Gore Vidal Quote of the Day IX
“While filming With Honors in Chicago, I was told that since the star, Joe Pesci, had a degree of control over the cast, the producer proposed five names to him for the part of the villainous Harvard professor. Four English actors and me. Alec [Guinness]'s name headed the list. Pesci is supposed to have said, 'Why do we always have to go for an English asshole for this sort of part when we have one of our own?' Thus, I was hired.”
Gore Vidal, Palimpsest, 1995
Tags: Gore Vidal, Joe Pesci, Alec Guinness
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