So my question is what was it like
working with like co-stars Sting on Dune?
It was fabulous some great great actors
in that movie some of whom have left us
and that's incredibly sad Ken McMillan
in particular who was a wonderful guy.
I got to go out to dinner once a week with
Max von Sydow who was one of my heroes
and I used to sit across the table from him and you know
we would eat tacos and ... "Max von Sydow"
Kyle MacLachlan has become a lifelong friend and buddy as has Everett McGill who is also in
that movie the three of us hung out
together a lot.
What about Sting? I'm coming to Sting.
So music, at least popular music has
never played a big part in my life until
the last few years for a very good
reason. I had never heard of
Sting, I mean that's how isolated I was
from the music world but I was aware
that there was... because I've been there a
couple of weeks before Sting arrived and
when he arrived there was this kind of
frisson everywhere you know the whole
of Mexico City was abuzz that Sting was
coming and so I heard he was a musician
that's all I knew and so the
second or third day we're just hanging
out on the set, him and me and I say
"so you're a musician" and he said "yeah" and I
said "what do you play?"
And I swear, I cross my heart.
and he said "bass" and I said "you know
I often wondered what is it like
carrying that huge thing around
everywhere you go?" all right I mean
god bless him
Sting said "no bass guitar that's what I play"
and I said "oh ah great that's
fantastic beautiful instrument and
you're like are you a solo artist?" and he
said "no no I'm in a band"
and I said "oh what kind of band?" he said
"The Police", folks I said
"you play in a police band?
It's good it's good you took that guy
down a notch.
