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Speaker 5: Today we're going to talk about acting in Hollywood and
Speaker 5: all kinds of stuff about the entertainment business with the
Speaker 5: Hollywood icon legendary actor Eric Roberts, star of movies such
Speaker 5: as Stared, Star eighty, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Runaway Train,
Speaker 5: King of the Gypsies. Let's see what else. The Dark Knight,
Speaker 5: a Batman movie. I think It's My Party, and so
Speaker 5: many others. Eric is just an amazing talent. He's been
Speaker 5: in over seven hundred and fifty projects in counting, and
Speaker 5: he's a really nice guy. And he's written a wonderful,
Speaker 5: very telling, very open hearted book called Runaway Train or
Speaker 5: the Story of My Life so Far. We're going to
Speaker 5: be joined by Eric's lovely wife, Eliza, who's his creative
Speaker 5: partner and manager, and also Mike Tove, who put together
Speaker 5: a project called Yard Sailing, a short film that's on
Speaker 5: the festival circuit now. Along with Eric and Eliza, so
Speaker 5: a lot to talk about right here on Guys Guys Radio.
Speaker 5: So strap in and get ready because we're going to
Speaker 5: have some fun today.
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Speaker 5: Okay, Guys Guys Radio. It is the interview portion of
Speaker 5: our show, and today's guests are one of Hollywood's most
Speaker 5: fascinating and enduring couples. Eric Roberts has appeared in over
Speaker 5: seven hundred and fifty films and TV projects, are an
Speaker 5: Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations, and build a career
Speaker 5: unlike anyone else in entertainment. Alongside him as actor, casting director, producer,
Speaker 5: and creative partner Eliza Roberts, who's on waivering support and
Speaker 5: perspective have helped shape one of Hollywood's most remarkable love stories.
Speaker 5: And we're also going to meet filmmaker Michael Toe who,
Speaker 5: along with Tom Logan, created and developed Yard Sandling, which
Speaker 5: I just watched today for the second time, a short
Speaker 5: film featuring Michael, Eric, excuse me, and Eliza. And today
Speaker 5: we're going to discuss Eric's candidate and compelling autobiography that
Speaker 5: I just finished. It's called Runaway Train, book that explores fame, family, addiction, redemption, resilience,
Speaker 5: and the power of second chances and his ongoing legendary
Speaker 5: actoring career, along with Eliza's perspectives and Mike's journey to
Speaker 5: getting a filmmate in Hollywood in these crazy days. So
Speaker 5: welcome the three of you. Welcome, Mike, Welcome, Eric, Welcome, Eliza,
Speaker 5: the guys, Guys Radio. I'm so thrilled to have you here.
Speaker 5: I'm not used to having three juggling three at a time,
Speaker 5: but we'll make a go of it. So Eric, before
Speaker 5: we got on the air, Eric, you mentioned that Eliza
Speaker 5: had urged you to run to write Runaway Train. Why
Speaker 5: now and why is the title Runaway Train.
Speaker 6: Well, there is no why now, because it could be
Speaker 6: why anytime, Because for years the people said to me,
Speaker 6: when you're you gonna write your book? And I've said
Speaker 6: for years, I'm not writing a book. And then and
Speaker 6: then all my friends are coming to me, when a're
Speaker 6: you gonna write your book. I'm not writing the book, guys.
Speaker 6: And then and then publishers started calling me, when are
Speaker 6: you going to write a book. I'm not writing a boat. Guys.
Speaker 6: My wife comes to me and goes, when you're writing
Speaker 6: a book.
Speaker 5: Now you're writing the book.
Speaker 6: So he said to her, will you help me? And
Speaker 6: just what do you mean? I said, well, I'm going
Speaker 6: to embellish. I need help because I knew I would.
Speaker 6: So I asked an editor and I wrote a book. Well,
Speaker 6: it took me two years to write the book. I
Speaker 6: did not name the book. The publisher named the book
Speaker 6: because they said your life is a Runaway Train.
Speaker 5: And of course that's an Academy Award nominated film that
Speaker 5: you were in and you got a nod for Best
Speaker 5: Actor in that. I believe we're best supporting our best actor.
Speaker 5: You and John Voyd were together.
Speaker 6: He got a nod for Best Actor. I got a
Speaker 6: nod for Best Supporting Act.
Speaker 5: Here You Go and a great film. And I also
Speaker 5: watched that one with my son. He said, I want
Speaker 5: to watch that again. Oh, I love that fantastic. He's
Speaker 5: got really good taste. He's thirteen. So Eric's also been
Speaker 5: a star of Popa Gruner's Village, one of my all
Speaker 5: time favorite movies with Mickey Rourke and Eric Dark Knight,
Speaker 5: and Star eight and so many other projects. I believe
Speaker 5: obviously over seven hundred and fifty. So you started out
Speaker 5: in New York and I think we're around the same age,
Speaker 5: even though you look a lot better. But we were
Speaker 5: in the Upper West Side of New York City back
Speaker 5: around nineteen eighty or so, and it was very different.
