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I think the journey has
been a turbulent journey,

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straight away.

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And I think that
somehow or another,

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I think the essential
thing in life

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which we seek for is peace.

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Peacefulness.

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Hello, I'm Richard Harris.

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I'm coming to town
and I'm gonna tell you

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some lies about myself.

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Hello.

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Hello.

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This is Richard Harris.

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This is
Richard Harris.

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Richard Harris.

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Yes sir.

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Underlying
that is Richard Harris.

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I was the jockey on
this sort of wild horse.

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Unfortunately, I'm a
very excessive person.

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You know, I can resist my first
drink, but not the second.

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Everything I did, I did with
an overindulgence of passion,

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you know what I mean?

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When I drank, I
devoured alcohol.

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When I did coke,
I devoured coke.

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When I went on my amorous
exploits, I devoured women.

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* Someone left the
cake out in the rain *

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I've had huge success.

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I've had huge failures.

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In the between that balance,

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the truth is neither
of them were important.

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At least if I died tomorrow,
you knew that I was here.

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I was here.

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I remember
the day after he died,

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going for a walk in Battersea,

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and this hurricane
hit out of nowhere,

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hit London.

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And I just thought, to me,

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that was his spirit raging,

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because he actually
loved life, you know,

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he enjoyed the tempest of life.

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I just felt like there
was some part of him

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that wasn't ready to leave yet.

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He had a suite here for
28 years or something.

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* And when they say
he's like his father *

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* I'll know the very
heart and soul *

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Where would
I find the ghost?

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Where is he haunting?

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Hello, this
is Richard Harris.

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I've been telling some lies
about the movies I've been in

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and the life I've led.

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Hello, this is Richard Harris.

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Hello.

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Coming to town to spend
an evening with you.

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I hope you'll come and join me.

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He had his Golden Globe
for "Camelot" right there.

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Last time I was here, the
year that he got sick,

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it would've been June of 2002.

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He had this sort of
recurring flu-like symptoms,

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which would get really bad.

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And so he thought I've got
lung cancer and I'm gonna die

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and that's it.

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He didn't want to know
about treatment or anything,

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wasn't interested.

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And he basically...

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This is where mum and
Damian came and got him

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because there was no
answer from the room.

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No one had seen him
for a long time.

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And they came in and he
was lying in the bed.

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And the sheets were soaking wet.

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Mum said it was like he
was like an old lion dying.

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They wanted to call an ambulance
and he wouldn't get in.

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He refused.

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And then mom sat down
on the edge of the bed

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and started stroking his hair,

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and persuaded him to let
them call an ambulance.

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I feel as though there's
the image of himself

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that he spent a long time
putting out into the world,

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which was, you know, the
wild hell raising image

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that's sort of overtaken
everything else about him.

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And then people, it's the
first thing anybody ever says.

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He was much, much
bigger than that.

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And the Oscar goes to...

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Hello?

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Hello!

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Hi Dad.

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How are you my love?

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Fine thank you.

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I got your
letter yesterday.

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I would love it if he
had come and woken me up

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in the middle of the night
and sat and chatted to me.

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You know, I would've loved it.

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I do feel as though the lights
dimmed slightly after he went

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and they've never
really recovered.

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But I would say
that I don't feel

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that I knew him completely.

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And do you ever know
your parents completely?

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You know?

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I suppose that's part
of what this is about

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for all three of us.

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If you tell me
I didn't have three sons,

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my life would've been a wreck.

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I would've had not
achieved a bloody thing.

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My friendship with my
three boys is my life.

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They're my life.

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It's big.

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This is a lockup of my
father's belongings,

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coming from the
homes that he had.

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There we go.

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There we go.

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There it is.

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You got it, D.

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Yeah.

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You keep away.

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Where we going?

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Well done, man.

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Wow.

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That's all his poetry.

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You do
write good poetry.

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Well, I'm
delighted about this.

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It makes a beautiful
Christmas present.

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It's called I'm I-

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"I, in the Membership
of My Days."

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One of the reviewers
today said that

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it's some of the best
poetry written today.

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And that threw me
when I read that.

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And I crown thee...

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That crown's
from "Camelot."

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"Camelot."

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Yeah.

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Thank you.

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It fits.

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Fits you well.

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It's amazing.

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It really does.

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It really feels good.

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Yeah.

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I'm not taking this off.

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It's mum.

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That's mum.

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That's mum, look.

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She's so beautiful.

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I think this is something
that a fan sent him.

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Like a little puppet
of him as Dumbledore.

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It is not our abilities
that show what we truly are.

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It is our choices.

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With any famous person,

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the public has a relationship
with that person.

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I do remember growing
up being irritated.

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I wanted him to be my dad

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and not this person that
other people thought they knew

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or you know...

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And there was a sort of a...

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I don't remember,
is it jealousy or...

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We were at boarding
school from 6 to 18,

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so the whole thing
was different.

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We would see...

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The holidays were still
up to mum and dad.

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You'd see him for two weeks at
a time, and then he was gone.

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You know, well, you
were gone actually,

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you went back to school,

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and then he was doing
what he was doing.

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You didn't know
what he was doing.

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I didn't know what he was doing.

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I mean, I'm very
aware to this day

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that there are other people
who had a very strong

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and big relationship with
him that I don't know

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and I wasn't a part of.

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Billy Baldwin had a
relationship with Dad.

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Russell Crowe had a
relationship with Dad.

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Completely separate.

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You know, there's that
thing that's in mum's book

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about Dickie Harris
and Richard Harris.

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Yes.

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Did you ever
know Dickie Harris?

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No, never.

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Never did.

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Dickie Harris, as he was
known as Dickie here,

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not Richard.

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He was well built.

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He was over six foot.

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He had a big pair
of broad shoulders.

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And he would swim
across the bay,

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no problem, on his
own, just on a whim.

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He was fearless.

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He would try anything.

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He really would.

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Yeah.

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Now, the diving
boards in his time

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were two planks stuck together.

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The big thing was to
dive off the top one.

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Excuse me
while I disappear.

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* Slowly I wander through
scenes of my childhood *

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* It brings back fond memories
of happy days gone by *

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And then I came here to Kilkee,

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first time I was
eight months old

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and every single
year for three months

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until I left at the age of 22.

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Every single year
for three months.

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And having been brought up
here, it was a luxury really.

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The main event of the
summer season in those days

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was the rackets competition on
the beach for the Tivoli Cup.

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There would be hundreds
in for this competition.

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And it was like a festival.

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Rackets was unique to Kilkee.

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Woohoo.

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It's always
played on the beach

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and it's being played there
since the very early 1900s.

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The one person everybody
wanted to beat in the rackets

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was Dickie Harris.

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And he won the tournament four
times, one after the other.

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1947 and '48, '49 and '50.

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Nobody has ever achieved
that in succession.

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And I mean, for
such a small trophy,

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there was such a
lot of excitement.

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I went through a
very introspective period

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of my life when I found
out the great thing

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about the invention.

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When did I invent
Richard Harris?

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You know that great
line from Sam Becker?

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When, when, when?

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Why keep bothering
me about your time?

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One minute we are born,
the next minute we die.

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A stride of the grave,
a difficult birth,

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lingering into the hole.

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The grave digger
applies the forceps

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and we have time to grow old

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and the air is full
of our promise.

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In 1955, we, the
Dramsoc from UCD,

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we decided to hire a theatre
in Kilkee for the summer.

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So we played six or seven plays,

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which we varied then
night after night.

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And there's this great big
gangly character from Limerick

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who suddenly is
there and wants to be

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part of the whole madness.

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And we liked the look of him.

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He was odd, interesting.

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Swam.

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We did an evening
in the amphitheatre.

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There's a kind of an
amphitheatre up by the pools.

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And Dickie, he would do scenes
from "On The Waterfront",

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as Marlon Brando.

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I could have been a
contender, Charlie.

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Oh, I could have
been a contender.

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And we decided he'd never become
an actor, he was hopeless.

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Too big.

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Too ungainly.

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Too full of himself
as we call it.

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Richard Harris, you come from
Limerick, isn't that true?

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Yes.

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Where did you begin
in the theatre?

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Do you mean where I got my idea?

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Yeah.

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Well I got my idea
from a group of people.

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You were one of them at
the time, weren't you?

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One of the university
students who went to Kilkee,

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and did a season in Kilkee.

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And I was friendly
with you all, I think.

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And I got on very well and I
thought I might take it up.

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The English
looked upon the Irish

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as working class.

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It doesn't matter what
status they came from

263
00:15:47,367 --> 00:15:50,200
or what part of society
they came from in Ireland,

264
00:15:50,333 --> 00:15:52,067
the British, the
English looked upon us

265
00:15:52,133 --> 00:15:55,200
as really sort of peasants.

266
00:15:55,333 --> 00:15:57,700
If they stabbed me that, I
wasn't gonna argue with them.

267
00:15:57,833 --> 00:16:00,367
If they wanna think
that, let 'em think it.

268
00:16:00,500 --> 00:16:02,567
I was taken to their
society and I fucked 'em up.

269
00:16:17,700 --> 00:16:18,867
This is The Troubador.

270
00:16:19,067 --> 00:16:20,967
This is where my
mother and father met

271
00:16:21,100 --> 00:16:22,267
for the very first time.

272
00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:24,767
And I really don't
think they've changed

273
00:16:24,900 --> 00:16:28,067
one of those coffee pots,
any of these banjos,

274
00:16:28,167 --> 00:16:31,067
since the fifties
when it was a hangout

275
00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:33,867
for sort of penniless artists.

276
00:16:35,667 --> 00:16:36,800
It's just one of those places

277
00:16:36,933 --> 00:16:38,933
that are just caught
in a time warp.

278
00:16:44,233 --> 00:16:46,067
Soon enough after he'd passed,

279
00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:47,833
he just started
appearing in dreams.

280
00:16:47,967 --> 00:16:50,700
And so it felt real enough
that when I woke up,

281
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I thought he was still alive.

282
00:16:52,500 --> 00:16:55,067
And he was, as I rem...

283
00:16:55,167 --> 00:16:57,133
He was the age and in the state,

284
00:16:57,267 --> 00:16:58,867
frail state, that
I remembered him.

285
00:17:00,367 --> 00:17:01,433
But what's been
interesting, over the years,

286
00:17:01,567 --> 00:17:02,933
he's got younger,

287
00:17:03,067 --> 00:17:05,833
and now he actually can
be younger than I am.

288
00:17:13,233 --> 00:17:14,733
Often, or it could be
with that, you know,

289
00:17:14,867 --> 00:17:17,567
you have a dream that's quite
sort of frantic and things,

290
00:17:17,700 --> 00:17:19,433
you're getting upset
'cause things are going

291
00:17:19,567 --> 00:17:21,167
really wrong in the dream.

292
00:17:21,300 --> 00:17:23,667
It starts off with, you
know, you've lost your phone

293
00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:25,267
and now you don't
know who to contact.

294
00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:26,600
You've got nobody to call,
now you have no money,

295
00:17:26,733 --> 00:17:28,567
you go I'm stuck and
I dunno what to do.

296
00:17:28,700 --> 00:17:30,567
And you feel
completely abandoned.

297
00:17:30,700 --> 00:17:32,833
And then he'll be
there, and you know,

298
00:17:32,967 --> 00:17:37,067
he'll talk it through or take
me into some other space,

299
00:17:37,133 --> 00:17:39,067
some other part of the dream.

300
00:17:44,500 --> 00:17:47,067
And then I wake up.

301
00:17:52,533 --> 00:17:55,300
My father, he was a
drama student at the...

302
00:17:55,433 --> 00:17:58,967
There's a drama school
up the road called LAMDA.

303
00:17:59,100 --> 00:18:00,533
And then after about six months,

304
00:18:00,667 --> 00:18:02,533
he felt he knew as
much as anybody else.

305
00:18:02,667 --> 00:18:05,667
So he was gonna put on his
own play in the West End.

306
00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:08,367
And he held auditions here.

307
00:18:09,700 --> 00:18:12,300
Probably right there
where he met my mother

308
00:18:12,433 --> 00:18:14,167
for the first time and
they went down those steps

309
00:18:14,300 --> 00:18:16,633
and he was doing
auditions in the basement.

310
00:18:18,933 --> 00:18:21,900
Well, I'd always
wanted to be an actress

311
00:18:22,067 --> 00:18:25,933
from the first moment I can
remember being conscious.

312
00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:28,767
There I met Richard and I-

313
00:18:28,900 --> 00:18:30,367
And was it...

314
00:18:31,533 --> 00:18:33,567
No, he didn't look at me.

315
00:18:33,700 --> 00:18:36,533
I mean, he couldn't
have ignored me more.

316
00:18:38,167 --> 00:18:40,867
He was very sort
of into himself.

317
00:18:42,533 --> 00:18:44,533
He was a extraordinary
personality

318
00:18:44,667 --> 00:18:47,067
and I was terrified of him.

319
00:18:47,167 --> 00:18:49,433
Anyway, I got the part.

320
00:18:49,567 --> 00:18:50,667
And
you became friends.

321
00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:53,400
Eventually I got
Richard as a husband.

322
00:18:53,533 --> 00:18:55,533
I don't know which was
the most frightening.

323
00:18:58,967 --> 00:19:01,367
O'Toole,
Burton, Finney,

324
00:19:01,500 --> 00:19:03,967
all these chaps and me, okay.

325
00:19:04,100 --> 00:19:07,233
The thing about that
period was that there was

326
00:19:07,367 --> 00:19:09,500
a tremendous revolution
in the theatre.

327
00:19:09,633 --> 00:19:11,533
The old establishment,
the old upper middle class

328
00:19:11,667 --> 00:19:13,200
was being kicked up the arse.

329
00:19:13,333 --> 00:19:15,933
Why don't you go out and do
some catching or something?

330
00:19:16,067 --> 00:19:19,500
A great, great angry
revolution took place,

331
00:19:19,633 --> 00:19:22,067
as much against society
as against the theatre.

332
00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:24,067
Let me tell you something.

333
00:19:24,133 --> 00:19:25,200
They come in here,
the punters...

334
00:19:25,333 --> 00:19:27,067
I know what the theatre
should be doing,

335
00:19:27,133 --> 00:19:30,300
what it's always done
when it was flourishing.

336
00:19:30,433 --> 00:19:32,933
Give people their
identity as a people.

337
00:19:34,167 --> 00:19:35,567
I always say to the actors,

338
00:19:35,700 --> 00:19:39,733
"Go to the streets and the
parks and the cafes and the pubs

339
00:19:39,867 --> 00:19:41,300
and watch people and don't...

340
00:19:41,433 --> 00:19:43,933
Let's have art for art.

341
00:19:44,067 --> 00:19:45,933
That art from life."

342
00:19:48,333 --> 00:19:51,067
As soon as Joan Littlewood
got a hold of Dickie,

343
00:19:51,133 --> 00:19:53,833
he was going to go
on and work there

344
00:19:53,967 --> 00:19:57,767
for anything she had
in mind at that time.

345
00:19:59,100 --> 00:20:02,100
And of course he also
was noted by critics

346
00:20:02,233 --> 00:20:04,867
and by filmmakers and
by people writing.

347
00:20:06,533 --> 00:20:07,933
I ruffled up some
middle class drawing rooms

348
00:20:08,067 --> 00:20:11,033
and caused a bit of
commotion here and there.

349
00:20:11,167 --> 00:20:13,767
I mean, my stage work
with "Diary of a Madman,"

350
00:20:13,900 --> 00:20:16,433
"The Ginger Man," "Man,
Beast and Virtue."

351
00:20:16,567 --> 00:20:18,033
They were all high class stuff.

352
00:20:22,267 --> 00:20:23,300
Wow, it's country life.

353
00:20:23,433 --> 00:20:25,233
Did you know dad then, in 1954?

354
00:20:25,367 --> 00:20:26,633
No.

355
00:20:26,767 --> 00:20:28,133
So that was about the
time when you guys met

356
00:20:28,267 --> 00:20:30,000
at The Troubador.

357
00:20:30,133 --> 00:20:31,667
Mm-hmm.

358
00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:35,867
You were a deb as
well as a young actress.

359
00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:40,233
And then this, "Penniless, I
proposed to a peers daughter."

360
00:20:40,367 --> 00:20:44,300
This would be he proposed to
you and he had no money at all.

361
00:20:44,433 --> 00:20:47,267
I don't think your
parents took it too well.

362
00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:49,433
My mother let out a scream.

363
00:20:50,967 --> 00:20:54,833
And my father tried
to take our attention

364
00:20:54,967 --> 00:20:57,333
away from the scream.

365
00:20:57,467 --> 00:20:59,367
You guys did a
lot of press together.

366
00:20:59,500 --> 00:21:01,533
"Film tough guy in a punch up."

367
00:21:01,667 --> 00:21:03,400
It was his image.

368
00:21:03,533 --> 00:21:04,833
He thought
that was being a man.

369
00:21:04,967 --> 00:21:06,700
Or maybe he just had
a very bad temper.

370
00:21:06,833 --> 00:21:09,067
I'd prefer to go with that one.

371
00:21:09,133 --> 00:21:09,933
Okay.

372
00:21:12,067 --> 00:21:12,800
Hotheaded.

373
00:21:12,933 --> 00:21:14,333
Hotheaded.

374
00:21:14,467 --> 00:21:15,867
"This Sporting Life."

375
00:21:16,067 --> 00:21:16,967
This was sort of the
beginning of the whole thing,

376
00:21:17,100 --> 00:21:19,433
wasn't it, really?

377
00:21:19,567 --> 00:21:22,467
He started off, the
bar was set really high

378
00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:25,367
because the film,
it did well for dad.

379
00:21:25,500 --> 00:21:27,367
He got an Oscar nomination

380
00:21:27,500 --> 00:21:29,533
and he won the
Cannes film festival.

381
00:21:29,667 --> 00:21:32,100
It's quite devastating film.

382
00:21:32,233 --> 00:21:35,467
And it changed his
life, all of our lives.

383
00:21:42,500 --> 00:21:44,433
"This Sporting
Life", that was my break.

384
00:21:44,567 --> 00:21:47,467
I mean that was my big
break to get that picture.

385
00:21:50,767 --> 00:21:51,833
Oh, I just
thought it was

386
00:21:51,967 --> 00:21:53,167
a beautiful piece of work.

387
00:21:54,367 --> 00:21:55,800
What's his name, Wayne?

388
00:21:55,933 --> 00:21:56,633
Machin.

389
00:21:56,767 --> 00:21:58,167
Frank Machin.

390
00:21:58,300 --> 00:22:00,733
I thought the performance
was extraordinary.

391
00:22:02,067 --> 00:22:03,067
It was real.

392
00:22:05,133 --> 00:22:07,067
Do you want a thumping, love?

393
00:22:09,467 --> 00:22:10,267
Aye.

394
00:22:12,367 --> 00:22:15,533
And Lindsay Anderson was
a tremendous director.

395
00:22:19,067 --> 00:22:20,867
Lindsay was
a very gentle man.

396
00:22:21,067 --> 00:22:24,500
Oxford University, a very
intelligent, intellectual man.

