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Another time his wife came in,lovely lady. we where shooting in the kitchen area of a very big building and she sets herself up in a corner. She has a briefcase with her and I’m thinking, what’s going on here? She opens up this briefcase, it’s almost like a spy movie, and then she gets out a telephone headpiece with a microphone and starts talking into it. I realised Bob had an earpiece and she’s reading him his lines – they’re doing a Brando! That made me laugh.
What was so great about him as an actor is that, basically, he’s on the surface. Everything is on the surface so it can be manipulated in the scene to get the best out of it. He puts everything out there, for the film. That’s the thing about Bob: he was a proper artist. He’s willing to go there. If you watch The Apostle, the movie he wrote and directed, you can see how he can conjure things up. The congregation in the movie are with him because he can stir the pot in the way that the character does.He could do that as he’s a great actor, and not everyone’s a great actor.
I think what made him what he was, was that in the telling of any story he was the rock. He brought gravity. Everything would have flown away if he wasn’t pulling it together. He was so skilled; without him, there is no Pacino, there’s no De Niro. You need those rocks. And don’t forget who his father was, a rear admiral in the US navy. he brought that military stuff with him: he knew that guy in Apocalypse Now. And now we know that guy too. Robert was no fool.