John C. McGinley's Tales from the Set of Oliver Stone's "Platoon" | The Rich Eisen Show | 10/31/18

now you said earlier that you were directed by Steven Seagal on what film is this again on deadly ground on deadly ground who is a little bit crazier him or or Oliver Stone AZ skill well Oliver's not that crazy because he's so smart okay and he is in fact the smartest guy in the room and so if you can hew to his direction Oliver's like a he's tantamount to a Kentucky Kentucky Derby thoroughbred with blinders on creatively and if you can get in that vision that his blinders are dictating the parameters of yes it's nirvana if you want to operate outside that creative vision it's a little slice of hell and since I've done out of six movies with Oliver I I've seen people try to operate outside the Oliver's vision for that particular piece and so the Oliver and Steven are two different creatures obviously I'm that that's understood so if you can get an Oliver's creative vision for whatever whether it's talk radio or platoon or Wall Street or any given Sunday I could go on but if you can get in that in that sweet spot yes it's heaven how'd you get in his radar originally I auditioned for platoon and I got a tiny role and then it went belly-up and it was not shot for two years and then when it was reconstituted two years later Oliver offered me the fourth lead in the movie Sarge O'Neil and we went off to the Philippines revolution torn Philippines and we shot platoon and it felt like you were at work we did a three-week boot camp in revolution torn Manila and then we started shooting the film largely in sequence which is unheard of so as people's characters died they left and so that started out 8 times 3 is 24 so it started out with 24 of us and then by the end of it there's three or four of us left and that that diminishes how much the actors have to act because everyone is gone you don't have to act like they're gone they're gone and so the lens suffers if you can reduce the profundity of a I in front of the lens it it experiences that as good acting and so the way Oliver set it up the arc of people's stay in the Philippines was dictated by when you died in the script and because he shot at almost chronologically as you died you left and so the actors who were left at the end of the film those long faces and that and that fear in people's eyes because there was a threatened coup every Thursday because the president did not have the military in her back pocket a woman named Cory Aquino there was always this retina buzz of a coup and there'd be no better person in a coup than American actors to take and and and use as whatever you need geez and so when someone calls action and all of these things are roaming around in one's skull the camera sees all that and it and it cooks it really pops in front of the lens it's sure dead man that's sure did that movie was it still to this day yeah he nailed that one Oliver did two tours and he tore that film out of his sternum and remember when we got home the big hit and what people were experiences as a as a war movie was Top Gun which was kind of a Reagan error celebration of of mechanical war and that's not what we shot and so when we got home and Top Gun was the big hit you know we largely concluded that that would waste at about four months of our lives and then it turns out that Oliver is gonna release it at Christmas and nothing says Christmas like platoon there's just nothing says Christmas like fools own and so then it came out and and it did it did what it did oh my gosh that's unbelievable John that's amazing in you know we it's it's funny how we we mentioned off there I'll mention ear as well William Daniels the actor who you've never worked with correct he's I have not I certainly know who he is he's 91 years of age he foiled a robbery in his house and he was credited as Boy Meets World actor and I thought that that on behalf of those who watched him in the graduate insane elsewhere and 1776 it was an outrage for him to be described as that Brock when you knew him from a boy Boy Meets World big boy means man go Feeny if you were ever in a similar situation where you fought off an intruder and it's John C McKinley fought off an intruder right how would you want to be from your ouvre that's too easy how would you want to be identified John John Cena I would want to be Down syndrome and special needs advocate champion par excellence they're easiest thing on the planet because that's what you are when you're not what I care about I know that I know that and it's our 50th anniversary the Special Olympics this year and I've been invited to go give a keynote speech in Washington DC on November 30th contester a big gala dinner and that is thrilling to me the Rich Eisen show weekdays at noon eastern on audience

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Published: Wed Oct 31 2018