:06:00
I understand he talked with Grace Kelly.
:06:02
There was talk of Bill Holden.
:06:05
Why those didn't work out,
or whether they did...
:06:08
those two parts
were very sought-after parts.
:06:13
But what I think is fascinating
about the film, when you think ofit...
:06:18
is that he chose to go forward with...
:06:22
Rock Hudson, who was 28,
Elizabeth Taylor, who was 23...
:06:26
and James Dean, who was 23...
:06:28
to play a story that covers 30 years.
:06:32
Let's see, 1955?
:06:34
I was 29, I think.
:06:40
29, yeah.
:06:43
And I had to be....
:06:45
In the movie I had to be in the young 20s,
23 or 24 or 25.
:06:51
And then middle age, I guess 45 to 50.
:06:55
And then older age,
I guess 65 to 70, about.
:07:01
Incidentally,
I don't know if I had told you this.
:07:04
A couple of years ago I was in Chicago.
:07:07
Giant was being run on television at night,
and I'd just come back from the theater.
:07:13
I don't like to watch films on television...
:07:17
particularly those that I am involved with.
:07:21
But I was curious.
:07:23
And so...
:07:25
I knew when I would be
the 45 to 50-year-old age...
:07:29
about the same time I tuned in to look.
:07:33
And I looked at myself...
:07:36
and ran to the mirror and looked,
and it was exactly the same...
:07:40
including where the gray is,
where most of the gray is.
:07:44
To a tee. It was exactly.
:07:45
So now I know
what I'm going to look like when I'm 70.
:07:49
It used to be, in Hollywood,
that they would take mature actors...
:07:53
and when they had
to shoot the young parts...
:07:57
make them up to look young
and give them...
:07:59
special lighting, special lenses,
and so forth.