Anthony Michael Hall has been on my radar for over 3 decades. I’m a product of the 80s also. It has been so refreshing to hear and see how articulate, polite, well spoken he is!!! He should maybe have his own radio or “pod cast.” Very easy to listen to!
For some reason the image of Kubrick watching 16 Candles, stopping the tape, and then rewinding it to watch the movie again has me laughing hysterically.
It was a well known fact Kubrick was fascinated by rom coms of that era, White Men Can't Jump and Albert Brooks movies to name a few. He saw something there that hadn't been done before. Eyes Wide Shut was supposed to be a rom com starring Steve Martin. At some point he course corrected
Agreed. I definitely think it was about money. Normally I think Anthony Michael Hall is a straight shooter but he was a little dodgy. I heard it was because of money he was one of the most bankable stars at the time and it would have taken his career in a completely different trajectory. It would have taken him from a teen actor to even though it's not a big role it doesn't have a lot of gravitas it would have given his career credibility.
Not necessarily. Coming to terms on a contract can not materialize for many reasons. Maybe Kubrick had demands his father wouldn't agree with. Without knowing, it's not fair to suggest it was ego, and only Hall's ego.
Also AMH was probably 16 or 17 when asked to be in FMJ so his dad aka his manager was handle all of the business side of things abs I’m sure AMH had little or no say at all.
The word was that Kubrick at first thought real teen soldiers would be great - then found that casting all the other parts with similarly talented teens would be too difficult. On the surface seems like a great idea - innocent looking Anthony Michael Hall shooting the sniper girl might have had even more impact.
It's funny. There are so many performances where people say "I can't imagine anyone else playing that part." I don't think anyone says that about Joker.
@@SpiritAnimalVSOP I can imagine Jack Nicholson playing Joker. I can also imagine Heath Ledger. I can also imagine Jaoquin Phoenix playing the role. I wait, they ALL played the Joker brilliantly.
What a pisser it didn't work out with him and Kubrick. Anthony Michael Hall would've absolutely killed it as Private Joker, he was perfect for that role.
"Shocking battle"? Look, if you're going to do click bait titles, don't be shy. Retitle this genteel chat "Anthony Michael Hall's brutal knife fight with a cocaine-addicted Kubrick!" You're welcome. ☺
I seriously want to know why his career never took off post 80's. So much freakin talent. Versatile. Jonny Be Good, Edward Scissorhands, Six Degrees of Separation. All amazing parts. He was ready to launch into Tom Cruise-like stardom, but instead he joined SNL, and they had no idea how to use his talent. He kills in everything he does.
Yeah but he's been working pretty steady all this time. He did Dead Zone for six years, not to mention all the guest shots and voice overs, and that's just the TV stuff. He's been in at least 26 movies. That's damn close to a movie a year for 30 years. There are actors who would literally kill for that kind of career. There's always gonna be a bigger fish, but steady work is every actor's dream.
Hmmm, I don’t think he was ever considered someone who would achieve Tom Cruise stardom. Tom Cruise was a heartthrob type for teenage girls in the early part of his career and graduated to full on A-list leading man status. I don’t think Hall had that in his destiny. I don’t remember girls swooning over Hall and his most famous early roles were definitely the opposite of that type.
@Syntax Did we watch the same interview? I didn't think he came off as arrogant at all. In fact quite the opposite, he seemed humble and down to Earth.
Word was back in the day he had some kind of thyroid condition. He disappeared for awhile and then showed up as a football jock knuckle head in Edward Scissorhands. He basically looked nothing like his old self. I think he really wanted to get away from being a sensitive skinny geek and that kind of slowed his career down.
This guy is so cool and relaxed! As a kid he already came across as that down to earth kid that would be very approachable and appreciative. But man, it sucks to have missed out on Full Metal Jacket. But 54 weeks... pffff...
I am assuming by this clip, probably pvt Joker, Matthew Modine's character. Which I dont know if he could have pulled off, he was 18, Modine was nearly 30...
You beat me to it. These stupid video titles are terrible. If I find a channel with misleading titles like this, I remove it from my recommendations. All you needed to get my attention was the name "Kubrick" and I would watch. I just looked and saw a comment below complaining about the title being clickbait, so I'm not alone. If you find clickbait- down vote and call the channel out on their hyperbole. I wanted to say, their bull....
Well, it's the best half of a 'Nam movie, anyway. Once they leave boot camp, the movie goes downhill. But the boot camp part is utterly brilliant, thanks in large part to a guy who wasn't even supposed to be cast, R. Lee Ermey.
I'm realizing this as I watch I have not seen sixteen candles. I'm a child of the 80s and I love everything that decade offers. Breakfast Club and weird science being a couple of my favorites. Not sure why I haven't either. Going to be great to discover it.
16 Candles.... I hadn't seen this movie in probably 30 years and watched it the other day on Amazon. Laughed my ass off. Still hilarious. I know the "woke" times we live in now some might have issue with certain scenes. I honestly don't care... funny is funny and this movie is still funny as hell.
You feel for Coleri, but it's hard to believe Emery's performance could've been topped. Dick move by Kubrick as a human, but a necessary one as a director.
@@nickstoli Artistic integrity is a dick move only if they arent paid for their work. Coleri was paid for his work. A "dick" move would be making someone the lead in your movie, cutting their character completely in post-production, and not telling them, then having them show up for the movie premier, only to be massively shocked and embarrassed. Terrence Malik is a glorified cinematographer and an overrated director.