397
00:22:24,633 --> 00:22:28,067
But what he had was he
had this most amazing

398
00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,867
understanding of violence.

399
00:22:31,067 --> 00:22:34,500
What I would call almost
psychological violence,

400
00:22:34,633 --> 00:22:36,967
volcanic passion.

401
00:22:37,100 --> 00:22:38,767
Some people have life made for.

402
00:22:38,900 --> 00:22:40,100
That's right, Mrs. Hammond,

403
00:22:40,233 --> 00:22:41,700
and some people make
it for themselves.

404
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:52,067
It's about time you
took that tonne of rock

405
00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:53,067
off your shoulders.

406
00:22:54,567 --> 00:22:55,600
And don't wake me
in the morning.

407
00:22:55,733 --> 00:22:57,067
I might be dead.

408
00:23:00,500 --> 00:23:02,533
Richard was uniquely powerful.

409
00:23:02,667 --> 00:23:04,767
His acting had a physicality.

410
00:23:04,900 --> 00:23:08,167
You know, he would scare
the life outta you.

411
00:23:12,500 --> 00:23:14,633
What do you have to
be to be a successful actor?

412
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:18,233
You have to be masochistic,

413
00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:20,400
sadistic,

414
00:23:21,333 --> 00:23:22,833
very strange.

415
00:23:22,967 --> 00:23:26,233
You have to be able to
inflict pain on yourself.

416
00:23:26,367 --> 00:23:28,067
You have to walk out and saying,

417
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:29,400
"I'm gonna go into
this relationship

418
00:23:29,533 --> 00:23:31,067
and I'm gonna be
very hurt, I hope.

419
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:34,500
From it I'm gonna get
something out of it I can use.

420
00:23:34,633 --> 00:23:36,800
I'm gonna build up a
treasury of emotions here

421
00:23:36,933 --> 00:23:38,333
that I can use."

422
00:23:40,133 --> 00:23:41,700
And sadistic.

423
00:23:41,833 --> 00:23:46,367
You gotta step over maybe the
closest of people to get that.

424
00:23:48,567 --> 00:23:51,400
Yeah, I mean, what comes
to mind when he says that

425
00:23:51,533 --> 00:23:54,567
is his relationship
with Lindsay Anderson.

426
00:23:54,700 --> 00:23:57,800
It's really detailed
in Lindsay's diaries,

427
00:23:57,933 --> 00:24:00,900
how cruel my father was.

428
00:24:03,267 --> 00:24:06,133
Initially Lindsay
travelled to Tahiti

429
00:24:06,267 --> 00:24:08,533
to see if Dad would
do "Sporting Life."

430
00:24:08,667 --> 00:24:09,867
He was doing "Mutiny
on the Bounty"

431
00:24:10,067 --> 00:24:12,300
and they were both very
excited about the idea

432
00:24:12,433 --> 00:24:15,067
of making this film and
they were collaborators.

433
00:24:16,667 --> 00:24:20,567
And then when filming
began, my father changed,

434
00:24:20,700 --> 00:24:22,933
partly because Lindsay fell
in love with my father,

435
00:24:23,067 --> 00:24:23,833
literally.

436
00:24:25,500 --> 00:24:28,433
And so, my father
used that against him.

437
00:24:28,567 --> 00:24:33,367
And he really was controlling
and humiliated Lindsay,

438
00:24:34,933 --> 00:24:38,100
which Lindsay put up with
'cause he was in love with him,

439
00:24:38,233 --> 00:24:40,333
and that he also was
getting what he wanted,

440
00:24:40,467 --> 00:24:42,500
therefore, let it continue.

441
00:24:47,067 --> 00:24:49,500
"Sporting Life" just was
the breakthrough film

442
00:24:49,633 --> 00:24:50,900
for Richard.

443
00:24:51,067 --> 00:24:54,067
Not in terms of its
commercial success,

444
00:24:54,167 --> 00:24:56,967
but in terms of
establishing Richard

445
00:24:57,100 --> 00:24:59,733
as one of the sort
of really great

446
00:24:59,867 --> 00:25:01,767
contemporary actors
of that period.

447
00:25:03,833 --> 00:25:07,967
I think Richard, in the plotted
history of English cinema,

448
00:25:08,100 --> 00:25:11,267
holds a very important place.

449
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:15,100
There's still that very
deep theatrical tradition.

450
00:25:15,233 --> 00:25:16,367
But then Richard,

451
00:25:16,500 --> 00:25:18,567
who's come from it,
who's from within that,

452
00:25:18,700 --> 00:25:21,200
is looking to sort
of break that.

453
00:25:21,333 --> 00:25:24,967
He's looking to give
himself the same passageway

454
00:25:25,100 --> 00:25:26,767
to truth as a Brando.

455
00:25:28,133 --> 00:25:30,233
There's no sort of
archness about it,

456
00:25:30,367 --> 00:25:32,667
and seemingly no performance,

457
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,100
because it just
seemed to be so real.

458
00:25:34,233 --> 00:25:36,200
But of course, that's the trick.

459
00:25:36,333 --> 00:25:37,800
We're not proper people
now because of you.

460
00:25:37,933 --> 00:25:39,067
Because you show
up every Saturday

461
00:25:39,167 --> 00:25:40,667
in front of thousands of them,

462
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:42,067
because you're just a great
ape in the football field.

463
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:43,900
Because you want
me to be like them!

464
00:25:44,067 --> 00:25:46,233
You are in a crawl about
just like the rest.

465
00:25:46,367 --> 00:25:47,933
Well just have a
look at the rest.

466
00:25:48,067 --> 00:25:49,333
Take a right good look at 'em!

467
00:25:51,533 --> 00:25:52,267
Take a right good look at the
bloody people around here!

468
00:25:53,633 --> 00:25:56,367
There isn't a bleeding
man amongst him.

469
00:25:56,500 --> 00:26:00,067
You're flat on your back from
the go, crawling about you.

470
00:26:00,167 --> 00:26:02,233
Because they haven't got the
guts, do you understand that?

471
00:26:02,367 --> 00:26:03,667
They haven't got
the guts to stand up

472
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:06,267
and to walk about like me.

473
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,400
I mean, he could be
a terrifying figure.

474
00:26:08,533 --> 00:26:09,767
He was just...

475
00:26:11,267 --> 00:26:12,333
He didn't pretend.

476
00:26:12,467 --> 00:26:14,100
It was terrifying.

477
00:26:15,700 --> 00:26:18,900
And we had this scene
together in "Trojan Eddie",

478
00:26:19,067 --> 00:26:21,467
and it's where he's
telling the story

479
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,900
about how he was
fighting with someone.

480
00:26:25,067 --> 00:26:27,800
As he started to play the scene,

481
00:26:27,933 --> 00:26:32,133
and he really took
on the power of it,

482
00:26:32,267 --> 00:26:37,133
I realised that he
was talking about me.

483
00:26:38,133 --> 00:26:40,367
He was going to kill me.

484
00:26:42,100 --> 00:26:43,733
Do you see those rings?

485
00:26:43,867 --> 00:26:45,200
Do ya?

486
00:26:45,333 --> 00:26:47,400
They're my father's rings.

487
00:26:49,067 --> 00:26:53,133
I broke a fella's jaw with
that fist one night...

488
00:26:58,933 --> 00:27:03,233
And another night, another
night, I broke a feller's nose.

489
00:27:05,733 --> 00:27:07,433
Right.

490
00:27:07,567 --> 00:27:11,433
I mean, there was a level
of anger that he had

491
00:27:12,467 --> 00:27:15,567
that never completely went away.

492
00:27:17,100 --> 00:27:19,100
I remember actually, I did
actually ask him this question.

493
00:27:19,233 --> 00:27:21,067
It's funny, this reminded me.

494
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,767
We'd had a huge, huge
row one Christmas.

495
00:27:24,900 --> 00:27:29,200
And I asked him, "Why
are you so angry?

496
00:27:29,333 --> 00:27:30,967
What are you so angry about?"

497
00:27:32,933 --> 00:27:37,733
And he said, "I don't know,
I've always been angry.

498
00:27:40,267 --> 00:27:41,233
I don't know."

499
00:27:50,567 --> 00:27:53,167
I absolutely
believe that the world is bad.

500
00:27:55,167 --> 00:27:58,967
I believe from the very
first moment of conception

501
00:27:59,100 --> 00:28:01,800
to the moment we die, that
life is absolutely riddled,

502
00:28:01,933 --> 00:28:04,533
cloaked in tragedy.

503
00:28:09,267 --> 00:28:13,467
It almost is something that
should never have happened.

504
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:15,767
I think it was a great mistake.

505
00:28:15,900 --> 00:28:18,067
This miracle of
life is absolutely,

506
00:28:18,133 --> 00:28:20,467
I hate to say that
it's kind of rubbish.

507
00:28:22,067 --> 00:28:23,900
Richard Harris has
been running all his life,

508
00:28:24,067 --> 00:28:26,267
and of course that grows
increasingly complex.

509
00:28:27,867 --> 00:28:30,333
When I look around
me today, nothing works.

510
00:28:30,467 --> 00:28:32,367
We don't want anything to work.

511
00:28:32,500 --> 00:28:34,100
And it's never changed.

512
00:28:34,233 --> 00:28:37,067
What's happening a hundred
years ago was just as mad.

513
00:28:37,167 --> 00:28:39,167
And we don't like each other.

514
00:28:39,300 --> 00:28:40,600
We don't respect each other.

515
00:28:40,733 --> 00:28:42,533
We talk about compassion,
there is none.

516
00:28:45,067 --> 00:28:46,533
That's what it is,
it's a fucking joke.

517
00:28:46,667 --> 00:28:48,133
It's a juggling of hats.

518
00:28:48,267 --> 00:28:49,833
It's a pulling a
rabbit out of a hat

519
00:28:49,967 --> 00:28:51,400
and losing it in your pocket.

520
00:28:51,533 --> 00:28:53,667
With all the hundreds
and thousands of years

521
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,300
of Christianity and the
preaching of gospels

522
00:28:56,433 --> 00:28:58,600
and the bringing of the
word of God and kindness

523
00:28:58,733 --> 00:29:00,267
and humanity to the world,

524
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,067
it hasn't worked because there
are more people than ever

525
00:29:03,133 --> 00:29:05,600
destitute and lost.

526
00:29:05,733 --> 00:29:07,100
And what happens?

527
00:29:07,233 --> 00:29:08,533
In comes the vulture.

528
00:29:08,667 --> 00:29:11,633
In comes the hawk that
flew over the landscape,

529
00:29:11,767 --> 00:29:13,267
observing it.

530
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,167
And he looked down for
the bodies and he plucked,

531
00:29:16,300 --> 00:29:17,367
for his own benefit.

532
00:29:17,500 --> 00:29:18,200
Horrible.

533
00:29:18,333 --> 00:29:19,400
It's horrible.

534
00:29:22,233 --> 00:29:24,200
I wish I could preach
my gospel to the world.

535
00:29:24,333 --> 00:29:27,700
I wish I could say to them,
we know it's a disaster,

536
00:29:27,833 --> 00:29:29,833
but make the most of it.

537
00:29:29,967 --> 00:29:31,867
Laugh, dance and sing.

538
00:29:32,067 --> 00:29:33,467
Those who wanna come with
you, come dance with me.

539
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,067
Those who don't, fair
enough, don't dance on them.

540
00:29:38,467 --> 00:29:42,267
If we take it seriously, it
is a very, very bad joke.

541
00:29:44,267 --> 00:29:46,333
I'd like to be able
to tell people that.

542
00:29:52,867 --> 00:29:56,067
Here is one of England's most
respected and honoured stars,

543
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:57,667
Mr. Richard Harris.

544
00:30:03,833 --> 00:30:06,000
The nominees are...

545
00:30:06,133 --> 00:30:08,033
You know, somebody says,
it isn't how good you are,

546
00:30:08,167 --> 00:30:09,700
it's how long you've lasted.

547
00:30:09,833 --> 00:30:12,167
I've lasted a long time
and I've lasted a long time

548
00:30:12,300 --> 00:30:15,567
and also never played the game.

549
00:30:15,700 --> 00:30:18,500
I never went to Hollywood,
lived in Hollywood.

550
00:30:18,633 --> 00:30:20,767
When I did live in
Hollywood for a time,

551
00:30:20,900 --> 00:30:23,367
I never mixed with the
major motion picture stars.

552
00:30:23,500 --> 00:30:25,600
I never went to the
houses of producers

553
00:30:25,733 --> 00:30:28,167
or the heads of studios though
I was invited many times.

554
00:30:28,300 --> 00:30:29,967
Every single time I
either win an award

555
00:30:30,100 --> 00:30:31,200
or I present an award,

556
00:30:31,333 --> 00:30:32,667
they always say, you know, like,

557
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,067
"British actor wins
another major award."

558
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,367
And every time I get into a
fight, "Irish actor in brawl."

559
00:30:39,233 --> 00:30:41,067
I refuse to play their game.

560
00:30:42,933 --> 00:30:46,300
Well, he went to Hollywood
and he did play the game.

561
00:30:46,433 --> 00:30:48,233
Richard changed course.

562
00:30:48,367 --> 00:30:51,433
I think he, in some
ways, lost interest

563
00:30:51,567 --> 00:30:54,100
in those small, personal,

564
00:30:54,233 --> 00:30:57,367
maybe more experimental
type films.

565
00:31:02,767 --> 00:31:05,100
You come
a time when you are

566
00:31:05,233 --> 00:31:07,067
faced with obligations.

567
00:31:07,167 --> 00:31:08,433
You have to.

568
00:31:08,567 --> 00:31:10,067
Got children, you must
support the children.

569
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:11,700
You must support your wife.

570
00:31:11,833 --> 00:31:14,100
You can't support
that on art films.

571
00:31:14,233 --> 00:31:15,400
'Cause we were living at...

572
00:31:15,533 --> 00:31:17,167
I'm not making excuses.

573
00:31:17,300 --> 00:31:18,767
We were living in a tiny flat.

574
00:31:18,900 --> 00:31:21,133
I remember the day
I made the choice.

575
00:31:21,267 --> 00:31:24,067
I was offered to do "Major
Dundee" in Hollywood

576
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:25,767
for a lot of money.

577
00:31:27,067 --> 00:31:31,367
And I made the choice.

578
00:31:31,500 --> 00:31:34,233
And the choice was I was
gonna do the Hollywood picture

579
00:31:34,367 --> 00:31:35,933
and make the money.

580
00:31:36,067 --> 00:31:37,833
And now you're a murderer.

581
00:31:37,967 --> 00:31:41,267
Tomorrow morning I am gonna
hang you and be done with you.

582
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:42,367
Jailer.

583
00:31:45,967 --> 00:31:48,067
I'm fighting for the
only country I have left

584
00:31:48,133 --> 00:31:50,733
and I kill men in a
hopeless war for it.

585
00:31:50,867 --> 00:31:54,667
But not men who are my
neighbours and my friends.

586
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,367
You know, Hollywood
does that to people.

587
00:31:57,500 --> 00:32:00,400
I've seen it so many
times where, you know,

588
00:32:00,533 --> 00:32:02,767
you go to Hollywood
as one person and...

589
00:32:04,667 --> 00:32:07,067
A few years later
you're somebody else.

590
00:32:07,133 --> 00:32:09,233
You know, you buy
into the system.

591
00:32:16,967 --> 00:32:21,633
He was attracted by the
money, by the staring role,

592
00:32:21,767 --> 00:32:25,700
a musical, big mainstream
Hollywood film.

593
00:32:25,833 --> 00:32:29,167
And listen, playing King
Arthur is a great role.

594
00:32:29,300 --> 00:32:31,567
So I didn't know Richard at all

595
00:32:31,700 --> 00:32:35,667
until we met at the
studios in Warner Bros.

596
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:37,300
And from the moment I met him,

597
00:32:37,433 --> 00:32:40,467
I thought, oh, I'm going
to love working with you.

598
00:32:41,767 --> 00:32:43,333
Why did
you feel that, Vanessa?

599
00:32:43,467 --> 00:32:46,067
What was it about Richard
that made you think that?

600
00:32:46,167 --> 00:32:49,533
Well, all the obvious
things, darling.

601
00:32:49,667 --> 00:32:54,067
* A law was made a
distant moon ago here *

602
00:32:54,133 --> 00:32:58,133
* July and August
cannot be too hot *

603
00:32:58,267 --> 00:32:59,700
He was enchanting.

604
00:32:59,833 --> 00:33:01,133
He looked great.

605
00:33:01,267 --> 00:33:04,700
He had the most wonderful voice.

606
00:33:04,833 --> 00:33:08,833
I think he's absolutely
adorable on screen, you know.

607
00:33:08,967 --> 00:33:11,167
And I think a lot of
people thought he was too.

608
00:33:12,367 --> 00:33:14,867
* In short there's simply not *

609
00:33:15,067 --> 00:33:18,200
* A more congenial spot *

610
00:33:18,333 --> 00:33:23,133
* For happily ever aftering
than here in Camelot *

611
00:33:33,367 --> 00:33:34,100
Look!

612
00:33:34,233 --> 00:33:35,700
There, on the hill!

613
00:33:35,833 --> 00:33:38,867
Having done a scene in which
we had one of the songs,

614
00:33:39,067 --> 00:33:40,200
I forget which one it was.

615
00:33:40,333 --> 00:33:43,100
Anyway, I had an idea
and I said to Richard,

616
00:33:43,233 --> 00:33:46,533
"Why don't we ask If
we can sing them live?

617
00:33:46,667 --> 00:33:49,500
It would make it so
much more spontaneous."

618
00:33:49,633 --> 00:33:52,433
* Simple folk do *

619
00:33:52,567 --> 00:33:56,467
* We do not *

620
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,833
* I have been informed by
those that know them well *

621
00:34:00,067 --> 00:34:03,267
* They find relief in
quite a clever way *

622
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:07,500
We're now free to really
be our characters.

623
00:34:07,633 --> 00:34:10,533
No lip syncing, just
be our characters,

624
00:34:10,667 --> 00:34:14,333
revolutionised the whole way
of doing musical comedies,

625
00:34:14,467 --> 00:34:17,533
which we were quite
proud of, Richard and I.

626
00:34:17,667 --> 00:34:20,533
* In Camelot *

627
00:34:20,667 --> 00:34:22,833
* Camelot *

628
00:34:22,967 --> 00:34:27,800
What I can never forget is
Richard's generosity of spirit.

629
00:34:30,933 --> 00:34:34,867
It's rare to feel so
relaxed and so happy

630
00:34:35,067 --> 00:34:37,067
to be with another actor,

631
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:39,567
and believe that you
are in love with them.

632
00:34:39,700 --> 00:34:41,867
I wasn't ever in
love with Richard.

633
00:34:42,067 --> 00:34:44,067
I was in love with
him as an actor.

634
00:34:51,567 --> 00:34:52,767
Did you ever
read that great line

635
00:34:52,900 --> 00:34:55,167
that Elizabeth
wrote in her book?

