Speaker 1: I am all in Again.
Speaker 2: I Am all in again with Scott Patterson and iHeartRadio Podcast.
Speaker 3: Hey Everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all in Podcast one
Speaker 3: eleven productions, iHeart Radio, iHeart Media, iHeart Podcast.
Speaker 1: One on one interview with the one and only.
Speaker 3: Greg Henry Mitcham Huntsberger one eleven productions. iHeart Radio, iHeart Media,
Speaker 3: iHeart Podcasts.
Speaker 1: We are on. Hello everybody, Warner brother Set.
Speaker 3: Welcome Greg. We're about to go out there live. This
Speaker 3: should be fun in front of how many thousands of
Speaker 3: screaming fans.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I'm a little unaware of what this
Speaker 4: is gonna be.
Speaker 3: I think we sold I don't know, fifteen hundred tickets,
Speaker 3: but there's gonna be thirty two hundred people out there
Speaker 3: because that's capacity.
Speaker 1: The fire department won't let anybody.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna tense up.
Speaker 1: Okay, me too. Actually, how you doing good? Good? Doing good?
Speaker 1: All the way from uh made it all the way here?
Speaker 1: How did you get did your helicopter it in?
Speaker 4: They choppered me. You know, very nice gentleman named Hubert
Speaker 4: picked me up and drove me here.
Speaker 1: Nice?
Speaker 3: How did you get the role of Mitcham? Was it
Speaker 3: offered was it just did you You didn't really have
Speaker 3: to audition for it? Not not not an actor of
Speaker 3: your stature, right.
Speaker 1: I don't recall.
Speaker 4: You don't remember auditioning for it, you know, but you
Speaker 4: know it was one of those geks at the time
Speaker 4: where you know, you just like forget like months of auditions,
Speaker 4: like I don't even want to know about it, you
Speaker 4: know exactly. My recollection was that I was offered it,
Speaker 4: but you know it could have been, but it's that
Speaker 4: I auditioned. But I think I would have remember.
Speaker 3: Well, what was your first encounter was Amy shrin Paladino
Speaker 3: in the audition if you recall at all? Or did
Speaker 3: you meet her on set? Directed her?
Speaker 4: I met her on set. I wasn't first directed by her, No, Okay,
Speaker 4: I think maybe Jamie Babbitt was the first.
Speaker 3: Babbitt again, tell us what it's like to be directed
Speaker 3: by Amy.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: Well, it's fun because she knows, you know, every every
Speaker 4: syllable in breath that's on the page, and it's it's
Speaker 4: right there in her and and I found her very
Speaker 4: sort of supportive, energetic, fun. You know.
Speaker 1: Jim liked what I did, which I think is a
Speaker 1: very good quality. You know, and so we get too
Speaker 1: much pushback. So yeah, so we had a great time. Yeah.
Speaker 3: She was lively, energetic and fun to work with. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and she knew exactly what she wanted and she didn't
Speaker 3: waste too many words asking for something a little different,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 4: No, No, she was yeah, very succinct, I think, yeah,
Speaker 4: absolutely and clear, you know, which means that she you know,
Speaker 4: she knows the strange beasts that we call actors, you know,
Speaker 4: which you know, a lot of directors are like.
Speaker 1: What do I do with these people? Props?
Speaker 4: I know, I want this telephone over here, but you know,
Speaker 4: these people move around and stuff.
Speaker 3: So don't you love it when you get into a
Speaker 3: rehearsal or something the director goes, okay, you stand there,
Speaker 3: you stand there, you stand there, and then you walk
Speaker 3: on that line.
Speaker 1: How do you react to that kind of a thing.
Speaker 4: I just kind of roll with that stuff, you know,
Speaker 4: because yeah, because you know, unless it's like a crucial
Speaker 4: point in what you're doing with the role, you know,
Speaker 4: because you know you can get by with that. You know,
Speaker 4: you can get by with I can make this blogging work.
Speaker 4: I get most of the time, most of the time.
Speaker 3: Have you ever been in a situation where you couldn't
Speaker 3: and it was became contentious.
Speaker 4: I have been in a couple of contentious things with directors.
Speaker 4: Is about yeah, about what we were doing. But you know,
Speaker 4: no blood was shed and you know it was not
Speaker 4: any no, no firearms were used or anything. So it
Speaker 4: was but you know, uh got a little loud and
Speaker 4: then left the set to sort of talk it out.
Speaker 1: That's kind of what happened. Right. Sometimes you just you
Speaker 1: have to fight for your choices. You just must.
