"Heineken? Fuck that shit! PABST! BLUE! RIBBON!" 30 years later, "Blue Velvet" still sends chills down my spine, and Dennis Hopper's Frank Booth stands out as one of the most memorable and menacing villains to ever grace the silver screen.
Should be noted David Letterman also had a drinking problem and he gave up alcohol in the early 80s where then his career really took off. I think that is why he was so interested in asking Dennis questions about his experience.
I love all Dennis Hoppers performances. and am so glad that Robert Logia did not get the roll of frank booth. the amyle nitrate he inhales in blue velvet and the way he acts it out is stunning even today.
Believe it or not even Bobby Vinson was considered for the part . He would have been better than Loggia but Hopper pitched himself to Lynch saying “ I am Frank Booth !” And the rest is the history cliche
Loggia was definitely good but can’t imagine anyone else playing Booth but Hopper. When Lynch offered him the role he said “I am Frank!”, and he was and the best choice.
I've often said, when an actor can make you hate or fear one of the character's that they are portraying, that is a great actor..Dennis was such an underrated, yet great actor, he could play a whacko/sicko about as well as most, if not all of the GREAT actors....simply an amazing talent !!!
I agree. There use to be actors that I hated because they would always play the bad guys. I came to realize that they are just really good actors to as you said, hate and fear them.
River's Edge is a sadly underrated film. Its theme? APATHY. A troubled young man kills his girlfriend and leaves her nude body in the woods and no one seems to care. Wow! What's more chilling than that? IT WAS BASED ON A TRUE STORY!
Dennis was a modern artist, through and through. The abuse was a project. Renown for his creative photography, he hung and collected with modern expressionists. He ventured and that's the coolness.
When it came to playing wound up, on the edge of madness or on the edge of sanity, no one was better than Dennis Hopper. Fine actor and underrated director.
I miss interesting actors like Hopper. Not to bitch, but they are ALL becoming safe and boring good looking men. Damon, Clooney, Craig, etc. (sigh) Miss ya Dennis.
River's Edge, Blue Velvet, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Dennis Hopper was just perfect for cult movies. There will never be another like him! (edit; wrote this comment drunk while drinking a Pabst Blue Ribbon)
Just saw him in an episode of Bonanza. He was like 28 at the time but I knew he looked familiar and sure enough it was him. He worked great with Michael Landon.
this is why actors should never be directors. Especially drug addicts. The helium would have been great, the film is not as good as it could have been if it was included
Dennis Hopper, Blue Velvet, Frank, taught me to dive a bit, to go below the surface, in the attempt to figure out, to understand, why we humans, over and over, end up as these dysfunctional, violent idiots. So to this date, Dennis Hopper, is the most important actor in my life. Thank you Mr. Hopper. Your contribution will not be forgotten.
That's where drugs can be a good thing just as long as YA DONT ABUSE IT!!! know your limitations, know your body, know your intake......BUT!!!! I'm talking about doing this during the days of this interview, now, 2019, I would highly advise anyone to stay away from ALL DRUGS!!! these days, u dont know what's mixed in there with it, and if u do know for a fact it's not mixed with anything, theres still the highly addictive properties to whatever it is you're taking cause times have changed for the worse when it comes to the partying scene....its best to just be sober, that's what I do now.
He really did drink that much ", cause a beer is like a loaf of bread...,' So glad he was sober to catch this moment. What a amazing actor & interview " that's good"
We miss you Dennis. You were too suave for this world. Frank Booth is like no other character whatsoever and Dennis is like no other actor. Not exactly anyways. I'm sure there are some similar ones out there but still. Mr. Hopper was the fucking man.
Wasn’t Sacramento it was Milpitas Ca, and the only truth to Rivers Edge was a girl was killed and kids came and looked at the corpse but told no authorities for a few days.
Lots of comments and love on here for Blue Velvet, but Hopper was pushing River’s Edge in this interview. If you haven’t seen River’s Edge, do so immediately.
