Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood on 2001 |

[@peterpowis4145]

Their performances were enigmatic yet believable. A true masterpiece of a film...

[@kamuelalee]

Simply put, the greatest Sci Fi movie ever! Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood also perfectly cast!!

[@spactick]

greatest of all time? not sure, but certainly on that short list of the most influencial films ever made. I remember the reviews in 1968 when the critic wrote " you'll be seeing "the first film of the 1980's", and boy was he right

[@kamuelalee]

@@spactick Well, I think there's no other Sci Fi film that has equaled it thus far in terms of its ideas, cine, mystery. Some might say Blade Runner but that movie -- which I love to death -- had to get some reworkings into its "final cut" form by director Scott.

[@spactick]

The 1951 "Day the Earth Stood Still" was a serious attempt to use the SiFi narrative as a way to convey anti-war sentiment as well as the concern that technology was getting a little out of hand with the advent of atomic bombs. Also "Metropolis" was another incredibly accurate vision of what society might become. But yes I agree Kubrick's film certainly set a standard that really hasn't been surpassed. Ridley Scott (in my opinion) is far and away the finest director working in Sifi today. Blade Runner eg; completely changed what science fiction films looked like. It's a masterpiece. A beautiful film.

[@TerryUniGeezerPeterson]

Simply put, Genesis is life from lifelessness.

[@blader45bc]

Just saw the Star Trek episode with Gary and Sally Kellerman. It's one of the best and Gary was fantastic in his role. Gary and Keir are two fine actors.

[@spnativ]

where no man has gone before

[@blader45bc]

Yes, that's it.

[@QuarrellaDeVil]

I still think of those silver eyes every time I see him...one of these days I'll get a look at his work in Roddenberry's "The Lieutenant."

[@mimsnshine]

"Morals are for men, not gods."

[@ewaf88]

Gary would have made a great Captain in Star Trek

[@thomascollins4325]

Those two men portrayed astronauts very authentically in the movie. They were very believable as professional astronauts on a long duration mission. The last thing you would want in a fellow crew member is someone who is a character or a hellraiser. As Gary Lockwood said you wouldn't want Jim Carrey up there. I'd say they hit it out of the park. Still a great movie over 50 years later!!!

[@catherinelw9365]

My only beef is that astronauts are military men. They have military ranks, "Captain", "Commander", etc. Instead, in the film, they are alluded to as scientists, "Dr. Bowman". In NASA, all astronauts are/were air force pilots.

[@701CPD]

​@@catherinelw9365Remember some astronauts were also Navy and Marine Corps (John Glen) pilots.

[@DiGreatDestroyer]

@@catherinelw9365you have to remember the movie is set in the future though, 40 years after the Apollo project started. It's not a giant leap to think that, after its infant stage, space exploration would be carried out mostly by experts with civilian backgrounds.

[@David-yw2lv]

Neil Armstrong was a civilian,the first astronaut to be.

[@RileyRampant]

Their restrained performance rang true to the setting, and heightened the drama, with a quiet build of tension. SK was of course a genius, and as KD said, casted his films perfectly. Notice that SK scouted their work, didn't make them audition. He already KNEW what they could do, and how they would naturally do their roles, both being naturally quiet performers with powerful screen presence.

[@Daisypetal100]

Keir Dullea is gorgeous ❤️ He has leading man looks. I love his versatility with his acting roles. He's wonderful in every role he does. I fell in love with Keir Dullea in the film Leopard in the Snow.

[@tommypetraglia4688]

He also has a marvelous voice. Go back and take another listen with your eyes closed. He most certainly had voice training in his younger days

[@allenjones3130]

Messrs. Dullea and Lockwood turned in fine performances and contributed to the film's success.

[@plasticweapon]

daisy, daisy, give me your answer, do...

[@tekannon7803]

More than believable Gary and Keir, thank you for making the whole world a better place! Double thanks to Stanley Kubrick !

[@fw1421]

Boy,Gary Lockwood sure looks his age,but he’s still got that voice! I’ve always liked BOTH of these actors since 2001. I was lucky to see it in Cinerama. A different movie experience.

[@notoriousfierce]

Whoa Keir Dullea has never changed.

