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7, at the Roeliff Jansen