636
00:34:55,300 --> 00:34:55,933
"Richard went to London, but
Dickie stayed in Limerick."

637
00:34:59,533 --> 00:35:00,433
Great line.

638
00:35:05,500 --> 00:35:08,333
I'm afraid I can't claim
to have the romance

639
00:35:08,467 --> 00:35:10,767
of coming from a poor family.

640
00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:14,067
What did happen was I came
from a very, very rich family.

641
00:35:16,100 --> 00:35:18,333
My great-grandfather, he
had a huge flour mill here

642
00:35:18,467 --> 00:35:19,933
and a bakery.

643
00:35:20,067 --> 00:35:23,567
But we would be small millers
compared to the British,

644
00:35:23,700 --> 00:35:25,867
English Millers
who came in here.

645
00:35:26,067 --> 00:35:30,067
And they came in with huge
monies and huge combines

646
00:35:30,133 --> 00:35:32,133
and broke all the small miller.

647
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:38,200
During my youth, they
began to lose the money.

648
00:35:38,333 --> 00:35:39,833
They went bankrupt in the end.

649
00:35:41,167 --> 00:35:43,467
I remember the staff
got less and less.

650
00:35:47,567 --> 00:35:50,600
I don't know, so I came
from a huge family.

651
00:35:50,733 --> 00:35:52,667
The eight children,
there were eight of us.

652
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:54,333
I got lost.

653
00:35:54,467 --> 00:35:58,667
I was kind of situated in the
no man's land of my family.

654
00:35:59,633 --> 00:36:01,167
This army, Harris Brigade.

655
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:07,100
I don't remember the stroke,
the touch from the mother

656
00:36:07,233 --> 00:36:10,333
or the affection from
the father very much.

657
00:36:10,467 --> 00:36:13,300
You had to learn to fight for
the affection of your parents,

658
00:36:13,433 --> 00:36:14,633
to fight for the attention.

659
00:36:14,767 --> 00:36:16,967
You didn't get it free.

660
00:36:17,100 --> 00:36:18,700
You had to tap dance,
you had to tap dance,

661
00:36:18,833 --> 00:36:20,100
you had to tap dance
to be recognised.

662
00:36:20,233 --> 00:36:22,467
You had to put up
the flag and say,

663
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:24,800
"Hey look, I'm here too,
you know, don't miss me."

664
00:36:24,933 --> 00:36:26,133
And you were missed.

665
00:36:29,233 --> 00:36:32,067
And I can remember my father
saying, putting me and saying,

666
00:36:32,167 --> 00:36:33,533
"What's his name again?"

667
00:36:33,667 --> 00:36:35,067
And my mother saying,
"That's Dick."

668
00:36:35,133 --> 00:36:36,267
"Oh yeah, okay Dick.

669
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:38,633
Now look, don't do that, Dick.

670
00:36:38,767 --> 00:36:40,367
What's his name again?"

671
00:36:40,500 --> 00:36:41,967
"Dick."

672
00:36:42,100 --> 00:36:43,833
I kind of said, well, I'll
make sure he remembers my name,

673
00:36:43,967 --> 00:36:45,733
next time he looks at
me I'll break a window.

674
00:36:54,767 --> 00:36:57,067
Horrendous
introductions to the Jesuits.

675
00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:00,167
Very tough the first
couple of years.

676
00:37:00,300 --> 00:37:03,200
And I unfortunately had
been discovered later on,

677
00:37:03,333 --> 00:37:06,700
been diagnosed with not
chronic, but as semi dyslectic.

678
00:37:06,833 --> 00:37:10,133
It was tough for me to read,
put things together right.

679
00:37:10,267 --> 00:37:12,100
They didn't realise
that as it's only really

680
00:37:12,233 --> 00:37:13,833
a modern thing now.

681
00:37:13,967 --> 00:37:16,633
But my first couple of years
they were really very tough.

682
00:37:23,833 --> 00:37:27,067
No one knew at the time
that Dickie had dyslexia.

683
00:37:27,133 --> 00:37:30,067
So he was a bit behind.

684
00:37:32,100 --> 00:37:34,733
Your exercise was checked
and if they weren't bright,

685
00:37:34,867 --> 00:37:36,933
you got punished for that.

686
00:37:37,067 --> 00:37:38,933
In our case, it was the priest.

687
00:37:39,067 --> 00:37:41,800
He had a docket and
everything was in Latin.

688
00:37:41,933 --> 00:37:44,267
They'd tell you first
of all what it was for.

689
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,233
And then parcome was how
many, that was slaps.

690
00:37:47,367 --> 00:37:49,600
So when Dickie got the docket,

691
00:37:49,733 --> 00:37:51,800
say at half nine in the morning,

692
00:37:51,933 --> 00:37:55,067
it would be burning a hole in
that pocket until 11 o'clock.

693
00:37:55,133 --> 00:37:57,367
That was the time the
whole school would break.

694
00:37:58,900 --> 00:38:02,167
It was administered
by a leather,

695
00:38:02,300 --> 00:38:05,467
lead lined, three
in each hand, six.

696
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,833
And if there was a ring
around it on that docket,

697
00:38:07,967 --> 00:38:09,900
it meant six hard.

698
00:38:13,567 --> 00:38:15,567
We loved rugby.

699
00:38:15,700 --> 00:38:17,067
Rugby was our outlet.

700
00:38:21,067 --> 00:38:22,900
I would give up

701
00:38:23,067 --> 00:38:25,067
all my Academy
Award nominations,

702
00:38:25,167 --> 00:38:27,700
all my Golden Globes
that I've won,

703
00:38:27,833 --> 00:38:29,833
my Grammys that I have won,

704
00:38:29,967 --> 00:38:33,767
my town film festival,
the Palme d'Or that I won,

705
00:38:33,900 --> 00:38:35,367
I'd give it all up,

706
00:38:37,567 --> 00:38:39,267
to have just played
once for Ireland rugby.

707
00:38:42,467 --> 00:38:47,233
I mean, I can remember nothing
else from Limerick but rugby.

708
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:49,767
It was inbred in us as kids.

709
00:38:49,900 --> 00:38:51,267
It was tribal.

710
00:38:53,100 --> 00:38:54,767
He was an outstanding player.

711
00:38:54,900 --> 00:38:59,300
He was on two teams that won
the Munster Senior Schools Cup.

712
00:39:01,067 --> 00:39:03,500
Dickie could have gone and
played professional rugby.

713
00:39:03,633 --> 00:39:08,167
He was a fine second row and
played in the back row as well.

714
00:39:08,300 --> 00:39:09,800
The original jersey,

715
00:39:09,933 --> 00:39:11,767
and there's still mud on
it here in the back look.

716
00:39:11,900 --> 00:39:13,400
Never washed it.

717
00:39:13,533 --> 00:39:15,733
That was 1948,

718
00:39:15,867 --> 00:39:18,900
when I played for Munster
Schools against Connacht.

719
00:39:19,067 --> 00:39:19,967
I got one cap.

720
00:39:20,100 --> 00:39:21,700
And that's it.

721
00:39:21,833 --> 00:39:22,633
And I wouldn't...

722
00:39:22,767 --> 00:39:24,067
That's it.

723
00:39:24,167 --> 00:39:27,233
And I wouldn't give
it up for anything.

724
00:39:37,733 --> 00:39:38,933
You tackle well.

725
00:39:40,933 --> 00:39:42,467
Tackle!

726
00:39:49,533 --> 00:39:51,533
I often
say, well, who are we?

727
00:39:51,667 --> 00:39:53,167
Who was Richard Harris?

728
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:00,300
Someone said to me once,

729
00:40:00,433 --> 00:40:02,333
"Of course, you know
you're an alcoholic."

730
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:04,633
I said, "I'm not, no.

731
00:40:06,333 --> 00:40:08,300
If you think so, that's okay.

732
00:40:08,433 --> 00:40:10,133
It doesn't necessarily
mean that I am.

733
00:40:10,267 --> 00:40:12,567
If it makes you feel
good, that's okay."

734
00:40:12,700 --> 00:40:15,467
It doesn't do anything for
me to be told what I am.

735
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:20,367
All I know is that I
drank because I loved it.

736
00:40:21,933 --> 00:40:24,200
The wonderful tendency
again is why did you drink?

737
00:40:24,333 --> 00:40:25,033
Are you running
away from something?

738
00:40:25,167 --> 00:40:26,100
Are you hiding?

739
00:40:30,933 --> 00:40:32,633
Was it something to
do with your work?

740
00:40:32,767 --> 00:40:34,433
Your personality?

741
00:40:34,567 --> 00:40:37,833
I remember being with Burton
one day in South Africa

742
00:40:37,967 --> 00:40:40,433
making this picture together.

743
00:40:40,567 --> 00:40:42,800
And both of us said
the same thing.

744
00:40:42,933 --> 00:40:45,333
We drank because we loved it.

745
00:40:45,467 --> 00:40:47,933
I loved the trouble
I was gonna get into.

746
00:40:48,067 --> 00:40:51,167
I loved to wake up the next
day and say, "What did we do?"

747
00:40:51,300 --> 00:40:52,933
Either pick up a newspaper
and read it in the papers.

748
00:40:53,067 --> 00:40:54,633
Oh, that's what we did.

749
00:40:54,767 --> 00:40:57,233
With an eye that was closed
or a fist that was broken.

750
00:40:58,833 --> 00:41:01,533
All we knew was we
had a wonderful time

751
00:41:01,667 --> 00:41:04,400
and we weren't
running from anything.

752
00:41:04,533 --> 00:41:06,533
We enjoyed drinking.

753
00:41:09,133 --> 00:41:14,067
* Hey drink up all you people *

754
00:41:17,867 --> 00:41:21,300
* Order anything you see *

755
00:41:24,700 --> 00:41:27,733
He didn't know
anybody in New York

756
00:41:27,867 --> 00:41:30,133
when we first met in 19...

757
00:41:30,267 --> 00:41:34,500
Must have been 1958, I
think, at PJ Clark's.

758
00:41:34,633 --> 00:41:37,233
That was a great Irish pub.

759
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:41,067
So then whenever he
was passing through,

760
00:41:41,133 --> 00:41:42,600
he always called me.

761
00:41:42,733 --> 00:41:45,833
His fame was coming up
and people would say,

762
00:41:45,967 --> 00:41:47,867
"Oh, there's Richard Harris."

763
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:55,233
Without a doubt, he was both
a drinker and a hell raiser.

764
00:41:55,367 --> 00:41:59,500
And he could turn mean,
he could turn violent.

765
00:41:59,633 --> 00:42:02,100
Harris was up to get belligerent

766
00:42:02,233 --> 00:42:05,600
when he had a few
drinks taken, yep.

767
00:42:05,733 --> 00:42:10,533
There he is behind the bar,
at himself, serving beers.

768
00:42:11,167 --> 00:42:11,867
That's my bar.

769
00:42:12,067 --> 00:42:14,067
But he wasn't very good,

770
00:42:14,133 --> 00:42:16,800
'cause obviously he
can't pour a beer.

771
00:42:20,933 --> 00:42:25,067
He told me that he was giving
up the acting business.

772
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:26,367
He was tired of it.

773
00:42:26,500 --> 00:42:29,233
So he said, "I want a
job as a bartender."

774
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:35,333
So here is this movie
star in my saloon.

775
00:42:35,467 --> 00:42:39,300
And one night, these
two elderly ladies,

776
00:42:39,433 --> 00:42:44,067
they said, "Oh, you
have a very nice barman.

777
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:47,267
He didn't charge us
anything for our drinks

778
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:51,267
and gave us a
bottle of Pérignon.

779
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:53,933
And I thought, Jesus Christ.

780
00:42:55,967 --> 00:42:58,333
I didn't say anything to Dickie.

781
00:42:58,467 --> 00:43:01,700
But anyway, he got
tired of the routine.

782
00:43:01,833 --> 00:43:05,700
And when he left, my
other regular barman said,

783
00:43:05,833 --> 00:43:08,167
"Oh, I have something for you."

784
00:43:08,300 --> 00:43:10,967
So he went to the cash register

785
00:43:11,100 --> 00:43:15,200
and in it was a
check for $3,000.

786
00:43:15,333 --> 00:43:16,900
And Dickie had wrote in it,

787
00:43:17,067 --> 00:43:19,467
"This is for all
that I gave away."

788
00:43:22,700 --> 00:43:26,533
Richard Harris was what you
look for in a talk show guest.

789
00:43:26,667 --> 00:43:30,133
He delivered, as they used to
say in production meetings.

790
00:43:30,267 --> 00:43:32,667
You all know Richard Harris,
will you welcome him please?

791
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:36,167
One appearance of his,
he came bounding out

792
00:43:36,300 --> 00:43:39,900
and there was a big gob
of what, like dried blood

793
00:43:40,067 --> 00:43:41,867
on his face, a big scar.

794
00:43:44,733 --> 00:43:46,367
It's nice to sit down.

795
00:43:46,500 --> 00:43:47,200
Do you know each other?

796
00:43:47,333 --> 00:43:48,600
Have you ever...

797
00:43:48,733 --> 00:43:50,600
But nobody mentioned
it right away.

798
00:43:50,733 --> 00:43:51,833
And I thought, this is strange.

799
00:43:51,967 --> 00:43:52,667
So I said...

800
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:53,467
Mr. Harris.

801
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:54,800
Yes?

802
00:43:54,933 --> 00:43:56,800
Politeness toward one side.

803
00:43:56,933 --> 00:43:57,833
Oh yeah, sure.

804
00:43:57,967 --> 00:43:59,100
Yes, you've been ignoring it.

805
00:43:59,233 --> 00:44:00,133
I can't help
noticing that...

806
00:44:00,267 --> 00:44:01,500
You wanted to mention it.

807
00:44:01,633 --> 00:44:03,100
Everybody else is
worried about it.

808
00:44:03,233 --> 00:44:04,133
Well, I can't help noticing
that a lot of your face

809
00:44:04,267 --> 00:44:05,333
is not injured.

810
00:44:08,133 --> 00:44:11,300
But he loved that and everyone
wanted to talk about it.

811
00:44:11,433 --> 00:44:13,133
He'd been in a brawl.

812
00:44:13,267 --> 00:44:15,367
The row started and
I jumped over the bar

813
00:44:15,500 --> 00:44:18,367
and I hid behind the bar 'cause
punches were going like mad.

814
00:44:18,500 --> 00:44:20,400
And I hid behind the bar and
I said, "Let them fight."

815
00:44:20,533 --> 00:44:22,067
You see?

816
00:44:22,133 --> 00:44:25,067
And there was a guy
beside me, crouching too.

817
00:44:25,133 --> 00:44:26,567
And I said, "What
are you doing?"

818
00:44:26,700 --> 00:44:28,267
He said, "I'm ducking Harris."

819
00:44:32,367 --> 00:44:34,233
I have a wonderful facility.

820
00:44:34,367 --> 00:44:36,833
I have a wonderful
facility of delivering

821
00:44:36,967 --> 00:44:38,267
what people expect from me.

822
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:39,267
Richard Harris.

823
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:40,667
Yes, sir.

824
00:44:43,733 --> 00:44:45,300
There are interviews

825
00:44:45,433 --> 00:44:48,800
that don't want to get into
anything of any great depth.

826
00:44:48,933 --> 00:44:50,400
What's the difference
between this kind of beer

827
00:44:50,533 --> 00:44:52,133
and a bottled beer?

828
00:44:52,267 --> 00:44:53,900
A lot of gas.

829
00:44:56,067 --> 00:44:58,267
Keep it funny, keep it funny.

830
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:02,300
I think that one of the
great dangers of publicity

831
00:45:02,433 --> 00:45:04,167
is that one isn't
planned to believe it.

832
00:45:04,300 --> 00:45:06,233
And I think I was
probably guilty of that.

833
00:45:06,367 --> 00:45:08,067
I think that very, very often,

834
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:10,133
I was very conscious
when I entered the room

835
00:45:10,267 --> 00:45:11,933
and people looked up and
said, "Oh, there's Harris."

836
00:45:12,067 --> 00:45:13,900
That I suddenly had to behave

837
00:45:14,067 --> 00:45:15,767
as they thought I
should have behaved.

838
00:45:15,900 --> 00:45:17,367
You know what I mean?

839
00:45:17,500 --> 00:45:21,700
Tough, drunk, loud,
funny, careless.

840
00:45:21,833 --> 00:45:23,733
You know, I think I
ruined my first marriage

841
00:45:23,867 --> 00:45:25,633
because of that, to Elizabeth.

842
00:45:25,767 --> 00:45:28,467
It was purely because
somehow I began to believe

843
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:30,867
what they said
about me was true.

844
00:45:31,067 --> 00:45:32,100
That was very difficult.

845
00:45:32,233 --> 00:45:33,467
I remember once saying to her,

846
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:35,233
"I'm going out to
buy a newspaper."

847
00:45:35,367 --> 00:45:36,500
And I was gone eight days.

848
00:45:38,233 --> 00:45:39,433
Right?

849
00:45:39,567 --> 00:45:41,867
And now, I thought, how
am I gonna get back?

850
00:45:42,067 --> 00:45:43,867
How am I gonna say to her?

851
00:45:44,067 --> 00:45:46,167
And at this stage, I'd heard
she was gonna file for divorce.

852
00:45:46,300 --> 00:45:47,133
She'd really had it.

853
00:45:47,267 --> 00:45:48,367
Now really, she really had,

854
00:45:48,500 --> 00:45:50,067
the poor thing really
suffered a lot.

855
00:45:50,133 --> 00:45:53,367
So I arrived back and I
knocked at the whole door

856
00:45:53,500 --> 00:45:54,667
at Bedford Gardens,

857
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,067
and I heard her coming
down the stairs.

858
00:45:57,167 --> 00:45:59,500
I thought, what's she gonna say?

859
00:45:59,633 --> 00:46:02,233
And she opened the door and
I looked at her and I said,

860
00:46:02,367 --> 00:46:04,667
"Why didn't you pay the ransom?"

861
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,433
* Excuse me *

862
00:46:09,567 --> 00:46:12,500
* While I disappear *

863
00:46:20,900 --> 00:46:21,867
Gentlemen.

864
00:46:25,333 --> 00:46:30,167
Honest men have served us
faithfully and many have died,

865
00:46:32,467 --> 00:46:34,667
that this house
may sit in freedom

866
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:36,533
and this nation live in liberty.

867
00:46:38,100 --> 00:46:40,767
In the name of
God I besiege you.

868
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:45,233
Do not dessert them now.

869
00:46:45,367 --> 00:46:48,900
True or false, you've
acquired the reputation

870
00:46:49,067 --> 00:46:51,833
of being something
of a hell raiser.

871
00:46:51,967 --> 00:46:55,767
But for example, recently
in a Sunday newspaper,

872
00:46:55,900 --> 00:47:00,700
there was a report of a sort
of continental jet plane binge

873
00:47:02,067 --> 00:47:03,133
that you took, which
lasted several days.

