But there’s a place called Bartell's, and thank God for those guys — there was a guy who sort of put me on a bike. I trained and I got to keep that bike for six months. Then the bike that I got in Another 48 Hours, myself and David Anthony Marshall ended up buying them. I actually ended up having that bike for a while. But yeah, long story short, I do ride.
Running Cool was a good movie. You know, it showed the other side, everybody sort of said Another 48 Hours was the so-called one percent of the bikers, and that’s how they are. I would say most of them are like Bone in Running Cool, who went out of his way — this was kind of about doing a run to save the wetlands, and you can see that he had a heart. It’s funny you bring that up, I really haven’t heard that a whole lot.
One of the other characters that you play quite a bit in your movies are actually Russians. Now I’ve noticed that you also speak and write eight different languages fluently, and that’s absolutely amazing. Can you name some of those languages you speak and how they’ve actually helped out your acting career?
Absolutely, it’s funny you said nine. I actually spoke nine. My ninth language was Romanian. And I did a movie in Romania. I knew I was going to be over there so I started studying with the books, you know, got the phrase books out. So by the time I was there for some two and half months, I left and I was doing my interviews in Romanian. But I must say, because of the fact that I had nobody to speak with, (and I never believed that this would happen), but I actually forgot. I literally forgot it!
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Blacke's Magic which was a short-lived show that starred Hal Linden and Harry Morgan. They were a father-son team, he was a magician/private eye. So that was the first time I got to go on there, and I think I was screaming, “Stop that truck”. And it sort of snowballed from there. I do play accented characters — a lot of those, a lot of characters that speak other languages. I’ve even had the great opportunity to learn languages phonetically in order to use them — those include Arabic and Chinese. So any time I can get a challenge like that, I love it.
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What movies are we going to see you in in the future? I know you have a couple in the works. One’s The Rage, and actually you’ve been in three different movies that have “rage” in the title.
I know there was Dr. Rage, The Rage, and then the third one you got me on. What’s the other one? [Go to IMBd! Check out Andrew Divoff on there! Trust me, I am not lying! You know my teenage years have been bad on my memory, so I’ll just blame that right now.] The next one coming out is Robert Kurtzman’s first film since Wishmaster. And I’m looking forward to that. I guess it’s going to be promoted at Fango in Chicago. I know he’s invited out there for that. So I’m looking forward to that. I haven’t seen any of the footage but I know that Robert’s very happy with it and anything that I can do to help him get that word out.
But I’m doing a lot of episodics. I’ve done a couple — I won’t mention the names. They haven’t replaced the shows that they were suppose to replace and frankly I don’t know if that’s going to happen, if they will. But I’m just back from a show that we did, an autograph show, over in Europe, in a place called Minster, Germany. That was quite fun. It’s always good to sort of travel and be living in essentially another point of view.
Do you have any advice for up and coming actors/filmmakers out there?
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My suggestion to young actors would be to do your due diligence. Go get into a class; usually you start with a cold reading class just to get used to reading off a page, looking up and making eye contact with whoever is reading with you, which will probably be a casting director. And filmmakers/directors — boy, I’d be the wrong guy to ask for advice there, other than to say, just be diligent. Young actors — I would tell them keep their ears and eyes open and keep their opinions to a minimum until they really feel like they're in their own skin in this world.
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1 - amanda
he can get me off any time