Actors talk about Elvis Presley

can you think of actors that you've worked with  some of the more surreal experiences elvis presley   king creole was that a little bit of a different  movie to work on well that was acting for me you   know i was playing maxi fields the gangster  what was your your impressions of elvis well   actually he was a very modest kid or at least  he behaved that way with me and uh very polite   the first thing he said to me was mr matthau  he said if you could help me out this acting   i sure would appreciate it and i said elvis i've  seen you hack you don't need any help from me   well i have a one question about your stand-up  days uh when you're in las vegas is it true   that elvis presley came and visited you backstage  yes yes he i was opening the show for ann margret   and he knew anne margaret and he came  backstage and he passed by me in the   hall and he looked at me and he said  son you have an oblique sense of humor what was your reaction to that i  was just like thank you mr presley   whitney you're a mother quite a singer in  her own right now she was a member of the   sweet inspirations group that backed up elvis  presley now what memories do you have of that i remember when um i remember when i was i don't really know how  old i was at the time but i remember my mother   uh receiving a phone call from whomever  elvis had employed to call people with   and saying that he wanted the sweets  back to do his comeback show in vegas   i remember my mother being very enthusiastic about  it but very concerned that she'd have to leave her   children for a month and i remember her she was  so like you know well you know her whole her whole   thing was you know mommy loves you and mommy wants  to stay home but mommy's got to go to work to make   sure that you have this and make sure that you all  take well taken care of so me and daddy have to go   and we you know my my father was my mother's  manager me and daddy have to go and you know   that whole thing and i just remember how she  was leaving how she really didn't want to leave   us you know but she had to go and i remember that  month and i remember all the hoopla about elvis in   vegas and i was so proud that my mother was there  with him you know because it was a very big event i'm the kid who kicks elvis in the shins  that's what i've done with my life i guess it was uh really the only reason  i had a chance at it was um a casting woman named joyce  selznick who said i think   i think i've got an idea for this i think i  got an idea of a guy who could play it and   joyce and i knew each other from having  met with each other five or six times   on different projects i'd never done a show never  been hired by choice and it was basically her idea   and and it worked into working i know you've  always been fascinated with elvis presley uh if   you could if he was still alive and you two were  to sit down like what would you talk about i don't   know you know one of the things that's fascinating  about elvis is uh is how he became consumed by   fame and how fame destroyed him that's one of  the things that's fascinating i mean i mean i   have the regular fan thing too you know i like the  jailhouse rock number but uh what's fascinating   about him as i've become older you know and it's  gotten past you know oh he looks he's cool elvis   it's like wow everything you know and how the  people around him just let him destroy himself and   and how he was still famous and then after he's  dead then you hear all of this stuff you know it's   like wow all that was going on we was thinking  he was super cool elvis you know so it was just   it's just elvis is fascinating just because  it's like this is what fame can do to you now

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Keywords: Elvis Presley, Kurt Russell, Eddie Murphy, Walter Matthau, Whitney Houston, Steve Martin

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Length: 4min 24sec (264 seconds)

Published: Thu May 06 2021