Speaker 5: You weren't used to hang out at Cafe Central. I
Speaker 5: remember there was a place called Ruel's on Columbus Avenue,
Speaker 5: and I don't think people remember that the Upper west
Speaker 5: Side was nowhere back then. Tell us about your experience
Speaker 5: back there and how it shaped you for future performances.
Speaker 6: Well, when I got hip to the Upper west Side,
Speaker 6: it was nineteen seventy six. Okay, buy an entire roundstone
Speaker 6: for forty thousand dollars that had water and no electricity,
Speaker 6: and it was like that, and you could buy these
Speaker 6: whole buildings for no money that had nothing in them,
Speaker 6: and he had to redo them and everybody was doing that.
Speaker 6: He's haventy six, seven, eight, nine, eighty one and two,
Speaker 6: and by eighty two it started to get hip and
Speaker 6: by eight five, eighty seven, eighty eight it was the
Speaker 6: place to be. You know, I just love the other
Speaker 6: web side because it had it had the park, but
Speaker 6: it was a little bit away from the action. But
Speaker 6: then it became the action, so.
Speaker 5: I left. Now, you've experienced extraordinary highs and lows along
Speaker 5: your career. Looking back, what period of your life was
Speaker 5: the most difficulty for you to write about? Because I
Speaker 5: have to tell everybody out there, first of all, read
Speaker 5: this book. It's the best autobiography I ever read, because
Speaker 5: it's so from the heart. You just opened up and
Speaker 5: let it out there, and there's things like WHOA, I
Speaker 5: don't even Eliza, were you surprised at some of this
Speaker 5: stuff that was that came out during the writing process
Speaker 5: a little bit.
Speaker 7: And that's kind of fun because when you're married for
Speaker 7: a long time, you're like, wow, do we know all
Speaker 7: the stories new? And then to learn a couple of
Speaker 7: new things or just new details.
Speaker 6: Was great.
Speaker 7: So yes, I was surprised.
Speaker 6: Like a great a great face she made one day
Speaker 6: shows you what you robbed a drug store. That was
Speaker 6: kind of fun.
Speaker 5: Now you draw on in your acting career. I forget
Speaker 5: the name of the technique you mentioned in the book
Speaker 5: where you know you can make yourself cry. You think
Speaker 5: about something that happened earlier in life, and you had
Speaker 5: such a tough childhood because you were getting it from
Speaker 5: both sides, your mom and your dad. How how did you,
Speaker 5: first of all, how did you get through that? And secondly,
Speaker 5: how do you draw off of that those experiences to
Speaker 5: make you such a wonderful actor.
Speaker 6: Well, thank you so much for all those kind words. Well,
Speaker 6: I thought I invented method acting because I'm eight years
Speaker 6: old and I realized I could make myself cry by
Speaker 6: thinking of something that would make me cry. And so
Speaker 6: I thought I invented method acting. And and I and
Speaker 6: I and I told all the older kids about it, like, oh, guys,
Speaker 6: I've got a great plan, and I would tell everybody
Speaker 6: how to do it, and and and I and I
Speaker 6: thought it was mine up until I got older and
Speaker 6: I found out it was just sence memory, and it
Speaker 6: had been patented by many people many decades before my birth.
Speaker 6: But I didn't know that, and so I kind of
Speaker 6: looked at myself when I got hit to that, I
Speaker 6: kinda I kind of realized I was a born actor
Speaker 6: and and I just wallowed him it.
Speaker 5: Well, that sense memory. I remember while I was watching
Speaker 5: popa Grienwish Village the other day, there's a scene early
Speaker 5: on where Charlie and Paulie get fired from the restaurant
Speaker 5: and and Paulie's giving Charlie a hard time, and he's
Speaker 5: oats and he's got the two bottles of Remy there,
Speaker 5: or the bottle of Remy and his jacket. And at
Speaker 5: the end of the scene, you there's a shot of
Speaker 5: him and there's a little tear welled up in his eye.
Speaker 5: Do you remember that and what what if so, what
Speaker 5: did you draw on to to bring you that emotion?
Speaker 5: Because I read like, oh, he's got he's giving Charlie
Speaker 5: a hard time, but there's some shame there.
Speaker 6: Well, that's the point you have to You have to
Speaker 6: let the audience know that your character does know better
Speaker 6: or else on givable and if they're unforgivable, they're they're
Speaker 6: they're not umbraceable, and and Pauli was such an f up.
Speaker 6: You had to embracing or you had it discarding, and
Speaker 6: I was hell bent on making him very embraceable.