John Houston’s Noah Cross in Chinatown is the most frightening realistic villain in movie history . Dennis Hopper’s Frank Booth is definitely the sleaziest .
Letterman was often terrible back then. He grew into a great host. I wonder if he ever sees his old interview. It's fun to see him as a guest on other shows now.
![David Lynch • Interview (Blue Velvet/Eraserhead) • 1986 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/p3PFf0VAQWw/mqdefault.jpg)
Pabst Blue Ribbon!
heineken ?!! fuck that shit !!! PABST BLUE RIBBON
Kurt Wellhausen HEY RAYMOND PASS THE FUCKIN BEER!
mitchellkarera do you want me to pour the beer, Frank?
Christopher carrier no I want you to fuck it !
@@maitro94 One thing I can't fuckin' stand is warm beer. It makes me fuckin' puke!
"Heineken? Fuck that shit! PABST! BLUE! RIBBON!" 30 years later, "Blue Velvet" still sends chills down my spine, and Dennis Hopper's Frank Booth stands out as one of the most memorable and menacing villains to ever grace the silver screen.
"You know what a love letter is? Its a bullet from a fucking gun, fucker!"
+Haborym You receive a love letter from me, You're F..ked forever!
Great, exceptional actor! Bummer it seams the greats are all gone.
I would love to see someone pitch up his voice and dub it into the movie.
Its on yt bud :)
One well-dressed fucking man Hopper was.
felsner1 One Suave fuck!
Suave
Don't you look at me!
Should be noted David Letterman also had a drinking problem and he gave up alcohol in the early 80s where then his career really took off. I think that is why he was so interested in asking Dennis questions about his experience.
Also RIVERS EDGE.
Dont u fuckin look at meeee!
It wasn't Sacramento. It was Milpitas.
Yes. True. The movie is set around Sacramento, though...
I thought they said Oregon
He embodied evil better than anyone I can think of when he was Frank Booth
He was Frank and he was one suave well dressed man too
+Billy C. LeWorth Ben was one suave fuck too
+John Doe I absolutely *LOVED* the costumes in that movie. It's pretty much the only time I paused a film just to look at the suits.
frank booth was one twisted fuck, and I cant think of anyone who could have brought him to live better.
Its because he carries the evil inside of him in reality too. Thats what actors really do actually. Its the shadow self.
Now it's dark
But I can see
Letterman always seemed to have a boyish fascination with hard-core druggies and alcoholics. Hopper is doing a good job of being gracious here.
Letterman's fascination spurs from his own alcoholic demons. He's talked about it over the years.
Heineken…FUCK THAT SHIT!!! PAPSTS BLUE RIBBON!!!!!!!!!
"You want me to pour the beer?"
"No..I want you to FUCK it! Pour the fucking beer!"
Dennis Hopper is totally fucking awesome.
Ahahaha omg I don't know why but I almost busted a lung when I saw your profile pic
Dennis Hopper was incredible even in "Giant" with James Dean, an amazing actor he was.
And In Speed as well
I love all Dennis Hoppers performances.
and am so glad that Robert Logia did not get the roll of frank booth.
the amyle nitrate he inhales in blue velvet and the way he acts it out is stunning even today.
Damm Robert Loggia is an amazing actor as well but Dennis Hopper owns it
Believe it or not even Bobby Vinson was considered for the part . He would have been better than Loggia but Hopper pitched himself to Lynch saying “ I am Frank Booth !” And the rest is the history cliche
Loggia was definitely good but can’t imagine anyone else playing Booth but Hopper. When Lynch offered him the role he said “I am Frank!”, and he was and the best choice.
Dennis Hooper was so fucking underrated as an actor! He should have been freaking nominated for best actor, Blue Velvet!
i think that dennis hopper will be considered one of the best character actors of all time, a true legend
It was always boring to watch Letterman address a serious subject/film/actor with that stupid Wally Cleaver shit he had down pat.
"blue velvet" is slang for nitrous oxide.
It is now...
