Dennis Hopper On Casting Jack Nicholson In 'Easy Rider' | The Dick Cavett Show
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- Опубликовано: 3 мар 2020
- Dennis Hopper discusses Easy Rider's cult following and how he originally didn't want Jack Nicholson in the picture.
Date aired - 12/9/1994 - Dennis Hopper
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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This reminds me how much I miss intelligent and thoughtful conversation.
Roger Paris Not like today where the hosts are constantly trying to one up the guests by jamming in jokes instead of genuinely reacting to them.
Roger Paris it’s still there. It’s just on podcasts, not television. I know what you mean though. The idea that this was simply the discourse. Granted clowns have always existed. This certainly wasn’t what you’d see on “Regis and Kathie Lee” the same year as this.
That is the problem every time I have to talk to cops, which is often.
They don't know how to listen...., and don't.
AND, they are NOT intelligent.
Indeed!
You need a well spoken friend....
Dick Cavett knowing about Japan’s rockabilly subculture and explaining so eloquently is why he was such a great interviewer and class act
And he had Bob and Ray as his convention corespondents at the mid and late 1960s Dem & Rep conventions. Sublime.
@@lesilestone5019I didn't know that. But, it's very cool. And, not surprising.
Cavetto no yankii desu~
I generally agree w/you, but here, I think Cavett talked too much about himself - and he cut off Hopper several times when I wanted to hear Hopper, not Cavett. Decent interview with a few thoughtful questions, but Cavett's ego got in the way too often. I prefer interviewers who let the interviewee talk nearly the entire time - which can be done w/incisive questioning - and I rarely care to hear much from the interviewer about himself. Cavett was smart, but often appeared too eager to prove it.
OF COURSE Dick Cavett **would** know about bosuzoku.
Nicholson's campfire speech about the difference between talking about freedom and actually living as a free individual....man that still holds up, even more today. And the speech about alien life on this planet is legendary.
Those speeches were iconic
@@julianuriarte Have you ever researched which one of them wrote that scene?
@@corycole5677 I don’t know but I think it was Dennis Hopper
Quentin Tarantino said it best-"Easy Rider was dated in the 80s but since the 90s it holds up & doesn't seem dated.
"Nik, nik, nik.... SWAMP!"
I am a younger person who never would've heard of Dick Cavett without these amazing uploads. Thank you archivists
Dennis" speech to Christopher Walken in True Romance is probably the best thing I have ever seen in cinematic history, those 2 hvy monsters and that dialogue is just beyond, nothing quite like it.
Agreed! Probably the best & most intense scene in cinematic history!!
Great Movie!
I don't think there's a better interviewer than Dick Cavett, and Dennis Hopper is a subject worthy of his time and talent. Great stuff.
I agree with you Kidd.Dick Cavett in the USA and Michael Parkinson in the UK.Hoppers scene in True Romance is unforgettable.
Bob Costas was kind of better, doesn't feel the need to be cute every other sentence like Cavett.
@@steveconn I respectfully disagree. For me, Cavett's humor was the key to his approach. But when I say "respectfully," I mean it! Costas is a champion, as well.
Cavett was terrible. Parkinson, Frost, the Australian Mike Willesee were all better than this bloke
@@hoatattis7283 Ah! The one that likes to throw turds in punch bowls has arrived. Given your estimation on Dick Cavett, WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING HERE?!
LOVE Dennis giving props to Harvey! In my memory, the "comeback" of Keitel with Reservoir Dogs and Bad LIeutenant was the same great feeling as Dennis' "comeback" with "Blue Velvet" and "The River's Edge" (and "Hooseirs") a few years earlier. It was great to have them both back! Too bad the two never appeared in a movie together! Can you imagine?!!!
they would have been in apocalypse now 😊
@@DANTHETUBEMAN That's true! Wow, imagine Harvey reacting to Dennis Hopper! :D
yeah, that's really too bad. I bet Hopper was probably complimenting Keitel hoping to get in something with him. I'm also amazed Tarantino never used Hopper in anything.