[@RamLaska]

Now I'm imagining HAL with a cockney accent: "Open the Pod Bay Doors, HAL" "Naw, I caan't do that, love."

[@theivory1]

Everything about this movie is the best. I couldn't even estimate how many times I watched it since I first saw it in middle school in 1986. I lost count decades ago.

[@seandoherty8754]

Great Short Documentary. Nice to watch Keir Dulles & Gary Lockwood talking about their experiences on the film😊!

[@tommypetraglia4688]

Keir has a marvelous voice. Go back and take another listen with your eyes closed. He most certainly had voice training in his younger days

[@Mxyzptlksac]

He’s still extremely handsome. Those beautiful eyes.

[@russwentz3957]

These fellas fit perfectly to their rolls and I know that's what Stanley wanted, authentic, very NASA'ish!

[@matthewridgway8374]

It makes complete sense but it’s so strange that Bowman now looks like aged Bowman in the room at the end.

[@spactick]

your absolutely right, I noticed that myself. it's amazing how well the make-up people predicted what he'd look like decades in the future

[@islandpalm148]

On the other hand, he looked a bit like Arthur C Clarke.

[@bb22602]

Who else would he look like?

[@brianarbenz7206]

But Frank Poole looks much better in this than he did at that point of then movie.

[@manilajohn0182]

One of the reasons why this film was an epic piece is that its atmosphere smacked of a "you are there" reality. All too many films either stretch one's perception of reality to the limit, or ignore it altogether.

[@BLUEsurf63]

Wonderful movie,way way ahead of it's time, and a classic..

[@dtouey]

The impassivity of Frank and Dave humanized Hal--which is a key philosophical element to the film. (If we want to be pretentious about it.)

[@PointyTailofSatan]

Lockwood was perfectly right. You would need incredibly stable people to work for 18 or more months in almost total isolation. And being scientists, (both were PhDs), they were virtually almost human computers themselves. The fact that Kubrick filmed them that way, and not as some kind of totally unrealistic but "exciting" anti-authority goofs, like the "new" Capt. James Kirk, is just one more reason that Kubrick was an uncompromising genius.

[@hardworker5588]

@@PointyTailofSatan and not just Captain Kirk. Pretty much every sci-fi movie has hyper-emotional characters, sometimes justified but usually not. Now Kubrick wanted the over-the-top performances in some of his movies (i.e. George C Scott/JackNicholson), but he used those performances in service of the story. As Pointy stated, Kubrick was a genius drawn to other brilliant minds (Arthur C Clark anyone?)

[@jpkatz1435]

Not pretentious, good observation.

[@dougtruth]

the birthday scene w Lockwood is the saddest thing ever filmed - so brilliant

[@mohanicus]

i had the privilege to see keir as brooks in the stage play of the shawshank redemption here in dublin afew years ago... fantastic to see him act in the flesh.

[@kevinborgan8544]

I found Keir’s and Gary’s acting in 2001 completely believable. Look at the Apollo astronauts, shuttle and ISS crews. Cool, calm, totally in control.

[@ForceMaximus84]

Man, I can't even recognize Gary Lockwood. I know it's been almost fifty years, but Keir Dullea looks similar after all this time.

[@thomass1891]

Forgive me for asking, but do you know if Gary Lockwood has some colored blood in him? He looks a bit ethnic.. Perhaps some native American in him.

[@ForceMaximus84]

I don't think so. He was born and raised in California, so it's possible, but unlikely.

[@pawt1963]

That was my reaction too. I can't see the old Lockwood at all in that face. Even his voice is different - he seems to have picked up a bit of a Southern accent.

[@garyodle5663]

Opposite for me. I see Gary Lockwood quite clearly. But Keir Dullea not at all.

[@jubalcalif9100]

I was thinking the same thing !

[@MissPerriwinkle]

keir is awesome, seen him on stage. brilliant.

[@foroloca6148]

Keir Dullea is still in make-up after all these years he is supposed to look 78 years old here..

[@hardworker5588]

well done

[@islandpalm148]

Come to think of it, why didn't Kubrick let him grow a handsome old man beard?

[@oltedders]

Keir Dullea is still unconvincing as someone pushing 80 years old.

