Listen to Me Marlon
Riley directs Listen to Me Marlon, a documentary that features musings taken from more than 300 hours of Brando’s self-recorded audio tapes that the actor had made as preparation for his official biography. The documentary begins in Brando’s childhood, revisiting the actor’s tough relationship with his alcoholic mother and abusive father. It includes his thoughts on films such as Apocalypse Now (he calls early drafts of the script “stupid” and “awful) and Last Tango in Paris (“I realized, you know, you’re naked”), as well as thoughts on his family tragedies.
My pitch (to make the film) was Brando on Brando. I thought it would be amazing to tell it entirely in his own voice, especially because he was so private. It was a Freudian study. He was in psychotherapy most of his life. His life was characterized by his youth. He didn’t want to be like his father but it was inescapable.
Christopher Walken interview
Walken is interviewed by Letterman on The David Letterman Show.
He wanted to do a musical variety show from his house.
Rita Moreno interview
Moreno is interviewed by Bathke where she talks about her first meeting with Brando.
I felt heat. I literally felt physical heat.
Marlon Brando interview
Moreno talks about Brando and her relationship with him.
He was a very damaged person.
James Caan interview
Caan talks to King on Larry King Now about working with Brando.
He was a riot.
Dick Cavette interview
Cavette talks to Huff Post Live about interviewing Brando back in 1973.
That night was the most stunning night of my life.
Harry Belafonte interview
Belafonte talks to TV 1 about his friendship and experience with Brando
Marlon and I grew up together.
Diahann Carroll interview
Carroll talks about a meeting she had with Brando decades earlier.
He gave me a little wack on the rear end.
Martin Landau interview
Landau is interviewed by TCM documentary movie Brando about the legendary star.
He was theatrical, without being theatrical.
Al Pacino interview
Pacino at The Massey Hall Toronto talking about when he first met Brando.
I was trying to impress him.
Gordon Pinsent interview
Pinsent talks to Crouse about the rumor of Pinsent encouraging Brando to put cotton in his mouth for The Godfather.
More cotton, more cotton. We can still hear you.
Eva Marie Saint interview
King talks to several actors including Saint about Brando.
You felt like he could read your soul.
Marlon Brando dies age 80
Brando dies from lung failure, age 80, at UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles. Once asked if he was afraid of death, Brando quoted Marc Antony, whom he played in a film of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar:
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear; seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.
Marlon Brando interview
Brando is interviewed by King on Larry King Live where he talks about Hollywood.
Hollywood is run by Jews, its owned by Jews.
Marlon Brando interview
Brando is interviewed by King on Larry King Live where he talks about why he doesn’t like interviews.
Primarily because the interest is in money.
Marlon Brando interview
Brando talks to Chung and comments on her questioning of him.
How much more are you going to invade me?
Marlon Brando interview
Brando is interviewed by Chung about how he made great movies in his time.
I didn’t make any great movies.
Terrence Stamp interview
Stamp talks about working on Superman with Brando.
That was just irresistible to be in a film with Marlon Brando.
Marlon Brando interview
Brando talks about the treatment of Native Americans.
We were building a land on the blood and bones of you people.
Marlon Brando interview
Brando is interviewed by David Sheehan. He is asked about how he feels about Hollywood’s current state.
If you’ve got a message, go to Western Union.