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This is fresh air. I'm Terry Gross.

Today, classic films and movie icons.

From now through Labor Day, we're featuring a series of interviews from our archive with Stephen Spielberg,

Merrill Streep, Samuel L. Jackson, Dennis Hopper, Clint Eastwood, Jody Foster, Molly Ringwald, and more.

Later on today's show, we'll hear my interview with Robert Duval,

who played the Corleone family lawyer Tom Hagen

in the Godfather movies and the Macho surfing obsessed Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now.

We'll start with a British actor who is one of the most distinctive voices in movies, Michael Kane. But before we hear his voice, we'll hear from two people

imitating his voice. Here's Steve Coogan and Rob Bryden in their 2010 movie The Trip, competing over who could do the best Michael Kane impression.

Broadsheet journalists have described my impressions as stunningly accurate.

Well, they're wrong.

I've not heard your Michael Kane, but I assume it would be something along the lines of,

My name's Michael Kane.

That is where you were so wrong, and you can look at my live video proof

because that's the very thing I don't do. I say that he used to talk like that.

Do you Michael Kane. Okay. I say Michael Kane used to talk like this in the 1960s, right? But that has changed and I said that over the years Michael's voice has come down several

octin let me finish and all of the cigars and the brandy don't let me finish

it can now be heard. Okay I've not finished in the back of the voice and the voice now.

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