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So I learned how to do a scene with one word. After all, it's not called 'The Passion Of Frank O'Connor.' It's 'The Passion Of Ayn Rand.' I was in every scene in 'Ulee's Gold,' doing less (laughter). And I found out how to do even more with even less than I had in Ulee. So everyone who sees me will say, we want to stop and sit in that chair. How come they're offering me so much money? Then I said, oh, well, I guess what I'll be is the most comfortable chair you can imagine.įONDA. And I believe that the offer that came to me to play Frank O'Connor, Ann Ryan's (ph) - Ayn Rand's husband - and I - when I read the script, I said, God, I'm just a piece of furniture in the background. I just finished 'The Passion Of Ayn Rand' with Helen Mirren, who is really cool.įONDA: And she's - I love her. GROSS: Has your role in 'Ulee's Gold' led to other interesting offers?įONDA: Yes. This is what my father was famous for - and many other actors, in that - for that matter. It allows the power to come through more than if you try to overdramatize it. Actually, you know what, Billy? We blew it, flatlined it. It's like when I said, we blew it, at the end of 'Easy Rider.' I threw that line away. And he says, how's that? I said, it reminds me that there's all kinds of weakness in the world. GROSS: What does that mean - find the moment and then let it go?įONDA: The heaviest line in the film was when my character says to Eddie and Ferris that meeting - the line is, meeting someone like you, Eddie, has done me a world of good. What do you mean by that?įONDA: Very understated, putting very little spin on the line, letting the moment play for itself - but that means you have to know what the moment is, find it and fill it and then let it go. You write in your book that this part demanded the kind of performance only actors like your father give. GROSS: You're playing someone in 'Ulee's Gold' who's very, very inward, very reserved - someone who's surrounded by people much more volatile than he is. TERRY GROSS: Peter Fonda, welcome to FRESH AIR. WOOD: (As Jimmy Jackson) You're all we got, Pop. Besides, you think she's going to let me go in there, take her off just like that? WOOD: (As Jimmy Jackson) She's sick, Dad.įONDA: (As Ulee Jackson) I don't know nothing about dealing with scum like Eddie and Ferris. I'm supposed to risk everything to go bring back a - as far as I'm concerned, she can just stay gone. PETER FONDA: (As Ulee Jackson) Get her, and then what? She left your kids - your kids, remember? This is my busiest time. TOM WOOD: (As Jimmy Jackson) That's why you got to go get her right now while we know where she is before Eddie or Ferris do something to her. In this scene, Ulee's visiting his son, who wants Ulee to track down his wife. Two of his son's robbery partners think the son hid the money from the robbery on Ulee's farm, and they're determined to find it. His daughter-in-law is a drug addict who's abandoned the children and left them with Ulee. In the film, Ulee's son is in prison for bank robbery.

And they began with a clip from 'Ulee's Gold.' That was the occasion for Terry's interview with Peter Fonda. And he earned a best actor nomination for the 1997 film 'Ulee's Gold,' where he played Ulee Jackson, a Vietnam vet and beekeeper. Fonda also starred in the film, which became a counterculture classic, as a free-spirited motorcycle rider. The first, in 1969, was for the screenplay for 'Easy Rider,' which he co-wrote with Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern. Peter Fonda had an acting career of more than 50 years, with two Oscar nominations decades apart. Fonda was part of an intergenerational Hollywood family - the son of Henry Fonda, the sister of Jane Fonda and father of Bridget Fonda. Actor Peter Fonda died last Friday in Los Angeles. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross, who's off this week.

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