Billy Zane 🤠
Life is Short with Justin Long
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4.7 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2022
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Billy Zane (Titanic, Dead Calm) tells Justin about landing his very first movie role in a Zemekis classic, bucking his bad boy persona, and keeping a straight face on the hilarious and absurd set for MacGruber.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to Life is Short. Add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:13.9 | Every once in a while a movie comes along that is of its time and it is a moment in time. It is a moment in history |
| 0:21.9 | I imagine Wizard of Oz was like that for our parents generation or back to the future back to the future for me |
| 0:27.7 | Yeah, and for the generation behind us it happened in 1997 a little movie called Titanic |
| 0:35.1 | Don't you think Titanic's been described more in that way than in like a blockbuster movie? No, I don't. Oh really? No |
| 0:42.2 | Yeah, yeah, just my opinion man. You could be right. Well, because people are always like yeah little indie like it |
| 0:48.3 | Maybe it's just people I know maybe it's just people on me. Maybe it's just me |
| 0:52.0 | Um |
| 0:52.9 | Anyway, uh, it was it captivated a nation and I remember being a freshman at a cool college progressive liberal arts college |
| 1:02.8 | You know, I was getting into like indie art cinema and kind of pretentious movies and so the fact that that movie was so popular |
| 1:10.2 | It was really a deterrent for me at the time. So I I didn't see it at when it came out |
| 1:14.3 | I didn't see it even for the first couple of months |
| 1:16.7 | When it was out |
| 1:17.8 | And I only saw it |
| 1:19.6 | Like I must have been six seven months later. It was who was out for so long at a second-run theater and Pekipsi and |
| 1:25.0 | um, I |
| 1:26.1 | I'd be grudgingly when I thought well I should see this eventually |
| 1:28.9 | I should see it on the big screen. It's James Cameron and uh, I was almost immediately |
| 1:33.8 | Captivated and I I was glad it was I saw it when I did because there was nobody around me |
| 1:38.8 | And it was during a time in my life where I thought it was a little bit um |
| 1:42.4 | uncool to show my emotions |
| 1:45.0 | And now I love it. I'm doing it all the time. So what's the lesson of this story? What's the moral um? |
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