Frederic Forrest

My neighbor, Mindy Tennant, would you do the costumes? And Lee Purcell's husband, Gary Lowe, would you do the location designs? I called Lee up and said, Lee, would you do this part? Four months pregnant, but not visibly so on screen, Purcell appeared in three scenes as the mother of Julie's friend, Susie.

Camp also recruited Frederick Forrest, having worked with him in Apocalypse Now.

Forrest, who'd been Oscar-nominated for Best Supporting Actor in The Rose, agreed to play Julie's father, working for scale like everyone else in the cast on what Atlantic considered a teen sex comedy.

Deborah Foreman, a 20-year-old actor who'd grown up in the Dallas suburb of Richardson, Texas, won the role of Julie.

It's alive." Right? So, um, uh, John Ryhn comes back again, but this time he's going to, like, the families of expectant parents, right? So someone who's heavily pregnant, close to birth, and he's trying to, like, prep them for what may happen and how to interact with it, like, almost like a doula for death, right? [laughs] Sort of like.

So he's going over, and he shows up at Frederick Forrest, who you know as Chef from Apocalypse Now, and, uh, uh, Kathleen Lloyd's house, and says, like, "Look, your baby may be one of them.

Here's what we could do, and we have this program.

Because the authority is gonna take away your baby and murder it, or at worst, do experiments on it.

It's something that we don't understand.

It's not a monster." John Marley is, like, this, uh, doctor who, like, wants to destroy these things.

He doesn't believe these monsters should live, and, uh, contrary to him, you'll have Andrew Duggan, who thinks they do, and he's working in town with John P. Ryhn, and eventually with Frederick Forrest in the end.

It's, as you said, a completely different movie.

Uh, then...

And Frederick Forrest, who I love, is in this too.

And Brad Dourif for, like, one day of shooting, I'm pretty sure-

It's-

They run into various villains.

Frederick Forrest plays this evil Native American named Blue Duck who just, you know, butchers people all over the place.

It's incident after incident after incident.

Frederick Forrest, not an indigenous person also.

N- I think he might be partially indigenous-

Oh

It's with

Asia Argento and Frederick Forrest and Piper

Laurie.

So this would be one if we were doing it on the pod.

So Francis Ford Coppola, Academy Award winning for writing this film, has made numerous classics and perhaps more than anyone else single-handedly defined what 70s cinema looks like.

But then in 1988 he made a film called Tucker, A Man and His Dream starring Jeff Bridges about Preston Tucker who built a car in the 50s that was like a super advanced car that the big auto industry shut down because it was too good actually you know to be honest I haven't seen this movie in a while I'm sort of recommending it selfishly because I want to rewatch it but it's an interesting and well performed film about like you know American ingenuity and go-getterism and with a great Jeff Bridges performance and also like Martin Landau and Frederick Forrest and Dean Stockwell and Mikko and it's uh and if you like cars Christian Slater's in there um Lloyd Bridges is in there as well.

And, you know, if you like cars, if you like 50s aesthetics, if you like just those kinds of stories and just like underdog stories and sort of doomed to fail project stories, I think it's one of Francis Ford Coppola's better but less appreciated films.

One of his most medium films, put it that way.

That's a hard last name to say.

Frederick Forrest as surplus store owner.

Lois Smith as defense's mother.

Raymond J. Berry as Captain Yardley.