I agree. You can read a list of his unfilmed projects and think "What if?" for the rest of your life. Still the string of one-after-another masterpieces he *did* make are good enough. Regretting that he only made thirteen films is like regretting Beethoven only wrote nine symphonies. Have a safe and interesting weekend! 🐧
@@mem1701movies Either that, or we live in an age of lazy slackers who are baffled and contemptuous of goofy concepts like perfectionism, discipline, and doing something over and over until you've got it right. I never had to do three billion takes of a scene in a Kubrick film. All I know is that when I watch one of his films, I'm seeing the one take out of billions that Kubrick thought was the best. I'm fine with that. 🐧
At some point in the early 1990s, the now-defunct film magazine "Premiere" put out it's annual list of the 100 most powerful people in Hollywood. At the end of the countdown, there was an "honorable mention" for position #101- Stanley Kubrick. The explanation was that when he had recently announced that he was beginning pre-production on his new film, numbers 1,2 4 and 6 called HIM. As Premiere said, "Now THAT is power!"
Kubrick was totally wrong in his near casting of Hall in Full Metal Jacket. He'd look like a baby in the role. Modine was the perfect choice. I mean Kubrick lucked out in the role of drill instructor Hartman played by Lee Ermey when he was only hired as a consultant
Actually he would not have… AMH said he was in the middle of filming Weird Science at the time. And he soon followed that up with Johnny Be Good where he was starting to show himself filing out and putting on weight and muscle. So IF he had indeed got the role in Kubricks FMJ, he would have looked the part just fine.
If this is while filming Weird Science, it must have been around the same time he turned down Ferris Bueller and cut his ties with John Hughes Hall made a lot of mistakes..
Visionquest was shot in Spokane Washington, my hometown. I was in high school at the time. The high school in the film was taken from parts of schools all over town. They didn't want just one school to be part of a movie so they involved all the high schools. I never saw Matthew Modine or any other stars. Sometimes I miss the 80s.
It is rarely mentioned because it is such a small role in a sports movie, but AMH's depiction of Whitey Ford in *61 is a work of understated brilliance. Sports movies get dumped on a lot, but Hall, Thomas Jane, Barry Pepper, Bruce McGill, Richard Masur, and Chris Bauer all are brilliant in that movie.
This guy has got great stories!! In college I wrote a 17 page paper on Kubrick for a film class, the guy was intense and utterly brilliant. He could be a pain in the ass to work for but the finished product was incredible.
I think a lot of people that love Kubrick would despise him if they actually had to work with him. He did a lot of obnoxious, uncalled for things in the creation of his films that aren't ethically on the up and up. There are legions of greats before and after him that made masterful films without being a prick to those they needed to make their movies. His talent can't be disputed, but his behavior makes me view him as a lesser visionary in hindsight.
Jack Nicholson said he would never do another Kubrick film and he didn’t. Shelley Duval was reportedly losing her hair and Scatman Crothers was brought to a nervous breakdown after 50 takes all during the filming ofThe Shinning. So if the finished product took him mistreating people, then the legacy is tainted to me
@@itsharryhagen Yeah, that's why the 21st Century is one reboot after another. It's this generational naivete that you can have brilliance without struggle. They would rather feel safe with an RPG-like movie than take risks with someone who might be difficult. They think they can get brilliance from nice, and if not, then forget brilliance. The 20th Century was full of complex, difficult characters. The 21st Century has nobly rejected them while repeating the 20th Century over and over and over and over and over and over.
I can listen to Mr. Hall go on forever about his experiences and his perception of the acting profession and who he is today as opposed to when he first got started! Also how it was working on Psych...😉😆😆
Anthony is a total badass. Love this podcast. He's one of those guys you grew up watching, and has some amazing stories to tell. Thanks Michael for being the coolest celebrity out there.✌️
For sure. He had a falling out with John Hughes who effectively launched his career. If you watch Ferris Beulor it's obviously written for Hall to play.
Back in the days when you actually had to the cinema to see a movie, then wait yonks before it appeared on VCR - not that we could afford one back then - my sister and I went and saw The Breakfast Club at least 10 times. We were teenagers, and it just spoke to us. Not to mention I had a huge crush on Ally Sheedy! I loved this guy! I saw all of his movies, and I wondered what became of him... On a different note, years later we had moved to Sydney (from Melbourne) and I was out one night with some friends - quite late, upstairs at the Courthouse - when who should I bump into but Judd Nelson (he must have been in Australia to shoot Blackwater Trail, because it was around the mid-1990's). I went and said hello to him, then explained that my sister would never speak to me again if I told her I had met him, and not gone and got her, so I convinced him to stay while I went home and woke her up, on condition that I would give him the 2 ecstasy tablets which I had in the freezer for some reason. So, I went home and got my sister, and the tablets, then we went and spent a few hours drinking with Judd Nelson, who told us some stories about Anthony Michael Hall, and the others in The Breakfast Club, then he ended up going off into the night with one of my attractive female friends, never to be seen again (by us). Now I'm going to watch The Breakfast Club again, because it's been a while! *IMPORTANT NOTE:* Whether or not he took the ecstasy tablets I don't know - I didn't see him do so - and I'm certainly not trying to suggest he took drugs. He threw them away for all I know! I wasn't into drugs either and can't even remember why I had ecstasy tablets in my freezer, but it was an interesting part of the story, which is the only reason I mentioned it...
love his johnny smith, felt a kinship with his character, full of humanity but also wounded. The series was ok, but his character and performance is what I'll remember
Oh I can totally see him in that role as Joker. As much as I like Modine in that role, Anthony Michael Hall had that more boyish innocent look about him, as well as clever and with some capacity for hidden darkness too. Really interesting what Stanley could have made with him.
