Peter O'Toole is interviewed by Charlie Rose in 2007, about preparing for a role. You can see the entire hour long interview here ... charlierose.com/videos/18313
One of the many things I loved about Peter O’Toole is that he looked whoever he was talking to in the eye and actually listened to them. I also loved his always snazzy wardrobe. I miss him.
my favorite o'toole moment. "Other than just learn your lines--" some of those Shakespeare plays at full length (unedited) are five freaking hours long. can you imagine? what a mental feat. these British classically trained actors (o'toole and richard harris were actually Irish) were really the keepers of the cultural flame of the English Speaking Culture. i really love and admire these guys. what lives they must have had.
@@norbertstepien9185 The Duke of Wellington was born in Dublin. Louis Mountbatten was born in Austria. George Orwell was born in India. Emma Watson was born in France. Spike Milligan was born in India. Boris Johnson was born in the US. Alan Whicker was born in Egypt. And my cousin Anne was born in Hong Kong. Does that make her Chinese? Because she's convinced she's Irish.
@@doctornov7 Hamlet isn't even the longest cigar. The length of any play depends on the speed at which the players deliver their lines. In theory Death of a Salesman could be performed in less than three minutes.
@@zakmartin I'm not sure what you mean. My response was to the original comment which said some Shakespeare plays are over 5 hours, which I don't think is true. Of course, theoretically, you're correct, but realistically you're wrong. Death of a Salesman could not be performed in 3 minutes, realistically. Now that I think about it you're probably just trolling for trolling sake. Good day!
his take on method acting is so interesting, I love it: Method acting is about being so familiar with the material that it becomes second nature to you. That Brando achieved his naturalism in Streetcar Named Desire by virtue of his performing it hundreds of times on stage.
I LOVE Peter O'Toole's interviews, the man is so literary, so sharp, and always witty. I only wish I could have been a fly on the wall during his PRIVATE stories. That would have been life changing.
Yes, study. Perfect description: alone, no observer, no interlocutor, private, unobserved, uninhibited. A good practice for any student. Charlie needed to up his game here.
Decades of solid work all for naught because the cancel culture priests learned that years before that Charlie **GASP** expressed heterosexual feelings to adult women. Now he’s an “ass” in every situation in every question of every interview right, Lil’ miss PERFECT JACKIE ABRAMOVITZ-SHAPIRO-SPRECKLESTEINER?? What’s it feel like to be better than everyone else? Ever think...maybe Charlie’s not an actor...maybe that’s why he’s asking the question? ...I guess there’s is such a thing as a stupid question if you’re a megalomaniacal, pompous, smug “performing artist” ie usually drunk-dopes paid millions to hit marks, say lines.
Charlie Rose is a decent and friendly host!!!! Thanks guys. I love to watch these interviews!!!! O'Toole is one of my favourites and I believe actors are not like him anymore!!! ♥♥🌹♥♥
I like how Charlie Rose professes his uncanny ability to hunt for a specific debilitating and disrespectful answer, in total spite of how much wiser the given answer is. It's as if he gets paid per quote, and has bets running with the bookies.
Peter Otolle was very very sharp and you felt he was the character he was playing in a play or movie, as he states he studies his lines, he was very smart.
I'll never forget the moment when he manifested to the whole world by her very own eruptions on him what to think of a person such as Jody Foster: this was priceless !!
...and it also funny how those kind of people think, one 'quarrels with the question', rather than admitting/understanding that you worded it wrong or it was wrong to ask such a Q. Period.
That was always my 'concern' (?) with actors, male or female, winning an Oscar for a role they had been playing for years on Broadway compared to those who created the role expressly for a film.
Rose a bit over the top on this one but he and POT got on very well and had done countless interviews. POY knew how Rose wd approach it and was waiting, and of course always won the dual
Brendan Gallagher Seems so, surely. the only interviews I have found on here are with him and LetterMan. Mostly. A couple more perhaps. Someone did mention, he didn't give them much but certainly seems to have given a lot to Mr. Charlie Rose. No matter. The interviewee always has fascinating answers and his anecdotes and way of delivering them will always make it worth the while,mon matter who the interviewer is, in my opinion.
What a great human being!!! (To be absolutely clear I do mean Peter O'toole ... lol 🤣) (I suppose Charlie is a fine enough human specimen by worldly metrics but in terms of other worldly metrics let us give credit where credit is due)
What a jerk rose is. How long till he quarreled with a question. Mr. O'Toole corrected you and then he scholled you. Like the BOSS that he is, was & ever will be.
I think Marvel should have learned a thing or two from just this video. I've heard of their methods and also seen the many blooper reels which shows how little their producers know about the art itself. None of their actors make their performances really spectacular or special. Everything that goes wrong is covered up by CGI, which honestly makes the film look cheap and unremarkable, whereas films like Lawrence of Arabia and Cleopatra are very well done and considered priceless and timeless.
