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 - Getting an Emmy Nomination before getting into films- Telling Harry Cohn to 'go f*ck himself!' - Influenced by Brando & Clift - Testing for 'Giant' - Hanging out with 'The King' Elvis Presley - The naive Elvis - On his mentor James Dean: "Until I met dean I thought I was the best young actor in the world, I really did" - The first acting lesson from James Dean - "Jimmy said, 'When you really have to cry you have to leave the room, that's real crying" - James Dean advised Hopper not to study with lee Strasberg in New York - "Dean was the most imaginitive actor I've ever seen" - Where was Hopper when James Dean died? - "Jimmy's suicidal death thing is all bullshit!" - Trying to carry the torch after Dean passed away - Fighting Universal after 'The Last Picture' won the Venice Film Festival - Getting blackballed by Henry Hathaway & leaving Hollywood - Hopper chose to take Joanne Woodward as his date, not Natalie Wood - Close friendship with the Newmans - Hathaway giving the OK for Hopper to work in Hollywood again. "Its not me, Duke doesn't like that method shit" - Early Indy days working with Peter Fonda, Roger Corman, & Jack Nicholson |