I don’t know if I’d call that a battle. To be honest, I’d fire some people if I desperately wanted to make the film, I was talking to Stanley, and somehow I lost that role after 9 months of working out details and logistics.
Good decision to turn it down because weird science is an 80’s classic. I met Anthony Micheal Hall with my mother. He was tall nicest guy. Weird Science👍❤️ is godly
The thing about Chaplin and why t took him so long to shoot is Chaplin shot all this scenes before hand, developed the film, and watched it so he could direct himself. And "City Lights" took two years, even though it's 80 minutes, because he was writing the script while shooting.
Think of what Kubrick put Shelley Duvall through in order to get the performance out of her that he required for THE SHiNiNG . . . and then think of the wringer AMH would've gone through, especially with R. Lee Ermey doing Kubrick's dirty work for him, for FULL METAL JACKET. AMH would have known what it was like to go through Boot Camp on Parris Island for fucking REAL.
The way he treated Shelley was unconscionable. Kubrick started buying into his own hype and eventually his films suffered as a result. It’s all just make believe.
@@df4196 His films suffered? You’re not going to get many people to agree that anything before Eyes Wide Shut suffered because of his ego. His methods were questionable but you can’t really argue the results.
Look at he behind the scenes footage of that film. She was a flaky and insane, typical actress, who lied about all of that. She acted like a child and was treated accordingly.
@@df4196 There are entire TV networks devoted to showing how shitty some ppl have it in their daily work environments. Real hard jobs. And they wear it like a badge of honor. I think about those real ppl when I come across the whiny "oh poor Shelley Duvall" comments. She had a dude push her to a great performance. That's it. I had a director throw folded metal chairs onto the stage at me to get me to straighten up and get serious about my role, probably the same year as The Shining. I applaud Kubrick for getting the most out of his actors.
AMH is a year older than me, watched him grow up in all my favorite movies as a kid. Weird Science is top 5 fave. Also a Kubrick fan, AMH as Joker would have been a trip and a half. I want to find the parallel dimension where he got the role and watch it. Great second pick though, Modine was brilliant and absolutely carried the lead for Kubrick. The “Vision Quest” reference lol. Decent flick about Matthews HS wrestling goals…and having his dad let some deadbeat trucked lady move in to thier home and hoping he’d have a shot at nailing her. Instead, after she catches him smelling her undergarments in the laundry room, the woman kidnaps an underage Modine to the woods and has carnal relations with him. It’s 5 ⭐️ for sure.
Mr. Hall would have been a VAST improvement over Matthew Modine. I think the are both FINE actors, but I believe Mr. Modine was miscast in Full Metal Jacket.
What Michael Anthony Hall leaves out here is the role Kubrick was envisioning him in: The Drill Sergeant. That is, until H. Lee Ermy stepped up and asked Kubrick what his “Major Malfunction” was.
Yes Kubrick was very deep and always had a lot of internal sub text in all of his work. But he was also flighty and prone to rapid changes of mind on a dime. Read “plumbing Stanley Kubrick“ by Ian Watson. It should be easy to find with a search. It is Watsons memoir of working with Kubrick on the development of A.I. which would eventually be handed off to Steven Spielberg. The long duration of that film development really had as much to do with Kubrick’s tendency to change his mind and go in a completely different direction without telling anybody as much as the technical elements. He even lost the script at one point. It’s a pretty fascinating read
I was amazed when I heard he was well into shooting FMJ and still had no ending. He even brought in the cast and polled them for ideas. He suffered from blank page syndrome and analysis paralysis, which is why he demanded dozens of takes and angles of every scene. He didn't trust the collaborative shooting process and wanted unlimited options to create during the edit.
Interesting point. Isn't that why Harvey Keitel quit one of his pictures ? I think Kubrick had him doing some crazy amount of takes for what seemed like an inconsequential moment in the film.
@@andymullarx6365 The story I heard was about during the shooting of the shining, Kubrick shot dozens of takes of Jack Nicholson just walking into the overlook. When someone asked him why he was doing it, taking so many shots, he supposedly said he was “waiting for something to happen“. 😆 but it very well may have been just so he could have more footage for editing
@@responsiblejerk2328 in Watson‘s memoir he talks about how Kubrick would have him write up all these ideas they had discussed and then the very next morning he would say their just awful and get rid of them… Then the next day he would think they were great again. Yeah so I can see what you’re saying. But of course the excess footage can be explained by wanting more material for edits.
If you think about it, Sixteen Candles being a classic is partly, if not mainly because of his performance. Just try to picture anyone else as Farmer Ted.
Can we just appreciate the unholy fact that Stanley "Alloicius Danger" Kubrick watched John Hughes movies on the regular? Did David Lean binge on GoBots?
Total assumption on my part, but I guess AMH wanted to do SNL and "Out of Bounds" more than Full Metal Jacket at the time. There is no way you turn down a Kubrick film, and I bet AMH is too ashamed to admit it to this day.
