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WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Episode 1448 - Clifton Collins Jr.

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.629.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

A bike accident and a cracked bone delayed Clifton Collins Jr.’s appearance in the garage, but now he’s all healed up and ready to go. Clifton talks with Marc about his extensive career, including films like Traffic, Capote and Nightmare Alley, and his family’s cultural legacy stemming from the Mexican carpa scene to Vaudeville to the Hollywood studio system. Clifton also explains why the film Jockey is so personal to him and how Samuel L. Jackson became a friend and mentor.

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0:00.0

Are we there yet? Why can't I see any fishies? Why aren't we there yet? I thought the tunnel

0:14.1

went under the sea. Are we there yet?

0:18.7

There is that way. Or there's the open sea and on board video games arcade and a ship

0:24.9

load of wonderful distractions. There is another way. P&O Ferries.

0:31.9

Fuck the game!

0:41.9

Alright, let's do this. How are you? What the fuckers? What the fuck buddies? What the fuck

0:46.7

nicks? What the fuck areistas? What is happening? What is happening? I'm Mark Marin. This is

0:53.1

my podcast WTF. Welcome to it. How's it going? Where are we at?

0:58.1

Clifton Collins, Jr. is my guest today. Now, look, you'll know him if you look him up.

1:05.1

He's been in a lot of movies. Traffic, Capote, Westworld, Pacific Rim, Nightmare Alley.

1:11.1

The guy is like a legit and working character actor who I've always liked and I think he's

1:18.1

an incredible actor. I'm always engaged by him. But he did this movie that I saw called

1:25.1

Jockey. And it's sort of what made me want to talk to him. I don't know how or why I saw

1:30.1

it, but I watched it and it's about a Jockey. And we booked him on that and then the day he was

1:35.1

coming over, he had a bike accident and was injured and now he's here. And he's an intense

1:41.1

guy with an interesting story that goes way back in Hollywood, the glorious days of Hollywood.

1:47.1

It's very strange about Old Hollywood. You know, my girlfriend, Kit, lives in an old Hollywood building.

1:55.1

And one of my favorite Hollywood historians, Mr. Clif Nesteroff, happens to live in the same building,

2:05.1

which I didn't know, and it completely makes sense. It's a particular area of Hollywood, of L.A.

2:12.1

that really is probably the most old Hollywood issue of the old Hollywood's. And there used to be

2:19.1

a whole bunch of people that were kind of obsessed with Old Hollywood. And I was kind of halfway there,

2:24.1

but it seems to be a dying nerdism. I think there was a very specific nerdism that revolved around

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