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Interviews with Robert Vaughn and Richard Chamberlain - Radio Times, March 2006 |
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The stars of disaster movie The Towering Inferno were reunited to film an episode of Hustle. Alison Graham and Anna Hunt caught up with the TV icons.
Vaughn on Chamberlain
"We saw each other almost every day in the 1960s when we were both working on the MGM lot in Hollywood. He was doing Dr Kildare and I was in The Man from UNCLE. We would say hello, and we'd see each other in the canteen
occasionally, though it wasn't a friendship as such, we were actors that passed in the night."
Chamberlain on Vaughn
"When I was first starting out in acting - before I'd got any work at all - Bob was a very, very hot actor in Hollywood. I remember seeing him in a play in a theatre in LA that was very similar to the Royal Court in London and thinking, 'God this guy's good.' I subsequently met him at a couple of parties and I remember he was very interested in the whole conspiracy theory around Kennedy's assassination. We had a few conversations about that. But we didn't know each other that well."
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"We first worked together on The Towering Inferno, but even then we only had a couple of conversations. So I really got to know him properly on Hustle. Bob's an enchanting guy. He reads voraciously so he's got so much to talk about and he's a remarkable conversationalist. He's very bright and very interesting."
"Bob doesn't seem to be paying much attention to anything most of the time - he's not studying his script, for example, and he's not getting into deep conversations with the director. He seems very off-hand about the whole thing, in fact. But when he's in a scene, my God, he's extraordinary. The accuracy of his acting is remarkable. He's very sharp. But he never lets on he's at all nervous, which is uncommon."
Vaughn on working in the UK
"I first started coming here in the 1950s, then visited quite a bit during the 1960s. I lived here for three years in the early 1970s when I made The Protectors with Nyree Dawn Porter and Tony Anholt."
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Chamberlain on working in the UK
"I haven't done any British TV for a long time because nobody asked me, but my London agent also handles Bob and she suggested me for Hustle. I had a wonderful time filming, and I loved coming back to England. I find the level of acting talent and commitment in your country extraordinary. The British are much more grown-up than Americans - we're just kids - and consequently you have more depth to your acting. I'd love to do more work over here. I talked to my agent this morning and she told me she's been out like
a trouper looking for stuff."
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Read our interview with Robert Vaughn - or take a look at our full Hustle guide.
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