So, what can you tell us about your days with the Unabomber?
Posted by jph3 on February 12, 2009
Love him or hate him, Dave Letterman has done some good interviews over the years . . . such as this 1987 gem where Crispin Glover (aka George McFly in Back to the Future) nearly karate kicks him in the head.
Well, last night’s sit down with Joaquin Phoenix was one for the books too. You won’t recognize him from the clip, but he is the Oscar-nominated actor from a couple of my favorite movies: Gladiator and Signs.
Dave doesn’t have a lot of patience for guests who come on the show blitzed, so it doesn’t take him long before he lets out the zingers, such as my personal favorite:
“So, what can you tell us about your days with the Unabomber?” HA!
The full interview seems to have been taken down from youtube, but here’s a highlights version:
And here’s a write up too.
To wrap it all up, Dave sent Joaquin packing by saying: “Joaquin, I’m sorry you couldn’t be here tonight.”
Classic.
Amy jane said
holy cow that is the most amazing thing I’ve seen all day.
Joe said
it’s hard to tell whether Joaquin Phoenix was faking it or not during that Letterman appearance, especially since he’s such a talented actor…
Donna said
Man, o man was this strange. I don’t watch Letterman that often these days (interferes with my heavy Food Network watching schedule) but I did see this one as it was happening.
I heard that he recently did one of those red carpet interviews where he talked about a feeling like a frog was jumping out of his head or something.
Bizzarro, to say the least.
jph3 said
Donna – I hadn’t heard that about the frog thing . . . that’s pretty whacky. It’s too bad too cuz he’s such a good actor.
ChrisP said
Wow, that’s pretty crazy. I have liked a lot of this guys movies, I can’t believe he is saying he won’t be acting anymore.
Good luck with that “hip-hop” career. Yikes.
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