River's Edge along with Blue Velvet are two of the best films of the 80's
Absolute legend, he could act the arse off most of today's Hollywood A listers.
The first time I watched Blue Velvet I had to turn it off as I knew guys like Booth....
No.
Ew
I've known guys like Booth too. : (
I knew Frank Booth. Frank Booth was a friend of mine.Senator Quayle , you're no Frank Booth...
Man, Hopper is awesome in 'Rumble Fish'. Cult hero all the way.
I've often said, when an actor can make you hate or fear one of the character's that they are portraying, that is a great actor..Dennis was such an underrated, yet great actor, he could play a whacko/sicko about as well as most, if not all of the GREAT actors....simply an amazing talent !!!
I agree. There use to be actors that I hated because they would always play the bad guys. I came to realize that they are just really good actors to as you said, hate and fear them.
in the early '70s, Dennis Hopper was nearly as mad as Frank; he later became mainstream, but there was a time when Dennis was HARDCORE
*****
*American public you mean.
Hopper told Lynch, “I want to play Frank because I AM Frank.” Lynch said after he heard that he wasn’t sure whether he wanted Hopper on set.
River's Edge is a sadly underrated film. Its theme? APATHY. A troubled young man kills his girlfriend and leaves her nude body in the woods and no one seems to care. Wow! What's more chilling than that? IT WAS BASED ON A TRUE STORY!
Hopper dripped coolness- his performance in Hoosiers with Gene Hackman is peerless- talented photographer too...
Dennis was a modern artist, through and through. The abuse was a project. Renown for his creative photography, he hung and collected with modern expressionists. He ventured and that's the coolness.
I love Dennis! His laugh is so funny:)
Great evil laughter from Frank Booth and Howard Payne.
hes so handsome and seems the opposite of all the characters i play.
28 beers, a half gallon of rum (with a fifth as a backup) and about 3 grams of coke. every day for five years.
That’s a full-time job in-and-of-itself.
Pabst Blue Ribbon!
When it came to playing wound up, on the edge of madness or on the edge of sanity, no one was better than Dennis Hopper. Fine actor and underrated director.
I miss interesting actors like Hopper. Not to bitch, but they are ALL becoming safe and boring good looking men. Damon, Clooney, Craig, etc. (sigh) Miss ya Dennis.
River's Edge, Blue Velvet, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Dennis Hopper was just perfect for cult movies. There will never be another like him!
(edit; wrote this comment drunk while drinking a Pabst Blue Ribbon)
Dennis hopper had the coolest devilish laugh.
He was such a talented, cool man. R.i.P
I miss Dennis Hopper, last movie he did was George Romero's Land of the Dead. He was a lot of fun in it.
Just saw him in an episode of Bonanza. He was like 28 at the time but I knew he looked familiar and sure enough it was him. He worked great with Michael Landon.
after all that alcohol and did three grams of blow to sober up.
good god its amazing he doesn't have any permanent tics.
great ending on jimi hendrix. rip dennis hopper. what is life
this is why actors should never be directors. Especially drug addicts. The helium would have been great, the film is not as good as it could have been if it was included
Each You Tube video I see makes me love David Lynch even more haha
River's Edge is also an excellent movie.
SO SUAVE! #FrankBooth #BlueVelvet #twinpeaks2016
he has such great sense of humor.......
Blue Velvet & River's Edge are 2 of my favorite movies. Dennis has a lot to do with that
David Letterman seems to be obsessed with people's drug habits. WHY??
Whenever I have a PBR tall-boy, I think of Frank, and feel like fucking anything that moves.
Let's have a fucking toast to "Frank"!!
Put it on! Candy colored clown!
Dennis Hopper just a crazy mad genius nobody plays batshit crazy with his nutty humor like the late great Dennis Hopper
RIP Dennis.
A conservative Republican.....now that's the role of the most evil he could tap into.
Dennis Hopper, Blue Velvet, Frank, taught me to dive a bit, to go below the surface, in the attempt to figure out, to understand, why we humans, over and over, end up as these dysfunctional, violent idiots. So to this date, Dennis Hopper, is the most important actor in my life. Thank you Mr. Hopper. Your contribution will not be forgotten.