Anthony Michael Hall is a great actor - his performance as Bill Gates on Pirates of Silicon Valtley is wonderful. I hope he manages to act of good films again.
He's downplaying the FACT that if his greedy management weren't demanding too much money, that role would have changed his life and career in a major way. These actors go into middle age without ever "getting" the severe mistakes that they made.
Who else was waiting for the “shocking battle” part that never materialized?
Yeah... this Lex Luthor guy likes to make up these dramatic titles
"We just kinda parted ways."
Well, regular Battle of the Bulge there.
Bingo, doesn't sound like a battle to me
Yes, it’s just click bait and doesn’t reflect well on the uploader.
It's shocking that there WAS a battle. If Stanley Kubrick calls, the answer... is YES.
Expectation: Michael Hall had a "shocking battle" with Kubrick. Reality: "It just didn't work out."
Right? This clickbate - yellow journalism is fucking stupid.
SHOCKING comment war between you and me on a volcano.
In journalism, we called it "juicing the lede."
Anthony Michael Hall has been on my radar for over 3 decades. I’m a product of the 80s also. It has been so refreshing to hear and see how articulate, polite, well spoken he is!!! He should maybe have his own radio or “pod cast.” Very easy to listen to!
I don’t think that he’s popular enough for that.
Nicely said. He seems to be a well-grounded articulate man. It's very refreshing to see that he apparently has matured well.
@@matthewschwartz6607 You would be surprised.
Podcast on how he was a premadonna and missed the best role of his life.
@@BNatoAk - Eh! Wasn’t The Dead Zone show pretty successful ?
For some reason the image of Kubrick watching 16 Candles, stopping the tape, and then rewinding it to watch the movie again has me laughing hysterically.
Nice to hear that stanley kubrick loved 16 candles as much as i did!
Stanley Kubrick's favorite movie was apparently 😢 1:55 "White Men Can't Jump" .. so maybe that isn't so difficult to comprehend.
It was a well known fact Kubrick was fascinated by rom coms of that era, White Men Can't Jump and Albert Brooks movies to name a few. He saw something there that hadn't been done before. Eyes Wide Shut was supposed to be a rom com starring Steve Martin. At some point he course corrected
This guys such an underrated actor. Glad to see him popping up in stuff lately.
Who underrates him?
I just love that he always has something nice to say about everyone.
Now I'm dying to know what Anthony Michael Hall's war face looks like.
Lol, can you imagine:)
AMH goes into battle with a bra strapped over his head.
@@dahawk8574 oh damn
When Kubrick calls, you don't worry about the money.
You take scale,and be thankful for the experience.
No, it wouldn't have been worth it
@@ralphiecifaretto8961 what?!
@Reticuli 100 takes per scene and emotional abuse ain't worth it.
Agreed.
I definitely think it was about money.
Normally I think Anthony Michael Hall is a straight shooter but he was a little dodgy.
I heard it was because of money he was one of the most bankable stars at the time and it would have taken his career in a completely different trajectory.
It would have taken him from a teen actor to even though it's not a big role it doesn't have a lot of gravitas it would have given his career credibility.
Nope!
I love him. He kills me when he guest stars on Community as the bully 😂 😂 😂
Fun fact: Dave Prowse (Darth Vader) provided the tanning beds for all of the lead actors and also was Matthew Modine's personal trainer.
Prowse was in A Clockwork Orange
@@DMONEY7720 Yeah, he played the bodyguard for the writer who was brutalized along with his wife early in the movie.
@@gordons-alive4940 he also played in a movie alongside the writer's brutalized wife in Vampire Circus, a Hammer film from 72
He also trained Christopher Reeve to build mass for Superman.
Boy he absolutely glazed over that. "Its was about money, but it wasn't"? Hard not to assume AMH let his ego cost him the opportunity.
Not necessarily. Coming to terms on a contract can not materialize for many reasons. Maybe Kubrick had demands his father wouldn't agree with. Without knowing, it's not fair to suggest it was ego, and only Hall's ego.
My guess is that AMH wasn't pushing the money - it was his parents and agent doing that.
At the time he would have been balancing a bunch of other opportunities and obligations. All of them of consequence .
I think this interview is proof positive why AMH didn’t go on to bigger things.
Also AMH was probably 16 or 17 when asked to be in FMJ so his dad aka his manager was handle all of the business side of things abs I’m sure AMH had little or no say at all.
I would listen to Hall's stories all day. Thanks for this and for your awesome work!
That’s a clickbait title, but the story is still interesting.
Yea just say AMH talks about SC…I’d probably still click
I was about to write the same thing.
I think this interview is 4 years old.
Ive had the pleasure of talking to Micheal, he was very nice and down to earth.
I am so impressed with Stanley Kubrick and his praise on your talents, which is admirable.
Mr. Hall is one hell of a story teller.
The word was that Kubrick at first thought real teen soldiers would be great - then found that casting all the other parts with similarly talented teens would be too difficult. On the surface seems like a great idea - innocent looking Anthony Michael Hall shooting the sniper girl might have had even more impact.
That really would have been brilliant
It's funny. There are so many performances where people say "I can't imagine anyone else playing that part." I don't think anyone says that about Joker.
@@SpiritAnimalVSOP the film or the character?
