Dukes of Hazzard Movie ✔ Tom Wopat Interview dishes the dirt on the movie S01 S12

and we're here at comic-con Petrey on location with this your Tom Wopat she had a checks sure I didn't I know he was haha bugs who not used to calling you that what you know from the Dukes of Hazzard I mean my gosh I never called you Tom I thought you were so hot still our balloon whatever okay so Tom how long were you an actor before you became a Dukes of Hazzard ah gosh I started doing musical comedy I guess when I was about 12 and went to the University of Wisconsin study voice did a couple seasons in a summer stock theater in Michigan in the mid-70s and then moved to New York in 77 did a Broadway show in summer 78 called I love my life psyche Coleman musical and then in the fall what did we do I did an off-broadway Oklahoma which was bitching and then it would like a week after that I got cast in Dukes miracle so now your dream was always to be an actor singer now I'm a singer Dantley yeah the acting thing just kind of happened because the musicals but it's been a lot of fun so did you have voice training or your natural both yeah yeah started when I was a little kid then singing in public since I was like five or six so that's your life that's the easiest thing yeah you know musical stage musicals is something that that comes very naturally to me it's always been a skill and you know there aren't that many people who can do it either that's a ton of hard work like well the thing is is it's it's apples and oranges between that and film film you know I mean film you're doing little bits and pieces all day long and sometimes I'm not in sequence a lot of times you might only work a little bit on one day and that shows up in the movie and in a different place and where they originally thought it was going to be so basically film stuff is your kinda do little little bits and pieces throughout the day in the stage stuff I mean you're there two and a half hours you're on then you're done but it's a whole different kind of continuity to it and you have a complete showing yeah yeah and I mean yeah I I really enjoy the live thing you know once you got to make a case that the people who see you in a live show on stage they're the only ones who ever see that performance every performance is different and it's it's true it's very true and so you know when something really exciting happens or something really awful they're the only ones now so it very much like live stuff so when you come off you come off the stage right then you got that energy you got the people on grunty I also you go and you're stuck in front of a camera that's gotta be a whole different okay different bar game yeah apples and oranges like I said with dead you know I seem to been lucky I get to do both and I do a lot of also I do a lot of singing with with a band with orchestras by myself with guitar and to me that's the stuff that's the most actually do you like working with an orchestra oh yeah yeah yeah you nuts yeah yes band ever yeah rhetorical question yeah I used to do a lot of stuff with the Cincinnati Pops there was a guy named Eric console and they sold more orchestral music than anybody in the world it was a big rock star kind of pop conductor like the guy now with the Boston Pops so I've done a lot of that and and I've enjoyed it a great deal and done a lot of Broadway shows been nominated for a couple of Tony's and been recording a lot of my own stuff lately that's actually next month I'm going to be doing a couple of shows in Manhattan mostly of my music stuff that I've written ok so yeah you got it's you're a little bit exposed it feels like you're naked yeah you got you've done 10 albums is that correct that's probably right yeah and is that just you or combination of I mean me yeah you know with band or you know I did country records for a few years and you and John did some right Justin we did John did a bunch of his own that I did some and then I about 20 years ago now I started doing the American songs and stuff you know standards and I kind of mix it with pop stuff kind of like Diana Krall gentleman or she'll have some pop tunes mixed in with the standards and we do that and now in the last couple records that mixed in some original stuff which she doesn't really but then also a couple years ago we made a Christmas record Jonathan yeah I saw which is bitchin man yeah you guys have got a really great sound and you've got super control of your voice I went back through some of your stuff before we had this interview and I'm tired I'm glad you like it is it's a lot of fun it's something that I really enjoy to do and so far people keep hiring me I don't know what to say all right let's go do skit six years on Dukes how was that fun yeah it is nuts a long time ago I was 27 when I started I'm 64 now so I'm older now than I think Uncle Jesse was when you saw ma you know the kids in line still call me a Duke boy tracks me that's funny and how was it working with Daisy Duke no I mean we all got along very well we had a chemistry and that's really what made the show work yeah John and Kathy and I you know it was very loose the scripts were pretty crappy actually and we tried to make them as good as we could Jim and sorrell you know the boss and rosco they did some really really terrific stuff together and they totally changed chickens into chicken salad it was it was an amazing show i watch there all the time did you ever get hurt jumping into that car banged up a little bit the first slide across the car that you see in the opening credits but that's where this scar came from oh yeah somebody just told me that in the opening you can hear me saying ouch I don't think he's making it up how did you guys drive all the time yeah oh yeah yeah John loves to drive yeah I mean I can do it all right I don't so all those spins and turns and everything a lot of that you and a lot of that was us yeah we can do all that so yeah and what we do too is you know we would do stuff where we coordinate between tools so say we're going to do a reverse 180 yeah all right we're sliding in the car he's still sliding in when I turn the key the ignition is on he hits the gas I drop it in reverse he's not shifting okay he's looking over his shoulder looking where we're going he says now so I drop it into drive is he spinning the wheel we're going bats pretty oh that's good very cool yeah we were very coordinated and it was it was amazing now what nowadays they let people do that that question yeah I reckon yeah you know in the right kind of situation but the thing was is that you can make the case that ours was the first really vehicle oriented show yeah I've told the people in the talkback today you never saw like in commercials you never saw a cars squeal