BRIAN DENNEHY on "A Long Day's Journey into Night," O'Neill, Vanessa Redgrave and so much more

[@blanchefan]

I am forever grateful I got to see this towering production with this incredible cast. Brian Dennehy and Vanessa Redgrave (particularly, just as he says) are so brilliant and magnetic; but so is everyone.

[@jc6594]

Happy 80th Birthday Brian Dennehy

[@matthewdarcy6859]

A fine actor talking about my favourite play. Thanks KZbin

[@seancollins6524]

Allways interesting to listening to. Looking in from Ireland 🇮🇪

[@thomaskirkpatrick1134]

Extraordinary Interview!

[@hollingsworth_hound]

OMG I saw this production!

[@davidaustinveal9277]

I am going to study the role of James in a class scene study. This is an inspiring discussion.

[@theatertalk]

Excellent!

[@jjmboston5832]

Hope it goes well.

[@davidaustinveal9277]

@@jjmboston5832 Thank you, it did. It's great to get notes from the effort that keep on inspiring.

[@evangelorodrigues5005]

Very good congralulations

[@garrison6863]

O'Neill wrote the two best American plays: The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey into Night. The first was a symbolic play, the second was realistic. John Frankenheimer's film of the former is the best picture ever made of one of his plays. Robert Ryan, Fredric March and Lee Marvin were utterly excellent.

[@jensgems6506]

I experience the Mandela Effect ....and oh, I'm so happy to see him! I have some catching up to do

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

Who'da known Brian Dennehy (1938-2020) was the ultimate authority on O'Neill

[@theatertalk]

Such an intelligent and insightful man

[@hollingsworth_hound]

Saw him once in person in Brooklyn, he was actually not that big of a guy. He just seemed big on screen.

[@timothymeehan181]

The 1962 black and white film with Katherine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards & Dean Stockwell was my introduction to O’Neil. Years later, after reading the play, and having seen much more live theatre, my sense was that that film, while adequate, was simply too unceasingly & uninterruptedly dark/heavy/somber/humorless. The darkness & heaviness is obviously there, but my thought was that given that this was an Irish/Irish American family, there would’ve also been much genuine humor(& love), and that any actors cast in this play simply MUST find those moments, and any production that turns into 3 hours of non-stop heaviness & bitter sarcasm, is simply missing an essential ingredient, and tone-deaf. I didn’t get to see this production, but I hope that this cast found those moments….🙏🎭☘️

[@brickfacem109r9]

I hated Will Teasle for the way he treated John Rambo.

[@johncleary2678]

Adequate, but not an excellent performance. No comparison to Frederic March. Mis-cast. Good as the Sheriff in Rambo, (he is good in this) but not this part. He does not have the depth of talent to make "the willing suspension of dis-belief" work here.

[@kacperstelmaszak2246]

Did you know if there’s a recording of that play?

[@phillgreenland2390]

A 1956 performance and a 2016 performance. Apples and oranges.