Rose's longevity has baffled me for...decades. Invariably, he asks utterly insipid questions, regardless of the guest -- and he's had astoundingly good opportunities to do otherwise. He's easily one of the worst interviewers in the last fifty years of broadcasting.
@@johnwright3815 More or less, because it was the "only game in town" as the saying goes. C. Rose had a unique platform in that you could have an hour long interview rather than the 5 or 10 minutes on Letterman, etc. If you wanted the exposure of the extended interview you had to put up with Charlie. Pretty much like the casting couch of Harvey Weinstein and Miramax...
Yep the hordes of talentless, jealous losers just cannot stand that Charlie came onto a few adult women. Grrr makes ‘em so mad ! Cancel him PERMANENTLY!
To everyone bashing Rose, wtf, he literally says he is certain O'Toole is right in the end and even pardons his silliness. Isn't the point of a discussion exactly that, the possibility of changing ones mind?
Not in the least cause he knows that this layman's question is deliberately simple to allow Rose to pull the common man ' s sympathy while at the same time allow him to talk about his craft.
He was incredulous but it allowed him to deliver a wonderful O'Toole lecture on the hard work involved in acting. He was certainly critical of those actors who thought they could turn up on set standing in their socks waiting for inspiration to hit them.
Ugh. I wasn't sure this video was a Charlie Rose interview and as soon as I clicked and saw it was, I knew I'd regret it. But what makes it worse is the guest is the antithesis of the interviewer.
NOt really,nowadays there are much worse. May be he was the worst in those years but journalism and the art of interwie have sunk to such depths these last decade that now Rose comes out like a paragon of all sorts of virtues.
Charlie Rose is overrated. The little "I was waiting for the part where you get upset and correct me!" is the kind of covert condescension that squeezes all spontaneity and connection out of the whatever-this-is. Can't be a "Oh, wait. There's more to this I hadn't thought of, cool..." Nah, it has to be "Oh, this interruption was a planned 'bit' in _my_ game." It flies under the radar but it's fucking boorish, this compulsion to reframe every moment to be a part of _your_ narrative rather than letting it just be. Joe Rogan is a moron but this is one thing he almost never does. When Joe asks a question, it isn't rhetorical, it isn't some move to make himself seem knowledgeable; he asks because he actually wants to know and isn't afraid to admit when he doesn't.
overrated as hell, never found him watchable in the slightest. his zaltar was cringe, his king priam was ott, i could go on and on. SOMEHOW he made it into folklore as a true actor. bizarre. i guess connections help!
He was so utterly knowledgeable about his profession. What a treasure he was!
It's a shame he never recieved an academy award.
He really deserved one for "Lawrence of Arabia ".
Is and always will be.
Watch Dean Spanley
One of the many things I loved about Peter O’Toole is that he looked whoever he was talking to in the eye and actually listened to them. I also loved his always snazzy wardrobe. I miss him.
Damn his voice was incredible
Beautiful voice!
Very much so.
my favorite o'toole moment. "Other than just learn your lines--" some of those Shakespeare plays at full length (unedited) are five freaking hours long. can you imagine? what a mental feat. these British classically trained actors (o'toole and richard harris were actually Irish) were really the keepers of the cultural flame of the English Speaking Culture. i really love and admire these guys. what lives they must have had.
O"Toole was born in Leeds in the north of England.
@@norbertstepien9185 The Duke of Wellington was born in Dublin. Louis Mountbatten was born in Austria. George Orwell was born in India. Emma Watson was born in France. Spike Milligan was born in India. Boris Johnson was born in the US. Alan Whicker was born in Egypt. And my cousin Anne was born in Hong Kong. Does that make her Chinese? Because she's convinced she's Irish.
I thought Hamlet is the longest and it's just under 4 hours. Are there longer Shakespeare plays?
@@doctornov7 Hamlet isn't even the longest cigar. The length of any play depends on the speed at which the players deliver their lines. In theory Death of a Salesman could be performed in less than three minutes.
@@zakmartin I'm not sure what you mean. My response was to the original comment which said some Shakespeare plays are over 5 hours, which I don't think is true. Of course, theoretically, you're correct, but realistically you're wrong. Death of a Salesman could not be performed in 3 minutes, realistically. Now that I think about it you're probably just trolling for trolling sake. Good day!
charlie rose: "did you have to prepare for this, other than learn your lines?"
Peter O'Toole: "so you've chosen death"
It's like painting without a brush. Mind as sharp as a razor.