Speaker 3: Sometimes not a lot, No, it doesn't happen a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it does happen.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about a subject.
Speaker 3: That, uh, a lot of fans are gonna want to
Speaker 3: hear about, and that is the subject of your son
Speaker 3: in the show, Mattie Zukre.
Speaker 1: Mattie Alphabet, Mattie Alphabet and uh he uh, he's quite
Speaker 1: a delightful guy and a terrific actor. And I thought
Speaker 1: the scenes.
Speaker 3: I remember standing there watching you two go at it in.
Speaker 1: The Malibu house.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, when you came in and you were thundering
Speaker 3: away at him and he gave it.
Speaker 1: Back to you, Oh boy did he? And I just
Speaker 1: marveled at that scene.
Speaker 3: It's the first time I realized how good he was.
Speaker 1: I knew he was good, but I didn't know he
Speaker 1: was that good.
Speaker 3: Because, let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen out there,
Speaker 3: Greg Henry is one of like the real deal special
Speaker 3: actors and he can bring it and he can hold
Speaker 3: his own with anybody on the planet.
Speaker 1: And Maddie just gave as good as he got. And
Speaker 1: what an electric scene that is.
Speaker 4: It did turn out pretty good. That scene was. It
Speaker 4: was one one of the best, but it was it
Speaker 4: was fun. We had We had We had a really
Speaker 4: good time just you know, nose to nose, toe to toe,
Speaker 4: just yelling at each other like.
Speaker 1: Fathers and sons do.
Speaker 4: Sometimes it just comes to that point and uh uh,
Speaker 4: And we had a we had a great time playing that.
Speaker 4: And it's been great to see him and his career
Speaker 4: just you know, take off and be so wonderful. And
Speaker 4: because he's he's a great actor and a great guy.
Speaker 3: What kind of reactions do you get out there in
Speaker 3: airports and restaurants and people recognize you. Do you get
Speaker 3: a lot of positive recognition for Mitch?
Speaker 4: Well, now, you know, I get recognition for what I've
Speaker 4: done over the years, mitcham You know, it's sometimes it's positive.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's not so positive, if you know. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, a.
Speaker 4: Few years back when a show was first aired, I
Speaker 4: think that the fans, that young ladies were very upset.
Speaker 1: With me, you know, they were very upset with me, and.
Speaker 4: Uh, you know, and I've played a lot of sort
Speaker 4: of villains in my life life, you know, and I've
Speaker 4: done some bad, bad things as those feelings, but apparently
Speaker 4: nothing as bad as saying you don't got it, you know, right,
Speaker 4: that was it, you know. So but over the years
Speaker 4: there they've kind of mellowed and they see that maybe
Speaker 4: Mitcham wasn't quite as dastardly as they thought originally.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, they you had some redemption there. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It was pretty much like a Godzilla versus Bambi scene.
Speaker 1: It really was. But you know what it's like, that's
Speaker 1: that's the old school way.
Speaker 3: And if she's made of the right stuff, you thought,
Speaker 3: you know, she was going to overcome that criticism, you know,
Speaker 3: that tongue lashing and and go on to do great things.
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, that should have been or
Speaker 3: could have been the catalyst for a great career.
Speaker 4: Maybe it was, maybe it was right, Maybe it was
Speaker 4: you know, I think, you know, I think he was.
Speaker 4: His philosophy was tough love with with her and with
Speaker 4: you know, his kid.
Speaker 1: Right right.
Speaker 3: Try explaining that to the fan base, though, you know
Speaker 3: that's that's a different story.
Speaker 1: You and I can agree on it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, uh huh.
Speaker 1: You worked with al Pacino. I did in Scarface.
Speaker 3: You had a cameo in Scarface that I will never forget.
Speaker 1: And even before I met you.
Speaker 3: That that performance that you gave was so brief, but
Speaker 3: it left an impression on me. And I said to myself,
Speaker 3: that is a real actor. That's the real deal, because
Speaker 3: that that's a full character, that's a fully realized character,
Speaker 3: and that actor put in a great deal of thought
Speaker 3: to be that natural and that intimidating and that condescending
Speaker 3: and that imbued with power. I mean it was just
Speaker 3: and all you was lean forward and shake his hand
Speaker 3: and give.
Speaker 1: Him a look.
Speaker 4: How do you do, mister Montana?
Speaker 1: And then I knew everything about you, I mean amazing
Speaker 1: so well.
Speaker 4: It was helped a lot by the great Brian to Palmer,
Speaker 4: you know, who sort of also did this crazy sort
Speaker 4: of dolly in on me from you know, across the
Speaker 4: room down to just like extreme close up of the face,
Speaker 4: you know, which tends to give you a lot of power.
