Word: keitel
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...Harvey Keitel, the star of the film, was originally scheduled to attend the event, but instead appeared via a taped interview from Los Angeles...
...Fingers happened because there was no access to Hollywood,” Keitel said. “We probably would have tried to make an explicitly Hollywood film, but we’d never have made our Fingers. I’m glad we didn’t fulfill our original goal and conquer Hollywood...
...film had “permanent significance” both for its director and lead star. According to Toback, Keitel still tells him, “We have to do another Fingers...
...words for previous Passion films. Mention Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Gospel According to St. Matthew (which, like Gibson's location shots, was filmed in the Italian town of Matera), and he fakes a big yawn. On Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ: "You've got Harvey Keitel as Judas saying"--and here Gibson shifts into a Brooklyn accent--"'Hey, you ovah dere...
...whole ordeal was a hallucinogenic nightmare. Principal photography took an exhausting 238 days. A typhoon destroyed some of the sets. The director mortgaged his house to cover ballooning costs. He fired his first leading actor (Harvey Keitel) and found that his second (Martin Sheen) had suffered a heart attack. At one point the director told his wife, "I'm thinking of shooting myself." So when it was all over, Francis Ford Coppola figured he had earned the right to a public primal scream. "My film is not a movie," he told the press at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, where...