@@foto21 He was in "True Romance" and has said many times that the scene with Hopper and Walken is the one he's most proud of, partly because of the writing, but also how honored he was to have actors he admired nail his dialog to a TEE. He said they didn't change a COMMA. I'm sure he considered Hopper for parts; just because an actor doesn't appear in a director's movie doesn't mean they never thought to use them in anything. Tarantino doesn't have that many movies, and Dennis is dead. What part would you have liked Dennis Hopper to play? It's a matter of matching an actor to a part, not just having a fantasy of casting someone. I can see him as the Bruce Dern part in "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood", I guess. Maybe we should have axed De Niro and had him play that part in Jackie Brown instead? (I'm being sarcastic, lol)
Dennis in his best behavior is a great interview
What is shame that we don't have interviewers like Cavett today. The current clowns on TV are just there to promote themselves and whatever the latest guest is up to.
Hi there promote liberalism, socialism, the elites who are pedos, pedos in Hollyweird, child sex trafficking, 5G, chemtrails, etc etc
ParkourBear Jesus Christ. Read a book and take a walk....
...and whatever dumbass liberal "cause" they're currently eaten up with.
True ! And he doesn`t hide behind a desk like all the other dicks !
Ryan Ranger you should relax. He’s just making a point that shouldn’t be overlooked. That is why they’ve got away with it for so long. Folks reading 📖 books taking walks while looking the other way while these scumbags went on destroying children’s lives.
Does the movie hold up?
ABSOLUTELY!
It is as good, and meaningful, today as it was when I first saw it in 1969.
An authentic classic.
Does it hold up, Man? I guess we would have to watch it again to make our own personal determinations.
@@erichvonmolder9310
Yep.... that's the way to do it. Make your own determination. 👍
It's really good, but very dated. I doubt kids today can relate to Billy and Captain America like we did. Their values have evolved quite a lot in the last 50 years.
@@davemathews7890 , I dig.
@@davemathews7890
Interesting..
Based on what I see, I don't think they have any values.
The educational system and the media (to say nothing of progressive politicians) have done their job extremely well: INDOCTRINATION. 😥
My parents 1969 took the whole family to capitol drive in
East side SJ
About 10 yrs old watching from the tail gate of 1967 chevy Nova II station wagon
Wow what a movie!
Left huge impression
Hopper is charming and accommodating in this interview despite his wild reputation .
Hopper was a really smart guy and a multi-talented artist, but he gets more credit for partying his ass off in the 60s and 70s and surviving to make a big comeback in his fifties. Actually, it was pretty impressive. He out lasted Brando and Dean and pretty much all of his contemporaries. Now I forgot what my point was.
Yeah very cool here and friendly too. Doesn’t come off arrogant or insecure like other movie stars.
have you seen speed? he acted like a crazy man in that
Dennis had cleaned up his act by this time.
@@davidblaska4738A good thing, too. He added many years to his life.
Dennis Hopper is one of my favorite humans. RIP
How did I not come across even seeing this show existed in 94’? I thought this was all 70’s.
Dick Cavett Great interviewer. Perhaps the best.
Lots of critics slammed Waterworld, but when my friends and I finally saw it, we were amazed by the scale and ambition of the film. It really is incredible and Hopper is amazing in it, second only to Costner's lead but with the villain role, milking evil to the max as really only Hopper could. Sometimes critics have no idea WTF they are talking about.
Man, that's a great looking jacket old Hopper's wearing
Blue Velvet and The River are two of my favorite Dennis Hopper movies. The depth of his characters is amazing. RIP
The River's Edge is a gem of a film. Crispin Glover was great too.
At around 0:50 - RUclips finally got it's ears to pop!
I thought I was going deaf !
You just tripped me out
Thank you for the warning!!
That was like a sound of relief.🤔😁
Who fluffed in the lock?