874
00:47:03,267 --> 00:47:04,800
Well, it wasn't really,
because you see,

875
00:47:04,933 --> 00:47:08,067
the story that was finally
printed was the story

876
00:47:08,133 --> 00:47:11,233
that the readers of that
particular newspaper

877
00:47:11,367 --> 00:47:13,133
would only want to read.

878
00:47:13,267 --> 00:47:17,167
But I can't deny that any of
the reports on the newspaper

879
00:47:17,300 --> 00:47:18,367
were not true.

880
00:47:20,300 --> 00:47:22,533
The outrageous inefficiency...

881
00:47:22,667 --> 00:47:25,067
While Richard was
making Cromwell,

882
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:28,367
the film company had
said, "Right, no drinking,

883
00:47:28,500 --> 00:47:30,967
you know, off the bottle
for all the time."

884
00:47:31,100 --> 00:47:35,100
But in the middle
of the filming, they
gave him a week off.

885
00:47:35,233 --> 00:47:38,367
Those against
Colonel Cromwell's motion.

886
00:47:38,500 --> 00:47:40,767
An executive jet, you know,

887
00:47:40,900 --> 00:47:43,300
with two pilots
and a stewardess.

888
00:47:43,433 --> 00:47:47,400
And I was sort of
called in by the letter,

889
00:47:47,533 --> 00:47:50,800
and basically told,
"Right, off to Heathrow,

890
00:47:50,933 --> 00:47:52,467
you're meeting Richard Harris

891
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:54,633
and you're going travelling
with him for the next week."

892
00:47:55,867 --> 00:47:57,767
He rang me up and he said,

893
00:47:57,900 --> 00:48:00,967
"It's very important
you come here.

894
00:48:01,100 --> 00:48:04,900
This is my divorce," he said.

895
00:48:06,067 --> 00:48:07,433
I said, "What?"

896
00:48:07,567 --> 00:48:10,667
He said, "This is a
honeymoon without a bride."

897
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:13,233
He had just been to
the court that morning

898
00:48:13,367 --> 00:48:14,767
and gotten his divorce.

899
00:48:14,900 --> 00:48:16,167
And off we went.

900
00:48:19,833 --> 00:48:24,633
All I know is that I was not
sober for about seven days.

901
00:48:26,500 --> 00:48:28,833
The night we flew out, I
think it was a Friday night,

902
00:48:28,967 --> 00:48:31,333
we were booked into
the George V in Paris.

903
00:48:33,067 --> 00:48:35,267
First thing that Richard did

904
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:37,700
was try and chat
up an American nun.

905
00:48:41,333 --> 00:48:42,733
There was no flight plan.

906
00:48:42,867 --> 00:48:45,467
Richard decided
where we were going

907
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:47,733
and half an hour later
we'd be airborne.

908
00:48:47,867 --> 00:48:49,567
Went to Hamburg the next night.

909
00:48:49,700 --> 00:48:53,667
Denmark, Sweden, all
over the bloody place.

910
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:01,700
There's me naked.

911
00:49:03,500 --> 00:49:05,333
Good God almighty.

912
00:49:09,167 --> 00:49:11,433
It must have been
in Hamburg that he decided

913
00:49:11,567 --> 00:49:13,067
he would like to
visit a brothel.

914
00:49:13,133 --> 00:49:14,233
And we did.

915
00:49:18,700 --> 00:49:20,267
It's a very different era.

916
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:24,900
It was an era that had
no political correctness.

917
00:49:25,067 --> 00:49:27,933
There was no condemnation
for behaviour.

918
00:49:28,067 --> 00:49:31,067
In some ways,
being badly behaved

919
00:49:31,167 --> 00:49:35,067
was an attractive
element and a quality.

920
00:49:35,167 --> 00:49:37,400
Possibly the weirdest
experience of all,

921
00:49:37,533 --> 00:49:40,667
Richard said, "I fancy a
beer at Dirty Nellies,"

922
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:43,500
which is a very well known
bar near Shannon Airport.

923
00:49:43,633 --> 00:49:46,500
So climb on board
the aeroplane and...

924
00:49:51,933 --> 00:49:54,200
It was a wild time.

925
00:49:54,333 --> 00:49:55,533
It was a wild time.

926
00:49:59,067 --> 00:50:01,600
That's the lost
weekend where they went to...

927
00:50:01,733 --> 00:50:02,600
Is it Amsterdam?

928
00:50:02,733 --> 00:50:03,933
Yeah, and Paris.

929
00:50:04,067 --> 00:50:05,833
Can you imagine anyone
doing that now though?

930
00:50:05,967 --> 00:50:08,067
Like bringing your
photographer along.

931
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:10,933
You don't think it's a
personal thing against Mum?

932
00:50:11,067 --> 00:50:13,667
He wanted her to
see every reason

933
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:17,800
that you're leaving me
for, I'm still doing.

934
00:50:17,933 --> 00:50:20,067
Well, I mean, what
you're saying is actually right

935
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:21,667
because mum would've
seen that in the papers.

936
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:23,333
Exactly.

937
00:50:23,467 --> 00:50:24,933
And that would've
been extremely hurtful.

938
00:50:25,067 --> 00:50:26,633
Or she could have said
thank God I'm rid of that.

939
00:50:26,767 --> 00:50:29,200
Do you remember they sent
each other divorce gifts?

940
00:50:29,333 --> 00:50:30,067
Yes.

941
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:31,167
The cowbell?

942
00:50:31,300 --> 00:50:33,233
He gave mum a cowbell...

943
00:50:33,367 --> 00:50:34,967
So that he could
always hear her coming.

944
00:50:35,100 --> 00:50:36,000
Yeah.

945
00:50:36,133 --> 00:50:36,967
If she wore it round her neck.

946
00:50:37,100 --> 00:50:39,033
And she sent him a birdcage.

947
00:50:39,167 --> 00:50:39,833
An empty bird cage.

948
00:50:39,967 --> 00:50:40,667
Yes.

949
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:41,867
Saying next time...

950
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:42,867
Put her in there.

951
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:44,300
Yeah and don't let him get away.

952
00:50:45,933 --> 00:50:47,400
Yep.

953
00:50:47,533 --> 00:50:49,033
And I have the cowbell.

954
00:50:49,167 --> 00:50:49,867
You do?

955
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:50,733
Yeah.

956
00:50:55,267 --> 00:50:57,167
Living well
means being free.

957
00:50:57,300 --> 00:50:59,867
It doesn't mean living
in fucking luxury.

958
00:51:00,067 --> 00:51:01,867
Saying, "I've got 55 fur coats,"

959
00:51:02,067 --> 00:51:04,867
a woman saying, "I've got
three Rolls-Royce's, 19 cars.

960
00:51:05,067 --> 00:51:06,200
I've got a private jet."

961
00:51:06,333 --> 00:51:07,833
That is not what I
mean by living well.

962
00:51:07,967 --> 00:51:10,267
I mean, living well as being
free, been able to laugh.

963
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:12,733
You've got a bit of money, yes.

964
00:51:12,867 --> 00:51:16,667
I made a lot of money and my
life hasn't changed a bit.

965
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:17,933
It hasn't ruined my taste.

966
00:51:18,067 --> 00:51:19,167
It hasn't made me...

967
00:51:19,300 --> 00:51:20,133
It hasn't.

968
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:23,333
I haven't spoiled myself.

969
00:51:25,333 --> 00:51:30,133
She's a 1964 Rolls-Royce
Phantom V state limousine.

970
00:51:33,567 --> 00:51:34,800
Incredibly rare.

971
00:51:36,100 --> 00:51:38,067
The car was circa £12,000.

972
00:51:40,067 --> 00:51:43,333
And back in '64, you could
buy a house for £450.

973
00:51:49,833 --> 00:51:52,133
Anthony, how did
you get ahold of this car?

974
00:51:52,267 --> 00:51:54,633
Well, I was working
at Jack Barclays,

975
00:51:54,767 --> 00:51:57,833
where your father had the
car regularly maintained.

976
00:51:57,967 --> 00:51:59,633
And it came in for a full refit.

977
00:51:59,767 --> 00:52:03,133
And I never met your
father, but I saw him.

978
00:52:03,267 --> 00:52:05,567
That's how I met the car.

979
00:52:05,700 --> 00:52:08,400
When he died, I said,
"Well, I must have that car.

980
00:52:08,533 --> 00:52:09,833
I've known it for years."

981
00:52:09,967 --> 00:52:11,267
It was meant to be.

982
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:13,233
I think so.

983
00:52:13,367 --> 00:52:14,800
I have its history file.

984
00:52:14,933 --> 00:52:17,833
It was under your father's
name servicing wise.

985
00:52:17,967 --> 00:52:19,833
I don't think he bought it new.

986
00:52:19,967 --> 00:52:21,067
He was given it.

987
00:52:21,167 --> 00:52:22,100
He was given it.

988
00:52:22,233 --> 00:52:23,767
Can I ask you about that?

989
00:52:23,900 --> 00:52:26,733
I mean, it's a rumour, but
everybody who sees the car

990
00:52:26,867 --> 00:52:28,667
tells me that the
Princess Margaret

991
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:30,700
actually bought this car new

992
00:52:30,833 --> 00:52:33,067
and gifted it to your father.

993
00:52:33,133 --> 00:52:36,467
That's not the
story that we heard.

994
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:40,400
It was a signing on bonus
for him to do a movie.

995
00:52:40,533 --> 00:52:42,333
"The Heroes of Telemark."

996
00:52:42,467 --> 00:52:44,267
A producer, basically
said, "What do you want?"

997
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:46,933
He said, "I want a Rolls-Royce."

998
00:52:47,067 --> 00:52:48,800
Exactly the same
one as the Queen's.

999
00:52:48,933 --> 00:52:51,267
And he got it.

1000
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:52,767
I mean, the
Princess Margaret thing

1001
00:52:52,900 --> 00:52:56,433
didn't come out until
after he'd passed away.

1002
00:52:56,567 --> 00:52:58,233
That they
had a relationship.

1003
00:52:58,367 --> 00:52:59,067
Yeah.

1004
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:00,500
He didn't talk about it.

1005
00:53:00,633 --> 00:53:02,067
He never mentioned it in
the press or anything.

1006
00:53:18,767 --> 00:53:20,867
I did a charity
show for a theatre

1007
00:53:21,067 --> 00:53:22,200
called The Theatre of Beam,

1008
00:53:22,333 --> 00:53:24,433
And I put together
a series of poetry.

1009
00:53:24,567 --> 00:53:26,500
Really a fantastic evening,

1010
00:53:26,633 --> 00:53:29,833
with the most
extraordinary, Mia Farrow,

1011
00:53:29,967 --> 00:53:34,733
Walter Pidgeon, Jean Simmons,
Peter Sellers, et cetera.

1012
00:53:40,667 --> 00:53:43,600
There's this great Irish
actor in town, you know,

1013
00:53:43,733 --> 00:53:48,567
he's doing an evening of
peace and love and anti-war.

1014
00:53:50,067 --> 00:53:54,267
And I was, you know, absolutely
in whole hog for that.

1015
00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:55,400
Someone brought
along a young fellow

1016
00:53:55,533 --> 00:53:56,633
called Jimmy Webb,

1017
00:53:56,767 --> 00:53:58,067
he hasn't done anything.

1018
00:53:58,200 --> 00:53:59,867
So I met him, liked
him, and said,

1019
00:54:00,067 --> 00:54:01,967
"Write me six songs,
here's what I want."

1020
00:54:02,100 --> 00:54:03,500
And he came to the rehearsals,

1021
00:54:03,633 --> 00:54:05,200
went up and wrote the numbers.

1022
00:54:05,333 --> 00:54:06,533
Fucking beautiful numbers.

1023
00:54:06,667 --> 00:54:08,067
I said, "God, these are good."

1024
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:11,600
We became fast friends,
and I said, "Richard,"

1025
00:54:11,733 --> 00:54:14,200
I said, "You should come
into the studio sometime

1026
00:54:14,333 --> 00:54:16,833
and we'll make a tape together,
let's make a tape together.

1027
00:54:16,967 --> 00:54:18,333
I know you sing."

1028
00:54:18,467 --> 00:54:20,533
And he said, "Ah, Jimmy
Webb, I'll do that."

1029
00:54:26,067 --> 00:54:29,867
We were sort of beginning
to put this album together,

1030
00:54:30,067 --> 00:54:32,167
but I'd played
several songs for him.

1031
00:54:37,067 --> 00:54:40,067
Jim sat down and
he played "MacArthur Park",

1032
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:42,067
and I thought it was stunning.

1033
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:45,133
I think if it moved
me, I want to do it.

1034
00:54:45,267 --> 00:54:48,333
And he went slam like this,
wham right in front me.

1035
00:54:48,467 --> 00:54:52,400
He says, "I'll have that and
I'll make a hit out of it.

1036
00:54:52,533 --> 00:54:54,767
And I'll be a pop star."

1037
00:54:56,100 --> 00:54:59,100
It happened, just like he said.

1038
00:55:13,100 --> 00:55:15,667
He played me "MacArthur Park".

1039
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:19,133
I thought, my God, that's good.

1040
00:55:19,267 --> 00:55:23,233
* Spring was never
waiting for us girl *

1041
00:55:23,367 --> 00:55:25,433
* It ran one step ahead *

1042
00:55:25,567 --> 00:55:29,300
* As we followed in the dance *

1043
00:55:36,567 --> 00:55:38,800
"MacArthur Park", to this day,

1044
00:55:38,933 --> 00:55:42,233
will still be in my top five
finest record of all time.

1045
00:55:42,367 --> 00:55:44,333
I mean, it was groundbreaking.

1046
00:55:44,467 --> 00:55:47,433
And the vocal on that
is, it's quite astounding

1047
00:55:47,567 --> 00:55:49,067
for an actor.

1048
00:55:53,467 --> 00:55:54,667
Now ladies and gentlemen,

1049
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:57,067
here is the real
treat of the evening,

1050
00:55:57,133 --> 00:55:59,200
the musical side of
that marvellous actor

1051
00:55:59,333 --> 00:56:02,267
and exciting recording
star, Mr. Richard Harris.

1052
00:56:10,467 --> 00:56:12,533
"MacArthur Park".

1053
00:56:12,667 --> 00:56:16,367
That song swept
the nation somehow.

1054
00:56:16,500 --> 00:56:18,767
I never knew why.

1055
00:56:18,900 --> 00:56:22,333
It had to do with a cake that
got left out in the rain,

1056
00:56:22,467 --> 00:56:26,100
but it was a big
phenomenon in his life.

1057
00:56:27,367 --> 00:56:29,600
In those days, two
minutes and 40 seconds,

1058
00:56:29,733 --> 00:56:30,967
that was your optimum,

1059
00:56:31,100 --> 00:56:32,733
because then you would
get played on radio.

1060
00:56:32,867 --> 00:56:35,333
Now, "MacArthur Park" is
between seven and eight minutes.

1061
00:56:35,467 --> 00:56:38,867
It's seven minutes, 21 seconds.

1062
00:56:39,067 --> 00:56:40,800
But still managed to
get played on radio.

1063
00:56:40,933 --> 00:56:44,867
* MacArthur's Park is
melting in the dark *

1064
00:56:45,067 --> 00:56:48,667
* All the sweet green
icing flowing down *

1065
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:51,333
"MacArthur Park"
was a gold record.

1066
00:56:51,467 --> 00:56:55,433
My God, we had only set
out to do this for fun.

1067
00:56:57,200 --> 00:56:59,200
You know, I
was a jack of all trades

1068
00:56:59,333 --> 00:57:00,933
in those days.

1069
00:57:01,067 --> 00:57:05,067
I felt that somehow I wanted
to challenge myself, I suppose.

1070
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:06,233
See, could I do it?

1071
00:57:10,133 --> 00:57:14,900
Richard had my heart and he
invited me into his world.

1072
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:19,500
And I can remember when
the two little boys

1073
00:57:19,633 --> 00:57:23,633
were about this big and
they would go off to school.

1074
00:57:24,900 --> 00:57:28,600
I remember thinking that
I'd never met anyone

1075
00:57:28,733 --> 00:57:32,200
who loved their children
as much as he did.

1076
00:57:32,333 --> 00:57:34,567
And he was going
through a divorce

1077
00:57:34,700 --> 00:57:36,500
with their mother at the time.

1078
00:57:36,633 --> 00:57:38,367
He loved his children, I think,

1079
00:57:38,500 --> 00:57:40,767
more than any man
I've ever seen.

1080
00:57:40,900 --> 00:57:44,667
And I sort of became
a part of that.

1081
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:47,867
I was always welcome there
up until a certain point

1082
00:57:48,067 --> 00:57:49,567
and this all...

1083
00:57:49,700 --> 00:57:52,167
There is a point where all
of this ended unfortunately.

1084
00:57:56,533 --> 00:57:58,967
When we were making
the first album,

1085
00:57:59,100 --> 00:58:02,333
he told me that if
"MacArthur Park" was a hit,

1086
00:58:02,467 --> 00:58:05,333
he would give me that Phantom V.

1087
00:58:06,533 --> 00:58:08,667
After, you know, after the fact,

1088
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:13,067
he had started sending me
photos of Rolls-Royces.

1089
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:14,100
How about this one?

1090
00:58:14,233 --> 00:58:15,067
How about this one?

1091
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:16,700
How about this other one?

1092
00:58:16,833 --> 00:58:19,100
It wasn't the
Rolls-Royce though.

1093
00:58:19,233 --> 00:58:20,867
It wasn't the one.

1094
00:58:21,067 --> 00:58:23,067
And it had nothing
to do with money.

1095
00:58:23,133 --> 00:58:24,833
It had nothing to
do with anything

1096
00:58:24,967 --> 00:58:28,933
except I was like
21, 22 years old.

1097
00:58:29,067 --> 00:58:33,933
He had promised me that
car and I was hurt.

1098
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:35,567
I was hurt.

1099
00:58:37,767 --> 00:58:40,933
* Is everybody warm *

1100
00:58:41,067 --> 00:58:44,933
And then somewhere along the
way, someone said to him,

1101
00:58:45,067 --> 00:58:47,533
"Jimmy's making all the money.

1102
00:58:49,167 --> 00:58:53,600
You're doing all this work and
Jimmy's making all the money

1103
00:58:53,733 --> 00:58:57,433
because he owns the company and
he has all this publishing."

1104
00:58:59,233 --> 00:59:04,067
* Standing with the Kansas
City housewives in doorways *

1105
00:59:10,300 --> 00:59:15,167
And we didn't speak
for about 20 years.

1106
00:59:17,633 --> 00:59:19,067
And it's silly.

1107
00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:20,367
It's all stupid.

1108
00:59:21,700 --> 00:59:26,100
It's all over material
things, which, you know,

1109
00:59:26,233 --> 00:59:28,833
when you're young, those
things matter a lot more.

1110
00:59:28,967 --> 00:59:33,333
But now I would rather
have had the friendship.

1111
00:59:33,467 --> 00:59:35,833
I would rather have
had the friendship.