That's where drugs can be a good thing just as long as YA DONT ABUSE IT!!! know your limitations, know your body, know your intake......BUT!!!! I'm talking about doing this during the days of this interview, now, 2019, I would highly advise anyone to stay away from ALL DRUGS!!! these days, u dont know what's mixed in there with it, and if u do know for a fact it's not mixed with anything, theres still the highly addictive properties to whatever it is you're taking cause times have changed for the worse when it comes to the partying scene....its best to just be sober, that's what I do now.
Now it's dark
Crispin Glover
He really did drink that much ", cause a beer is like a loaf of bread...,' So glad he was sober to catch this moment. What a amazing actor & interview " that's good"
We miss you Dennis. You were too suave for this world. Frank Booth is like no other character whatsoever and Dennis is like no other actor. Not exactly anyways. I'm sure there are some similar ones out there but still. Mr. Hopper was the fucking man.
Hopper is awesome.
This would've been a great interview ....
With a better interviewer.
Here's to Ben. Be polite.
Sounds like Dave was trying to find validity for something in his own life, the way he kept trying to get him to agree that he was now better
TCM 2 = He's cool.
LEGEND.
to think he was really nozing lol
Waterworld. Beerworld.
What an awkward interview
2:45 3 grams of ( ).
awesome human sad he's gone how'd that happen whend that happen life is strange he's gone now it's dark
Back when Letterman was a true host & great interviewer, Today, everything he does is centered around his left-wing political egenda.
His laugh..........crazy😆
I could hear Carson saying something like that.
Unfortunately Letterman lost his edge long ago. He was KING now just another late night interviewer.
Letterman was a jerk from day one. Carson and Leno blew him away.
OMG!!! Thank you Hopper. 24+ beers and 1/2 gallon rum + 1/5th of rum (on the side)... ffs. He's so cool about it too.
Wasn’t Sacramento it was Milpitas Ca, and the only truth to Rivers Edge was a girl was killed and kids came and looked at the corpse but told no authorities for a few days.
When ask about his 8 day marriage to Michelle Phillips Dennis said....
yeah, but we did a lot of living in those 8 days....
Fantastic actor
Nice link between Blue Velvet and Raging Bull
Pabst Blue Ribbon in both.
“Next time the bartender says What’ll it be......”
legend.
....PROBABLY... HMM TRUST ME... (EXPERT ADVICE FROM DENNIS!)
Lots of comments and love on here for Blue Velvet, but Hopper was pushing River’s Edge in this interview.
If you haven’t seen River’s Edge, do so immediately.
John Houston’s Noah Cross in Chinatown is the most frightening realistic villain in movie history . Dennis Hopper’s Frank Booth is definitely the sleaziest .
This man OOOZES coolness. His look/voice is smooth as silk or...
VELVET! Lol ;) haha I love this man's skill set
Dennis Hopper. Greatest actor of all time.
Come on !
Angel🕊Love Frank. LOVE DENNIS❤️
Late night shows back then we're good now that all the late night shows suck that's all about politics there's no writing it's very very unwatchable
The essential tool of a talk show host is to let the guest talk.
I cut my cable years ago. I'd forgotten just how many commercial breaks the popular shows had. I don't miss it.
Network t.v. is circling the drain, and deservedly so
Welcome to the Hogwarts school of chilling big.
Letterman was often terrible back then. He grew into a great host. I wonder if he ever sees his old interview. It's fun to see him as a guest on other shows now.
Dennis Hopper bit too real for Letterman that phony
Is It Ryan Reynolds on David Letterman show?
"It was an..AcciDent--unh."
Pop quiz hotshot! Pabst Blue Ribbon!
Who wants to go for a joy ride....???
Next!
Get em out of the car Raymond
You'll have a Pabst blue ribbon!
Magic carpet ride :)
Heineken!!?!!
God Bless.