[@erictaylor5462]

8:00 I heard a story about Alfred Hitchcock. He was working with a well known, very good actress and she was becoming more and more frustrated. She was thinking he didn't like her and was ready to fire her and she asked why he was not directing her. Hitchcock said, "When you stop doing exactly what I want, trust me, I will direct you." I think it shows that actors can have very fragile egos. She was doing her job perfectly, yet she thought she was doing a terrible job.

[@RealMexFoodShouldntGiveUDrrhea]

Kinda weird and unrelated, but Keir has very beautiful eyes.

[@rodrigobraz2]

Yes, they took plenty of advantage of that in the movie, and the star child, even though it is of course not portrayed by the actor, is clearly recognizable because of the eyes. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that he was cast in large degree because of them. The lack of much dialogue also made an actor with very expressive eyes even more important.

[@pillettadoinswartsh4974]

They're "full of stars."

[@donnadizucchero]

That much related, i am sure that's why he was chosen by the grandmaster Kubrick. He never looks directly into the camera, but you always get that feeling like he is gazing right through you and into your soul...

[@gwenfluker3436]

I always had a feeling why Kubrick cast him in that roll. It's what I noticed about him the first time I saw the movie his eyes. I always thought they were beautiful.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Blimey ! Very interesting & informative ! Though I don't understand why they have these two actors sitting a row apart for the interview. Most interviewees sit side by side. Thank you for sharing this smashing clip with us ! CHEERS !! :-)

[@surenoonehasthisnful]

Keir Dullea starred in 2001 and also did a sci fi series called Starlost. One had a budget in the millions, the other was made with 5 dollars.

[@marbleman52]

surenoonehasthisname is me ....Yep, I have the dvd set of Starlost, and yes, it was a very low budget series but it was still fun to watch. it is like the older Dr. Who series; you have to use your imagination and enjoy the often silliness of the sets and stories, but for me, that is why I like the older Dr. Who and particularly Tom Baker...he was obviously having fun with the character and stories and I got to go along and have fun with him.

[@arricammarques1955]

Terrible chorma key effects.

[@landonjones258]

I watched all the episodes of that series not long ago. It is amazing how different Dullea looked with long hair and a bushy moustache.

[@sillyone52062]

I was able to visit this world for. 75 in 1972. Amazing!

[@dynjarren8355]

They were both great in 2001. That spaceship from the inside was amazing! The spacecraft was stunning as well as the struggle with Hal the Computer. It’s good to hear their perspective on the film now after Kubrick is long gone. A Classic film!

[@TickleSalty]

Saw the movie for the first time in Cinerama. The spaceships rendezvous to the music of the Blue Danube is still my favorite musical interlude in any movie.

[@loupasternak]

Same here. It was mind bending.

[@miket3509]

Me as well. I found the Moon landing sequence just as magical.

[@B1900pilot]

Outstanding performances by both men...

[@PaulFurber]

You two were perfect.

[@pmajudge]

A SUPER GREAT MOVIE -- AHEAD OF ITS TIME ! PLUS THE WISELY CHOSEN MUSIC. LOVED THE MOVIE . FROM, U.K. (2024).

[@Papa-fv1rn]

Very good. Best 8 minutes of 2001 I've seen yet.

[@MarthaMansbridge]

Keir is still so handsome, beautiful even.

[@tommypetraglia4688]

He also has a marvelous voice. Go back and take another listen with your eyes closed. He most certainly had voice training in his younger days

[@ingleringlet-snipps3rd449]

Whenever I watch a Stanley Kubrick film, I have to keep in mind that the scene I am watching may have been the actors 20th take.

[@robertlimestone6248]

The Canadian actor who did the voice of HAL was slightly bitter about the experience. He didn't want to be defined by it, and refused to do "the voice" for fans or do interviews, preferring to let it remain in the past. From what I have heard, he wound up teaching drama at a college in Winnipeg.

[@swrennie]

Well, he was born in Winnipeg...

[@arricammarques1955]

Mr. Rain was brilliant in the Master Builder in Toronto.

[@Martin-es8mb]

Douglas Rain and me are both Winnipeg Manitoba natives.

[@jamesfrench7299]

What a shame. I would love to have watched him do the lines.

[@akf2000]

[05:49] the cockney HAL😂😂😂😂

[@michaelproctor8100]

Is it just me or does Dullea look like Rick from The Walking Dead?