@@SpiritAnimalVSOP I can imagine Jack Nicholson playing Joker. I can also imagine Heath Ledger. I can also imagine Jaoquin Phoenix playing the role. I wait, they ALL played the Joker brilliantly.
Have either of you two dingleberries seen Full Metal Jacket?
What a pisser it didn't work out with him and Kubrick. Anthony Michael Hall would've absolutely killed it as Private Joker, he was perfect for that role.
"Shocking battle"? Look, if you're going to do click bait titles, don't be shy. Retitle this genteel chat "Anthony Michael Hall's brutal knife fight with a cocaine-addicted Kubrick!"
You're welcome. ☺
I seriously want to know why his career never took off post 80's. So much freakin talent. Versatile. Jonny Be Good, Edward Scissorhands, Six Degrees of Separation. All amazing parts. He was ready to launch into Tom Cruise-like stardom, but instead he joined SNL, and they had no idea how to use his talent. He kills in everything he does.
Yeah but he's been working pretty steady all this time.
He did Dead Zone for six years, not to mention all the guest shots and voice overs, and that's just the TV stuff.
He's been in at least 26 movies.
That's damn close to a movie a year for 30 years.
There are actors who would literally kill for that kind of career.
There's always gonna be a bigger fish, but steady work is every actor's dream.
He had a small role in Foxcatcher. Excellent job.
Hmmm, I don’t think he was ever considered someone who would achieve Tom Cruise stardom. Tom Cruise was a heartthrob type for teenage girls in the early part of his career and graduated to full on A-list leading man status. I don’t think Hall had that in his destiny. I don’t remember girls swooning over Hall and his most famous early roles were definitely the opposite of that type.
@Syntax
Did we watch the same interview?
I didn't think he came off as arrogant at all.
In fact quite the opposite, he seemed humble and down to Earth.
Word was back in the day he had some kind of thyroid condition. He disappeared for awhile and then showed up as a football jock knuckle head in Edward Scissorhands. He basically looked nothing like his old self. I think he really wanted to get away from being a sensitive skinny geek and that kind of slowed his career down.
This guy is so cool and relaxed!
As a kid he already came across as that down to earth kid that would be very approachable and appreciative. But man, it sucks to have missed out on Full Metal Jacket. But 54 weeks... pffff...
What part was he auditioning for in Full Metal Jacket?
I am assuming by this clip, probably pvt Joker, Matthew Modine's character. Which I dont know if he could have pulled off, he was 18, Modine was nearly 30...
I would like to have seen Stanley Kubrick direct Weird Science. =p
AMH is so cool. Crazy to imagine him as Ferris Bueller or The Joker in Full Metal Jacket etc....Super down to earth guy!
Not sure if this was a ‘battle’ but sounded like a process though.
You beat me to it. These stupid video titles are terrible. If I find a channel with misleading titles like this, I remove it from my recommendations. All you needed to get my attention was the name "Kubrick" and I would watch. I just looked and saw a comment below complaining about the title being clickbait, so I'm not alone. If you find clickbait- down vote and call the channel out on their hyperbole. I wanted to say, their bull....
Such an underrated and underappreciated actor.
The world needs Full Metal Jacket just as is, one of the best, and my favorite 'Nam film, besides Kubrick would have broken him.
Well, it's the best half of a 'Nam movie, anyway. Once they leave boot camp, the movie goes downhill. But the boot camp part is utterly brilliant, thanks in large part to a guy who wasn't even supposed to be cast, R. Lee Ermey.
@@mc76I was fortunate enough to meet The Gunny in Raleigh one night. I'm an Army guy but we loved him too.
I'm realizing this as I watch I have not seen sixteen candles. I'm a child of the 80s and I love everything that decade offers. Breakfast Club and weird science being a couple of my favorites. Not sure why I haven't either. Going to be great to discover it.
16 Candles.... I hadn't seen this movie in probably 30 years and watched it the other day on Amazon. Laughed my ass off. Still hilarious. I know the "woke" times we live in now some might have issue with certain scenes. I honestly don't care... funny is funny and this movie is still funny as hell.
good movie if you are white but asians hate that movie for good reasons
@@camlee2341 because of the donger needing food?
@@camlee2341 incorrect statement
@@camlee2341 Must depend on the Asian, because this one still finds it funny.
I could listen to AMH talk all day... Love this guy
Anthony Michael Hall is proof that getting older is getting better. Geeky nerd evolves into handsome man with attractive personality. Bravo!
Into a jock in Edward Sciccerhands
You sound really really super gay right now
@@JohnnyFontane528 Rusty, ask yourself why that's a problem for you.
@@marquamfurniture what makes you think it’s a problem, handsome. 🦄🌈
@@JohnnyFontane528 Touché
Anything you need to know about Kubrick's process you can learn from Tim Coleri's experience actually being cast in Full Metal Jacket.
You feel for Coleri, but it's hard to believe Emery's performance could've been topped. Dick move by Kubrick as a human, but a necessary one as a director.
Yeah, Coleri got robbed however, FMG wouldn't have been the film it was without Lee R Ermy. One of the best casting decisions in the history of film.
@@nickstoli “Dick move by Kubrick”
Shelly Duvall enters the chat
@@nickstoli Artistic integrity is a dick move only if they arent paid for their work. Coleri was paid for his work.
A "dick" move would be making someone the lead in your movie, cutting their character completely in post-production, and not telling them, then having them show up for the movie premier, only to be massively shocked and embarrassed.