Speaker 5: Now, I remember reading that you had a hard time
Speaker 5: kind of pushing through your vision for Paulie, and I
Speaker 5: admire you because in a lot of roles, you you
Speaker 5: have a vision for how you want to play the
Speaker 5: character and you're very committed to it and you stick
Speaker 5: to your gun. So that's great. Now with Paulie, you
Speaker 5: got some pushback because you made the character more a
Speaker 5: little bit more a feminine, a little weaker than I
Speaker 5: don't say a feminine in a bad way, but in
Speaker 5: like a less masculine traditional It wasn't a macho guy,
Speaker 5: and you had the perm and everything. And then there
Speaker 5: was also you and Charlie would walk arm in arm
Speaker 5: And I'm an Italian from New York City and I
Speaker 5: know the village and I lived back there. But that
Speaker 5: was cool that the way that you did that. What
Speaker 5: was your thinking around that, because I know from reading
Speaker 5: your book that Mickey had some type of issues with
Speaker 5: that kind of behind the scenes, like he didn't know
Speaker 5: if he really was buying into the way you were
Speaker 5: attacking the role. Yet it worked perfectly.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he. He was a big help by the way.
Speaker 6: He was not a hindrance at all. You know, make
Speaker 6: Make Make Mick was a team player for me in
Speaker 6: that role.
Speaker 7: It was the first director who wasn't right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the first the guy that brought into to direct
Speaker 6: the movie originally did not agree with my portrayal. He
Speaker 6: thought it should be much tougher as is written, and
Speaker 6: blah blah blah. And I tried to reason with him
Speaker 6: and said, no, but that's been done a lot, and
Speaker 6: I want to play something different that we all know about.
Speaker 6: And we all we all go, oh my god, yeah,
Speaker 6: I've like seen that well and uh, and he didn't
Speaker 6: want me to do it, so uh. They brought in
Speaker 6: a another director, Shot Rosenberg, who directed a great movie.
Speaker 5: The book was very good also. I don't know if
Speaker 5: you had a chance to read the novel, but it's
Speaker 5: a really good story, well written.
Speaker 6: The book is one of my favorite books. It is
Speaker 6: fair fantastic and it's exactly like our treenplay. We're very
Speaker 6: honest with the book. We're very we're very loyal to
Speaker 6: the book because the book kicks ass dude.
Speaker 5: Now, out of all your roles, what what one when
Speaker 5: you think back and immediately say this is that was
Speaker 5: my That's it, that's my number one. Do you have
Speaker 5: one or they like babies where you kind of love
Speaker 5: them all in different ways?
Speaker 6: Well, uh, I've got, I've got. I made many movies,
Speaker 6: so I have many favorites. King of the Gypsies, Aby,
Speaker 6: Runaway Train, It's My Party, Love is a Gun, Purgatory.
Speaker 6: Those are my six favorites?
Speaker 5: Really? Okay? Uh? How come you choose them? You have
Speaker 5: them right at the tip of your tongue there, what's
Speaker 5: what's the what's the thinking?
Speaker 6: Because they're they're o my brain's tip because I'm asking
Speaker 6: this question a lot, but also because they they all
Speaker 6: change my life. Those parts, all those parts change personally.
Speaker 5: Now as working actors, you and Eliza and Mike, it's
Speaker 5: so busy out there, there's so many roles. Is this
Speaker 5: is this? What do you think? What do you think
Speaker 5: of what's happened to Hollywood where it's not as centralized anymore?
Speaker 5: That there's so much, so many more, there's a need
Speaker 5: for stories. There's so many more films and TV shows
Speaker 5: being made. I mean I guess it's great for a
Speaker 5: guy like you, But how do you navigate that and
Speaker 5: is it a good thing? And how do you pick
Speaker 5: and choose because you've got so many roles and I'm
Speaker 5: sure you haven't lined up from like Eliza's got them
Speaker 5: lined up for you between now and the end of
Speaker 5: the year.
Speaker 6: I want to I want to interject something at the
Speaker 6: top of that question. You called us working actors. We
Speaker 6: called our school Working Actor.
Speaker 5: Okay, fantastic. Where is the school.
Speaker 6: It's right here, it's you're looking at it.
Speaker 7: Well, you teach. You teach every Saturday here in La Okay.
Speaker 7: And also we do a lot of coaching and stuff.
Speaker 7: So and we call it working actor because it's also
Speaker 7: a double entendre besides the actual work as an artist.
Speaker 7: We teach the business, the realities of the business, and
Speaker 7: you know just how to filter through the advice you
Speaker 7: get from your agents and from other friends, and what
Speaker 7: our view is of how to do this job.
Speaker 5: Okay, guys, guys radio, My special guests are Eric Robberts,
Speaker 5: Eliza Robbers and Mike Tobin. Forgive me, Mike, We're going
Speaker 5: to get to you. The reason I've been focused more
Speaker 5: on Eric and Eliza now, because they're going to have
Speaker 5: to jump at some point in the broadcast, and we'll know.