1112
00:59:37,733 --> 00:59:40,700
And then what got away from
us, what got away from us

1113
00:59:41,900 --> 00:59:45,067
is a really cautionary
tale, I think,

1114
00:59:45,133 --> 00:59:49,333
for anyone who might be going
through something similar,

1115
00:59:49,467 --> 00:59:51,600
even right now at this moment.

1116
00:59:51,733 --> 00:59:53,567
You know, it's never
late to go back

1117
00:59:53,700 --> 00:59:54,767
and make a phone call and say,

1118
00:59:54,900 --> 00:59:57,500
"Hey, listen, let's start over.

1119
00:59:57,633 --> 01:00:00,867
Let's have this
conversation again.

1120
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:02,667
Let's start again."

1121
01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:11,033
Richard Harris!

1122
01:00:18,433 --> 01:00:19,933
Well, I met
Dick socially first

1123
01:00:20,067 --> 01:00:21,367
before we started
working together.

1124
01:00:21,500 --> 01:00:22,667
He'd become a little
bit disenchanted

1125
01:00:22,800 --> 01:00:23,933
with the whole recording thing,

1126
01:00:24,067 --> 01:00:26,400
but I kind of persuaded
him to think about

1127
01:00:26,533 --> 01:00:27,867
the singing bit again.

1128
01:00:28,867 --> 01:00:31,267
* You're sleeping son I know *

1129
01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:34,433
* But really this can't wait *

1130
01:00:34,567 --> 01:00:39,367
* I wanted to explain
before it gets too late *

1131
01:00:41,033 --> 01:00:44,800
I had in my kit bag, this
song that I had worked on

1132
01:00:44,933 --> 01:00:46,700
with Claude François.

1133
01:00:46,833 --> 01:00:48,733
I turned that into "My Boy".

1134
01:00:48,867 --> 01:00:52,133
For me, it was the
perfect fit for Dick.

1135
01:00:52,267 --> 01:00:56,567
* But God knows how I tried *

1136
01:00:56,700 --> 01:01:01,567
* Because you're
all I have my boy *

1137
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:07,467
* You are my life
my pride my joy *

1138
01:01:08,733 --> 01:01:11,133
The whole
scenario of "My Boy",

1139
01:01:11,267 --> 01:01:12,333
it was very tied up with his own

1140
01:01:12,467 --> 01:01:15,067
personal situation right then.

1141
01:01:15,133 --> 01:01:17,133
* My boy *

1142
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:21,467
One of the few occasions
where we actually fell out

1143
01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:25,500
was when we were preparing
for the American tour.

1144
01:01:25,633 --> 01:01:28,767
We'd made the album and
so of an evening time,

1145
01:01:28,900 --> 01:01:30,633
we would be kind of
in the bar together.

1146
01:01:30,767 --> 01:01:34,300
And on one of those nights,
Dick was on a bit of a rampage.

1147
01:01:34,433 --> 01:01:36,967
When the barman finally
called last orders,

1148
01:01:37,100 --> 01:01:40,533
Harris goes up to the counter,

1149
01:01:40,667 --> 01:01:44,267
and demands more drink and
starts kind of shaking...

1150
01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:46,433
Not the barman, but
the cash register

1151
01:01:46,567 --> 01:01:48,067
and making a lot of noise.

1152
01:01:48,133 --> 01:01:51,267
So I went up to say to
Dick, "Dick, for God's sake,

1153
01:01:51,400 --> 01:01:52,900
I mean like, this
is not the place."

1154
01:01:53,067 --> 01:01:57,233
And he just turned around
and hit me, a blow like that.

1155
01:01:59,367 --> 01:02:03,133
I crashed onto the floor and
slid halfway along the bar.

1156
01:02:03,267 --> 01:02:04,967
So I picked myself up.

1157
01:02:05,100 --> 01:02:06,067
I'm outta here.

1158
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:07,367
A few hours later,

1159
01:02:07,500 --> 01:02:09,367
and now it's well in
the middle of the night,

1160
01:02:09,500 --> 01:02:11,433
there's banging at the
door and I thought, oh God,

1161
01:02:11,567 --> 01:02:12,767
I know this is Harris.

1162
01:02:12,900 --> 01:02:13,967
And he's shouting and
he's shouting at me,

1163
01:02:14,100 --> 01:02:15,400
"Phil, Phil, Phil!"

1164
01:02:15,533 --> 01:02:18,600
And he was like all
teary and apologetic.

1165
01:02:21,133 --> 01:02:23,467
As I recollect he got on
his knees in front of me

1166
01:02:23,600 --> 01:02:26,867
and pleaded with me not
to go and da da da da.

1167
01:02:27,067 --> 01:02:29,333
Anyway, I relented.

1168
01:02:30,800 --> 01:02:32,367
Hello, I'm Richard Harris.

1169
01:02:32,500 --> 01:02:35,067
I'm coming to town to sing
some songs for my albums,

1170
01:02:35,133 --> 01:02:36,500
read some poems I've written.

1171
01:02:36,633 --> 01:02:38,700
Hello, this is Richard Harris.

1172
01:02:38,833 --> 01:02:41,733
I'm coming to town to sing
some songs from my album,

1173
01:02:41,867 --> 01:02:44,067
"A Tramp Shining", "The
Yard Went on Forever",

1174
01:02:44,133 --> 01:02:45,667
from my recent album "My Boy."

1175
01:02:45,800 --> 01:02:47,567
Hello, I hope you'll
come and join me.

1176
01:02:50,433 --> 01:02:51,900
We had one of those
heart to hearts.

1177
01:02:52,067 --> 01:02:54,400
"Dick, when we go to America,

1178
01:02:54,533 --> 01:02:56,400
I'm going as your
musical director,

1179
01:02:56,533 --> 01:02:58,433
not your spiritual director

1180
01:02:58,567 --> 01:03:00,133
and certainly not as
your tour manager,

1181
01:03:00,267 --> 01:03:01,467
nor as your minder,

1182
01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:05,067
so on the night that
you're walking on stage,

1183
01:03:05,133 --> 01:03:10,467
having had a feed of drink,
you will meet me walking off."

1184
01:03:10,600 --> 01:03:13,167
* Side by side *

1185
01:03:13,300 --> 01:03:14,467
* And when they say *

1186
01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:16,800
And in fairness,
it never occurred.

1187
01:03:16,933 --> 01:03:19,833
When we were on the
road, nothing crazy,

1188
01:03:19,967 --> 01:03:23,300
no real kind of drug crazed
orgies or any of that.

1189
01:03:23,433 --> 01:03:25,700
Back then he still had a
bit of a grip on himself.

1190
01:03:29,567 --> 01:03:31,500
He was a force of nature,
Harris really was.

1191
01:03:31,633 --> 01:03:34,300
He was the kind of guy
who could suck the oxygen

1192
01:03:34,433 --> 01:03:36,433
out of a room when he entered.

1193
01:03:36,567 --> 01:03:39,567
He was larger than
life and everybody.

1194
01:03:42,067 --> 01:03:44,167
That was one adventure I
would hate to have missed,

1195
01:03:44,300 --> 01:03:45,833
for sure, for sure.

1196
01:03:45,967 --> 01:03:47,300
Warts and all.

1197
01:04:07,733 --> 01:04:09,267
I'd like to read a poem.

1198
01:04:10,900 --> 01:04:13,733
I've written the poem in
the point of view of God.

1199
01:04:15,067 --> 01:04:17,800
Comes back to the
north of Ireland

1200
01:04:17,933 --> 01:04:21,833
and sees Christians
killing Christians.

1201
01:04:23,500 --> 01:04:27,867
The poem is called "There Are
Too Many Saviours on My Cross".

1202
01:04:30,333 --> 01:04:33,233
There are too many
saviours on my cross

1203
01:04:33,367 --> 01:04:36,667
lending their blood to
flood out my ballot box

1204
01:04:36,800 --> 01:04:38,567
with needs of their own.

1205
01:04:38,700 --> 01:04:40,267
Who put you there?

1206
01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:43,933
Who told you that
that was your place?

1207
01:04:44,067 --> 01:04:46,667
You carry me secretly
naked in your heart

1208
01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:49,733
and clothe me publicly
in armour, crying-

1209
01:04:49,867 --> 01:04:51,833
God is on our side,

1210
01:04:51,967 --> 01:04:53,300
yet I openly cry-

1211
01:04:53,433 --> 01:04:55,333
Who is on mine?

1212
01:04:55,467 --> 01:04:56,733
Who is on mine?

1213
01:04:56,867 --> 01:04:57,567
Who?

1214
01:04:57,700 --> 01:04:59,067
Tell me who.

1215
01:04:59,200 --> 01:05:00,500
What
do you think of it?

1216
01:05:00,633 --> 01:05:01,767
It's pretty powerful.

1217
01:05:11,467 --> 01:05:14,300
I was never a big
fan of his poetry,

1218
01:05:14,433 --> 01:05:17,800
and the particular poem about
too many saviours on my cross,

1219
01:05:17,933 --> 01:05:20,300
about the north of
Ireland, I didn't get that.

1220
01:05:20,433 --> 01:05:22,133
Believe me, the last
thing that people

1221
01:05:22,267 --> 01:05:24,067
in the north of
Ireland want to hear

1222
01:05:24,200 --> 01:05:26,167
is Richard Harris
reciting a poem

1223
01:05:26,300 --> 01:05:27,800
about the north of Ireland.

1224
01:05:27,933 --> 01:05:29,900
Richard was not an
actor getting involved

1225
01:05:30,067 --> 01:05:31,300
in Northern Ireland.

1226
01:05:31,433 --> 01:05:33,233
That's the first thing.

1227
01:05:33,367 --> 01:05:35,867
He was somebody who
responded on a good level

1228
01:05:36,067 --> 01:05:39,333
to political events
that he felt wounded by

1229
01:05:39,467 --> 01:05:41,633
and moved him deeply.

1230
01:05:41,767 --> 01:05:43,700
When he saw Bloody Sunday,

1231
01:05:43,833 --> 01:05:47,133
he took out a notebook
and he wrote a poem.

1232
01:05:47,267 --> 01:05:49,833
But what he says in the poem is

1233
01:05:49,967 --> 01:05:52,067
-I am not orange.
-I am not orange.

1234
01:05:52,133 --> 01:05:54,367
-I am not green.
-I am not green.

1235
01:05:54,500 --> 01:05:57,300
I am a half ripe fruit
needing both colours

1236
01:05:57,433 --> 01:05:59,067
to grow into ripeness.

1237
01:05:59,133 --> 01:06:00,367
And he's basically saying,

1238
01:06:00,500 --> 01:06:03,467
you must find a point
of reconciliation.

1239
01:06:03,600 --> 01:06:06,100
I in my poverty alone
without trust, Christ,

1240
01:06:06,233 --> 01:06:10,333
shame on you and shame and
shame and shame on you again

1241
01:06:10,467 --> 01:06:12,467
for converting me into a bullet

1242
01:06:12,600 --> 01:06:14,633
and shooting me
into men's hearts.

1243
01:06:14,767 --> 01:06:17,267
The situation in the
north of Ireland back then

1244
01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:19,200
was far more
complicated than that.

1245
01:06:19,333 --> 01:06:20,933
He wasn't aware
of the subtleties,

1246
01:06:21,067 --> 01:06:22,967
certainly wouldn't be
as aware as I would be

1247
01:06:23,100 --> 01:06:24,567
because that's
where I come from.

1248
01:06:24,700 --> 01:06:28,233
So I advised him against it
and that kind of damaged our...

1249
01:06:28,367 --> 01:06:29,933
That damaged our relationship.

1250
01:06:30,067 --> 01:06:32,133
We didn't collaborate
after that at all.

1251
01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:34,833
Oh, a thousand
pardons, my lady,

1252
01:06:34,967 --> 01:06:36,433
please don't run away,
I will not harm you.

1253
01:06:36,567 --> 01:06:37,800
You lied.

1254
01:06:37,933 --> 01:06:40,233
You'll lean into me and
throw me to the ground.

1255
01:06:40,367 --> 01:06:43,067
I will do no such thing.

1256
01:06:43,133 --> 01:06:44,533
Then you'll
twist my arm...

1257
01:06:44,667 --> 01:06:47,800
The only thing that
I keep an eye on

1258
01:06:47,933 --> 01:06:49,733
is the situation in
the north of Ireland.

1259
01:06:49,867 --> 01:06:52,067
I think that's a
disgraceful situation.

1260
01:06:52,167 --> 01:06:53,667
Everybody is saying,

1261
01:06:53,800 --> 01:06:57,200
and Reagan and Maggie Thatcher
are saying to the Russians,

1262
01:06:57,333 --> 01:06:58,767
don't you dare enter,

1263
01:06:58,900 --> 01:07:00,867
don't you dare come into
Poland with your troops.

1264
01:07:01,067 --> 01:07:03,567
What about the 21,000
troops in Northern Ireland?

1265
01:07:03,700 --> 01:07:05,200
They've got no
right to be there.

1266
01:07:06,433 --> 01:07:10,200
And the sinful situation
is that supposing

1267
01:07:10,333 --> 01:07:13,667
it was 21,000 Russian troops
in the north of Ireland,

1268
01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:17,533
the provisional IRA were
called Freedom Fighters,

1269
01:07:17,667 --> 01:07:20,133
resistance, proud,
the resistance.

1270
01:07:20,267 --> 01:07:21,900
That attitude of his changed

1271
01:07:22,067 --> 01:07:24,867
because I think it was
after the policewoman

1272
01:07:25,067 --> 01:07:28,500
got blown up
outside of Harrod's.

1273
01:07:28,633 --> 01:07:31,533
At that point, he came
out and started telling

1274
01:07:31,667 --> 01:07:34,933
Irish Americans not to
give money to NORAID,

1275
01:07:35,067 --> 01:07:37,200
because that money was
being used to buy bombs

1276
01:07:37,333 --> 01:07:38,567
and blow up innocent people.

1277
01:07:38,700 --> 01:07:42,267
And he actually ended
on an IRA hit list.

1278
01:07:42,400 --> 01:07:45,200
And there was a while
there where we had,

1279
01:07:45,333 --> 01:07:48,700
you know, we had armed
security around us.

1280
01:07:48,833 --> 01:07:51,300
So I think it was
17 death threats by phone,

1281
01:07:51,433 --> 01:07:54,633
11 letters, and then boxes
would arrive at the theatre.

1282
01:07:54,767 --> 01:07:55,700
The bomb squad were called
every day practically.

1283
01:07:55,833 --> 01:07:56,867
Well, not every day.

1284
01:07:57,067 --> 01:07:57,733
Regularly.

1285
01:07:59,067 --> 01:08:01,133
I'm a Republican
through and through.

1286
01:08:01,267 --> 01:08:03,733
I believe in united Ireland
through and through.

1287
01:08:03,867 --> 01:08:06,600
I cannot approve of
blowing up Harrod's.

1288
01:08:06,733 --> 01:08:08,067
I can't approve it.

1289
01:08:23,500 --> 01:08:25,733
There's a succession
of films in the 1970s

1290
01:08:25,867 --> 01:08:27,333
that were not only
commercially successful,

1291
01:08:27,467 --> 01:08:29,267
they were artistically viable.

1292
01:08:29,400 --> 01:08:30,967
And "Man in the
Wilderness" is one of his

1293
01:08:31,100 --> 01:08:33,800
great classic movies
and he rated it as such.

1294
01:08:33,933 --> 01:08:35,167
Hello Harry.

1295
01:08:35,300 --> 01:08:37,633
And then he did
99 and 44%'s dead...

1296
01:08:37,767 --> 01:08:39,067
Hello Buffy.

1297
01:08:39,133 --> 01:08:40,300
I don't even
know the title.

1298
01:08:40,433 --> 01:08:41,933
I don't want to
remember the title.

1299
01:08:42,067 --> 01:08:43,633
What are you doing here
with all these scrubbers?

1300
01:08:44,700 --> 01:08:45,900
Killing time.

1301
01:08:47,200 --> 01:08:49,733
He made nonsense for the
rest of the seventies.

1302
01:08:49,867 --> 01:08:52,067
"Games for Vultures",
"Golden Rendezvous".

1303
01:08:52,133 --> 01:08:54,233
They were all done
for the paycheck.

1304
01:08:56,500 --> 01:08:58,400
He lived in LA with Ann.

1305
01:08:59,733 --> 01:09:03,133
Ann was younger than my
father by quite a bit.

1306
01:09:03,267 --> 01:09:05,167
They all got together
on a movie set

1307
01:09:05,300 --> 01:09:09,233
and he very much became a
fixture in Los Angeles with her,

1308
01:09:09,367 --> 01:09:12,133
partly to try to help
her career as an actress.

1309
01:09:12,267 --> 01:09:14,333
He basically used himself
as bait by saying,

1310
01:09:14,467 --> 01:09:16,800
"I'll do the movie if
you put her in it."

1311
01:09:16,933 --> 01:09:18,667
And they were all
terrible films.

1312
01:09:18,800 --> 01:09:20,167
He became my best friend.

1313
01:09:20,300 --> 01:09:22,267
We would sit all day
and the set and talk

1314
01:09:22,400 --> 01:09:24,067
and in the evenings we'd
have dinner and eat and talk.

1315
01:09:24,167 --> 01:09:27,933
And I had heard about his
reputation, I was terrified.

1316
01:09:28,067 --> 01:09:31,167
And finally, oh, about
two months later,

1317
01:09:31,300 --> 01:09:33,367
after seeing each other
all day, every day,

1318
01:09:33,500 --> 01:09:35,633
we had fallen in love and
nothing had happened yet.

1319
01:09:35,767 --> 01:09:37,600
It was amazing, after the
most incredible experience

1320
01:09:37,733 --> 01:09:39,267
I've ever gone
through in my life.

1321
01:09:39,400 --> 01:09:42,333
Literally we both had
fallen so heavily in love

1322
01:09:42,467 --> 01:09:44,067
and nothing had happened.

1323
01:09:44,167 --> 01:09:46,767
And then when it did, we got
engaged and we got married.

1324
01:09:48,967 --> 01:09:51,067
I was madly
in love with Ann Turkel.

1325
01:09:51,200 --> 01:09:53,067
There's no question I was
madly in love with her.

1326
01:09:54,700 --> 01:09:58,400
I will confess to the fact
that there's something in me

1327
01:09:58,533 --> 01:10:00,433
that cannot sustain it.

1328
01:10:00,567 --> 01:10:03,000
Ann and I were only
married about five years.

1329
01:10:04,533 --> 01:10:06,300
My restlessness
was too enormous.

1330
01:10:17,267 --> 01:10:19,467
It's been a turbulent
journey in a strange way.

1331
01:10:21,467 --> 01:10:23,900
I had a short period
when I was on drugs.

1332
01:10:24,033 --> 01:10:25,333
I almost died a couple of times.

1333
01:10:25,467 --> 01:10:27,100
And knighted twice.

1334
01:10:27,233 --> 01:10:29,967
Mid seventies, when I just
really swallowed them,

1335
01:10:30,100 --> 01:10:32,000
I mean, really got through it.

1336
01:10:34,500 --> 01:10:37,100
So I wasn't just taking
coke, like I wasn't drinking,

1337
01:10:37,233 --> 01:10:39,100
when I drank, I
devoured alcohol.