Peter O'Toole is a brilliant actor! Regardless of who interviews him, Peter's genuine brilliance, skill, and talent enlighten the entire video.
his take on method acting is so interesting, I love it: Method acting is about being so familiar with the material that it becomes second nature to you. That Brando achieved his naturalism in Streetcar Named Desire by virtue of his performing it hundreds of times on stage.
I LOVE Peter O'Toole's interviews, the man is so literary, so sharp, and always witty. I only wish I could have been a fly on the wall during his PRIVATE stories. That would have been life changing.
One of the top three actors of all time
Who were the other 2?
@@mizzyroro Daniel Day-Lewis and Tommy Wiseau
@@chiefscheider "I did nawt!!"
This Actor is Pure Genius... Pleasure to Watch him👏👏😇
Peter O' Toole Legend! One of the Best Actor's Ever! Laurence of Arabia was an Epic Film!
Terrific reply, a polite, forceful chastisement!
What a fantastic actor.
Unbelievable he and Richard Harris are two of the funniest and truest people ever
Yes, study. Perfect description: alone, no observer, no interlocutor, private, unobserved, uninhibited. A good practice for any student. Charlie needed to up his game here.
The way he describes the proper way to study your acting material is really how you should study everything. There’s a lot of distractions out there.
Peter O'Toole answers Charlie Rose's idiotic question in such a scholarly, patient way. Rose was such a major a55.
What's an a55?
personally i think chalies a bit of a CU2 lmfao!!!!!!
Decades of solid work all for naught because the cancel culture priests learned that years before that Charlie **GASP** expressed heterosexual feelings to adult women. Now he’s an “ass” in every situation in every question of every interview right, Lil’ miss PERFECT JACKIE ABRAMOVITZ-SHAPIRO-SPRECKLESTEINER?? What’s it feel like to be better than everyone else? Ever think...maybe Charlie’s not an actor...maybe that’s why he’s asking the question? ...I guess there’s is such a thing as a stupid question if you’re a megalomaniacal, pompous, smug “performing artist” ie usually drunk-dopes paid millions to hit marks, say lines.
@@steveconn Ass.
He should have been cancelled for poor interviewing not naked showering 😂
Charlie Rose is a decent and friendly host!!!!
Thanks guys. I love to watch these interviews!!!!
O'Toole is one of my favourites and I believe actors are not like him anymore!!! ♥♥🌹♥♥
Bravo Peter!…
Ther full interview is great and a portal to Charlie Rose's other interviews.
I like how Charlie Rose professes his uncanny ability to hunt for a specific debilitating and disrespectful answer, in total spite of how much wiser the given answer is.
It's as if he gets paid per quote, and has bets running with the bookies.
Peter Otolle was very very sharp and you felt he was the character he was playing in a play or movie, as he states he studies his lines, he was very smart.
Once you have seen this, go to his acceptance speech at the Oscars. Unfortunately, we won’t see his kind anymore.
Michael Caine is still alive and working and he teaches acting.
Old School Rocks !!!!
I'll never forget the moment when he manifested to the whole world by her very own eruptions on him what to think of a person such as Jody Foster: this was priceless !!
A mediocre interviewer. But O'toole is brilliant.
The Man!
A man of clear speech and articulation .. thus I say everyone should learn proper British English anything else is inferior.
The later Brando refused to learn lines---he had his lines on posters off-camera and sometimes even had them written on a fellow actor's forehead!
Lazy and drunk
Superb actor one of the best with Brando, Chaplin and Pacino.
I would have liked to been hanging out with he & Peter Finch each night they hit a bar!
...and it also funny how those kind of people think, one 'quarrels with the question', rather than admitting/understanding that you worded it wrong or it was wrong to ask such a Q. Period.
So the secret to learning your lines is to study the script and rehearse (practice) it so well you can perform it without thinking about it.
Rehearsal is so important its the same with slapstick it has to be slick to work
That was always my 'concern' (?) with actors, male or female, winning an Oscar for a role they had been playing for years on Broadway compared to those who created the role expressly for a film.
This is exactly the same as how classical music should be played
So, there!
Rose a bit over the top on this one but he and POT got on very well and had done countless interviews. POY knew how Rose wd approach it and was waiting, and of course always won the dual
Brendan Gallagher
Seems so, surely. the only interviews I have found on here are with him and LetterMan. Mostly. A couple more perhaps. Someone did mention, he didn't give them much but certainly seems to have given a lot to Mr. Charlie Rose.
No matter.
The interviewee always has fascinating answers and his anecdotes and way of delivering them will always make it worth the while,mon matter who the interviewer is, in my opinion.
Cool Peter o toole
What a great human being!!!
(To be absolutely clear I do mean Peter O'toole ... lol 🤣)
(I suppose Charlie is a fine enough human specimen by worldly metrics but in terms of other worldly metrics let us give credit where credit is due)
Both our sons were in theater and I’m so glad that they knew their lines. Perfectly.
ugh lol new word learned 'interlocutor' 'a person who takes part in a dialogue or conversation '
They don't make men like O'Toole anymore!