you never saw him burn rubbery I never saw him jump that was all since what we did yeah and it was groundbreaking it was a lot of fun I think there's a factoid that there were more cuts in a show in a in a 46 minute episode there were more cuts in there than there had ever been in an hour of television before now you must have broke a lot of carbs too right oh I guess we ruined a few yeah but I mean you know you're gonna put a 4,000 pound car 20 feet in the air it's gonna happen yeah we ruined a lot probably I'd say 200 250 I'm probably twice that many cop cars what's there ever time where you were afraid when you did something like if you jump you know what we did do the jumps you know we had stunt guys and they were terrific I would if there was a short guy getting in my shirt I said dad Anna Anna you look like a child demurrer but we would do like we do all the fistfights and stuff okay yeah did you ever flock one another Oh accidentally no I mean John had a few guys and I told him if he ever hit me I'd hit him back and he never hit me I did hit Gerald McRaney in one show remember Simon Simon yeah yeah yeah I was at all days married Delta / we're that era and he's great guy is a great guy but I didn't know he was an actor I thought he was a stuntman so we're doing a fight we're doing a fistfight and I get him in the stomach and I'm gonna come with a right cross and he knows I'm gonna come with a right cross he's supposed to duck he did not duck I'll knock him allowed on his ass it was amazing did you guys know you're gonna be big can you start you know it's a shop it's got it's gotten bigger keeps growing right well it's right now it's like pop culture yeah it's something that is transcended television it's part of them part of the lexicon in the States yeah all for you it's being parts a little weird yeah you know it's alright it's not it's not the worst thing and there are good guys yeah you know it's not it's not perverted or anything now do you get typecast when you do a role like that for so long not too much I mean I still you did setup right well you get civil up I did civil after that I was playing a stunt man so that's kind of the same thing but I you know I've always said I have a I have a country gun I got a city guy that's what you're going to get one of the and so I've done things on Broadway like City of Angels which is like a film noir kind of piece I did 42nd Street on Broadway and just did catch me if you can I played the Christopher Walken part I played an ya swing and - yeah really good stuff can you say swinging on this you can see what everyone so you know I mean I still probably am more comfortable in the in the rougher guys I get cast a lot as a cop but I don't care yeah you never you do right Wow love what you do I'm very fortunate I love what I do these things are a little bizarre you know and being kind of like a celebrity it's not my favorite thing yeah but it's it's fun working with the fans it's fun talking to them and you know if I can make their day I mean that's not yes not the worst thing are you humble but why everything's happening I don't know humble is the right word I think totally amazed out of the time and I'd you know the thing is I look so much different than what I did on the show that it's just I don't really get stopped out on the street I think it's just the hair out you know actually you know more people recognize the voice and then you make yeah they'll hear me say something the funny thing is when John and I do stuff together because we'll go out and have a sandwich or something that people are going but you're not really related are you so you see each other often yeah yeah you see each other a lot yeah that's nice yeah yeah gosh it happened a lot great guy you guys got a good chance to work together again oh I'm sure yeah yeah we did that Christmas record I got another record in in mind he's probably not going to do it but you are we gonna hit it with a second bring some pressure to fear eventually I would like to do a film with him again he's making films down to Louisiana and sooner or later I'm sure we'll do something so can you give us a little like idea of what the project is you want to do with him no hard to say hard to say I mean I've had some ideas there's what I wanted to do was recast some Broadway show tunes and do some stuff with him there's a few male duets but they're very few and far between yeah that's gonna say so if somebody's trying to follow you or your music oh what's the best way to go Pat calm Tom Obed calm yeah you get my police record to this long to remedy shutoff to say oh I've been arrested you know you did a couple movies too right with the Dukes right yeah we did a couple reunion movies that's a long time ago first one is 96 the second one was 2000 it was a fun though to get the cash back together yeah they're not very good the first one was pretty good yeah second one and then you know I'll do something again with John I'm sure yeah one of the most fun things I've done in the last few years was Tarantino I did Django Unchained Oh can i play too I played a u.s. marshal that was more fun than you can imagine really yeah it was a blast alright so now during your time when you're doing your show what was your favorite show to watch ah Oh back then yeah shoot I don't know probably ours yeah uh yeah well you know it was entertaining yeah I didn't really watch that much uh episodic television did your own vision Aldo I mean television back then to us was much better I don't want to did it all in him yet i watch i watch sports and i watch news favorite team Oh Brewers Packers Badgers bucks at Wisconsin yeah that's where I grew up I mean huge Pakistan I go back there and sing the anthem for everybody and I've been tazed continents team be cold there expand a whisk arms high I always go I've always watched our shot for John Deere I shot some stuff up there for John Deere and I'll tell you we froze our butts off what time of year it was a mill January stupid are you ready for that I'm a singer too and I've always wanted to sing for Green Bay at the end of because I sing the anthem in 98 when did Brett Favre's quarterback oh that's cool one of my favorite players - he's a pal I've played in a golf tournament nice I've played were you good no none of them are either thank you so much for stopping with my tomato all right see you guys later take care peace out that's that's all right double back oops a hazard six amazing six amazing singer actually really is I know it doesn't suck we'll see you shortly on the bean burrito we got more people here at comic-con and oh yeah

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Length: 14min 36sec (876 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 09 2016