1338
01:10:39,233 --> 01:10:41,267
When I did coke,
I devoured coke.

1339
01:10:46,933 --> 01:10:50,900
I ended up in the intensive
care ward in Cedars of Lebanon.

1340
01:10:51,033 --> 01:10:52,067
I know I did.

1341
01:10:59,267 --> 01:11:02,067
Everything he did, he did
with such a sort of...

1342
01:11:02,167 --> 01:11:03,833
I dunno how to make sense of it.

1343
01:11:03,967 --> 01:11:08,600
He was so passionate and yet
he wouldn't draw the line.

1344
01:11:08,733 --> 01:11:13,567
And you could not in
any way nail Dad down

1345
01:11:14,833 --> 01:11:18,067
as to what he was or
wasn't gonna say or do.

1346
01:11:18,200 --> 01:11:20,300
I walked into his bedroom

1347
01:11:20,433 --> 01:11:22,700
and it was like Al
Pacino in "Scarface."

1348
01:11:22,833 --> 01:11:26,100
He dropped this pound
of cocaine on the carpet

1349
01:11:26,233 --> 01:11:28,400
and it had burst
open and his face

1350
01:11:28,533 --> 01:11:30,233
was just in the middle of it.

1351
01:11:30,367 --> 01:11:32,833
And I don't think I
knew what cocaine was,

1352
01:11:32,967 --> 01:11:35,167
but I knew at the
time that I probably

1353
01:11:35,300 --> 01:11:37,600
shouldn't have come into
his bedroom at the time.

1354
01:11:37,733 --> 01:11:42,100
So yeah, he was unpredictable.

1355
01:11:44,367 --> 01:11:47,233
I must have thrown five or
$6,000 worth down the toilet

1356
01:11:47,367 --> 01:11:48,200
when I went home
and that was it.

1357
01:11:48,333 --> 01:11:50,067
I haven't touched it since it.

1358
01:11:50,200 --> 01:11:52,700
It wasn't so much that I
was into drugs, it wasn't,

1359
01:11:52,833 --> 01:11:54,500
I was into experiences.

1360
01:11:59,600 --> 01:12:01,200
I think he was
still trying to find

1361
01:12:01,333 --> 01:12:03,100
whatever it is he
was looking for,

1362
01:12:03,233 --> 01:12:05,067
and I can't tell
you what that was.

1363
01:12:19,467 --> 01:12:21,300
Like Lazarus, I've
come back from the dead,

1364
01:12:21,433 --> 01:12:22,267
I feel.

1365
01:12:24,067 --> 01:12:26,300
While I was doing
The Field in Ireland,

1366
01:12:26,433 --> 01:12:27,833
I said, "This is it."

1367
01:12:27,967 --> 01:12:29,900
I kept screaming, "This
is a great country."

1368
01:12:30,067 --> 01:12:31,700
Maybe it is a great place to be.

1369
01:12:31,833 --> 01:12:33,167
Maybe it wasn't the country.

1370
01:12:33,300 --> 01:12:35,167
Maybe just the
peacefulness of the world.

1371
01:12:39,467 --> 01:12:41,400
The tragedy is you'll find it

1372
01:12:43,100 --> 01:12:44,900
and you're living
it for a while.

1373
01:12:47,367 --> 01:12:49,067
I mean, I get restless.

1374
01:12:53,567 --> 01:12:56,467
This is exactly how
I remember Leenane.

1375
01:12:56,600 --> 01:12:57,867
This is the field.

1376
01:13:02,233 --> 01:13:06,067
This movie, "The Field", was
so important to my father.

1377
01:13:06,133 --> 01:13:08,833
That role of Bull
McCabe was, to me,

1378
01:13:08,967 --> 01:13:10,600
was his most defining role.

1379
01:13:15,700 --> 01:13:19,267
Are these the same
outsiders who watched

1380
01:13:19,400 --> 01:13:21,900
whilst our valley went silent

1381
01:13:22,067 --> 01:13:23,800
except for the cries of
the last starving child?

1382
01:13:23,933 --> 01:13:26,067
The English are gone, Bull.

1383
01:13:26,167 --> 01:13:30,333
Gone because I drove them out.

1384
01:13:30,467 --> 01:13:32,833
Me and my kind.

1385
01:13:32,967 --> 01:13:34,767
I mean
the Bull McCabe coat

1386
01:13:34,900 --> 01:13:37,067
looked like an army
coat, which I found.

1387
01:13:37,133 --> 01:13:40,500
He's like the patriarchal
figure of Ireland.

1388
01:13:40,633 --> 01:13:44,233
He's like all the great
heroes of Irish independence,

1389
01:13:44,367 --> 01:13:47,900
and the sort of, the symbol
of it is "The Field."

1390
01:13:48,067 --> 01:13:50,300
That's Ireland, that
we have to keep.

1391
01:13:51,567 --> 01:13:53,233
I was passionate
about that picture.

1392
01:13:55,967 --> 01:13:57,367
I worked on "The Field".

1393
01:13:57,500 --> 01:13:58,200
I was a runner.

1394
01:13:58,333 --> 01:13:59,133
I was the lowest AD.

1395
01:14:00,667 --> 01:14:03,200
Everybody knew whilst
making "The Field"

1396
01:14:03,333 --> 01:14:04,867
that it was gonna be phenomenal.

1397
01:14:06,533 --> 01:14:10,833
Dad had been going through a
rough patch of movies where,

1398
01:14:10,967 --> 01:14:13,233
you know, a lot of them
weren't very good frankly.

1399
01:14:13,367 --> 01:14:15,367
And he'd felt
that, he knew that.

1400
01:14:15,500 --> 01:14:18,233
And this was a huge break.

1401
01:14:18,367 --> 01:14:22,267
And also he had to work
bloody hard to get this role.

1402
01:14:22,400 --> 01:14:24,200
He wasn't the first choice.

1403
01:14:26,367 --> 01:14:28,700
It was an actor
called Ray McAnally

1404
01:14:28,833 --> 01:14:32,800
and he did "My Left Foot"
for peanuts to help us out.

1405
01:14:32,933 --> 01:14:36,067
He came to me and said,
"I'd like to do 'The Field.'

1406
01:14:36,200 --> 01:14:37,933
If you could get a screenplay."

1407
01:14:38,067 --> 01:14:39,767
Then Ray McAnally died,

1408
01:14:39,900 --> 01:14:41,700
and that's how
Richard got the job.

1409
01:14:43,833 --> 01:14:45,700
I mean, he'd come off the road,

1410
01:14:45,833 --> 01:14:48,900
tour that musical
"Camelot", and he...

1411
01:14:49,067 --> 01:14:50,967
I just think he was
sick to the teeth

1412
01:14:51,100 --> 01:14:54,333
of next town, the next
town, the next town.

1413
01:14:54,467 --> 01:14:55,267
Camelot!

1414
01:14:56,133 --> 01:14:56,967
Camelot!

1415
01:14:58,367 --> 01:14:59,867
I had
to convince them.

1416
01:15:00,067 --> 01:15:02,700
I mean, Jim wasn't so sure
and thought I was too...

1417
01:15:02,833 --> 01:15:03,700
Hear this.

1418
01:15:03,833 --> 01:15:05,333
He thought I was too aesthetic.

1419
01:15:05,467 --> 01:15:06,500
Harris, too aesthetic.

1420
01:15:06,633 --> 01:15:08,067
Man, that's a joke in itself.

1421
01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:12,067
I think Richard thought
he could do anything.

1422
01:15:12,200 --> 01:15:13,967
He was kind.

1423
01:15:14,100 --> 01:15:18,333
You know, he was
considerate, he was mad.

1424
01:15:20,700 --> 01:15:24,433
But I do think there was a
little bit of a war going on

1425
01:15:24,567 --> 01:15:26,533
and as much as he
pushed me, I pushed him.

1426
01:15:26,667 --> 01:15:29,333
I pushed him like mad, you know.

1427
01:15:33,567 --> 01:15:35,233
The end of the movie,

1428
01:15:35,367 --> 01:15:39,933
Jim Sheridan argued about the
way I played a certain scene,

1429
01:15:40,067 --> 01:15:42,100
which I thought was the
best scene in the movie,

1430
01:15:42,233 --> 01:15:45,333
in which Robert De Niro
has said on print is one...

1431
01:15:45,467 --> 01:15:47,800
It's the best acting scene
he ever saw in his life.

1432
01:15:51,200 --> 01:15:52,900
They all talk about it still.

1433
01:15:53,067 --> 01:15:55,133
Actors still come and
say, "Jesus, that scene."

1434
01:15:55,267 --> 01:15:56,567
In the room with the priest.

1435
01:15:58,667 --> 01:16:00,067
Well well well.

1436
01:16:07,400 --> 01:16:09,267
This is the widow's field.

1437
01:16:09,400 --> 01:16:11,233
That's the law.

1438
01:16:11,367 --> 01:16:12,300
The common law.

1439
01:16:13,300 --> 01:16:15,100
There's another law.

1440
01:16:16,067 --> 01:16:17,867
Stronger than the common law.

1441
01:16:18,833 --> 01:16:19,900
What's that?

1442
01:16:20,067 --> 01:16:21,767
The law of the land.

1443
01:16:23,233 --> 01:16:24,767
This is the only
scene in the movie

1444
01:16:24,900 --> 01:16:26,567
where the Bull breaks down.

1445
01:16:26,700 --> 01:16:31,500
He openly admits he put the
field before his mother's life,

1446
01:16:33,100 --> 01:16:35,433
and Jim Sheridan
decided he didn't want

1447
01:16:35,567 --> 01:16:37,167
the Bull to break down.

1448
01:16:37,300 --> 01:16:40,800
He believed that the Bull
should always be the Bull

1449
01:16:40,933 --> 01:16:43,533
and show no form of weakness.

1450
01:16:43,667 --> 01:16:45,700
My father knelt beside
her, he knew she...

1451
01:16:46,733 --> 01:16:48,100
Knew she was dying.

1452
01:16:49,367 --> 01:16:50,733
He said an act of
Contrition into her ear

1453
01:16:50,867 --> 01:16:52,667
and asked God to
forgive her her sins.

1454
01:16:54,300 --> 01:16:57,733
And he looked at me, and
he said, "Fetch a priest.

1455
01:16:59,667 --> 01:17:00,967
Fetch a priest."

1456
01:17:02,200 --> 01:17:03,067
And I said,

1457
01:17:05,067 --> 01:17:07,467
"Let's bring the hay in first."

1458
01:17:12,367 --> 01:17:14,700
Let's bring the hay in first.

1459
01:17:17,667 --> 01:17:20,167
I went, "Cut."

1460
01:17:20,300 --> 01:17:21,567
Like that.

1461
01:17:21,700 --> 01:17:25,400
And I heard the
cameraman clapping,

1462
01:17:25,533 --> 01:17:29,500
the first AD clapping and the
entire crew, hair and makeup,

1463
01:17:29,633 --> 01:17:31,167
all clapping.

1464
01:17:31,300 --> 01:17:35,800
And I was like, that's the
worst performance I've seen.

1465
01:17:36,867 --> 01:17:38,967
I knew Richard was staring at me

1466
01:17:39,100 --> 01:17:40,867
and I just looked up and I said,

1467
01:17:41,067 --> 01:17:42,733
"Richard, that was the
most over the top thing

1468
01:17:42,867 --> 01:17:44,500
I've ever seen in
my fucking life."

1469
01:17:44,633 --> 01:17:46,467
And then it became a war.

1470
01:17:46,600 --> 01:17:47,767
Do you know what I mean?

1471
01:17:49,067 --> 01:17:50,533
But Jim
didn't like it somehow

1472
01:17:50,667 --> 01:17:51,500
and he wanted me to do it again.

1473
01:17:51,633 --> 01:17:52,833
I said, "I won't do it again."

1474
01:17:52,967 --> 01:17:53,800
He said, "Would you
come and see it?"

1475
01:17:53,933 --> 01:17:55,333
I said, "I won't go and see it,

1476
01:17:55,467 --> 01:17:57,133
but when the movie is finished,
when the movie's complete,

1477
01:17:57,267 --> 01:17:58,467
then you can...

1478
01:17:58,600 --> 01:18:00,733
Then I am willing
to look at it."

1479
01:18:01,967 --> 01:18:04,433
So on the last day
after we went to Ardmore

1480
01:18:04,567 --> 01:18:07,567
and he saw it and he said,
"I can't do better that.

1481
01:18:07,700 --> 01:18:10,133
I think that's the
best acting I've done."

1482
01:18:11,333 --> 01:18:13,433
And I was like, "Okay."

1483
01:18:13,567 --> 01:18:15,967
He didn't feel
that Jim was right,

1484
01:18:16,100 --> 01:18:20,100
and Dad won because he
just refused to reshoot it.

1485
01:18:26,633 --> 01:18:29,567
You cannot get a better
backdrop to a scene than this.

1486
01:18:29,700 --> 01:18:32,900
This was by far the
hardest scene to shoot,

1487
01:18:33,067 --> 01:18:36,400
where the Bull
kills the American.

1488
01:18:36,533 --> 01:18:38,133
Go on now boy.

1489
01:18:38,267 --> 01:18:40,100
The beginning of the scene is

1490
01:18:40,233 --> 01:18:42,967
he pits his son
against the American.

1491
01:18:43,100 --> 01:18:45,733
Make a man of him, is
what he's trying to do.

1492
01:18:47,067 --> 01:18:50,067
Well Dad was standing
out there on those rocks

1493
01:18:50,133 --> 01:18:51,633
for four nights in a row.

1494
01:18:51,767 --> 01:18:54,233
He had to walk out there
with that stick and stand.

1495
01:18:54,367 --> 01:18:56,300
I mean, I cannot tell you,

1496
01:18:56,433 --> 01:18:58,800
this is like summer compared
to what it was back then.

1497
01:18:58,933 --> 01:19:00,667
It was freezing cold.

1498
01:19:02,067 --> 01:19:04,833
It's at moments
like this I realise

1499
01:19:04,967 --> 01:19:09,800
how powerful an actor he
was to stand out there

1500
01:19:10,467 --> 01:19:11,367
and be the Bull.

1501
01:19:12,700 --> 01:19:16,233
I was as proud a son
as you could ever be.

1502
01:19:18,433 --> 01:19:21,300
I'll tell you how mad he was.

1503
01:19:21,433 --> 01:19:25,500
He wanted to stand at the
waterfall and I was like, "No.

1504
01:19:25,633 --> 01:19:27,300
No."

1505
01:19:27,433 --> 01:19:29,067
And next minute he's
fucking up there

1506
01:19:29,200 --> 01:19:31,900
and I'm like, oh
man, Jesus, you know,

1507
01:19:32,067 --> 01:19:35,167
now he's doing Charlton Heston
and "The Ten Commandments",

1508
01:19:35,300 --> 01:19:36,333
you know?

1509
01:19:36,467 --> 01:19:37,667
And I was like, "Richard,

1510
01:19:37,800 --> 01:19:38,900
what the fuck are
you doing up there?"

1511
01:19:39,067 --> 01:19:40,400
You know?

1512
01:19:40,533 --> 01:19:41,800
Anyway, I thought
I'll cut around it

1513
01:19:41,933 --> 01:19:43,533
if there's a big problem.

1514
01:19:43,667 --> 01:19:45,133
And then we set up the scene

1515
01:19:45,267 --> 01:19:48,700
where he has to drag
them into the water.

1516
01:19:48,833 --> 01:19:53,633
We get in the river and
it's kind of like minus 10.

1517
01:19:55,900 --> 01:19:57,833
We did the scene.

1518
01:19:57,967 --> 01:19:59,233
He puts one down.

1519
01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:08,033
I go cut and I say, "Okay,
let's do that again."

1520
01:20:08,167 --> 01:20:09,233
And he goes, "What?

1521
01:20:09,367 --> 01:20:10,633
What?"

1522
01:20:10,767 --> 01:20:12,633
And I said, "Let's do
it again, Richard."

1523
01:20:12,767 --> 01:20:15,933
And he just ran off.

1524
01:20:16,067 --> 01:20:19,667
And then Harris is up the
hill and Sean Bean runs,

1525
01:20:19,800 --> 01:20:21,600
goes into the
headlights of the car,

1526
01:20:21,733 --> 01:20:23,833
and I can hear him
saying to Sean Bean,

1527
01:20:23,967 --> 01:20:25,200
"That's enough now.

1528
01:20:25,333 --> 01:20:26,600
Don't go any further."

1529
01:20:26,733 --> 01:20:28,033
And I'm like, what?

1530
01:20:28,167 --> 01:20:29,000
He said, "Don't go any..."

1531
01:20:29,133 --> 01:20:30,833
I said, Sean, "Just keep going."

1532
01:20:30,967 --> 01:20:32,567
And Sean Bean there
doesn't know what to do

1533
01:20:32,700 --> 01:20:34,567
'cause Harris is telling
him he'll kill him.

1534
01:20:34,700 --> 01:20:36,600
So I ran after 'em up the hill.

1535
01:20:38,300 --> 01:20:41,467
And I was like,
"Richard, Richard, what
the fuck's going on?

1536
01:20:41,600 --> 01:20:43,033
What did you say that for?"

1537
01:20:43,167 --> 01:20:44,933
And he said, "Listen to me now.

1538
01:20:45,067 --> 01:20:46,433
Any argument you
were having with me,

1539
01:20:46,567 --> 01:20:48,633
you're having with
your own father."

1540
01:20:48,767 --> 01:20:51,133
And that was the actual
truth of that story.

1541
01:20:59,033 --> 01:21:01,067
I had rows with my father.

1542
01:21:01,200 --> 01:21:03,567
As a child, I fought him.

1543
01:21:03,700 --> 01:21:07,067
There was a conflict between
us that was really heavy.

1544
01:21:07,200 --> 01:21:10,067
And I realised the Bull was him.

1545
01:21:10,133 --> 01:21:12,200
The father in "My
Left Foot" was him.

1546
01:21:12,333 --> 01:21:13,933
Everybody was my dad.

1547
01:21:14,067 --> 01:21:17,833
And that I better write
a movie about a good dad.

1548
01:21:18,700 --> 01:21:22,267
And in a way,

1549
01:21:22,400 --> 01:21:24,700
that was the moment that made

1550
01:21:27,067 --> 01:21:29,167
"In the Name of the
Father", I think.

1551
01:21:32,700 --> 01:21:34,533
And the weird thing was,

1552
01:21:34,667 --> 01:21:36,733
when I made "In the
Name of the Father"

1553
01:21:36,867 --> 01:21:39,867
and on the premier
night, I said,

1554
01:21:40,067 --> 01:21:42,633
"My father was the
prototype for the guy,

1555
01:21:42,767 --> 01:21:44,300
the non-violent father."

1556
01:21:44,433 --> 01:21:46,833
And he came up in front
of everybody and hugged me

1557
01:21:46,967 --> 01:21:49,100
and said, in this
ear, "I love you."