Terrence Malik is a glorified cinematographer and an overrated director.
Unfortunate for Coleri... He still had one of the most memorable parts, as the door gunner. Let's face it, there is no FMJ without Ermey.
Shame we didn't get more movies from Kubrick.
I agree. You can read a list of his unfilmed projects and think "What if?" for the rest of your life. Still the string of one-after-another masterpieces he *did* make are good enough. Regretting that he only made thirteen films is like regretting Beethoven only wrote nine symphonies.
Have a safe and interesting weekend! 🐧
He seemed to go overboard on being meticulous and anal.
@@mem1701movies As those with a singular vision do.
@@mem1701movies Either that, or we live in an age of lazy slackers who are baffled and contemptuous of goofy concepts like perfectionism, discipline, and doing something over and over until you've got it right.
I never had to do three billion takes of a scene in a Kubrick film. All I know is that when I watch one of his films, I'm seeing the one take out of billions that Kubrick thought was the best. I'm fine with that. 🐧
Have you watched "The Killing"? One of my all-time favorite crime flicks.
Such a fine iconic screen talent.
Missed opportunity for sure. Such an iconic film that is always worthy of a rewatch.
Big love from Liverpool,UK Anthony..
At some point in the early 1990s, the now-defunct film magazine "Premiere" put out it's annual list of the 100 most powerful people in Hollywood. At the end of the countdown, there was an "honorable mention" for position #101- Stanley Kubrick. The explanation was that when he had recently announced that he was beginning pre-production on his new film, numbers 1,2 4 and 6 called HIM. As Premiere said, "Now THAT is power!"
Kubrick was totally wrong in his near casting of Hall in Full Metal Jacket. He'd look like a baby in the role. Modine was the perfect choice. I mean Kubrick lucked out in the role of drill instructor Hartman played by Lee Ermey when he was only hired as a consultant
Actually he would not have… AMH said he was in the middle of filming Weird Science at the time. And he soon followed that up with Johnny Be Good where he was starting to show himself filing out and putting on weight and muscle. So IF he had indeed got the role in Kubricks FMJ, he would have looked the part just fine.
If AMH had got the part, people would be debating how Matthew Modine was so wrong for the part.
If this is while filming Weird Science, it must have been around the same time he turned down Ferris Bueller and cut his ties with John Hughes Hall made a lot of mistakes..
When I think of Full Metal Jacket, I only seem to remember the first half with Vincent D’Onofrio and Lee Ermey. Their performances are haunting.
@Bryan Mack You should thank God and the United States they do.
Visionquest was shot in Spokane Washington, my hometown. I was in high school at the time. The high school in the film was taken from parts of schools all over town. They didn't want just one school to be part of a movie so they involved all the high schools. I never saw Matthew Modine or any other stars.
Sometimes I miss the 80s.
Super nice man. I have had a chance to meet him he is awesome
Great interview
It is rarely mentioned because it is such a small role in a sports movie, but AMH's depiction of Whitey Ford in *61 is a work of understated brilliance. Sports movies get dumped on a lot, but Hall, Thomas Jane, Barry Pepper, Bruce McGill, Richard Masur, and Chris Bauer all are brilliant in that movie.
Not surprised Kubrik said that about him as an actor. He is riveting to watch.
He never gets any praises for one of my favorite movies weird science that was a great great fucking movie!!
Seriously bro? We are talking about great movies and Stanley Kubrick. Sit down.
I love how in all of these clips Anthony is handing out verbal high fives to everyone. Love that positivity.
This guy came to Pensacon, a comedy/horror/sci-Fi movie convention here in Pensacola Fl a few months ago and missed the opportunity to meet him.
Can't belive Anthony Michael Hall isn't in mainstream movies!!
Dude was in "The Dark Knight." Doesn't get much more mainstream than that.
I heard from the Kubrick side that Anthony Michael Hall's father was a difficult to deal with.
Hard to believe this is Rusty from National Lampoon’s Vacation. Legend!
Loved AMH in Dead Zone series too
I was stoked on The Dead Zone back in the day. That was a cool show.
He seemed like such a nice and respectful guy when I met him a few years back.
AMH's performance of Ted is one of the best comedic performances of all time, IMO.
This guy has got great stories!! In college I wrote a 17 page paper on Kubrick for a film class, the guy was intense and utterly brilliant. He could be a pain in the ass to work for but the finished product was incredible.
I think a lot of people that love Kubrick would despise him if they actually had to work with him. He did a lot of obnoxious, uncalled for things in the creation of his films that aren't ethically on the up and up. There are legions of greats before and after him that made masterful films without being a prick to those they needed to make their movies. His talent can't be disputed, but his behavior makes me view him as a lesser visionary in hindsight.
@@Bad_At_Parties I’ve heard the same thing.
Jack Nicholson said he would never do another Kubrick film and he didn’t. Shelley Duval was reportedly losing her hair and Scatman Crothers was brought to a nervous breakdown after 50 takes all during the filming ofThe Shinning. So if the finished product took him mistreating people, then the legacy is tainted to me
@@itsharryhagen your absolutely right.
@@itsharryhagen Yeah, that's why the 21st Century is one reboot after another. It's this generational naivete that you can have brilliance without struggle. They would rather feel safe with an RPG-like movie than take risks with someone who might be difficult. They think they can get brilliance from nice, and if not, then forget brilliance. The 20th Century was full of complex, difficult characters. The 21st Century has nobly rejected them while repeating the 20th Century over and over and over and over and over and over.
