Giant

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I understand that George, when he saw
me doing one of the scenes I was doing...

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with Spencer Tracy...

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turned to his assistant and said,
"I want to use that boy in Giant."

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So he called my agent,
and my agent called me...

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and told me, and I got
the book immediately and read it.

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They said they wanted me
for the role of Bob Dace.

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Bob Dace is mentioned once in the book.

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He's four years old.
He's out picking mountain oysters...

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when they're making steers
out of the bulls.

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I thought,
"That's not a part. That's no part."

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They said, eventually,
that George wanted to see me.

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They had, in the meantime,
started shooting the film in Virginia...

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and I had to come back
to do the interiors of the Virginia stuff...

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at the studio, at Warner Brothers.

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They said, "George Stevens would like you
to come and see him this afternoon...

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"at such and such a time."

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I said, "I really don't want
to do the picture...

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"'cause there's no part."

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They said, "Go talk to him anyway.
You can tell him, but talk to him."

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I came out,
and they were shooting the interior.

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They were shooting the dinner scene,
where Elizabeth...

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kind of attacks Rock...

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or Leslie attacks Bick...

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about how we took Texas away
from the Mexicans.

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While they were re-lighting,
George took me around...

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and we walked around the block.

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I needed to tell him
that I appreciated the interest...

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but there was no part. I got to tell you...

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he started talking about how he saw this
as a Booth Tarkington character.

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Anybody who has ever met George
knows what a charmer he was.

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By the time we got through
with our walk around the studio...