1558
01:21:49,233 --> 01:21:50,767
And I'd never
heard him say that.

1559
01:21:52,433 --> 01:21:56,433
So that moment of Harris in
"The Field" may lead to that.

1560
01:21:58,567 --> 01:22:00,167
You know what I mean?

1561
01:22:00,300 --> 01:22:01,367
So...

1562
01:22:03,700 --> 01:22:05,633
I don't like Dickie Harris.

1563
01:22:07,400 --> 01:22:11,167
I don't like the idea
of the abbreviation.

1564
01:22:11,300 --> 01:22:13,867
Now I like the Richard
fuckin' Harris.

1565
01:22:22,867 --> 01:22:26,900
Do I sense that some of
you want to laugh at me?

1566
01:22:29,067 --> 01:22:30,533
That would be most unwise.

1567
01:22:32,233 --> 01:22:34,533
It would lead me to believe
that you did not understand

1568
01:22:34,667 --> 01:22:38,133
that I wear this penitent
sackcloth for political reasons.

1569
01:22:40,433 --> 01:22:44,733
Tomorrow our positions
may be reversed.

1570
01:22:44,867 --> 01:22:46,833
And then what would you do?

1571
01:22:48,400 --> 01:22:51,067
Pirandello's "Henry
IV" is about a man

1572
01:22:51,200 --> 01:22:56,067
who either he's pretending
to be mad or he is mad.

1573
01:22:58,133 --> 01:23:01,500
I knew that there'd been a lot
of problems with this play.

1574
01:23:01,633 --> 01:23:05,533
Richard got rid of four
directors, two designers,

1575
01:23:05,667 --> 01:23:08,433
leading lady Sarah
Miles walked out.

1576
01:23:08,567 --> 01:23:09,867
She left.

1577
01:23:10,067 --> 01:23:13,233
If I believe
something to be right,

1578
01:23:13,367 --> 01:23:14,967
though it may turn
out to be wrong,

1579
01:23:15,100 --> 01:23:17,400
you've gotta go
with your beliefs.

1580
01:23:17,533 --> 01:23:19,200
And when I was asked to join it,

1581
01:23:19,333 --> 01:23:20,567
people said, "Are you mad?

1582
01:23:20,700 --> 01:23:22,433
You're going into
the lion's den.

1583
01:23:22,567 --> 01:23:24,200
It's going to be horrendous."

1584
01:23:24,333 --> 01:23:26,700
And I did enter the lion's den.

1585
01:23:26,833 --> 01:23:29,067
Got to London, rehearsed
for two weeks in London,

1586
01:23:29,167 --> 01:23:31,967
and I worked with
the understudy.

1587
01:23:32,100 --> 01:23:33,467
No Richard.

1588
01:23:33,600 --> 01:23:36,600
He didn't turn up for
the dress rehearsal.

1589
01:23:36,733 --> 01:23:39,767
He didn't turn up for the first
preview, which was cancelled.

1590
01:23:39,900 --> 01:23:43,533
The second preview, one
of our producers said,

1591
01:23:43,667 --> 01:23:45,833
"Look, Richard's very nervous."

1592
01:23:45,967 --> 01:23:48,067
I said, "Of course,
yes, we're all nervous."

1593
01:23:48,167 --> 01:23:50,133
And she said, "Could you
go into his dressing room

1594
01:23:50,267 --> 01:23:52,267
and tell him that
you're nervous?"

1595
01:23:52,400 --> 01:23:53,833
So the first time I met Richard,

1596
01:23:53,967 --> 01:23:55,733
"Hello, how nice to meet you.

1597
01:23:55,867 --> 01:23:58,367
God, Richard, I'm
really, really nervous."

1598
01:23:58,500 --> 01:24:00,300
Which I was, I wasn't lying.

1599
01:24:00,433 --> 01:24:02,167
And he put his arms
around me and said,

1600
01:24:02,300 --> 01:24:03,533
"You'll be fine with me.

1601
01:24:03,667 --> 01:24:05,567
Just stick with me,
you'll be fine."

1602
01:24:05,700 --> 01:24:07,733
Too old for this.

1603
01:24:07,867 --> 01:24:12,300
He cared passionately
about his work.

1604
01:24:12,433 --> 01:24:15,700
It hurt him that people
dismissed his talent.

1605
01:24:15,833 --> 01:24:20,367
But that was partly because
he created this other persona

1606
01:24:20,500 --> 01:24:23,500
of being this, which
wasn't a lie, it was true,

1607
01:24:23,633 --> 01:24:25,900
as being this wild
hell raiser who would,

1608
01:24:26,067 --> 01:24:30,833
you know, get drunk and
cause mayhem and fuck about.

1609
01:24:30,967 --> 01:24:35,067
I mean, people expected
that play to be a joke.

1610
01:24:35,200 --> 01:24:37,500
A very
prominent London critic

1611
01:24:37,633 --> 01:24:39,100
said I couldn't play it.

1612
01:24:39,233 --> 01:24:40,900
Said the show would be no good.

1613
01:24:41,067 --> 01:24:42,533
Give me a chance.

1614
01:24:42,667 --> 01:24:46,100
If you see it and you'll say
it's bad or you don't like it,

1615
01:24:46,233 --> 01:24:47,567
I'll accept that.

1616
01:24:47,700 --> 01:24:51,167
But to say so beforehand,
that's not fair.

1617
01:24:51,300 --> 01:24:54,067
I think that he was
afraid of failing in it,

1618
01:24:54,167 --> 01:24:55,933
not only for the critics
and for the world,

1619
01:24:56,067 --> 01:25:00,067
but I think he was afraid
to fail for himself.

1620
01:25:00,167 --> 01:25:02,700
I say, woe unto him
who does not know

1621
01:25:02,833 --> 01:25:05,067
how to wear his mask.

1622
01:25:05,200 --> 01:25:07,333
Be he the pope or the king.

1623
01:25:12,067 --> 01:25:15,267
He put this like very, very
red makeup on his cheeks

1624
01:25:15,400 --> 01:25:16,967
and he's come...

1625
01:25:17,100 --> 01:25:18,900
He supposed to be playing
man and he was like, woo,

1626
01:25:19,067 --> 01:25:21,167
coming out this, whoa,
like this, you know.

1627
01:25:21,300 --> 01:25:23,100
And after the first act,

1628
01:25:23,233 --> 01:25:26,833
I went to the bar and
there were these two women.

1629
01:25:26,967 --> 01:25:29,133
And I remember hearing
them and they said,

1630
01:25:31,833 --> 01:25:34,233
"He was a lovely actor
when he was young.

1631
01:25:35,167 --> 01:25:36,167
What happened to him?

1632
01:25:37,933 --> 01:25:41,733
They were, I mean,
so disappointed.

1633
01:25:41,867 --> 01:25:43,300
Says, "Well, what should we do?

1634
01:25:43,433 --> 01:25:45,567
Should we go back in
for the second act

1635
01:25:45,700 --> 01:25:46,833
or should we just go home?"

1636
01:25:46,967 --> 01:25:49,667
And they went, "Well,
let's go back in

1637
01:25:49,800 --> 01:25:52,367
and if it still doesn't get
better, then we'll go home.

1638
01:25:52,500 --> 01:25:54,667
Then halfway through
the second act,

1639
01:25:54,800 --> 01:25:56,767
he walks down towards
the front of the stage

1640
01:25:56,900 --> 01:25:58,100
with a towel over his head.

1641
01:25:58,233 --> 01:25:59,767
And when he pulls the towel off,

1642
01:25:59,900 --> 01:26:02,600
all the makeup's gone, the
wig's gone and everything.

1643
01:26:02,733 --> 01:26:04,600
And he says to the audience,

1644
01:26:04,733 --> 01:26:08,300
"I'm so bloody tired
of all of this."

1645
01:26:09,567 --> 01:26:11,167
The character, the
playwright is revealing

1646
01:26:11,300 --> 01:26:12,833
that it's all been an act.

1647
01:26:12,967 --> 01:26:17,733
People in the audience
thought, shit, what's happened?

1648
01:26:19,433 --> 01:26:21,900
Is this Richard Harris or
the character doing this?

1649
01:26:22,067 --> 01:26:23,833
You know, there'd
be nervous laughter.

1650
01:26:23,967 --> 01:26:26,767
And in the play the
character has lines of,

1651
01:26:26,900 --> 01:26:28,733
"Are you laughing at me?"

1652
01:26:28,867 --> 01:26:31,067
But he'd go right at the
person in the audience.

1653
01:26:31,200 --> 01:26:33,800
So they'd get fucking terrified.

1654
01:26:33,933 --> 01:26:36,400
And it became dangerous

1655
01:26:36,533 --> 01:26:39,067
largely because he had dared you

1656
01:26:39,133 --> 01:26:41,833
to think that he didn't know
what the fuck he was doing

1657
01:26:41,967 --> 01:26:43,433
in the first act.

1658
01:26:45,133 --> 01:26:49,067
And now he went at you for
having made that mistake.

1659
01:26:49,133 --> 01:26:50,767
It was incredibly brave.

1660
01:26:50,900 --> 01:26:52,967
Really fucking
brave performance.

1661
01:26:53,100 --> 01:26:54,933
Ballsy fucking performance.

1662
01:26:55,067 --> 01:26:56,100
Thank you.

1663
01:26:56,233 --> 01:26:57,300
Richard said to me, "We did it.

1664
01:26:57,433 --> 01:26:58,300
We did it.

1665
01:26:58,433 --> 01:26:59,267
Have you read the reviews?

1666
01:26:59,400 --> 01:27:00,267
Have you read the notices?

1667
01:27:00,400 --> 01:27:02,067
They're fucking fantastic."

1668
01:27:02,167 --> 01:27:03,400
And they were.

1669
01:27:10,200 --> 01:27:12,533
But in the words
of Samuel Beckett,

1670
01:27:12,667 --> 01:27:14,433
if I may quote him for a second,

1671
01:27:14,567 --> 01:27:16,633
perhaps my best years are gone,

1672
01:27:16,767 --> 01:27:19,067
but I wouldn't want them back.

1673
01:27:19,200 --> 01:27:20,833
Not with the fire
that's in me now.

1674
01:27:20,967 --> 01:27:23,067
And I thank you so much indeed.

1675
01:27:23,167 --> 01:27:23,800
I'm thrilled with this.

1676
01:27:23,933 --> 01:27:25,200
Thrilled.

1677
01:27:31,367 --> 01:27:36,167
There is a secret part of us
that nobody has any access to.

1678
01:27:36,300 --> 01:27:40,933
We change our masks in every
single opportunity that we get.

1679
01:27:42,733 --> 01:27:47,533
We read the circumstances and
we cast ourselves into a role

1680
01:27:48,600 --> 01:27:50,167
depending upon what they want.

1681
01:27:55,533 --> 01:27:58,433
You have proved your
valour yet again, Maximus.

1682
01:27:58,567 --> 01:28:02,167
Let us hope for the last time.

1683
01:28:02,300 --> 01:28:06,333
Richard, for me is
like a fundamental teacher.

1684
01:28:06,467 --> 01:28:09,667
There is always someone
left to fight, right?

1685
01:28:09,800 --> 01:28:12,800
How can I reward Rome's
greatest general?

1686
01:28:17,867 --> 01:28:19,233
Let me go home.

1687
01:28:20,667 --> 01:28:21,900
Ah.

1688
01:28:22,067 --> 01:28:23,567
Home.

1689
01:28:23,700 --> 01:28:26,267
With Richard and I, it was
like he was very open to me,

1690
01:28:26,400 --> 01:28:27,933
you know?

1691
01:28:28,067 --> 01:28:29,267
And I was under a lot of
pressure on that job, man.

1692
01:28:29,400 --> 01:28:31,533
I'd never been in
something like that

1693
01:28:31,667 --> 01:28:35,967
where the budget is so big
and the logistics are so big.

1694
01:28:41,833 --> 01:28:44,433
How do we live inside this
world where there's literally

1695
01:28:44,567 --> 01:28:46,067
thousands of people?

1696
01:28:49,400 --> 01:28:52,767
And I knew that Joaquin was
having the same kind of feelings

1697
01:28:52,900 --> 01:28:54,767
that I was having.

1698
01:28:54,900 --> 01:28:56,800
You know, the scale of
this thing, I think,

1699
01:28:56,933 --> 01:29:00,133
had a lot of us feeling
that we couldn't connect

1700
01:29:00,267 --> 01:29:02,967
like we normally might in an
actor's environment, you know?

1701
01:29:04,533 --> 01:29:06,167
And Richard just said to me,

1702
01:29:06,300 --> 01:29:09,767
"Well, why don't we get
together with him after work?

1703
01:29:11,067 --> 01:29:14,200
Let's find out how much
we care about him."

1704
01:29:14,333 --> 01:29:17,600
So he did that straight
up old school thing, man,

1705
01:29:17,733 --> 01:29:19,200
you know, we just got
together for a drink

1706
01:29:19,333 --> 01:29:21,500
in the trailer after work.

1707
01:29:21,633 --> 01:29:25,400
Joaquin reminded Richard that
Richard had worked with River

1708
01:29:25,533 --> 01:29:28,333
and River had come
home from that set

1709
01:29:28,467 --> 01:29:31,467
with all of these
stories about this guy.

1710
01:29:31,600 --> 01:29:33,967
And so Joaquin was going,
"Is this story true?

1711
01:29:34,100 --> 01:29:34,933
Is that story true?"

1712
01:29:35,067 --> 01:29:37,300
And all the stories are true.

1713
01:29:37,433 --> 01:29:38,967
And we had a few drinks with him

1714
01:29:39,100 --> 01:29:43,300
and he started
doing poetry for us.

1715
01:29:43,433 --> 01:29:45,700
And if you know anything
about Richard at all,

1716
01:29:45,833 --> 01:29:48,800
grand poet in his own right,

1717
01:29:48,933 --> 01:29:53,067
that just made the room just
start to glow, you know?

1718
01:29:53,200 --> 01:29:55,333
And then, you know,
Joaquin went home

1719
01:29:55,467 --> 01:29:58,233
and Richard and I
were sitting there,

1720
01:29:58,367 --> 01:30:02,433
and he goes, "Well, how
do we feel about him?"

1721
01:30:02,567 --> 01:30:03,800
I said, "I fucking love him."

1722
01:30:03,933 --> 01:30:05,400
He goes, "Me too.

1723
01:30:05,533 --> 01:30:07,133
That's solved that."

1724
01:30:07,267 --> 01:30:10,533
So then it was just,
you know, it was easy.

1725
01:30:10,667 --> 01:30:13,967
And then because Joaquin
and I showed a connection,

1726
01:30:14,100 --> 01:30:17,600
then the other actors,
they were able to come into

1727
01:30:17,733 --> 01:30:20,367
this sort of core of
gentle camaraderie

1728
01:30:20,500 --> 01:30:23,167
in the middle of all of this
crazy shit that was going on.

1729
01:30:24,267 --> 01:30:25,500
Please.

1730
01:30:25,633 --> 01:30:28,133
The tone of
that definitely belongs

1731
01:30:28,267 --> 01:30:30,400
to Richard's influence.

1732
01:30:32,200 --> 01:30:35,033
I am dying, Maximums.

1733
01:30:36,367 --> 01:30:37,467
When a man sees his
end, he wants to know

1734
01:30:37,600 --> 01:30:40,767
there was some
purpose to his life.

1735
01:30:40,900 --> 01:30:44,233
How will the world speak
my name in years to come?

1736
01:30:44,367 --> 01:30:49,033
Will I be known as
the philosopher, the
warrior, the tyrant?

1737
01:30:50,233 --> 01:30:52,300
Authentically masculine,

1738
01:30:53,267 --> 01:30:55,733
authentically sentimental,

1739
01:30:56,700 --> 01:31:01,367
authentically a storyteller,

1740
01:31:01,500 --> 01:31:05,967
be it in prose,
in poetry or song,

1741
01:31:06,100 --> 01:31:09,633
or via the process
of allowing yourself

1742
01:31:09,767 --> 01:31:11,967
to inhabit a character.

1743
01:31:13,333 --> 01:31:14,967
He was an authentic man.

1744
01:31:19,667 --> 01:31:21,067
I like my life.

1745
01:31:21,167 --> 01:31:23,733
It's a strange life,
I'll admit to that.

1746
01:31:23,867 --> 01:31:25,967
And it's a life that
I wouldn't recommend

1747
01:31:26,100 --> 01:31:27,500
anybody else to have.

1748
01:31:27,633 --> 01:31:28,400
But I can deal with it.

1749
01:31:28,533 --> 01:31:29,767
I like it.

1750
01:31:29,900 --> 01:31:33,867
It's a life where
there is no compass.

1751
01:31:35,467 --> 01:31:39,067
Now, because I've slowed down,
right, from my wild days,

1752
01:31:39,133 --> 01:31:41,333
like the pirate ship has landed,

1753
01:31:41,467 --> 01:31:43,600
the pirate ship is now beached.

1754
01:31:46,067 --> 01:31:47,467
Hey, thank you very much.

1755
01:31:47,600 --> 01:31:48,567
Thank you very much.

1756
01:31:50,067 --> 01:31:51,267
Hi, how are you?

1757
01:31:51,400 --> 01:31:52,600
Good.

1758
01:31:52,733 --> 01:31:53,500
Hello.

1759
01:31:56,867 --> 01:32:01,367
I would say when Richard
slowed down, in his own words,

1760
01:32:01,500 --> 01:32:02,800
I think that was when he started

1761
01:32:02,933 --> 01:32:05,267
building meaningful
relationships.

1762
01:32:05,400 --> 01:32:06,533
We met in Copenhagen.

1763
01:32:06,667 --> 01:32:08,333
He came out to
shoot Bille August's

1764
01:32:08,467 --> 01:32:10,300
"Smilla's Sense of Snow."

1765
01:32:10,433 --> 01:32:12,767
And I was asked if I could
go and take care of him

1766
01:32:12,900 --> 01:32:14,433
for three days.

1767
01:32:14,567 --> 01:32:17,067
And those three days ended up
being until the day he died.

1768
01:32:18,367 --> 01:32:21,700
And it was, to me, it
was the greatest mentor.

1769
01:32:23,067 --> 01:32:24,967
There's not one
person in the world

1770
01:32:25,100 --> 01:32:27,233
that I'm afraid of, at all.

1771
01:32:27,367 --> 01:32:29,067
And that's thanks to Richard.

1772
01:32:30,333 --> 01:32:33,567
With the boys, I think
Richard truly loved

1773
01:32:33,700 --> 01:32:35,100
the three of them.

1774
01:32:35,233 --> 01:32:37,433
He regretted that he
couldn't be the great father

1775
01:32:37,567 --> 01:32:41,067
when the children needed
him as young boys.

1776
01:32:41,133 --> 01:32:43,167
How's the film?

1777
01:32:43,300 --> 01:32:44,700
Oh, it's fabulous.

1778
01:32:45,567 --> 01:32:47,067
Good.

1779
01:32:47,200 --> 01:32:50,667
They perhaps grew the
most sincere relationship

1780
01:32:50,800 --> 01:32:52,400
when they were all adults.