I was 14 when Easy Rider came out. I remember it well. RIP DH and PF.
Miss this man. He's so polite, talented,humble, funny. James Gadolfini tended to come off the same way, that big teddy bear behind closed doors.this segment is so torn, happy to watch sad to as well . RIP
I like how Hopper is dressed like a British police detective from the 1920s.
More like a Yorkshireman
@@briangreen6602 get 4 Yorkshiremen together and you'll never escape the "you're lucky, our family lived in a shoebox in a small hole in the middle of the road."
Easy Rider is one of the greatest films ever made!
One of Hopper's best characters was the crazy referee on Nike ads. Great movies hold up no matter when they were released for example Casablanca, On The Waterfront, Midnight Cowboy, Taxi Driver to name a few movies that represent the era they were released in but the story is still relevant today. Easy Rider also stands up well.
How about the "Deerhunter"?
@@petechau9616Yes, that one too. And The Godfather.
It great, that I only discovered Dick Cavett recently, it means I can troll through You Tube, and watch all his fantastic interviews.
Yeah dicks good
His ABC show of the early 70’s was the best. IMO it was the only real competition Carson had,
"From Easy Rider to Super Mario Bros.....quite a journey, Dennis."
Class acts. Gentlemanly men at work.
Not like the clowns we have in entertainment today.
Easy Rider holds up for sure. That rebellious streak lives on.
RIP Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda -- the Real Captain America!!!
Easy Rider will hold up forever.
Great movie and as said a time capsule for that era. I wanted to get a motorcycle and tour the USA like in the movie. My older brother actually did on a Triumph and again in a van.
The whole movie stayed real. From the drug deal to the road rage killings. Almost a documentary of the times.
Yes. And such a great soundtrack! 😎👍
And at the same time a relevant commentary for today. Freedom.
"I'm in the middle of shooting Waterworld"
Ouch
I thought the same thing
Waterworld killed the future of such risky film ventures for a while.
The movie was trash, but Hopper was fucking awesome as always.
Ouch but work is work and pay is pay.
Thanks for posting this! What an interesting man he was! Both these men come to think of it! :)
What a great film Easyider is.
Great Actors.R.I.P. DENNIS HOPPER
Jack had made a strong impression with Bert Schneider while working on the Monkees film, HEAD, which Jack wrote. Everybody loved him. And thanks to the success of that rock group---and the piles of money they made for Schneider and Rafelson---(and the connection to Jack Nicholson, who wrote that crazy film, HEAD), EASY RIDER got made.
Rafelson loved Jack. He wrote him in as the lead in Five Easy Pieces because he wanted to give him a break in movies. To be fair, Nicholson is superb in that film.
Dennis Hopper picked out the songs for the movie. They soundtrack was iconic.
The Byrds singing "I wasn't born to follow" is still as perfect as you can get for this film.
imo
two class guys make class conversation...cool
imo
Yes Easy Rider will be a great film every generation. Told my grandchildren to watch it, when they are old enough.
Unwatchable now, gibberish.
@@banjopete says more about you than the film.
@@banjopete 20 years old that movie shook me
Blue Velvet. Oscar caliber performance
Way before my time and I’ve only ever watched Dick interview on RUclips, but I love his interviews. Extinct breed of interviewer.
Would be amazing to view Easy Rider like that today somewhere, Far out 🌿🤩
Now I need to rewatch this movie ! I’d love to see it on the big screen again!
Loved Dennis Hopper. RIP man....
A great interview
Dennis is real and genuine.
He was the best actor in Apocalypse Now
What about that other guy,I think his name is Brando!
He's only in it for like 3 minutes.
Paul Orlando Hopper underrated actor. Granted Brando was best in Last Tango in Paris and Reflections in the Golden Eye
Best actor in apocalypse now was Martin sheen, holds the movie together with his performance
He really wasn't, it's not his best performance either by a long shot
He was Great in PARIS TRAUT , worth watching one of my favorites along with BLUE VELVET 🎉🎉
Just a class interview.