Speaker 8: That's great because I'm just enjoying it.
Speaker 5: So I love you, Mike.
Speaker 6: Thanks.
Speaker 8: I love you guys too.
Speaker 5: Now, Eliza, you have so many different roles, whether it's
Speaker 5: manager of Eric and he sounds like he could be
Speaker 5: a handful casting director, actor and mom and really kind
Speaker 5: of the son and the solar system of your family.
Speaker 5: Is there one of those roles that you enjoy more
Speaker 5: than the others are all equal?
Speaker 7: Well, I mean, obviously the mom and grandma thing is
Speaker 7: just huge to the two legged creatures and also the
Speaker 7: four legged creatures or various different kinds of animals Finns
Speaker 7: and whatever. But you know, centrally, I'm I'm an actress
Speaker 7: and and everything else kind of stems from there. So
Speaker 7: casting was sort of a natural outgrowth of that, even
Speaker 7: though it's not viewed that way or didn't used to be.
Speaker 7: And and then managing Eric was, as you say, it
Speaker 7: just it just seemed like we should bring this in house.
Speaker 7: There was there, it was nobody had the sensitivity. It's
Speaker 7: also just a lot you can't expect that of somebody,
Speaker 7: and there's so many layers to managing an artist because
Speaker 7: a lot of it has to do with, you know,
Speaker 7: how they're feeling. A lot of it is psychology, a
Speaker 7: lot of it is emotional, and you know, there's just
Speaker 7: it's it's a very holistic approach. So but I acting
Speaker 7: is my thing.
Speaker 5: Got it? You know, the entertainment industry it's often celebrates
Speaker 5: success but at hides struggles. Eric, what do you what
Speaker 5: do you hope that readers experience from your experienperiences from
Speaker 5: drug addictions and recovery. What do you want the readers
Speaker 5: to take away from this from your story?
Speaker 6: Well, many many things. But but since you brought up
Speaker 6: the the drug addiction to to let people know there
Speaker 6: are second chances that you can start over, and you
Speaker 6: can start over even better than you were before because
Speaker 6: you're older, you know more, you have more, you've experienced more,
Speaker 6: you understand yourself and uh, and you stop lying to
Speaker 6: yourself at about at about thirty five thirty eight, you
Speaker 6: finally get tried to line to yourself and you stop.
Speaker 6: You just stop. When they get to go what was
Speaker 6: they doing? And and you and you realize that you
Speaker 6: were but you didn't know it when you were in
Speaker 6: it but once you're above it and once you see it,
Speaker 6: it's just an asset to understand. And then if you
Speaker 6: have somebody, then then then you can share it and
Speaker 6: you from it and you get oh yeah, and you
Speaker 6: cannot repeat yourself because that's that's that's the pitfall. We
Speaker 6: repeat ourselves because we think we can get away with it.
Speaker 6: Now you can't. You can't that.
Speaker 5: Now. I'm going to assume that a lot of this,
Speaker 5: a lot of your personal struggles came from your family struggles,
Speaker 5: and both of you really had tough family situations at times.
Speaker 5: How did you manage to get through that? And how
Speaker 5: do you manage to put that into your work in
Speaker 5: a constructive way? Because to me, you are nobody can
Speaker 5: be you Eric or Eliza based on your experiences and
Speaker 5: a lot of it I think comes out your personal
Speaker 5: experience come out through your work. That by design.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna let you answer that, but uh, I just
Speaker 6: have to say that that that that question. Everybody has
Speaker 6: their story. Everybody has an issue to deal with or many,
Speaker 6: and it's how you how you do it that that
Speaker 6: makes your winner or not. And my wife is my
Speaker 6: whole understanding of myself help. I saw myself through her
Speaker 6: for many years after. I can see myself from myself
Speaker 6: and she was very kind to me, and I apparently
Speaker 6: needed that because it altered me and it was it
Speaker 6: was fun to do.
Speaker 5: Do you want to add anything, Eliza to that?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I you know, that's that's really true. Kindness is
Speaker 7: like huge. Alice Miller wrote a book, well, many books,
Speaker 7: but The Untouched Keys, and she explores whether trauma is
Speaker 7: necessary in order to be creative and why some people who've,
Speaker 7: you know, had some kind of abuse in their childhood
Speaker 7: become serial killers and some people are fine. No one's fine.
Speaker 7: But she explores that, and I really think it's a
Speaker 7: matter of really starkly questioning what you're going for. Some people,
Speaker 7: for instance, become parents because they want to boss someone around.
