I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.
I'd been very certain about not wanting to do the acting thing because of my father. I thought I'd always have the father-son thing of 'He got you the part.'
Hopefully, by the second or the third film, who my father is won't be a story anyone's interested in. They'll either like the films or they won't, and if they don't like them, I won't be making them any more.
I was heartbroken at the end of that, because I thought that was going to be it for me. Somehow I had worked my way into this movie and it had exposed me to people and I had a chance to be an actor, which I loved, but I didn't think it was ever going to happen again.
I would never be in a film just for the sake of being in a film, so I am waiting for the right role to come along.
When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.
No actor ever forgets a role, so I should have realized something was wrong.
I leave the story room to grow into what the movie is driving me to do.
The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role.
I'd seen my dad on stage, and that was fine, but the real excitement was - that was my dad. Even now, when I see his films, he's always my favourite person in the movie.