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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Danny DeVito

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.54K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

After a nearly 50-year run in Hollywood, Danny DeVito is the kind of star with generations of fans. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist talks to the actor and Oscar-nominee about that lengthy career, from his first big role in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” to “Taxi,” “Twins,” and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” as well as his latest performance in the new live-action version of the Disney classic “Dumbo.”

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

0:05.0

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along with us.

0:08.6

This week a good one for you, Danny DeVito.

0:11.7

We got together to talk about the live-action remake of the Disney classic Dumb Oak.

0:16.2

Gonna be a big deal at the box office and he stars in the film.

0:21.0

He talks about making the movie, being a fan of the movie growing up in Asbury Park, New

0:25.2

Jersey, fascinating childhood.

0:27.3

He didn't know what he wanted to do with his life when he graduated high school.

0:30.8

His sister said, come work at the beauty salon.

0:33.7

So Danny DeVito worked at a salon.

0:36.8

He went to beauty school.

0:38.0

He did makeup.

0:39.0

He did all of it.

0:40.1

And that actually helped jumpstart his career and got him into acting.

0:43.2

He'll explain that.

0:44.6

Then that leap into one floor over the Cuckoo's Nest, which was his breakthrough.

0:48.6

And then taxi, of course, the role as Louis Dupamma that changed his life.

0:52.9

He went from there into movies like Terms of Endearment, Romance and the Stone, War of

0:56.9

the Roses, which he directed as well.

0:59.3

We also get into his TV career most recently.

1:02.5

And it's always sunny in Philadelphia.

1:04.3

A ton to talk about with Danny DeVito.

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