[@mikeway2223]

Michael Proctor that’s the first thing that came to my mind. He looks great!

[@alcoholic2412]

You have it backwards

[@muchacho0821]

Tas loco from where. Comprate unos lentes laopé.

[@michaelproctor8100]

@@muchacho0821 si si

[@leto75]

Exactly what I was thinking !

[@keitholoughlin354]

I thoroughly enjoyed and was fascinated by "2001". I only have one problem with the movie - It's title. When I saw "2001" in 1969, the year 2001 was 32 years away. I wasn't bothered by the thought of the reality of travel to Jupiter in 32 years. But now, 2001 has passed 20 years ago, and we are not even close to travel to Jupiter.

[@Barnabas45]

I wonder if Lockwood's stint on "Star Trek" had any influence on his casting?

[@johnlockhart7751]

Really don't care how they look. I'm glad they are still around to tell the stories.

[@toomanyhobbies2011]

No kidding. Lockwood was so wild it's amazing he's still alive. They're both great actors, saw both of them in 12 O'Clock High.

[@gwenfluker3436]

I'm glad their still around too amazing.

[@unmixedunmastered2810]

Very considerate of you ...

[@dks13827]

One of the truly all time greats !!! Will last a long time.

[@justgivemethetruth]

Dullea is really dominating the interview, sitting in front of Lockwood and lording over him that he got the lead in the new Kubrick film. Both of them were really great.

[@abc64pan]

Gary doesn't seem to mind. Not a hint of jealousy in his expression.

[@justgivemethetruth]

@@abc64pan That's why he is an actor.

[@carlatteniese2]

I’ve read a good number of astronaut biographies and have astronaut friends on Facebook and Instagram. Gary Lockwood and Kier Dullae were like Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins. Astronauts like Wallu Schirra and Scott Carpenter were cut from the program because of the type of personality people out of the know desire in theater and Hollywood. Every space film I have seen-including ones I have liked-have disappointed in the portrayal of the personalities it takes to make an astronaut-except for those in 2001: A Space Odyssey and perhaps in Ad Astra (played by Brad Pitt). Dullae is spot on. These actors were performing mundane tasks nearly two years into an interplanetary mission to Jupiter. Nothing could be more sobering besides war. These are the kinds of “performances” that got men to the moon and back. Period. And he and Lockwood’s performances made the film believable.

[@christianealshut1123]

You're absolutely right - and there are not many portrayals which are realistic in this respect - not even Apollo 13 was - I think it was Jim Lovell who said that they would never have yelled at each other they way the actors do on the film. The only other example from recent times I could imagine was Sam Rockwell playing Sam Bell in Moon. (And that was inspired by 2001.)

[@Denbo68]

Wish I had not seen this... now I have to watch 2001 tonight instead of waiting to watch it at Xmas time (my own personal tradition...)

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

"We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error. No' a lo' o' people know dat!'"

[@dixgun]

Great details and points. Surprises as well.

[@ilovebeinagirl]

From the way they are seated I almost thought this was done after 2020 bc it looks like they're socially distancing.

[@stujew57]

Interesting interview. Rather unusual that Lockwood and Dullea are sitting in separate rows and not next to one another. Both men are subdued, as they were in the film. Both actors never reached their heights of stardom after 2001. Not surprising as it is a difficult film to top...

[@felixcat4346]

Kier is brilliant. You get a big thumbs up.

[@blipblip100]

Marvellous - Thanks

[@johnwhite4810]

"Everything we needed was THERE!"

[@dougg1075]

Always Gary Mitchell to me.

[@Tomanista]

Keir Dullea and Jeremy Irons could be related

[@christianealshut1123]

Though when he was young he looked rather like Ewan McGregor.

[@mikeway2223]

Keir Dullea looks like he could be Andrew Lincoln’s (Rick Grimes’) dad.

[@DigitalCamera0]

having watch 2001 many times I agree with lockwood. Afterall soon maybe as in 2001 we may actually have a Discover vessel journey to the end of the solor system. When 2001 came in april 68 there was no cgi, no sophisticated new fx.. Ironically Planet of the Apes with Charleston Heston open on the same weekend as 2001 and both sci fi films one would become new movie franchis and the other a classic. Just thought I share that knowledge. But the interview was revealing on kubrick as a soft spoken director too.

