Source of picture: Rounders lobby cards
Interview
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"It was a thrill and really fun, kind of felt like getting invited to play at
Wimbledon just because you made a tennis movie or something. We had no business being at that level of the game, but the tournament staked us the entree fee because they thought it might bring some good publicity to the tournament, which I think it did. And the players were really really- you know typically, there was a lot of silly reportage about players resenting that we were there and all this stuff. It was just nonsense. They were so nice to us and I think they had absolutely no fear that their money was going to go anywhere near us. And they knew ours would go right to them. So I think they were hoping to have us at the table. And they were friendly and happy that there was a movie that was representing the game as a sophisticated game and all kinds of stuff. So we had a ball."
"I think we both, Matt and I, conducted ourselves very respectively. We
both lasted the first half a day. Matt lasted even a little bit longer than
me. Some very big players went out before each of us, but that's mainly
just 'cause the tournament is very volatile kind of poker. We got
complemented. I don't think either of us played really bad hands. We lost on
hands where you had to have your money in. Matt got beat by Doyle Brunson,
who's one of the all-time legends. Matt had two kings and Brunson beat him
with aces over kings. I had a full house, which is like a 500,000 to 1 shot
to win in any given hand, and I lost to four tens. We both got beat by very,
very professional hands."
"Well, I think the thing that impressed me, that I came away with from
the experience of the film, that I had not known the perception of the game
changed the most, I would have lumped it with other casino gambling. I would
now equate it much, much more with chess or other sophisticated games.
There's very little luck involved in serious poker and you feel that the
minute you step into a game that's over your level because your being
outmatched and beaten so fast, you can't even follow what's going on. Just
as if you were hitting balls with Pete Sampras or something. You're not even
in your league and you only have to have that feeling once to realize
there's much, much more skill involved in the game than anything else. And
that was impressive It works on a lot of levels. There's mathematical and
odds-making skills, there's understanding the strategy of the game in terms
of position, and there's psychological perceptiveness kind of aspect of the
game, too."
"I don't look at Worm as tragic. I'm quite convinced that Worm is out
there, always two steps ahead of a beating but having a great time. I don't
think he's going to ever end up in the gutter. My operating image of Worm
was Bugs Bunny. [rumbling among the reporters]. Actually, I'm totally
serious because I think he sort of Bugs Bunny in Keith Richard's clothes.
Bugs Bunny is always scheming and always two steps ahead of a pounding but
sort of laughing as he goes and that's how Worm is. The troubles that Worm
gets in are a part of the life that he chooses, that he completely accepts.
He says it on a number of occasions that the running and the hiding and
even the occasional beating are a completely accepted part of the hustle
that he loves."
"Just what I loved about the script initially is that it's about this
relationship between these two guys that ultimately sends one guy off to
pursue his passion. It doesn't say grow up and take your street skills off
into the professional world. It says just go and do that thing that you have
to do and I like that. That's why I don't see Worm as tragic. I think that
Worm in a lot of ways, along with the judge, Worm is kind of the philosopher
king of the rounders set. He's the one who's saying be who you are and
he's completely content with who he is.
Respectfully, I sort of draw the line both for personal reasons but also
because I literally.. it just gets in the way. there's nothing that that
kind of stuff do expect that less you know the easier you'll ride with me
into the next thing that's they way I like it ad the whole point is to
affect people it's not to share between you and me as people. It's for you
to real go away thinking Worm and Mike debating the nature of this guy in
American history x the less that I'm a part of those conversation the better
in my opinion
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Source of the Clips
Hollywood.com used to have this
great section called "Movie Talk" with Real Player clips of round table
interviews taken at movie press junkets. However, nothing on the internet is eternal and this
section was eventually removed. Early on, I had tape recorded the clips and I
finally dug up the tape and recreated the clips. So the sound quality is the
best I can do. The Hollywood.com clips were not an unabridged record
of the press junkets- the reporters' questions are not included and the clips
themselves may not be EN's complete answers on the topic. How do I know this?
I obtained a copy the entire round table interview for Fight Club and
compared them to the Hollywood.com Fight Club clips. For the most part,
the differences are minor. This is probably more than you really wanted to know.
Anyway, there are similar interview clips for
Everyone Says I Love You and
American History X, as well as the uncut round table interview for
Fight Club
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