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I loved him.
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I followed him around like a puppy.
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I worshipped that man.
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And so I saw...
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perhaps a little more
than maybe other people did.
:15:17
He was handsome and sensuous...
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and marvelous as the young man.
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And then I thought he really excelled...
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as the elder man.
I thought he did a wonderful job.
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He was inspired by the part,
inspired by George Stevens.
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I thought he did a wonderful job.
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Toward the end of the movie, when he had
to wear the extra weight and padding...
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everything showed in the long underwear!
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But he'd do the Charleston and everything,
just for my home movies...
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which was very different
than his character on-screen...
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as Bick Benedict,
whom he played in Giant.
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Rock Hudson was 28 years old
and hadn't played very demanding roles.
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It was early in his career.
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Here he had to age from 28 to 58.
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And toward the end of the picture...
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they would build him up in here
with padding...
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and make him heavier,
and some gray in the hair.
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There's a scene where he has an argument
with Dennis Hopper late in the film.
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I was on the set
the day they did it here at the studio.
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Dad had asked Rock to look at
some Spencer Tracy pictures...
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to get a feeling of how an actor....
:16:35
Thinking that Tracy had a quality
of an older man...
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that would be useful to Rock.
:16:42
He and Dennis took this scene.
It's a scene where they have an argument.
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They rehearsed it. They walked around.
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Dad would always just go on the set
and let them do it.
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He wouldn't say,
"You stand there, you sit here."
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They were going around having at it,
and they did it for a little while.