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When I read, I don't know, Slaughterhouse-Five, my Billy Pilgrim is the most Billy Pilgrim he could ever be to me. Like when you read The Catcher in the Rye, you're Holden Caulfield and he's the most meaningful Holden Caulfield to you. And the reason I believe that happens is because individual imaginations are more powerful, in a lot of ways, than what gets put on screen. Mackenzie Astin: I hope you put in parenthesis how much I'm giggling before I say this but.so, the book is always better than the movie.
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And I, you know, I had an agent and manager and they said hey, here's an audition for a movie that you could film during the summer-when you're not filming The Facts of Life-go get it! And I was like, "Alright! Let's go get it!" She was the president of the Screen Actor's Guild at the time, so she was pretty busy.
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Dad was stricter so we spent more time at Mom's. Harris: Well was it true-as I think Paul said during the episode-that you went to the audition without your father knowing? Was that accurate?
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I mean, I don't know what was in my head!īlake J. And it had, as its foundation, this nifty counterculture craze. Mackenzie Astin: And so in 1986, this would have been between seasons 7 and 8 of The Facts of Life, on which I was working as a regular, an opportunity came up to be the star of a motion picture. And then Art Spiegelman and a few other guys come up with this incredible answer to that-this incredible commentary on that-and the cards were crazy, crazy popular in a counter-culture kind of way.
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Where they exist culturally is an interesting thing because they were a response to the Cabbage Patch Kids, which people went crazy for I mean, parents were beating other parents up to get the last one in the store. Harris: Well despite how the movie turned out, I imagine that when you first heard about it you probably had somewhat high expectations? I mean, every kid I know was excited to see it. y'all did some healing on this kid!īlake J. And, like, felt good about this experience that I felt bad about for a number of years. And honestly? For an hour and forty-five minutes, I f***ing giggled and giggled and giggled.
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So I was actually kind of excited to hear the episode. And so finally I got old enough to stop giving a s*** or learned to give a better s***, and appreciate it for being s***. Mackenzie Astin: So, you know, it has played a part in my psyche for a number of years. I mean, my old man's put out some good work, my mother's put out some good work, my brother's been in some pretty good films.and I come out of the box with, you know, a terrific stool sample! Especially-and this is egotistically, egoistically and narcissistically-but especially as it relates to me coming from an acting family. how did the New York Times put it? "Stunningly inept and utterly reprehensible." So having that be part of your 's a little bit icky. In that it is such a stinker and such a clunker and so. Mackenzie Astin: Okay, so first of all: The Garbage Pail Kids Movie-in my life, for me personally-is, I think it's fair to say, a sensitive subject. Alright, so when you first heard about what this was, a podcast that generally makes fun of bad movies, did you cringe? Were you excited to listen to it? Did you feel like you had to listen to it? The worst fires ever, that's a good line. So the fact that there exists now, in this day and age, an opportunity for people to have that communal experience looking at, like, the worst possible fires ever with smart and funny commentary.that's a good experience, you know?īlake J. So it's a communal experience and its big. And I don't know there's something.okay, here we go! You know: film, the experience of watching film together, there's some crazy article from 30 years ago (that I think Roger Ebert is responsible for) and he makes the point that watching film is akin to sitting around a campfire together. First of all, it's funny of hell that the podcast exists I mean, the hosts of the show are fantastic. Mackenzie Astin: So my experience of listening to it? Oh man, it was just incredible.