:06:02
There I was on their most-wanted list.
Was I enjoying it? You bet your ass I was.
:06:09
One night, my brother and I took
a few femme fatales to El Morocco.
:06:13
Me? I didn't feel like conversation,
so I hit the dance floor.
:06:17
Well, that night someone had eyes
for me, and it wasn't her.
:06:21
It was Darryl Zanuck, head
honcho of 20th Century Fox.
:06:25
He had no idea who I was.
But just looking at me, he thought:
:06:29
That kid's right to play the
matador opposite Ava Gardner.
:06:32
After years and years of knocking
on doors, being turned down...
:06:36
...here I am, discovered to star
in two pictures within six months.
:06:41
That's what you call incident, and that's
what's also known as sense of discovery.
:06:46
Thank God, I was the one discovered.
:07:02
I was sent down to Mexico
to study to be a bullfighter.
:07:06
Mind you, I have never once
seen a bull in my life.
:07:12
I worked my ass off for three months.
:07:14
Wearing a rubber girdle each day, so I'd
lose weight around my midsection.
:07:18
There was one big problem.
No one wanted me in the picture.
:07:23
Ernest Hemingway was furious they'd
pick a guy out of a nightclub...
:07:27
...to play Pedro Romero,
who in the true-life story was him.
:07:31
A telegram goes out to
Darryl Zanuck. It reads:
:07:34
"With Robert Evans playing Pedro Romero,
The Sun Also Rises will be a disaster.
:07:39
Signed, Ernest Hemingway,
Tyrone Power...
:07:42
...Ava Gardner, Eddie Albert."
:07:44
The only one who refused to sign it
was Errol Flynn. He laughed.
:07:49
I know I'm gonna get fired.
But that gave me the resolve.
:07:53
I said, fuck them. And, you know,
when I knew that telegram went out...
:07:57
...I became Pedro Romero in one week.