The Tony-award winning actor, who played Ralph Garcia in Parker’s 1980 hit, looks back at a collaboration which was fraught, fruitful – and life-changing
• ‘We were dancing on cars in the epicentre of porn and filth!’ An oral history of Fame, 40 years on
My relationship with Alan Parker was the most important and seminal experience of my youth. He understood me in a way that very few people had the ability to ascertain at that time. Working together as we did was difficult, it was tumultuous; our personalities often clashed or were brutally misaligned. But he fundamentally knew what he could extract out of my aspirations for myself. And he alone enabled me to rise to a level of critical acclaim that changed the entire course of my career, almost instantaneously.
• ‘We were dancing on cars in the epicentre of porn and filth!’ An oral history of Fame, 40 years on
My relationship with Alan Parker was the most important and seminal experience of my youth. He understood me in a way that very few people had the ability to ascertain at that time. Working together as we did was difficult, it was tumultuous; our personalities often clashed or were brutally misaligned. But he fundamentally knew what he could extract out of my aspirations for myself. And he alone enabled me to rise to a level of critical acclaim that changed the entire course of my career, almost instantaneously.
- 8/19/2020
- by Barry Miller
- The Guardian - Film News
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