may i ask a point, i am so inappropriately dressed for this occasion. we were going to let it go. i m not. we were in the edit room. i was in the edit room all day with my 250th episode of inside the actor s studio. this is how i dress in the edit room. it says arrested development because i was in it and they sent it to me. i m not advertising arrested development and wish i were wearing a nice appropriate suit for roger. roger might be amused and interested. you could be wearing a green turtleneck like he was in the early clip. there s something amazing about watching two people talk about movies and talk about art and talk about things they care about that is so compelling and so compelling i found myself today falling down a total youtube spiral in which i just watched. what did they say about good fellas and aliens and jurassic park and every one
we want to welcome the actor on bravo. nice to have you here. i believe you were corresponding with roger the end of his life and have a letter you wanted to share. i wrote this letter to him and he had written to me. if you had occasion to see any episodes of my series in the past few years, you may be aware how often and how gratefully you re quoted. i am not regretfully a film scholar and turn to you, roger. i remember your calm clear stance on movies and the world around us and the political implications of work you re asked to explore. you might or might not be surprised how often i read you and exclaim yes, especially at times like this in my view, the barbarians are at the gates and nice to know something who stands steadfastly a political rectitude.
he lost his voice and found a voice in this social universe. a better voice. no slur on roger to say he liked to be the center of attention. when a lot of us were kind of left behind, roger, even without a voice, said, how can i stay at the center of the conversation? how can i help set the parameters of the conversation? how can i frame the conversation? he went in. he found this new voice, this better voice, this brighter voice, this also more wide ranging voice because he talked about politics. he talked about his own personal life. it liberated something in him. not just entertaining but inspiring. he also went into all kinds of media. he wasn t saying, oh, film, it must be film or nothing or it must be print or nothing. he was the first person i ever saw walking down the street at sundance with a digital camera. he was so excited with all his toys. but he got in trouble with gamers.
beginning of the show, there were people who thought these were a couple of chuckle heads and tuned in to see them bicker and it seemed at times roger would look at gene and say, you are about the dumbest guy i ever sat across from in my life and gene would be prickly and would pull it back and sometimes cut it off unceremoniously. that s why, as we tuned in to laugh, we eventually developed this respect. wait a minute. these guys are having a discussion about art on national tv and they re bringing people into it. they care enough to get genuinely ticked off at each other, a key. you re sending a sub-textural cue to the viewer that it matters. may i ask a point, i am so inappropriately dressed for this occasion. we were going to let it go. i m not. we were in the edit room. i was in the edit room all day with my 250th episode of inside the actor s studio.
i love this clip of film dance where there was a film about asian-americans. a white audience member said why did you make its with amoral depictions? i find offensive and condescending about your statement, nobody would say to a bunch of white filmmakers, how could you do this? yes, film has the right to be about these people and asian-american characters have the right to be whoever the hell they want to be. they do not have to represent their people. look how ruckus and involved he is. he s not doing it from the stage. he s doing it to from the audience. we won t remember necessarily individual things roger has written, we will remember this political presence, inclusive.