Can You Imagine Anyone Other Than James Caan In This Role
The Michael Berry Show
KTRH
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Michael Berry show think Eddie might have got a gratuitous lick in on him of course I would too |
| 0:06.2 | I think I'd go for his thigh because that's probably where you get the most meat really do some damage |
| 0:12.0 | But if you if you want to mess him up for a while you hit him in the |
| 0:15.2 | ego Kathy Bates misery and you get him in the ankle. Did you know I found out yesterday? Did you know that in the book, spoiler alert, she uses an axe and cuts off his feet? |
| 0:31.0 | Yes, I also read that James Khan was something like the 15th |
| 0:39.9 | actor to be chosen. Now you think about the movie Misery, not is it misery right? |
| 0:46.0 | For those of you who remember the movie he's a book author was he in a wreck or a plane |
| 0:51.4 | a wreck right and this a good wreck, right? |
| 0:52.6 | And this woman takes him into nursing, |
| 0:54.2 | she's his biggest fan of his literature, |
| 0:56.4 | but then she can't let him go. |
| 0:58.2 | So she breaks his ankles with a bat to keep him there. |
| 1:08.6 | That role was offered to every actor of the day and I think to myself now that could only ever be James Kahn. It was offered to Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, you name it, if |
| 1:16.4 | Clint Eastwood, if they were an actor at that time it was offered to them before Kahn was |
| 1:22.0 | very much, they were at the end of the road and they said well what |
| 1:25.0 | about James Khan and Khan was not a leading man you know you remember from |
| 1:30.3 | the godfather I mean he was kind of a supporting actor and he pulled it off but |
| 1:37.0 | Kathy Bates believe it or not that role was offered to Glenclose Merrill Street Maybe Judy didn't. I know something like 10 actresses too. |
| 1:46.0 | When they brought the name Kathy Bates to the to the director, |
| 1:50.0 | the director didn't know who she was. |
| 1:52.0 | That was her breakout role and you think to |
| 1:55.4 | her to yourself that could only ever be Kathy Bates. You couldn't have anybody |
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