보그다노비치가 얼마 전에 [Who the Hell's in It?]라는 책을 출간하여 여기저기 인터뷰가 실리는 듯. 영국의 Guardian 인터넷판에 실린 인터뷰 (2004-11-30) 중에서 발췌.

CJ(Clive James): Can I just raise one point about the established characters and the stars - what if the established character doesn't really check out with reality? In your book, you talk about John Wayne and our faith in his actual being. But what does he represent on screen, and how did that square with reality, in your view?

PB(Peter Bogdanovich): John Wayne - I don't know, I guess people thought of John Wayne as the archetypal American. The man of the west.

CJ: Well, that's exactly what scares some of us to death.

PB: Well, yes, now, after the world's gotten a little scarier. But Wayne represented a kind of American legend, an American Hercules who could do anything, who was quick-tempered and angry, who had a kind of innocence and yet he was profane. In life, Duke was kind of like a gigantic 10-year-old - he had a kind of awkwardness which was interesting. Lauren Bacall says that in the book, that what she found most appealing about Duke was that he always seemed ill at ease in social situations. I watched him on two sets, acting, and he was extraordinarily into it - he was always watching, he never went to his trailer, he was always there, and usually playing with a six-shooter or a rifle or something. One time I went to interview him at his home in Newport Beach, and he was putting on his toupee and we were getting ready to shoot the interview, and they were lining up the shot out on his terrace. And I said, "I hear, Duke, that when you're not being directed by Ford, or Hawks, or Hathaway, that you pretty much tell the directors what to do." And he says, [does John Wayne] "Naw, that's not true. As you know there's only one director on a picture, only one captain on a ship." And I said, "Well, you know, for example when you're doing pictures with Andy McLaglen, I understand you pretty much tell Andy what to do." He says, "Naw, Christ, I've known Andy since he was so high, and I knew his dad Vic McLaglen for ever, but when Andy's directing a picture, he's the captain and what he says goes. That's the way it is." Then somebody comes in and says, "Peter, you wanna come check the shot?" and I go and do that, and I say, "Okay, bring Mr Wayne out." So Duke comes out... [does John Wayne] "All right, you better move that light over there, and that stone elephant there, move that over there and I'll sit on that." I'm sitting on the terrace and looking at him and I have a smile on my face, and he catches my eye, and he goes, "Oh, sorry, Andy." [Audience laughs]

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