BUCK: Tell me about the Eskimo film.
O'TOOLE: Oh Christ. I'd forgotten about that. It was
the funniest thing I've ever been in. There was a small part in this story
about an Eskimo for an Irish Canadian mounted policeman who goes to arrest this
Eskimo, the Eskimo saves his life and insists that he sleep with his wife. He
gets to adore the Eskimo and his wife, but the Eskimo must turn himself in. The
Eskimo insists on being arrested and the only way he can get rid of the Eskimo
is by kicking him in the face. That's how it started off but they changed it
every day and I suddenly turned out to be French Canadian; there was a
marvelous moment where they rewrote so much they got stuck. They'd got huskies
and polar bears and all sorts of things and they didn't know how to get this
sledge made. So I suggested the Eskimo should eat me, that would have given him
nourishment, then make a sledge out of my bones and skin. They said we want a
happy ending and I said "Couldn't he whistle."
BUCK: Where did you shoot it?
O'TOOLE: In the studio in salt. Piles and piles of
salt with trained seals, performing seals who wouldn't perform, being fed fish.
Two polar bears imported from Dublin and they didn't look white enough, so they
coated them with peroxide and they went mad.
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