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John Wayne was famously opinionated about politics, Westerns and communists.<\/p>\n
The Duke’s devotion to the purity of Westerns was an extension of his own personal, deeply-rooted conservative views.<\/p>\n
He refused to work with Clint Eastwood on numerous occasions, rejecting studio advances to cast them together in films like Joe Kidd, based on the other star’s prominence in the changing tone of Westerns.<\/p>\n
But he was remarkably able to separate his issues with fellow actors’ political views from their professional abilities, happily working with Hollywood liberals, though rarely socialising with them on set.<\/p>\n
He almost never spoke disparagingly of other actors’ actual talents (or lack thereof), although his daughter revealed two very famous exceptions.<\/p>\n
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Wayne has been constantly on TV over the Bank Holiday in a series of Westerns from The War Wagon, Chisum and Red River to, finally, The Alamo this evening.<\/p>\n
The Duke also directed that film and had a famous clash with actor Richard Widmark, based on the other’s insubordination.<\/p>\n
Pilar Wayne’s 1987 book John Wayne: My Life With the Duke, spilled on numerous clashed her father had, as well as those two infamous character assassinations.<\/p>\n
Of the situation with Widmark, she wrote: “He kept on arguing with Duke in front of the rest of the cast and crew. Predictably, the day came when Duke\u2019s patience ran out\u2026 Widmark and Duke had a violent confrontation and Duke threw the smaller man against a wall.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
George Takei, who starred with Wayne in The Green Berets, made it clear that these clashes were always based in on-set behaviour.<\/p>\n
He told The Express they had no problems despite holding wildly different views: “There was a core of decency in him. He was a very pro-war guy and when I went in for the interview I said, \u2018I have to be honest with you, I don\u2019t agree with you about the Vietnam War. I have been campaigning against the war. I wanted you to know.\u2019<\/p>\n
“He surprised me. He said, ‘I am hiring the best actor I can for the role, that\u2019s all that I am concerned about.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Pilar Wayne noted one actor who seemed to rile her father more than any other: \u201cWhen it came to his contemporaries in film, I only heard him speak once with any real venom.<\/p>\n
“Gene Hackman could never appear on-screen without my father skewering his performance… Back then, however, my father called Hackman \u2018the worst actor in town. He\u2019s awful.\u2019”<\/p>\n
The Duke was also uncharacteristically unking about another legendary Hollywood legend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Pilar Wayne wrote that her father said of Clark Gable: “[He\u2019s] extremely handsome in person,\u201d Wayne said. \u201cThat\u2019s one guy that doesn\u2019t need Hollywood to make him look good. But Gable\u2019s an idiot. You know why Gable\u2019s an actor? It\u2019s the only thing he\u2019s smart enough to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
This was connected to Wayne’s dismissal of those, like Gable, who viewed acting as an art. He said: “I don\u2019t act at all, I re<\/em>act.”<\/p>\n He added: “All I do is sell sincerity, and I\u2019ve been selling the hell out of that since I started… That arty crowd has only surface brilliance anyway. Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity\u2014and I don\u2019t mean simple\u2014it\u2019ll be good and the public will know it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] John Wayne was famously opinionated about politics, Westerns and communists. The Duke’s devotion to the purity of Westerns was an extension of his own personal, deeply-rooted conservative views. He refused to work with Clint Eastwood on numerous occasions, rejecting studio advances to cast them together in films like Joe Kidd, based on the other …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[765],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}