Speaker 4: But yeah, that was fun. I didn't take credit on
Speaker 4: that because I was like, it's such a small part,
Speaker 4: but I do want to, you know, I do want
Speaker 4: to meet al and I do want to you know,
Speaker 4: work with Brian and and so I did it and
Speaker 4: it was fun.
Speaker 1: What's all like on the set late.
Speaker 4: I don't know, that's what That's what I remember.
Speaker 1: We were up in Santa Barbara.
Speaker 4: We shot at this great, great big and John Alonzo
Speaker 4: was the DP and he was set up and lit
Speaker 4: and ready to go, and Brian showed up a little
Speaker 4: bit after that happened, and then we waited for you know,
Speaker 4: a few hours, and this happened out a couple of days,
Speaker 4: you know. So you know, that's what I remember. But
Speaker 4: the other thing I remember is it's al Pacino, you know,
Speaker 4: and he you know, his presence is he just kind
Speaker 4: of he just kind of vibrates with the character and
Speaker 4: with the skill and soul of the great actor that
Speaker 4: we all know him to be. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 4: it just comes, it just comes kind of shimmering off him,
Speaker 4: you know, and you can't help him sort of be
Speaker 4: invigorated by.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you imagine doing a role like that, right, and
Speaker 3: how not easily, but how well he pulled that off,
Speaker 3: and how believable that guy was. Yeah, yeah, and what
Speaker 3: a challenge, what risks he.
Speaker 4: Told, what risks he took, you know, and it's just
Speaker 4: a huge performance. And you know, there are a lot
Speaker 4: of I don't think there are a lot of but
Speaker 4: there are some al Pacino critics that thought that that was,
Speaker 4: you know, too big and over the top. But you
Speaker 4: go back and you look at Paul Muni's scarface and huge,
Speaker 4: really huge.
Speaker 1: And uh and.
Speaker 4: If if you go that large and you fill it up,
Speaker 4: it's great acting.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: It's when you try to go that large and you haven't,
Speaker 4: you haven't done the work that fills that up, that's
Speaker 4: when it's not good.
Speaker 1: But he was.
Speaker 4: He was brilliant, brilliant.
Speaker 3: I feel the same way about Olivier's hamlet. I feel
Speaker 3: the same way about Malcovich has burned this on stage?
Speaker 1: Did you see that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And he was criticized for that, how big it was.
Speaker 1: But were you were you not riveted the entire time?
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 3: So yes, agree, if they if you can fill it
Speaker 3: go right. So What are you doing now? What are
Speaker 3: you working on now? I know you're a musician. You're
Speaker 3: quite a successful musician in certain regards.
Speaker 1: Some luck as a songwriter. Yes, tell us about you know.
Speaker 4: Dwight Yoakum did a song of mine called the Back
Speaker 4: of Your Hand, which was did very well on Back
Speaker 4: on the Population Me album and and the video was
Speaker 4: number one on CMT for like you know, about two
Speaker 4: and a half months, three months, so that was very cool.
Speaker 4: And I'm working on another album now, trying to finish
Speaker 4: that up with my good friend Bruce Greenwood, who's another
Speaker 4: wonderful actor and musician. And if you're listening, it's Greg
Speaker 4: Lee Henry. When you look for my music, I had
Speaker 4: my middle name. But so I'm doing that. And I've
Speaker 4: been writing plays. I've written a couple and I have
Speaker 4: a play that's going to be produced in New Jersey
Speaker 4: and New Jersey Rap in July. Wow, so very excited
Speaker 4: about that. I get to officially add a hyphen.
Speaker 1: There, you know, another one that those are hard to earn, you.
Speaker 3: Know they are. So I've been I've been using for
Speaker 3: Wikipedia to recognize it. Yes, you want that Wikipedia recognition exactly.
Speaker 4: And I got a I got a movie in the
Speaker 4: can with Reno Wilson and Cedric the Entertainer called above
Speaker 4: the line, okay, and we're waiting to see it sort
Speaker 4: of do the festival dance, you know, to see what happens.
Speaker 3: Excellent, Greg Henry, appreciate you. Thanks for spending time with us.
Speaker 3: Thanks one of the real deal actors working today and
Speaker 3: has been working for decades.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3: We'll see you out there in what about an hour
Speaker 3: now for our live show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll be there.
Speaker 1: We're looking forward. I am looking forward to it too,
Speaker 1: Thanks buddy, all right man, thank you
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