He wasn't as handsome in older age as he'd been, but I don't care. He still had that bone structure, those eyes and THAT VOICE.Sighhhhhh....
FFS if you can't remember your dialogue for Screen and Film then go learn Stage, That's where you learn quickly 😊
What a jerk rose is. How long till he quarreled with a question. Mr. O'Toole corrected you and then he scholled you. Like the BOSS that he is, was & ever will be.
I think Marvel should have learned a thing or two from just this video. I've heard of their methods and also seen the many blooper reels which shows how little their producers know about the art itself. None of their actors make their performances really spectacular or special. Everything that goes wrong is covered up by CGI, which honestly makes the film look cheap and unremarkable, whereas films like Lawrence of Arabia and Cleopatra are very well done and considered priceless and timeless.
And young actors these days want accolades?!
You will never see real men.....real actors like this man ever again.
Always wonderful to watch Peter O’Toole completely dog walk Charlie Rose. What a condescending interviewer for such a learned and historic guest.
Rose's longevity has baffled me for...decades. Invariably, he asks utterly insipid questions, regardless of the guest -- and he's had astoundingly good opportunities to do otherwise. He's easily one of the worst interviewers in the last fifty years of broadcasting.
Yes! Why does everyone want to be on his show? I never got that. He annoys me. But he was a lawyer...may explain his questioning process.
He lets people talk. He and Smiley are gone so all we have are Gong Show 'a few jokes then off' talk shows.
@@johnwright3815 More or less, because it was the "only game in town" as the saying goes. C. Rose had a unique platform in that you could have an hour long interview rather than the 5 or 10 minutes on Letterman, etc. If you wanted the exposure of the extended interview you had to put up with Charlie. Pretty much like the casting couch of Harvey Weinstein and Miramax...
Yep the hordes of talentless, jealous losers just cannot stand that Charlie came onto a few adult women. Grrr makes ‘em so mad ! Cancel him PERMANENTLY!
He appeals to the lowest common denominator.
Charlie Rose, empty suit.
Well said.
To everyone bashing Rose, wtf, he literally says he is certain O'Toole is right in the end and even pardons his silliness. Isn't the point of a discussion exactly that, the possibility of changing ones mind?
Is it just me or does Peter seem to be pissed off?
Maybe. but ACTING!
Not in the least cause he knows that this layman's question is deliberately simple to allow Rose to pull the common man ' s sympathy while at the same time allow him to talk about his craft.
I think the question insulted him.
He was incredulous but it allowed him to deliver a wonderful O'Toole lecture on the hard work involved in acting. He was certainly critical of those actors who thought they could turn up on set standing in their socks waiting for inspiration to hit them.
Peter the Great is just that but it's really hard to watch Charlie Rose after his disintegration.
what a silly questions......puah!
What an inane, disrespectful question to ask an actor. You have Peter O Toole sitting in front of you and that's what you ask?
Ugh. I wasn't sure this video was a Charlie Rose interview and as soon as I clicked and saw it was, I knew I'd regret it. But what makes it worse is the guest is the antithesis of the interviewer.
Why the fuck is Rose so aggressive?
Green eyes monster symptom maybe...
this guy. he probably thinks Peter is Australian
Charlie ‘pervert’ Rose.
Charlie 'victim of 'slander without evidence' #MECARTHYISM.
Charlie Rose is the worst
NOt really,nowadays there are much worse. May be he was the worst in those years but journalism and the art of interwie have sunk to such depths these last decade that now Rose comes out like a paragon of all sorts of virtues.
charlie rose arrogance
And Charlie Rose has always been an obnoxious interviewer. O'Toole is wonderful.
Somewhat insulting to this great actor
in other words, stop making excuses and do your homework!
Charlie Rose is overrated. The little "I was waiting for the part where you get upset and correct me!" is the kind of covert condescension that squeezes all spontaneity and connection out of the whatever-this-is. Can't be a "Oh, wait. There's more to this I hadn't thought of, cool..."
Nah, it has to be "Oh, this interruption was a planned 'bit' in _my_ game."
It flies under the radar but it's fucking boorish, this compulsion to reframe every moment to be a part of _your_ narrative rather than letting it just be.
Joe Rogan is a moron but this is one thing he almost never does. When Joe asks a question, it isn't rhetorical, it isn't some move to make himself seem knowledgeable; he asks because he actually wants to know and isn't afraid to admit when he doesn't.
overrated as hell, never found him watchable in the slightest.
his zaltar was cringe, his king priam was ott, i could go on and on.
SOMEHOW he made it into folklore as a true actor. bizarre.
i guess connections help!