1781
01:32:52,533 --> 01:32:54,500
Hey, dad.

1782
01:32:54,633 --> 01:32:58,300
Then Damian brings this
wonder into the world.

1783
01:32:58,433 --> 01:33:01,800
He had Ella and Ella
became his big love story.

1784
01:33:01,933 --> 01:33:03,633
I think if you can
ever talk about a woman

1785
01:33:03,767 --> 01:33:05,700
in Richard's life, it
would've been Ella.

1786
01:33:07,867 --> 01:33:10,733
I waited from 1957,

1787
01:33:10,867 --> 01:33:13,167
when I got married to Elizabeth,

1788
01:33:13,300 --> 01:33:16,100
to 1989 for the girl to arrive.

1789
01:33:17,800 --> 01:33:21,633
And I basically grew up
coming here on the weekends.

1790
01:33:21,767 --> 01:33:22,700
Swimming in the pool.

1791
01:33:22,833 --> 01:33:25,100
Swimming in the pool.

1792
01:33:25,233 --> 01:33:26,800
There's
something about her

1793
01:33:26,933 --> 01:33:28,400
that's sort of like air.

1794
01:33:32,167 --> 01:33:36,467
He came to all my sports
days and all my school plays.

1795
01:33:36,600 --> 01:33:38,667
He had an Oscar made for me.

1796
01:33:38,800 --> 01:33:41,567
Do you remember when
I did my school play?

1797
01:33:41,700 --> 01:33:46,567
He was like a big
giant lion protector.

1798
01:33:46,700 --> 01:33:49,633
But were you
aware of him as, you know,

1799
01:33:49,767 --> 01:33:51,233
an artist, as an actor?

1800
01:33:51,367 --> 01:33:52,133
No.

1801
01:33:52,267 --> 01:33:52,967
He was your grandfather.

1802
01:33:53,100 --> 01:33:53,800
Yeah.

1803
01:33:53,933 --> 01:33:55,433
And your friends?

1804
01:33:55,567 --> 01:34:00,133
Only when we got to about 12
and the Harry Potter days.

1805
01:34:01,467 --> 01:34:02,867
And then it was like
the coolest thing.

1806
01:34:05,400 --> 01:34:06,167
Silence!

1807
01:34:09,667 --> 01:34:12,200
Everyone will please not panic.

1808
01:34:14,300 --> 01:34:19,100
Now, prefects will lead their
house back to the dormitories.

1809
01:34:20,600 --> 01:34:24,967
Teachers will follow
me to the dungeons.

1810
01:34:25,100 --> 01:34:26,567
I mean, you know, when
I was asked to do it,

1811
01:34:26,700 --> 01:34:28,067
I turned it down
three or four times.

1812
01:34:28,133 --> 01:34:29,667
I didn't wanna do it.

1813
01:34:29,800 --> 01:34:31,933
I hate commitment.

1814
01:34:32,067 --> 01:34:35,433
To do it, I had to sort of
sign for the four books,

1815
01:34:35,567 --> 01:34:37,700
that's four pictures, like
over five or six years.

1816
01:34:37,833 --> 01:34:39,533
And that I loathe.

1817
01:34:39,667 --> 01:34:41,300
So I didn't wanna do it.

1818
01:34:41,433 --> 01:34:43,733
But my granddaughter,
who's 11, Ella,

1819
01:34:43,867 --> 01:34:47,567
she worships the books,

1820
01:34:47,700 --> 01:34:50,367
and she called me
and she said, "Papa,"

1821
01:34:50,500 --> 01:34:53,100
she said, "If you don't do it,
if you don't play Dumbledore,

1822
01:34:53,233 --> 01:34:54,700
I'll never speak to you again."

1823
01:34:54,833 --> 01:34:57,667
And I thought that is
something I can't afford.

1824
01:34:57,800 --> 01:34:59,067
According to Richard,

1825
01:34:59,167 --> 01:35:01,633
you're responsible for
getting him into this.

1826
01:35:01,767 --> 01:35:03,233
-Is that true?
-Yeah.

1827
01:35:03,367 --> 01:35:04,567
She told me she'd
never speak to me again.

1828
01:35:04,700 --> 01:35:06,533
Why don't we actually
now tell the truth?

1829
01:35:06,667 --> 01:35:07,533
The truth.

1830
01:35:07,667 --> 01:35:08,967
About the Harry Potter story.

1831
01:35:09,100 --> 01:35:11,733
I'm afraid I didn't
say that I would

1832
01:35:11,867 --> 01:35:13,767
never speak to him again

1833
01:35:13,900 --> 01:35:17,167
if he didn't do the
Harry Potter films.

1834
01:35:17,300 --> 01:35:21,433
Because he said the other
option was to go to New Zealand

1835
01:35:21,567 --> 01:35:22,700
for three years.

1836
01:35:22,833 --> 01:35:24,067
And do
"Lord of the Rings".

1837
01:35:24,133 --> 01:35:25,367
And do "Lord of the Rings."

1838
01:35:25,500 --> 01:35:27,467
And he said, "I'll have
to miss the Millennium."

1839
01:35:27,600 --> 01:35:28,533
Who was he playing?

1840
01:35:28,667 --> 01:35:29,867
-Gandalf.
-Gandalf.

1841
01:35:30,067 --> 01:35:32,167
And I'll be away in New
Zealand for three years.

1842
01:35:32,300 --> 01:35:35,067
And I said, "That
sounds terrible.

1843
01:35:35,167 --> 01:35:37,400
Definitely don't do that."

1844
01:35:37,533 --> 01:35:39,233
He realised that there
was an opportunity

1845
01:35:39,367 --> 01:35:41,533
to tell a story, to become...

1846
01:35:41,667 --> 01:35:42,333
Oh it was planned.

1847
01:35:42,467 --> 01:35:43,700
It was planned.

1848
01:35:43,833 --> 01:35:45,467
It was planned for
the red carpet.

1849
01:35:45,600 --> 01:35:49,433
Harry Potter opens and
it's on the news rotation.

1850
01:35:49,567 --> 01:35:52,467
It's the premiere in London.

1851
01:35:52,600 --> 01:35:54,067
All the press was...

1852
01:35:54,133 --> 01:35:58,133
It was either Daniel
Radcliffe or you and dad.

1853
01:35:58,267 --> 01:36:00,100
And it was, is this
your granddaughter,

1854
01:36:00,233 --> 01:36:01,567
the one who said...

1855
01:36:01,700 --> 01:36:02,833
Yes, this the
granddaughter, she said...

1856
01:36:02,967 --> 01:36:04,267
All the way up the red carpet.

1857
01:36:04,400 --> 01:36:07,267
My granddaughter, she's my date.

1858
01:36:07,400 --> 01:36:09,933
And he basically did
it so that he could

1859
01:36:10,067 --> 01:36:12,367
steal the red
carpet a year later.

1860
01:36:12,500 --> 01:36:14,067
I remember calling him
up and telling him,

1861
01:36:14,167 --> 01:36:15,967
that's their only two questions,

1862
01:36:16,100 --> 01:36:16,767
they're asking about
Daniel Radcliffe

1863
01:36:16,900 --> 01:36:18,133
and then about Ella.

1864
01:36:18,267 --> 01:36:19,733
And he went, "Ah, they
went for it, did they?

1865
01:36:19,867 --> 01:36:20,667
Ha ha ha.

1866
01:36:21,733 --> 01:36:22,633
It worked!"

1867
01:36:31,400 --> 01:36:33,733
I remember that toy.

1868
01:36:33,867 --> 01:36:36,067
I remember that toy
'cause I remember

1869
01:36:36,133 --> 01:36:37,833
getting my fingers
stuck inside there.

1870
01:36:37,967 --> 01:36:38,833
That's you.

1871
01:36:38,967 --> 01:36:39,633
That's Damian, yeah.

1872
01:36:39,767 --> 01:36:40,600
Damian, yeah.

1873
01:36:42,100 --> 01:36:44,667
Personally, I've been
putting this off a bit.

1874
01:36:44,800 --> 01:36:47,267
It's not been something
that I've sort of run to do,

1875
01:36:47,400 --> 01:36:50,067
'cause he was so
vivid in our lives,

1876
01:36:50,200 --> 01:36:52,667
you don't need this, personally.

1877
01:36:52,800 --> 01:36:56,267
He was so vivid that he existed.

1878
01:36:56,400 --> 01:36:59,067
And I think for my...

1879
01:36:59,133 --> 01:37:00,067
Sorry.

1880
01:37:15,067 --> 01:37:16,067
Scene.

1881
01:37:16,167 --> 01:37:17,733
He's never gone away.

1882
01:37:17,867 --> 01:37:19,833
And so he's there.

1883
01:37:19,967 --> 01:37:23,533
As I said to you earlier, he's
consistently in my dreams.

1884
01:37:25,933 --> 01:37:28,700
I always thought
that once he died,

1885
01:37:28,833 --> 01:37:31,833
that the relationship
would be over.

1886
01:37:31,967 --> 01:37:33,500
But it's not.

1887
01:37:35,433 --> 01:37:37,733
We still have conversations.

1888
01:37:37,867 --> 01:37:40,400
We still reference him.

1889
01:37:40,533 --> 01:37:42,133
He has the last word.

1890
01:37:42,267 --> 01:37:43,700
Well, now we can
have the last word.

1891
01:37:43,833 --> 01:37:45,067
Sort of.

1892
01:37:45,133 --> 01:37:47,633
We can get more of a word in.

1893
01:37:49,500 --> 01:37:50,467
Here we go.

1894
01:37:50,600 --> 01:37:51,667
Compositions.

1895
01:37:52,600 --> 01:37:53,567
99.

1896
01:37:57,600 --> 01:38:02,467
So they're just like
little endless books

1897
01:38:03,400 --> 01:38:03,933
with notes scribbled in them.

1898
01:38:04,067 --> 01:38:05,633
Poetry lines.

1899
01:38:05,767 --> 01:38:06,933
Says...

1900
01:38:08,567 --> 01:38:10,067
Hold on.

1901
01:38:10,133 --> 01:38:13,167
"I don't want to be
around me anymore.

1902
01:38:15,500 --> 01:38:17,067
I can't relax with me.

1903
01:38:18,367 --> 01:38:22,233
At times, I don't even like me.

1904
01:38:24,067 --> 01:38:27,633
The life I liked
has gone somewhere.

1905
01:38:27,767 --> 01:38:29,800
I don't know where it's gone,

1906
01:38:32,333 --> 01:38:35,467
but I don't want to find
it, even if I could.

1907
01:38:36,867 --> 01:38:39,200
I have come to realise now

1908
01:38:39,333 --> 01:38:42,333
that I never could
maintain relationships.

1909
01:38:44,800 --> 01:38:46,900
Drink even isolated me.

1910
01:38:52,167 --> 01:38:56,300
Or love me or gave me a
false sense of happiness.

1911
01:38:56,433 --> 01:38:59,667
Sober, my life was groundless.

1912
01:39:02,067 --> 01:39:06,567
It all began in Overdale."

1913
01:39:14,500 --> 01:39:15,433
Yeah.

1914
01:39:15,567 --> 01:39:16,600
And that's it.

1915
01:39:16,733 --> 01:39:18,133
The rest of the book is empty.

1916
01:39:22,367 --> 01:39:24,300
That was a bit of
a shocker, yeah.

1917
01:39:35,967 --> 01:39:39,433
Excuse me
while I disappear.

1918
01:39:40,733 --> 01:39:42,567
Picture
of a young athlete,

1919
01:39:42,700 --> 01:39:45,133
the trained eye of the
physician sees the damage

1920
01:39:45,267 --> 01:39:48,167
already done by tuberculosis.

1921
01:39:48,300 --> 01:39:53,100
Dickie got TB, tuberculosis,
and it just swept Ireland.

1922
01:39:54,700 --> 01:39:58,367
It seemed every second
person that you knew

1923
01:39:58,500 --> 01:40:00,233
was getting it and dying.

1924
01:40:03,967 --> 01:40:05,400
Probably at
that particular time,

1925
01:40:05,533 --> 01:40:10,233
one feels a sense of
being deserted, I suppose.

1926
01:40:13,233 --> 01:40:15,300
All of a sudden, friends
don't come anymore.

1927
01:40:17,667 --> 01:40:19,133
You become a nuisance.

1928
01:40:20,800 --> 01:40:22,867
Fuck it, I'll go and
see Dickie Harris today.

1929
01:40:23,000 --> 01:40:24,533
He's still in bed.

1930
01:40:24,667 --> 01:40:26,600
Mightn't we catch that bug
if we're go into his room?

1931
01:40:38,600 --> 01:40:39,833
But that happened to me.

1932
01:40:39,967 --> 01:40:41,267
I was 19 years of age.

1933
01:40:41,400 --> 01:40:42,967
That's a long time ago.

1934
01:40:43,100 --> 01:40:45,500
And my theory of
it hasn't changed.

1935
01:40:47,567 --> 01:40:49,167
It is on your own you survive.

1936
01:40:56,400 --> 01:41:00,833
I began to read an awful lot,
create things in my own head.

1937
01:41:05,533 --> 01:41:07,867
Ah, the letters of
Vincent Van Gogh.

1938
01:41:10,833 --> 01:41:13,233
And of course Hammond.

1939
01:41:16,867 --> 01:41:20,267
This room is the
room that he was in

1940
01:41:20,400 --> 01:41:23,667
for two years when he caught TB.

1941
01:41:23,800 --> 01:41:25,567
TB was considered to
be a pauper's disease

1942
01:41:25,700 --> 01:41:28,367
and they were, you know,
upper middle class family.

1943
01:41:28,500 --> 01:41:30,500
They're a wealthy family
and they're ashamed

1944
01:41:30,633 --> 01:41:32,200
that their son had it.

1945
01:41:32,333 --> 01:41:35,800
And he was consigned to bed.

1946
01:41:45,200 --> 01:41:49,300
The Richard Harris that
dreamed of being the rugby hero

1947
01:41:49,433 --> 01:41:52,367
had that future mapped
out for himself,

1948
01:41:53,800 --> 01:41:56,267
that wasn't gonna be
possible any longer,

1949
01:41:56,400 --> 01:41:58,067
as he was slowly, you know...

1950
01:41:58,200 --> 01:42:00,200
His body is wasting away here.

1951
01:42:14,367 --> 01:42:16,067
That's when he got to reading

1952
01:42:16,133 --> 01:42:19,833
and that's when he found
out about Shakespeare.

1953
01:42:19,967 --> 01:42:23,700
And he found out about
plays, literature.

1954
01:42:23,833 --> 01:42:27,933
He loved words and he
became expert at using them.

1955
01:42:29,600 --> 01:42:31,900
And I said, "I'm
gonna become an actor."

1956
01:42:32,067 --> 01:42:34,867
I think it was just identity.

1957
01:42:35,833 --> 01:42:37,533
What's his name again?

1958
01:42:37,667 --> 01:42:39,367
I want them to realise who I am.

1959
01:42:39,500 --> 01:42:40,933
Not just so much me.

1960
01:42:41,067 --> 01:42:42,100
What's his name again?

1961
01:42:44,567 --> 01:42:46,467
But I want my
father Moses to say,

1962
01:42:46,600 --> 01:42:48,933
"Hey, we got a friend
call Richard here
in the family, Dick.

1963
01:42:49,067 --> 01:42:49,967
There he is, look.

1964
01:42:50,100 --> 01:42:51,967
That's him on the stage there."

1965
01:42:52,100 --> 01:42:52,967
Run, boy!

1966
01:42:55,900 --> 01:42:56,667
Run!

1967
01:43:01,100 --> 01:43:04,200
He often said the
greatest part he ever played

1968
01:43:04,333 --> 01:43:05,500
was Richard Harris.

1969
01:43:07,767 --> 01:43:12,067
Maybe I
was, maybe I wasn't.

1970
01:43:12,167 --> 01:43:14,500
Maybe I was never I.

1971
01:43:15,800 --> 01:43:19,433
Maybe I was where here
and there never met.

1972
01:43:22,067 --> 01:43:26,600
Lost between the ifs and
buts of mind and body,

1973
01:43:26,733 --> 01:43:31,533
in the four seasons
of a perfect vapour.

1974
01:43:37,833 --> 01:43:40,500
I remember after dad
died, at the funeral,

1975
01:43:40,633 --> 01:43:45,067
we all stood up to say
something at the bar afterwards

1976
01:43:46,433 --> 01:43:50,700
and there's a line
in here that I...

1977
01:44:02,100 --> 01:44:03,600
"He was a man.

1978
01:44:03,733 --> 01:44:05,667
Take him for all in all,

1979
01:44:05,800 --> 01:44:07,567
I shall not look
upon his life again."

1980
01:44:12,233 --> 01:44:14,133
I have a great
philosophy about life.

1981
01:44:14,267 --> 01:44:16,500
Don't say let's pass the time.

1982
01:44:16,633 --> 01:44:18,167
That's a terrible expression.

1983
01:44:18,300 --> 01:44:19,233
Don't pass the time.

1984
01:44:19,367 --> 01:44:20,167
Live the time.

1985
01:44:22,600 --> 01:44:25,067
I mean, I've lived
every minute of my life.

1986
01:44:33,067 --> 01:44:36,400
The greatest thing in
life is to have demons.

1987
01:44:36,533 --> 01:44:39,333
Don't try to
exorcise your demons.

1988
01:44:39,467 --> 01:44:42,067
Don't have anybody
explain them away to you.

1989
01:44:42,167 --> 01:44:42,933
Use them.

1990
01:44:43,067 --> 01:44:44,400
Make a deal with them.

1991
01:44:44,533 --> 01:44:46,667
Make a treaty with
them and use them.

1992
01:44:46,800 --> 01:44:48,367
Don't exorcise them.

1993
01:45:12,667 --> 01:45:16,567
* Spring was never
waiting for us girl *

1994
01:45:16,700 --> 01:45:19,433
* It ran one step ahead *

1995
01:45:19,567 --> 01:45:23,333
* As we followed in the dance *

1996
01:45:31,400 --> 01:45:35,633
* Between the parted
pages and were pressed *

1997
01:45:35,767 --> 01:45:38,333
* In love's hot fevered iron *

1998
01:45:38,467 --> 01:45:42,300
* Like a striped pair of pants *

1999
01:45:49,867 --> 01:45:53,300
* MacArthur's Park is
melting in the dark *

2000
01:45:53,433 --> 01:45:57,800
* All the sweet green
icing flowing down *

2001
01:45:57,933 --> 01:46:02,500
* Someone left the
cake out in the rain *

2002
01:46:02,633 --> 01:46:06,633
* I don't think
that I can take it *

2003
01:46:06,767 --> 01:46:10,067
* 'Cause it took so
long to bake it *

2004
01:46:10,167 --> 01:46:15,067
* And I'll never have
that recipe again *

2005
01:46:15,700 --> 01:46:20,500
* Oh no *

2006
01:46:22,200 --> 01:46:24,133
* Oh no *

2007
01:46:43,300 --> 01:46:48,167
Thank you.