Speaker 7: It doesn't come afterwards. It's not like your parent. And
Speaker 7: then you find yourself bossing these kids around. That's kind
Speaker 7: of your drive. So I think we all have to
Speaker 7: be really honest with ourselves about our drives. And in
Speaker 7: that sense, you know, and that drive comes a lot
Speaker 7: from how you process the stuff that happened in early
Speaker 7: childhood and what you're still trying to do even though
Speaker 7: it's you know, it's not fixable. You can't you can't
Speaker 7: turn the clock back. You can't choose a different family
Speaker 7: when you have to figure out what path that set
Speaker 7: you on, and that will really affect how you play
Speaker 7: your characters, what characters you play, whether you screw up
Speaker 7: your whole career, in your life and your relationships. I mean,
Speaker 7: it's just a matter of really taking an honest look,
Speaker 7: not at the people who influenced you yourself.
Speaker 5: Now, Eric, you passed on a couple of big roles
Speaker 5: earlier in career. In your career, like Jesus, you're going
Speaker 5: to work with Scorsese, and your manager talked to you
Speaker 5: out of that, and I think there was a few
Speaker 5: others mentioned in the book, and then you had an opportunity,
Speaker 5: I think, to work with Tarantino. It didn't work out
Speaker 5: exactly the way you want it, but obviously he's interested
Speaker 5: in you. Who are the folks that you want to
Speaker 5: work with? Now, I mean, you've done it all, you
Speaker 5: must have some like Okay, I still haven't gotten that one.
Speaker 5: I still haven't worked with this person.
Speaker 6: Well, I hate I hate I hate naming people because
Speaker 6: if you name one, you know you leave out three, right,
Speaker 6: But Tarantino and I have a date that's that's yet
Speaker 6: to happen, and we need to make it happen.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 7: I like to see him work with Nancy Myers. See
Speaker 7: I mean that's like whole polar opposite end. But I mean, listen,
Speaker 7: there's some fabulous directors coming up, you know, just coming
Speaker 7: up through the ranks. There's there are It's true, there
Speaker 7: are so many. There's so many times we go to
Speaker 7: the movies that we see something on TV and I
Speaker 7: go nuts, and he's like, I want to work with them?
Speaker 7: Who are go that guy, that guy, that girl.
Speaker 6: I got over with them. We got to do it.
Speaker 7: Whoever's doing Paradise for instead of Reach and we are
Speaker 7: friently with Sterling K. Brown. I mean, there's just it's endless.
Speaker 7: There's a lot out there.
Speaker 5: Yew As a Hollywood couple, obviously, Eric, you've been like
Speaker 5: a chick magnet for forever, and I think from what
Speaker 5: I read that you kind of took advantage of that
Speaker 5: for quite some time. And now you're with your rock
Speaker 5: for many, many years. How do you make it work?
Speaker 5: Because Holly, you know, people see you when they think
Speaker 5: you're the role and they just they just want to
Speaker 5: you know, bag a star type of thing. How do
Speaker 5: you manage all of that?
Speaker 6: I gotta be honest with you. The undoing of it
Speaker 6: all is the hard part. Because I had like I had,
Speaker 6: like I had like a dozen seward this is in
Speaker 6: a dozen cities, and a lot of good stuff lined
Speaker 6: up for my for my fun and travels and uh,
Speaker 6: and it had to stop like overnight. And that was
Speaker 6: hard because I had a lot of phone calls to make,
Speaker 6: and it was it was difficult. So the first six
Speaker 6: months of our marriage were dicey, and she kept saying,
Speaker 6: where have you been? Oh? No, But then after everybody
Speaker 6: was informed, it's been great. Ever since it has been,
Speaker 6: it's been really something. And I did not expect it.
Speaker 6: I did not think it was ever going to happen,
Speaker 6: but it did.
Speaker 5: That's fantastic and really inspirational story. I think it was
Speaker 5: Roger Staubach said. He was asked, you know, well, how
Speaker 5: come you don't have all these different women, your famous
Speaker 5: Dallas cowboy quarterback, And he said, you can go deeper
Speaker 5: with one woman than you can spreading yourself around. And
Speaker 5: I've always remember that. And when I met my wife
Speaker 5: in New York, she said, why are you still on
Speaker 5: these online services and stuff. Why don't we just go
Speaker 5: out and see if it works and if it doesn't work,
Speaker 5: then you go out with who you want. But if
Speaker 5: it works, well, we've been married sixteen years and we
Speaker 5: have a beautiful son, so it can work. So your
Speaker 5: story is an inspiration and thank you.
Speaker 6: Thank you man. Yeah, I'm so in love with her,
Speaker 6: even more now than I was then because I know
Speaker 6: what I have now. It's fantastic.
Speaker 7: But you've done a lot of interviews about the book.
Speaker 7: You're the one who brought that up, and I'm so
Speaker 7: glad you because that was something that we decided to
Speaker 7: talk about and it's universal, God knows, so so I'm
Speaker 7: just glad you did because that's that's a fascinating subject
Speaker 7: and could go on and on forever and ever and ever.
Speaker 7: That's sorry. Our travel agent. She she's great.
Speaker 5: So what was the toughest area to write about Eric
Speaker 5: in the book?