[@Bippy55]

(April 2023) - i’m positive the entire movie team, put together a prophetic story and film for all time. Just recently New York State is proposing legislation to watchdog the development of artificial intelligence (AI) advanced computers. The HAL9000 computer may come true.

[@jerryleal7341]

Kubrick was directing the characters through HAL.

[@MORE1500]

Bernard Herrmann was asked to write the score but asked for twice his usual fee ($200K according to some sources).

[@WickedScott]

It would be cool if Kubrick was alive and they re-filmed the aged Bowman scenes now.

[@acerjuglans383]

What an interesting idea.

[@timepoet77]

Has anyone watched Gary’s TV series The Lieutenant?

[@gwenfluker3436]

Yes I have it was a pretty good show.

[@FrenchEdward06]

@@gwenfluker3436 GREAT show. Fantastic work from Lockwood.

[@sly2392]

i would recognise keir dulleas voice anywhere. 🚴‍♀

[@hanniffydinn6019]

RIP Douglas rain.

[@ДабОчиров]

thanks

[@starsiegeplayer]

Duellas voice hasn't changed. Lockwood's voice is unrecognizable to me.

[@tommypetraglia4688]

He also has a marvelous voice. Go back and take another listen with your eyes closed. He most certainly had voice training in his younger days

[@justgivemethetruth]

Had Gary Lockwood already been in Star Trek by the time 2001 came around, or did he get the part in Star Trek because of 2001?

[@starsiegeplayer]

Where no man has gone before: 1966. 2001: A space Odyssey:1968

[@justgivemethetruth]

@@starsiegeplayer Thanks, the other way around then. I should have remembered that, but I don't think when I saw 2001 that it even connected he had been on Star Trek.

[@PanteraPersa]

Gary Mitchel

[@lorenzo1660]

Old Keir Dullea looks much different from old David Bowman in 2001...

[@interqward1]

Nah guys, you're not just 'believable...' You ARE the guys in the first real non-linear dynamics off the planet exploration venture. And you always will be that.

[@Diskoboy1974]

I would love to ask them both what it was they were actually eating during the TV interview scene on the Discovery and what it tasted like.

[@catherinelw9365]

Looked like baby food.

[@miket3509]

I liked how he mixed some of the food up too. A bit of the yellow on the Brown. Nom, Nom.

[@Diskoboy1974]

@miket3509 I'm really curious about that gritty looking green stuff Keir is eating. And that stuff Gary is eating that kinda looks a bit like lasagna.

[@yogibeer9319]

Wonder if it was for visual drama that they weren’t seated together, this is long before Covid, or if there was tension between them

[@mencken8]

I thought it might be to frame the shot and get as close as possible- something to do with taking advantage of the offset in those theater seats.

[@catherinelw9365]

Or maybe it's just more comfortable for them to have no one sit next to them so they can spread out - they are both tall men.

[@christianealshut1123]

I think I also remember Gary Lockwood from Star Trek; I think he played Gary Mitchell...But I always thought Dullea to be the better actor.

[@acerjuglans383]

Hmm, I wonder if you'd say that if you saw the TV show The Starlost.

[@laniejuanitawhitehurst1624]

Dullea was the lead actor, had most of the dialogue, and had a more developed storyline. I thought they acted their roles superbly. HAL had a bigger role dialogue wise than Gary and it was a warning of what can happen if man becomes too dependent upon machines or government. They become tyrannical rulers instead of servants.

[@christianealshut1123]

@@laniejuanitawhitehurst1624 I think that wasn't the point - the problem with Hal arose because they had been giving him conflicting instructions: To handle all information truthfully on the one side, and to lie about the true purpose of the mission to Bowman and Poole. (I think this is also one of the reason why HAL killed the two scientists in hibernation because they very likely knew the truth about the mission and had been brought on board in hibernation for that reason - and could thus have "exposed HAL as a liar"). The whole movie is about the awakening of sentience and consciousness, and this theme includes HAL. And one of the statements of the movie is that sentience also includes awareness of one's own mortality, and that acting on that awareness (including taking measures to save our lives and kill to save ourselves if necessary) is what drives evolution forward (the bone in the hands of the primate becomes the flying weapon in space). I think Bowman realizes that when he switches off HAL toward the end of the movie, he is in fact killing another sentient being, and that he never before has seen HAL in that light. It's the only scene in the movie where we ever see Dullea display any semblance of emotion in the whole movie, and he looks positively horrified.

