Ben Gazzara Remembers "The Strange One"

[@albertmorris6162]

Ben Gazzara always had character, and now we know more about it. An absolute actor's actor.

[@Talus2k]

just saw the film on TCM....Great stuff....it does indeed hold up Very, very well !

[@metacomfortable]

Haha me too what a coincidence

[@AndreaAlison]

He was so handsome!

[@Firebrand55]

Curiously, Gazzarra suffered the same fate as Robert Ryan.....both were consummate actors; the camera loved them....when they were on screen, you watched them....but for some reason, neither became major stars. Maybe because they had that mythical quality of 'edginess', unachievable by the candy-floss actors of the time......who had diaphanous box office appeal the producers craved for.

[@lc1715]

That’s a *good* thing. Being a star is overrated; it’s empty. Gazzara was a lifelong artist. He was able to get lost in a character in a way that a star never could from the audience’s perspective.

[@juniorjames7076]

This would be the first Ben Gazzara film NOT directed by John Cassavetes that I ever heard of.

[@lc1715]

He’s been in a *ton* of films that have nothing to do with Cassavetes. How odd.

[@plasticweapon]

so you've never heard of roadhouse or anatomy of a murder, or did you just not know he was in them?

[@jamiehamilton6887]

he turned down gene hackmans part in superman because he didnt want to be type casted

[@javix2013]

Year of interview ?

[@Monorail-Beyond-the-Veil]

I wish I could understand everything he said - Did he say ANOTHER actor on the set was going to get fired, but he defended him, so he never left?

[@loginregional]

I can't stand to see him like this. WATCH THE MOVIE! It's great.

[@mjc5509]

THE STRANGE ONE ..IS FULL OF HOMOSEXUAL SUBTEXT .DIFFICULT TO PULL OFF AT THE TIME ..BUT HOLDS UP WELL AFTER 65 YRS ..

[@joelast645]

I thought I was the only one that caught that...all of those guys were screwing each other...I would have certainly got it on with George Peppard and Peter Mark Richmond and Ben Gazarra

[@susanhorton9492]

JAMES OLSON wasnt in the p;ay w BEN