That would have been AMAZING to see Anthony in Full Metal Jacket
I can listen to Mr. Hall go on forever about his experiences and his perception of the acting profession and who he is today as opposed to when he first got started! Also how it was working on Psych...😉😆😆
Kubrick was notorious for doing that with actors/ aps/ other directors etc. everyone!
Kubrick rewatched and rewatched “16 Candles” because he was hoping there might be an alternate ending where Molly scored with “Jake.”
Anthony is a total badass. Love this podcast. He's one of those guys you grew up watching, and has some amazing stories to tell. Thanks Michael for being the coolest celebrity out there.✌️
Nah, Tom Jones is the coolest celebrity. Don't argue. You can't.
Always surprised me AMH didn't go on to much bigger things. He has true charisma in his work with John Hughes.
strikes me as a coke head, maybe a "hard to work with" issue
For sure. He had a falling out with John Hughes who effectively launched his career. If you watch Ferris Beulor it's obviously written for Hall to play.
@@bigbuddhaiswatching...101 AMH has said there was a scheduling conflict but it broke JH's heart that he didn't do it.
Back in the days when you actually had to the cinema to see a movie, then wait yonks before it appeared on VCR - not that we could afford one back then - my sister and I went and saw The Breakfast Club at least 10 times. We were teenagers, and it just spoke to us. Not to mention I had a huge crush on Ally Sheedy!
I loved this guy! I saw all of his movies, and I wondered what became of him...
On a different note, years later we had moved to Sydney (from Melbourne) and I was out one night with some friends - quite late, upstairs at the Courthouse - when who should I bump into but Judd Nelson (he must have been in Australia to shoot Blackwater Trail, because it was around the mid-1990's). I went and said hello to him, then explained that my sister would never speak to me again if I told her I had met him, and not gone and got her, so I convinced him to stay while I went home and woke her up, on condition that I would give him the 2 ecstasy tablets which I had in the freezer for some reason.
So, I went home and got my sister, and the tablets, then we went and spent a few hours drinking with Judd Nelson, who told us some stories about Anthony Michael Hall, and the others in The Breakfast Club, then he ended up going off into the night with one of my attractive female friends, never to be seen again (by us).
Now I'm going to watch The Breakfast Club again, because it's been a while!
*IMPORTANT NOTE:* Whether or not he took the ecstasy tablets I don't know - I didn't see him do so - and I'm certainly not trying to suggest he took drugs. He threw them away for all I know! I wasn't into drugs either and can't even remember why I had ecstasy tablets in my freezer, but it was an interesting part of the story, which is the only reason I mentioned it...
I don’t think I’d call that a battle but it was the reason I clicked the vid!!!
love his johnny smith, felt a kinship with his character, full of humanity but also wounded. The series was ok, but his character and performance is what I'll remember
Oh I can totally see him in that role as Joker. As much as I like Modine in that role, Anthony Michael Hall had that more boyish innocent look about him, as well as clever and with some capacity for hidden darkness too. Really interesting what Stanley could have made with him.
Kubrick said it was the most impressive screen rise since Jimmy Stewart
He would of been great in Full Metal Jacket
Hall came across authentic. Decent clip.
I remember Michael Anthony Hall In the movie six pack as well as vacation.
One of his great unrealized projects was the Napoleon biography he was planning. He wanted Jack Nicholson to play Napoleon.
Tony Mike is a pretty chill dude.
Could you do an interview with Anthony Michael Hall next to Terry Serpico? I swear I can't tell them apart.
I don’t know if I’d call that a battle. To be honest, I’d fire some people if I desperately wanted to make the film, I was talking to Stanley, and somehow I lost that role after 9 months of working out details and logistics.
Kubrick also said I was his favorite actor too. Prove me wrong.
My teenage kid's love 16 Candles, one of those movies which is relatable with every teen generation.
Good decision to turn it down because weird science is an 80’s classic. I met Anthony Micheal Hall with my mother. He was tall nicest guy. Weird Science👍❤️ is godly
What a voice this guy has!
The thing about Chaplin and why t took him so long to shoot is Chaplin shot all this scenes before hand, developed the film, and watched it so he could direct himself. And "City Lights" took two years, even though it's 80 minutes, because he was writing the script while shooting.
The most entertaining story about being involved with Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket movie is by Vincent D' Onofrio.
THE most SHOCKING battle in the history of filmmaking. Brace yourselves for this one folks.
Howard Stern would've blasted him with a probing inquiry until AMH spilled the FULL glass of juice.
I love that he referenced Chaplin and his work ethic.
Think of what Kubrick put Shelley Duvall through in order to get the performance out of her that he required for THE SHiNiNG . . . and then think of the wringer AMH would've gone through, especially with R. Lee Ermey doing Kubrick's dirty work for him, for FULL METAL JACKET. AMH would have known what it was like to go through Boot Camp on Parris Island for fucking REAL.
The way he treated Shelley was unconscionable. Kubrick started buying into his own hype and eventually his films suffered as a result. It’s all just make believe.
@@df4196 His films suffered? You’re not going to get many people to agree that anything before Eyes Wide Shut suffered because of his ego. His methods were questionable but you can’t really argue the results.
@@MrElephantBeach Do you remember the ending of Clockwork Orange? How about Full Metal Jacket?
