![]() Describe your scene.” So I describe the scene. So they were like, “David, help us find you. But then, months later, Altman’s office called-they couldn’t find me in the movie. ![]() Mostly, I remember I talked to Dennis Franz the whole day, who was really great. ![]() I played myself in it, in this scene with Julia Roberts, where there was a safe or like a walk-in vault or something. Robert Altman’s office called and asked that I do it. Did it feel like coming full circle?ĭAG: Well, The Player was really fun-everybody was willing and really gung-ho to do any part in it. I mean, with everyone grabbing houses and really at the fever pitch of getting in on the real estate market because that was the key to wealth and stability, because that’s what we’ve all been taught.ĪVC: This is an interesting combo, because you had your first feature role in Robert Altman’s Streamers, then years later you popped up in The Player as yourself. I know I have experienced it and seen it here in California in different neighborhoods and areas out in the Valley and the desert, Rancho Cucamonga, all those developments that just sprang up overnight. So we all have memories of that time during the economic crisis when people were losing their houses left and right. Most of the people watching the film-unless you’re 3, in which case you shouldn’t be watching it-have gone through it. Not in the housing market, not in the economy so much, but politically, socially in the country-it’s always interesting to me when you do a period piece, yet it’s within all of our lifetimes, everything we remember. How does housing crisis fit into the story?ĭAG: It just is perplexing how long ago seems right now, that so much has changed. Club: It also has slight Western feel to it thanks to your character, who’s the only law around. Grier currently stars in the Danny McBride-led black comedy, Arizona, which is in theaters now and available on iTunes, and will (arguably) lead the senior-citizens hangout comedy, The Cool Kids, on Fox this fall. But he’s also kept one foot on the stage, appearing in a Broadway production of Porgy And Bess before landing the role of his lifetime-The Cowardly Lion in The Wiz Live! A bit part in one Keenen Ivory Wayans comedy led to a four-year stint on the groundbreaking sketch show, In Living Color, where he met and worked with several of his future collaborators, including Damon Wayans and Martin Lawrence. The actor: David Alan Grier was already a Tony-nominated actor (for playing Jackie Robinson in the musical The First) before making his big-screen debut in the Robert Altman drama, Streamers, but he’s spent most of his career alternately resisting and listening to the siren song of comedy. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about. Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers.
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