My father was never really the con-man type that the film shows him to be: he was straight as an arrow, though he did have problems with the IRS.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My dad was an FBI agent. My mom and dad were straight arrow types, and I had a conservative, suburban Orange County upbringing.
I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.
My father was an actor, and my mother was his agent, so I had it on both sides: the crazy actor and his representation.
Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life.
I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.
'Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie - I never did anything bad - because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape.'
My dad was a great movie companion. He wouldn't diminish 'The Jerk.' If I liked it, he liked it. He could see it through my eyes.
Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.
My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films.
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