For his latest role, Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning actor Al Pacino is taking on the role of Dr. Jack Kevorkian (aka Dr. Death) for the HBO Films presentation bạn Don’t Know Jack.
In 1990, 61-year-old former pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian astonished the world as he took the end-of-life thảo luận head-on and performed his first assisted suicide of a terminally ill patient. Aided bởi his loyal friend Neal Nicol (John Goodman) and his older sister Margo Janus (Brenda Vaccaro), Kevorkian began offering his death counseling services to a grateful and growing danh sách of clientele. As he earned the support of Hemlock Society activist Janet Good (Susan Sarandon), he incurred the wrath of the county prosecutor’s office and the infamous doctor started a media frenzy with his epic legal battles defending a patient’s right to die.
During a gần đây interview to promote bạn Don’t Know Jack, actor Al Pacino đã đưa ý kiến that he decided to make a ti vi movie for the opportunity to work with accomplished filmmaker Barry Levinson and this great cast. Here’s what he had to say:
Question: Did bạn know a lot about Dr. Kevorkian before bạn played him?
Pacino: I was familiar, like pretty much everybody was who was around what was going on. I had seen that 60 phút episode when Kevorkian was on television.
What was your opinion of him?
Pacino: My opinion is that, after I got to know Jack in the story, I reserved my opinion about it. I don’t ever give my opinion. Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
được trao the director and the pedigree of the project, does it feel any different at all knowing that it’s an HBO film, hoặc at this point, is the line blurred?
Pacino: It’s HBO, and HBO is television. With television, bạn have to do a lot, in a short period of time. That’s the only difference. Otherwise, it’s the same.
Do bạn feel that this is the proper tiêu đề for a movie about Dr. Death? Does it seem to comedic sounding at all?
Pacino: Well, I don’t think a lot of people can really say that they know Jack Kevorkian, especially when bạn get his read on things and get to know thêm about him. Of course, if you’re doing a movie about him, you’re apt to go further into it to find out. And, bạn really don’t know Jack.
When bạn see the image that was portrayed of Jack Kevorkian during this time, bạn get a sense of someone quite different than the personality that I got to know. Not that I got to know him personally, mind you, but just the research and work I did, in order to get closer to who I could interpret. I think the tiêu đề is apt because bạn don’t know this guy. And, hopefully, in the movie, bạn still don’t.
What was your nguồn material for this performance? Did bạn meet up with Dr. Kevorkian?
Pacino: I didn’t meet Jack. I hope I will, in the future. Sometimes, for some reason, I don’t take advantage of that, and sometimes I do. With Jack, because I thought the script was so well written, it was complete in its portrait. It felt as though there was room, and I had so much research. With the media the way it is, there’s so many things bạn can see and study. bạn can read his sách and get close to him, in that fashion.
Also, Jack was about 10 years older because he had gotten out of prison. We don’t do him, at that age. We cover when he’s younger. I just felt this instinctively. Barry Levinson met him and got a great deal out of it, and there were times when I wish I would have, but in the end, I felt close to him, in another kind of way. There are characters bạn do it with and it works, and there’s some characters bạn just back away from doing. I don’t know why.
For instance, with Frank Serpico, I studied and went with Serpico everywhere. I got to know him, to go back into the past. With Dog ngày Afternoon, I didn’t feel like I wanted to know that guy for the role and my interpretation. If bạn have the opportunity to meet someone, as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful nguồn stuff that we die for. But, I didn’t take advantage of it, and I don’t know why I didn’t.
Dr. Kevorkian’s zealotry intensified over time, as he got closer to his court case and eventually having to go to prison. How did bạn play that and what that was that like for bạn internally, as his mania grew?
In 1990, 61-year-old former pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian astonished the world as he took the end-of-life thảo luận head-on and performed his first assisted suicide of a terminally ill patient. Aided bởi his loyal friend Neal Nicol (John Goodman) and his older sister Margo Janus (Brenda Vaccaro), Kevorkian began offering his death counseling services to a grateful and growing danh sách of clientele. As he earned the support of Hemlock Society activist Janet Good (Susan Sarandon), he incurred the wrath of the county prosecutor’s office and the infamous doctor started a media frenzy with his epic legal battles defending a patient’s right to die.
During a gần đây interview to promote bạn Don’t Know Jack, actor Al Pacino đã đưa ý kiến that he decided to make a ti vi movie for the opportunity to work with accomplished filmmaker Barry Levinson and this great cast. Here’s what he had to say:
Question: Did bạn know a lot about Dr. Kevorkian before bạn played him?
Pacino: I was familiar, like pretty much everybody was who was around what was going on. I had seen that 60 phút episode when Kevorkian was on television.
What was your opinion of him?
Pacino: My opinion is that, after I got to know Jack in the story, I reserved my opinion about it. I don’t ever give my opinion. Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
được trao the director and the pedigree of the project, does it feel any different at all knowing that it’s an HBO film, hoặc at this point, is the line blurred?
Pacino: It’s HBO, and HBO is television. With television, bạn have to do a lot, in a short period of time. That’s the only difference. Otherwise, it’s the same.
Do bạn feel that this is the proper tiêu đề for a movie about Dr. Death? Does it seem to comedic sounding at all?
Pacino: Well, I don’t think a lot of people can really say that they know Jack Kevorkian, especially when bạn get his read on things and get to know thêm about him. Of course, if you’re doing a movie about him, you’re apt to go further into it to find out. And, bạn really don’t know Jack.
When bạn see the image that was portrayed of Jack Kevorkian during this time, bạn get a sense of someone quite different than the personality that I got to know. Not that I got to know him personally, mind you, but just the research and work I did, in order to get closer to who I could interpret. I think the tiêu đề is apt because bạn don’t know this guy. And, hopefully, in the movie, bạn still don’t.
What was your nguồn material for this performance? Did bạn meet up with Dr. Kevorkian?
Pacino: I didn’t meet Jack. I hope I will, in the future. Sometimes, for some reason, I don’t take advantage of that, and sometimes I do. With Jack, because I thought the script was so well written, it was complete in its portrait. It felt as though there was room, and I had so much research. With the media the way it is, there’s so many things bạn can see and study. bạn can read his sách and get close to him, in that fashion.
Also, Jack was about 10 years older because he had gotten out of prison. We don’t do him, at that age. We cover when he’s younger. I just felt this instinctively. Barry Levinson met him and got a great deal out of it, and there were times when I wish I would have, but in the end, I felt close to him, in another kind of way. There are characters bạn do it with and it works, and there’s some characters bạn just back away from doing. I don’t know why.
For instance, with Frank Serpico, I studied and went with Serpico everywhere. I got to know him, to go back into the past. With Dog ngày Afternoon, I didn’t feel like I wanted to know that guy for the role and my interpretation. If bạn have the opportunity to meet someone, as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful nguồn stuff that we die for. But, I didn’t take advantage of it, and I don’t know why I didn’t.
Dr. Kevorkian’s zealotry intensified over time, as he got closer to his court case and eventually having to go to prison. How did bạn play that and what that was that like for bạn internally, as his mania grew?