This is amazing interview without cutting the actor from talking and without clapping that ruin the conversation
What’s your favorite Dennis Hopper role? I gotta go with True Romance.
Alex Gitter that’s excellent and also Gary Oldham is fun to watch in that!
One of, if not my very favorite movie is Coppola's Rumble fish. Although not my favorite Hopper role because he was a drunk and played a drunk. Never the less: The Motorcycle Boy Reigns
Blue velvet
Nails and True Romance
Blue velvet for me
Rest in peace Dennis and Peter. Easy Rider is one of the reasons I’m still crazy about motorcycles to this day. I can’t thank them enough.
Even though it got alot of hate I Loved waterworks and hoppers performance! RIP!
Water World?
@@therealrobinbullock lol sorry it was auto correct
Being 16 even nowadays and lighting a joint with my friends and watching easy rider it definitely holds up.
I could listen to Hopper forever. Cool dude.
I was in Westwood when it premiered. Grouch Marx was also in line with a very tall brunette.
Dennis is a legend.
Was*
Hopper was one of a kind.
Dennis Hopper, Michael J. Pollard, Karen Black and Sam Rockwell were/are actors you cannot take your eyes off no matter how small their role.
MORE! Please
I struck up a conversation with Dennis at the luggage carousel in Miami Airport while we were waiting for luggage. He was a totally nice guy.
Glad I found this =)
Easy Rider EASILY HOLDS UP. Forever.
Habe vor ca 20 Jahren einen Song geschrieben und performt.
Dennis hopper war n Typ den ich immer geil fand, ne echte kante mit nem exzessiven hang.
Er bekam nie genug von dem ganzen Kram der auf seinem Weg so rumlag.....3 gramm Koks 30 Bier ne Flasche Brandy jeden Tag, das ist was ich mal gelesen hab und ich fands irgendwie interessant.
Ich habe ihn mal getroffen, er weiß es nicht mehr, aufm keith Richards Konzert in Köln. Er hatte links und rechts ganz locker 2 Blondinen auf der vip Tribüne eingehakt und er sah so geil aus sehr entspannt, süßer Wahnsinn im Schlaraffenland, keith und er haben sich bestimmt gekannt.....
Hollywood fängt in der Vorstadt an, der wahn gedeiht in dünner Luft, und der Condor landet überall wo er landen muss.
Er saß ständig im Flieger und war irgendwo am Set, kannte jeden in der glamour welt, wunder gibt's wirklich hat er mal gesagt weil er dem Tod mehrfach von der Schippe sprang, und keiner lag so oft im Dreck und stand trotzdem wieder auf, hat mit Jack nicelson n joint geraucht und Peter fonda der hat's auch gebraucht.
Hollywood fängt in der Vorstadt an der wahn gedeiht in dünner Luft, der Condor landet überall wo er landen muss.....
Oh Dennis hopper, ruhe in Frieden.
Oh Dennis hopper, American dream. Oh Dennis hopper, von LA nach New Orleans.
Erschossen auf ner harley, von redneck nazis..........
Man, I miss Cavett and Carson. Late night TV has died.
Late Night died when the best to ever do it, David Letterman, retired.
@@cactaceous Hahahaha what are you smoking. He was a dirtbag. Carson was head and shoulders a better man!
Cavett was class act...Carson was an arsehole
The sound quality is a bit poor! Muffled and bassy at times. All the same good to see this interview. Thank you.
In an alternate reality, Brando is the photo-journalist and Hopper is Kurtz.
Damn do I miss this kind of intelligence in interview shows.
Cavett set the interview standard in many ways. What a great gift and talent Mr. Cavett has! God Bless him.
I will pray for America. Please pray for me.
D.C. once again show's us how it's done. He can communicate effectively with hippies, intellectuals, misfits, athletes, actors, actresses etc. And the best part is, he didn't get political.