[@fleshanthos]

Easy to recognize Kier Duella, but impossible to recognize Gary Lockwood!!! The old age bus ran him over 3 or 4 times!!!

[@christopherallen9580]

that bus did it too me

[@federicozimerman8167]

AI makes 2001 more relevant than ever

[@2Snails1Shell]

👍😃✌️

[@acerjuglans383]

This film is creepy, in the same way The Shining was. Stanley Kubrick just had a way of shooting things that no one has replicated.

[@whattowatchrightnow]

His voice is the same.

[@spactick]

I must admit I did not like the film when it first came out. I thought Kubrick was trying way too hard to draw in that ' young, pot smoking, lsd taking crowd' that would love the visual effects 'light show' that we saw after intermission. Also the phony Planet of the Apes beginning with the obvious actors in monkey suits trying to do their best to look like monkeys? I didn't buy it, I thought it was stupid and utterly pointless. They could have picked a million different ways to show how our species has evolved thru time. But those are forgivable negatives that I've gotten over. The positives are monumental for the film and the effects and influence it's had on the next generation of filmmakers is impossible to under estimate. 2001 was a complete new beginning for sci-fi films and how they could (and should) be done. They were no longer B movies for us kids on Saturday afternoons on Market St. here in San Francisco. They had to be taken seriously after 2001. Good job Stanley

[@erichaynes7502]

Best advice: Don't gain 50 lbs as you age. Don't even gain 20 lbs. is even better advice!

[@garypowell1540]

Stanley took the technical ideas for this movie from Wernher Von Braun who at that time was the head of NASA. If anyone would have understood the practicalities involved in all things space he most certainly should have, and IMO most certainly did. For example, the human gut simply can't function in a weightless environment, and the pressures involved would make the use of space suits as we have come to know them instant death sentences. You will note that how Stanley envisioned space travel and a man living in the same is very different from how NASA has been presenting such things to us since the late '60s. Why should this be? Could it be that once Von Braun had shown LBJ quite how impossible or impossibly expensive both space travel and landing a man on the Moon was in practice, NASA sharply decided that it was almost infinitely cheaper and more practical to simply pretend that this actually happened. With may I also claim, the assistance of Stanley Kubrick, who already had the facilities to do so already set up at Shepperton Studios?

[@BBnose]

They have to seat next to each other. Now it looks weird

[@DDumbrille]

Bizarre placement of the two actors. Makes 'em look like they refuse to talk to each other.

[@HC-cb4yp]

The dialogue was intentionally bland throughout the film to show that this was a civilization that had reached a kind of end. It had nothing left to say to itself and needed that next bump in its evolution. I think the Kardashians are the perfect examples of that - the end of culture and the desperate need for something new and meaningful.

[@xxxyorks]

Hal sounds like Roddy McDowall

[@hugozuccarelli1277]

It's just ME or the guy running is NOT Gary?

[@baileyreport.]

I think they're a big mistake showing how the movie magic happens. The thrill of it all is in the magic no one is aware of.

[@eastdallasalice]

Gary Lockward is still hot

[@realistic.optimist]

Most of Keir's career is talking about 2001

[@marieconstant6452]

Toute Bagay NAN 2000 an GIN Physical ....Ni tete Creke Queen NAN..Even Queen Clitoris?to ploging...

[@deanbianco4982]

Now, please repost this in an Earth language, such as English, since we Earth folks don't understand your planet's language.

[@josebelindo1641]

Norths unused music was better

[@fredobrien_iceh5537]

nah, he made the right choice

[@falconbleau]

Bullshit. Fuck right off.

[@BrianMcInnis87]

Rolling On The Floor Laughing

[@PointyTailofSatan]

A lot of North's 2001 music was used in the Shoes of the Fisherman. It's ok, but when you consider the breathtaking use of the Blue Danube in the space station and moon shuttle scene, that's where you see the genius of Kubrick.

[@PointyTailofSatan]

If you don't see the docking approach as a type of dance, you really don't understand this scene.