Speaker 6: Well, the hardest part is the drug addiction because you're
Speaker 6: so you're so you're so subjective when you're in it,
Speaker 6: and you're also intoxicated, so you're not honest on two levels.
Speaker 6: So you have to undo the dishonesty in order to
Speaker 6: write about it. That was the hard part. And because
Speaker 6: you have to be very specific, can very pedantic as
Speaker 6: it were. You have to really spell it out. You
Speaker 6: can't talk about it generally. And so I did.
Speaker 5: And and was it very cathartic for you, Eric to
Speaker 5: write the book?
Speaker 6: Well, it was, but it was also and also even
Speaker 6: not just thinking about it, I could cry because such
Speaker 6: are wasting my time and my life. And then and
Speaker 6: then to write about it kind of confirms that. And
Speaker 6: so you get very depressed and you get very unhappy,
Speaker 6: but not as excuse but as a matter of fact.
Speaker 6: But I came out of it with this yes, and
Speaker 6: it's right now, this counts right, Yeah, And I'm so
Speaker 6: proud of her and I like her so much, and uh,
Speaker 6: there's so much fun to have her. And she's funny.
Speaker 6: We had the best, funniest relationship and that's that's half
Speaker 6: the package. Dude.
Speaker 5: Awesome. So my special guests on Guys Guys Radio, Eric Roberts,
Speaker 5: Eliza Roberts, Mike Toe. Let's get to Mike's project. I
Speaker 5: know Mike worked with Tom Logan, and I think you
Speaker 5: guys know Tom, is that how did this whole thing
Speaker 5: yard sale or get.
Speaker 7: Together heay one set before we start, Eric does have
Speaker 7: to go to do his photo session, and just so,
Speaker 7: do you want to give like a nutshell while he's
Speaker 7: still here? Michael, Yeah, yeah, I do.
Speaker 8: But I want to take a half step back and
Speaker 8: make an observation because one of the things, and I'm
Speaker 8: just going to say this, one of the greatest things
Speaker 8: about you guys, is just what an incredible couple.
Speaker 5: You guys really are.
Speaker 8: It's just remarkable to me. And tomorrow is my wife
Speaker 8: Mira's in my thirty fourth anniversary, and I know that
Speaker 8: you guys are only less than two months off for that,
Speaker 8: so you're coming up on thirty four, right, yep. And awesome, awesome, awesome.
Speaker 8: But you guys are just amazing and wonderful and I
Speaker 8: tell everybody about you constantly because you really are. Anyway,
Speaker 8: so Yard Sailing, well, well, it was a film I
Speaker 8: kinda devised years and years and years ago and just
Speaker 8: never had the opportunity to be able to put it together,
Speaker 8: because it's a whole lot harder to do something like
Speaker 8: that than what people who've never been in the industry understand.
Speaker 8: I mean, oh my goodness, gracious, talk about an eye
Speaker 8: opener and so it fundamentally took the right people, and
Speaker 8: that started with Tom Logan. And you guys have known
Speaker 8: Tom for Tom says forty years. So but Tom and
Speaker 8: I about just over two years ago, we were just
Speaker 8: talking about some other stuff. I've known Tom for oh
Speaker 8: my god, ten years or more now, and I literally
Speaker 8: go out, I said, hey, are you at all interested
Speaker 8: in doing a short? And he basically said, let's see
Speaker 8: what you got. And so I sent him the script
Speaker 8: and he goes, yeah, this is good, and he says
Speaker 8: it needs work. But so we spent work and six
Speaker 8: weeks tweaking the script. And then the next thing, I
Speaker 8: know where you have a crew in San Diego, an
Speaker 8: amazing crew, and then we start casting and Tom literally.
Speaker 9: Calls me up because Eliza, you sent in the tape.
Speaker 9: And Eric was in the background and Tom called me
Speaker 9: and he says, you will never believe who just sent
Speaker 9: a tape in And he sent it to me and
Speaker 9: I was going, oh my god, is this for real?
Speaker 9: And I said I want him. I did, and immediately
Speaker 9: and we you know, and I mean it.
Speaker 8: Took a little while to go through all of that.
Speaker 8: One of the concerns that Tom had was that he
Speaker 8: didn't want it to look like we were doing any
Speaker 8: inside favors and and and so. But I but Eliza,
Speaker 8: you were amazing from the get go. And Eric, I
Speaker 8: always thought you would be fabulous as Senator Deppon from.
Speaker 5: The very start.
Speaker 8: I just saw it. I don't know how, I don't
Speaker 8: know how to describe it. And so what happened was
Speaker 8: is that there was a Tom had a medical situation
Speaker 8: when we were first supposed to shoot, and we had
Speaker 8: to delay it. And because of that.
Speaker 5: That's how we got the both of you.