Look at he behind the scenes footage of that film. She was a flaky and insane, typical actress, who lied about all of that. She acted like a child and was treated accordingly.
@@df4196 There are entire TV networks devoted to showing how shitty some ppl have it in their daily work environments. Real hard jobs. And they wear it like a badge of honor. I think about those real ppl when I come across the whiny "oh poor Shelley Duvall" comments. She had a dude push her to a great performance. That's it. I had a director throw folded metal chairs onto the stage at me to get me to straighten up and get serious about my role, probably the same year as The Shining. I applaud Kubrick for getting the most out of his actors.
AMH is a year older than me, watched him grow up in all my favorite movies as a kid. Weird Science is top 5 fave. Also a Kubrick fan, AMH as Joker would have been a trip and a half. I want to find the parallel dimension where he got the role and watch it. Great second pick though, Modine was brilliant and absolutely carried the lead for Kubrick. The “Vision Quest” reference lol. Decent flick about Matthews HS wrestling goals…and having his dad let some deadbeat trucked lady move in to thier home and hoping he’d have a shot at nailing her. Instead, after she catches him smelling her undergarments in the laundry room, the woman kidnaps an underage Modine to the woods and has carnal relations with him. It’s 5 ⭐️ for sure.
Can't believe this is the guy from weird science
Mr. Hall would have been a VAST improvement over Matthew Modine. I think the are both FINE actors, but I believe Mr. Modine was miscast in Full Metal Jacket.
eh.. he had that boyish look, I think he was fine. Hall would have worked, no doubt.
So, what was the "shocking battle"? Contract negotiations fell through? Clickbait.
I want to stay at the Sheraton Premiere, but I can’t afford it
What Michael Anthony Hall leaves out here is the role Kubrick was envisioning him in: The Drill Sergeant. That is, until H. Lee Ermy stepped up and asked Kubrick what his “Major Malfunction” was.
Yes Kubrick was very deep and always had a lot of internal sub text in all of his work. But he was also flighty and prone to rapid changes of mind on a dime. Read “plumbing Stanley Kubrick“ by Ian Watson. It should be easy to find with a search. It is Watsons memoir of working with Kubrick on the development of A.I. which would eventually be handed off to Steven Spielberg. The long duration of that film development really had as much to do with Kubrick’s tendency to change his mind and go in a completely different direction without telling anybody as much as the technical elements. He even lost the script at one point. It’s a pretty fascinating read
I was amazed when I heard he was well into shooting FMJ and still had no ending. He even brought in the cast and polled them for ideas. He suffered from blank page syndrome and analysis paralysis, which is why he demanded dozens of takes and angles of every scene. He didn't trust the collaborative shooting process and wanted unlimited options to create during the edit.
Interesting point. Isn't that why Harvey Keitel quit one of his pictures ? I think Kubrick had him doing some crazy amount of takes for what seemed like an inconsequential moment in the film.
@@andymullarx6365 The story I heard was about during the shooting of the shining, Kubrick shot dozens of takes of Jack Nicholson just walking into the overlook. When someone asked him why he was doing it, taking so many shots, he supposedly said he was “waiting for something to happen“. 😆 but it very well may have been just so he could have more footage for editing
@@responsiblejerk2328 in Watson‘s memoir he talks about how Kubrick would have him write up all these ideas they had discussed and then the very next morning he would say their just awful and get rid of them… Then the next day he would think they were great again. Yeah so I can see what you’re saying. But of course the excess footage can be explained by wanting more material for edits.
@@IYAMNI Both are the same issue. He doesn’t so much create as much as he discovers nuggets of nuance buried in the avalanche of footage.
This hardly sounds like a battle, but I clicked it, and that's what matters.
Yeah that battle was really shocking!! lol
What’s the book “nuclear negotiations” he’s referring to?
I think Kubrick was referring to the Hermann Kahn books.
If you think about it, Sixteen Candles being a classic is partly, if not mainly because of his performance. Just try to picture anyone else as Farmer Ted.
Damn - I so wish Hall could have played Joker in FMJ!!
I also would have Loved him as Ferris Bueller!!!
Can we just appreciate the unholy fact that Stanley "Alloicius Danger" Kubrick watched John Hughes movies on the regular? Did David Lean binge on GoBots?
Thumbed up for the GoBots reference. I loved GoBots as a kid.
Total assumption on my part, but I guess AMH wanted to do SNL and "Out of Bounds" more than Full Metal Jacket at the time. There is no way you turn down a Kubrick film, and I bet AMH is too ashamed to admit it to this day.
He probably got a bigger payday for Out of Bounds. I recall one critic calling it "Out of Brains"
Anthony Michael Hall is a great actor - his performance as Bill Gates on Pirates of Silicon Valtley is wonderful. I hope he manages to act of good films again.
So why did it not work out exactly? The host asked if agents got in the way and he firmly answered NO! Would love to know details.
Anthony "Great/Man" Michael Hall jk I'm 47, huge fan. Grew up watching his movies, but the guy does say great and man in every other sentence haha
He's downplaying the FACT that if his greedy management weren't demanding too much money, that role would have changed his life and career in a major way. These actors go into middle age without ever "getting" the severe mistakes that they made.
or he chooses not to think that way
Kubrick also changed his mind about using teenagers.
Had he played Joker in Full Metal Jacket it would have sent his career into a whole new trajectory