Interview With Ray Liotta (Closing Day On Set)

Interview With Ray Liotta

  Interviewer: Thanks for the interview.

Ray Liotta (Ray): No problem

Interviewer: Now, first ever tri production? How does that make you feel.

Ray: Great, three studios. You would have thought it’d be complicated but since each was making a segment it meant that we could really just do it without pressure.

(Ray LiottaTaking Part In Exclusive Interveiw)

Interviewer: Tell us about you’re role.

Ray: Well, I play a guy named David. We don’t really learn much about him most of the film is mixed between three characters. The cops, me and the villain. But with many stars it was surprisingly easy to work well on the script getting all emotion in and everything. It’s hard to do that in a feature film but in a segment it should have been very hard. But it wasn’t.

Interviewer: Tell us about some of the people you worked with.

Ray: Well, mainly we had Tim Robbins playing the criminal called Vince. Tim’s a great guy to work with. He’s got a lot of bad press over the last few years but he’s really still a brilliant actor. I can still learn off him.

Interviewer: What about the other characters?

Ray: Well, we had Chris Penn and Robert Forster playing the two cops which the story followed around. Robert indeed gave a mind blowing performance as a guy whose life is in tatters and yet he keeps up beat about it. I’ve never seen him in that kind of role. But he really did a great job. Then Chris is always a pleasure to work with. This can only help but boost his career; he played a great cop which he usually does very well. He plays a cop on True Romance to perfection and again in this.

Interviewer: What about the director Tony Scott?

Ray: Well, I heard it was a lengthy progress to choose a director for the film. I think originally there would be a director to direct each segment. But that was scrapped and the progress begun. Many names were mentioned like Quentin Tarantino who works a lot of the time with Dog Eat Dog Studios who wrote and produced my segment. But in the need it came between Sidney Lummet (Dog Day Afternoon) and Tony Scott. I understand Dog Eat Dog wanted Sidney but the eventually agreed on Tony.

Interviewer: What do you think he brought to the film?

Ray: Directors bring it to life. I mentioned before about True Romance which Tony directed and that was the main decider on picking him for Dog Eat Dog. He’s very talented and a great guy to work with. Rushed of his feet with three segments and about ten different sets at a time but he still manages to know each story and character inside out. He’s a great director.

Interviewer: What do you think of the other studio’s parts?

Ray: I rally like them; ‘A Horrible Insanity’ by Tangent Universe ends it off perfectly taking Robert Forster into that story line as well. The line ‘How softly she fell’ is a perfect ending their story stars the ever popular Christian Bale and then Zooey Deschanel. Then ‘Clouded Memories’ by Godfather Studio’s also takes another great story with Michael Clarke Duncan, Steve Buscemi and Michael Keaton.

Interviewer: What are the critics making of this?