Speaker 8: And literally, I mean as recently as yesterday, Tom was
Speaker 8: saying how great it was that he had to go
Speaker 8: through that medical thing, because it's how we got you guys.
Speaker 6: I mean, well, and is this is a great example
Speaker 6: of like of like people hearing this story annoying. I
Speaker 6: make movies because it's so freaking fun. Yes, you meet
Speaker 6: such cool a people and I have such fun every
Speaker 6: day of my life.
Speaker 7: Okay, on that note, I have to take him downstairs,
Speaker 7: are you guys?
Speaker 5: Okay guys? Yeah, Eric, Oh my god, Eric, thank you
Speaker 5: so much.
Speaker 8: I have a great time.
Speaker 5: Eric. Yes, okay, Okay, Eliza, you coming back or are
Speaker 5: you going coming back? Okay, So Eliza's coming back on
Speaker 5: Guys Guys Radio. We've got Mike Topes. So tell us, Mike,
Speaker 5: before you got to your kind of quote unquote lucky
Speaker 5: break that you work so hard for. What was your
Speaker 5: path getting into the kind of system?
Speaker 8: Oh? My god, So I way back, and I'm talking
Speaker 8: about forty years ago. I knew I was a storyteller
Speaker 8: and I wanted to do that even even further back
Speaker 8: than that. But I just made the decision or just
Speaker 8: not even that, that I wanted to make movies because
Speaker 8: I'm a visual oriented person. I love film, and so
Speaker 8: I didn't have a clue. So what happened was is
Speaker 8: I answered a cattle call for a feature film for
Speaker 8: The Handmaid's Tale, and I got in and from the
Speaker 8: moment I showed up on set the first time, and
Speaker 8: that was literally when I went to the the location
Speaker 8: office for for Just Wardrobe, I got bit by the
Speaker 8: bug so bad and it was it was transformative.
Speaker 5: Did you have your say? How did you deal with
Speaker 5: the whole you know, getting on?
Speaker 8: Oh I didn't. I I did a lot of films,
Speaker 8: always as a either non union or or union, as
Speaker 8: a as an extra or a featured extra, hoping to
Speaker 8: get a SAG card and never did. And then finally
Speaker 8: when I am now doing yard Sailing and I'm in it,
Speaker 8: but I'm also the writer and I'm the producer, I
Speaker 8: sign my own TAFT Hartley, so I'm SAG eligible. I'm
Speaker 8: not joining because A I'm not really trying to be
Speaker 8: an actor anymore. Secondly, I'm in North Carolina, which is
Speaker 8: right to work. So if and when SAG makes me join,
Speaker 8: I guess I will. But I'm not rushing to join
Speaker 8: the Screen Actors Guild or for that matter, the Producer's
Speaker 8: Guild or the Writer's Guild. I you know, I'm at
Speaker 8: a point in life where the benefits of it are
Speaker 8: just minimal or not there, and why give up? Well,
Speaker 8: I give up a portion of my earnings and so forth.
Speaker 6: So but yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Mean, do you have a manager? Does Eliza work? Do
Speaker 5: you work with Eliza or no? Okay, no, I don't
Speaker 5: have a manager. I have a pr rap Glori, and
Speaker 5: that came from Eliza. But other than that, no, I
Speaker 5: don't have an agent. I you know, I'm writing my
Speaker 5: own stuff. I've got multiple multiple scripts I'm working on. Well,
Speaker 5: I was working on three projects and we kind of
Speaker 5: pushed one to the back burner for a little while.
Speaker 8: But I've got well four projects anyway, three So I've
Speaker 8: got I've got a couple of projects that I'm doing
Speaker 8: right now and it's because I make friends in the
Speaker 8: industry and then we just do stuff. And then I'm
Speaker 8: working on a feature that Tom will direct and and
Speaker 8: hopefully we'll have Eliza maybe more in it, and well
Speaker 8: we need but so you know, and I mean after that,
Speaker 8: I've got I don't know half four or five cent scripts.
Speaker 5: Let me ask you this, Mike, the different hats you wear,
Speaker 5: which is the most challenging, and production is very obviously
Speaker 5: being a producer line producer is really tough. And writing,
Speaker 5: of course, you know it's all about the writing. But
Speaker 5: for you, what's been the biggest challenge and where have you?
Speaker 5: What are some of the lessons you've learned?
Speaker 8: Well, man, the hardest part is just getting the financing.
Speaker 8: I mean, that's the tough part. But I'm not the
Speaker 8: one that's doing that. I have a production partner who
Speaker 8: is pretty good at that, and so I just leave
Speaker 8: that to her to do it. But everything else it
Speaker 8: isn't hard. I know, it's supposed to be but writing
Speaker 8: to me is easy literally and and and then the
Speaker 8: producing is it's just because I'm pressing forward with the
Speaker 8: vision and mentally I'm always organizing this stuff.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 8: It's just the way I think, in the way I am,
Speaker 8: so to me, it's kind of logical.