Easy Rider holds up very well. And its not just Nicholson. Hopper did a really nice job directing it and the photography is simply first rate, as is the editing by Canbern. The last shot is simply epitomic: America dividing up into two different countries.
No writers, no prep, no audience, just two men having an honest conversation. I want to go back.
I saw Cavett and Robin Williams do an improv interview in Shakespearean verse... both were feeding off each others' adrenaline...
It wasn't until I saw "Easy Rider" that I realized I was born in the wrong place and grew up in the wrong era. Even more so now...I can't stand this era and its total lack of identity, just a plastic age
Wow you see it too....
It wasn't that great back then. Relax.
Space Ghost Oh, but it was! 😎
We’re still in the Postmodern age - no absolute truth meaning and “The Precession of Simulacra.”
You were born right when you were supposed to be born. Enjoy the moment.
Dennis was quite the character. i would have loved to have a conversation with him
Carson was my favorite, but Cavett brought an intelligence to late night like no other. I miss them both so much.
Presumably someone told Mr Hopper is was auditioning for a part as a Yorkshire ferret legger.
Dennis Hopper was a terrific actor and such a nice human being. I remember him during the filming of Waterworld with Kevin Costner back in 1995, when he was playing the role of the Smoker. He had to shave his haïr off througout the movie.
He s been a great Actor a truly great Actor!
I still feel like Dennis is alive. And that he is just not acting anymore. Luv him miss him so so much. My fellow Taurus hug bugs Hopper❤
Loved Hopper's performance in Waterworld
I think Hopper played Joe Svenden to a T in Carried Away. Damn, he really did a great job. I think Hopper just acts like himself in Svenden's role.
I truly love Dennis Hopper AND Dick Cavett.
Easy Rider is up there in the top 10 (whatever?!!! Right now, what kind of story are you looking for? LOL!!!)
Seriously great film.
My favorite role portrayed by Dennis Hopper? He was PERFECT in playing the character Frank Booth in Blue Velvet. OMG! Perfectly mind-blowing.
the true wildman who was ahead of his time, Godspeed Denis you lunatic!
It was funny that Cavett mentioned the role of a Viennese aristocrat, and Hopper thought he said Vietnamese, and talked about getting slant eyes.
Here we are in the end of 2023, and Easy Rider still holds up, at least in my estimation.
I cant seem to find the date, when was this interview? And why isn't it listed anywhere on the clip?
Date aired - 12/9/1994
Stay crazy Dennis in this world and the next x
Frances Forde Copola called him °Crazy Dennis"
Dennis looked like he was auditioning for 'Last of the summer wine'
Hopper
makin good ones day by day
It wud of been interesting to have heard how Dennis handled dealing wiv Jack a man he didn't want on the 🎥 movie? Wot ice breaker perhaps? 10 ton polar bear maybe!!!;-) hi frm a Londoner
sounds like someone put a blanket over my speakers at the beginning of this video.
Icon 🌹
Dennis Hopper was the fucking man. One of the most intense actors of all-time. Played some evil S.O.B.’s in his day.
It seems he lived a good life, doing what he loves for a living.
What year is this?
If you're Going to Upload something ..Do you Think you Could turn the VOLUME up Please? l Can't Hear a Word
Ck out some of his early stuff acting in tv and movie westerns.
Kevin Morgan It’s a shame he never got to write his memoirs because he became a helluva storyteller when he got sober
This is so much more intelligent and classy than you’d see in mainstream tv these days.
Rip Dennis Hopper
The world is over unfortunately. Culture has been on a big slide, and the generations are following it into the basement. AI is the nail in the coffin. Erudition and intellect is going away, at least in America, and I don't see the UK or Australia saving it either.
Cavett could carry on a conversation with himself and really enjoy it.
I found Hopper's gravesite in New Mexico - not hard to find with all the scarfs, beads, & motorcycle parts piled up!