Summary
The allure of street-poet Charles Bukowski is such that actors Ben Gazzara and Mickey Rourke, and directors such as Barbet Schroeder have taken their shot at him. Now, Matt Dillon (Rumble Fish, Drugstore Cowboy, There's Something about Mary, Crash) can be added to that mix. He stars in Factotum.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to the Treatment. |
| 0:15.8 | My guest, Matt Dillon, has had a career of playing figures who are searching for themselves, |
| 0:20.6 | going back to his |
| 0:21.3 | first film over the edge, to his newest one, which he plays a Bukowski-like figure from |
| 0:26.4 | Bukowski autobiographical novel. The book is Factotum, the movie's fact totem. And Matt, Dillon, |
| 0:30.6 | stars as Henry Chanansky. Matt, thanks for being here. Yeah, it's great to be here, Elvis. |
| 0:34.7 | It's funny, because I see this movie, I I almost thought this is the guy that Rusty James Clive ended up being somehow or not. |
| 0:40.5 | You know, from... |
| 0:41.3 | I figured Rusty could be that guy. |
| 0:43.9 | You know, you think Rumblefishy's going off to try to find himself. |
| 0:47.1 | That could almost be what the leap you make with that character. |
| 0:48.9 | Yeah, I guess there's some parallels there. I think, for one thing, the antagonistic relationship he has with his dad is one thing. But, you know, it's funny. I do feel like there's some sort of a connection with some of the films that I've made. Going back to Over the Edge, I don't know what it is. I feel like that and in drugstore cowboy sort of somehow |
| 1:11.6 | feels like it's also, I guess there are some parallels there for me. I mean, but it makes |
| 1:16.4 | me wonder if you're, if you find yourself, not you've been doing this for a while, attract |
| 1:20.9 | to the character who is some kind, in some ways either antagonistic or can kind of an arc at the |
| 1:26.3 | very least have a problem with authority? |
| 1:27.7 | Even the cop you played in crash to some extent as a guy who doesn't quite fit into the role |
| 1:33.1 | that his job prescribes for him. |
| 1:36.7 | Well, I always like characters who are conflicted. |
| 1:41.0 | Drama is conflict, obviously. |
| 1:43.3 | And whenever the character is written, |
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