Larry Hagman

Of the, the training though.

And I remember, you know, again, I remember Larry Hagman saying that, um, The training, that's what was different with today's actors and back then is the level of training.

He's like, I had done 2,000 Broadway shows before I got I Dream of Jeannie.

And so when you see, what I'm getting to is that everyone back then, whether you could sing or not, you could sing.

Yeah.

Of course, it was the real life Larry Hagman.

That's who we're talking about.

He portrayed the character J.R. Ewing on Dallas back in the day, which was a huge hit.

I mean, I know it's acting, but I know part of it was real.

It reminded me of when Larry Hagman died on Dallas in real life.

That episode of JR Street, to me, is the best episode of that whole series.

Like, I know that because it was known that Linda Gray and Patrick Duffy were friends for life.

Sometimes when a real actor dies, it's always tricky when it comes to actually playing it out later on the show as the character.

So that must be tough because I remember when Larry Hagman died in real life.

Yeah, Linda Gray and Patrick Duffy.

Yeah, Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray.

like a call and response.

Directed by Larry Hagman, which created a tagline that was used in some of the marketing of the film that JR shot.

That would have been later.

Yeah, true.

Okay, so there's all that.

This is why I like this movie and why we're talking about it, because one of the things when I was a kid growing up and when I or as I was starting to decide that I wanted to be working in film, it was always important for me to sit through and watch the credits because the credits were always like all of these people were paid to work on this movie.

It was it was this reminder that this is a job, but it was also when you start watching movies and when you start looking at those credits, the links you see become really evident of people working with the same people over and over again or And this one, because Larry Hagman just had all his buddies show up, it's got a ridiculous cast.

But it also is not a bad time capsule of kind of hippie culture, where rather than somebody looking back and dressing people as hippies, they just put a bunch of hippies in it.

And I'll trust these people and hope that they keep on the radiation.

I must say during that time, Two friends of mine, one of the actors, Larry Hagman, who played Dallas, and the other one, Nick Ashford of the singing group Ashford and Simpson, both friends of mine had the same thing, and both of them passed away.

So, you know, it was relatively serious.

But it turned out that I was – they got it out.