Speaker 5: Okay. My special guest, one of my special guests today,
Speaker 5: Mike Toe. We're talking about Yard selling his short film,
Speaker 5: award winning short film which features our other guests, Eric Roberts,
Speaker 5: who had the lead to go to a photo shoot
Speaker 5: and his wife Eliza, who's going to be back in
Speaker 5: momentarily hopefully. So when the different parts of the filmmaking process,
Speaker 5: how for those out there who are interested in following
Speaker 5: your path, Mike, what would be your advice? It is
Speaker 5: a financial business and you have a production partner. How
Speaker 5: did you get your production partner and to review the
Speaker 5: script and say I can get behind this, I'm going
Speaker 5: to go pitch it.
Speaker 8: No, no, because these are people that I've known for
Speaker 8: a long time, and you know, it's funny. Eric talked
Speaker 8: about how it's fun and to me, it really starts
Speaker 8: off with making friends with people in the industry and
Speaker 8: then just collaborating. Colatt and I have been working on
Speaker 8: multiple projects for a long time, and and Eric in Eliza.
Speaker 8: Though this was the first project I've worked on with them,
Speaker 8: I have complete confidence and certainty that I'm going to
Speaker 8: be working with them again. And Tom and I are
Speaker 8: just really good friends and we just you know, it's
Speaker 8: there's no there's no magic, Elick, sir, to do this.
Speaker 8: It's about developing connections. And people ask me how do
Speaker 8: I break in? And it's like, well you have to start, hey, Eliza, Eliza.
Speaker 10: And.
Speaker 8: I'm talking about just how do you break into the industry?
Speaker 8: And in my case, I'm saying, you just have to
Speaker 8: develop connections. And then I was about to say that
Speaker 8: you have to become an absolute student of the industry.
Speaker 8: You have to train, you have to learn, you have
Speaker 8: to devote yourself to it because it doesn't come easy
Speaker 8: and it doesn't come quick and if you're if you
Speaker 8: don't take it seriously, it won't take you seriously.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you're a master of that.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 7: It's changed so much as you were saying Robert before,
Speaker 7: and these days you really can. I mean, you create
Speaker 7: an actor's access profile, you start submitting yourself. You make
Speaker 7: sure that you consider it to be a job, and
Speaker 7: you don't slack off on updating your pictures and all
Speaker 7: your stuff. And it's marketing. It's like you've got to
Speaker 7: be as good at that. And it's intuitive, so you
Speaker 7: know you're looking for that tipping point, but you can't
Speaker 7: force it, but just start creating content. I mean, now
Speaker 7: we can do that. We're not sort of reliant as
Speaker 7: we used to be. But what Mike is saying is
Speaker 7: really true. To get an education so that finally the
Speaker 7: language sounds like your native language and you don't feel
Speaker 7: like an outsider anymore.
Speaker 8: The other thing is is that people who are outside
Speaker 8: trying to shortcut their way in and want a fanboy.
Speaker 8: It's recognized very fast by people in the industry, and
Speaker 8: at least in my feeling is it's a turnoff. I
Speaker 8: don't want to be around people who think that just
Speaker 8: because they're entitled for some bizarre reason, that they should
Speaker 8: just jump in and and they haven't paid their dues
Speaker 8: and they haven't they don't know what they're doing, and
Speaker 8: they think it's so easy, and they think that anybody
Speaker 8: can do it because the greats make it look easy.
Speaker 5: Interesting. So it seems like when you read about projects nowadays,
Speaker 5: it's like you have to because it's a financial business.
Speaker 5: They want to have a star connected. And it seems
Speaker 5: like with Eric and Eliza, they're like, you seem like
Speaker 5: regular people and I say, I put that in quotes,
Speaker 5: but like real people that and Eric's got to be
Speaker 5: in demand because of that. Do you find that people
Speaker 5: sometimes take advantage that's he makes himself available to good material,
Speaker 5: whereas some other people make it really like hard to play,
Speaker 5: they play really hard to get.
Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely, but it's just definitely that affects it. There's
Speaker 7: no question but that, you know, we'll do a show
Speaker 7: and you'll find that somebody with kind of a lesser
Speaker 7: name and maybe a lesser contribution is getting a lot
Speaker 7: more money whatever.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 7: But we can't force ourselves to be different from how
Speaker 7: are It would be very uncomfortable and and so therefore
Speaker 7: we kind of have the same headspace as the first
Speaker 7: day that either of us ever heard the words you
Speaker 7: got the part that that's never you know, we've preserved
Speaker 7: that it's it never really disappeared, and I think for
Speaker 7: some people it doesn't disappear, but an affectation takes place
Speaker 7: where they feel that they can't show that they're still
Speaker 7: excited about it. And and yeah, people take advantage sometimes
Speaker 7: or they'll take advantage of who who Eric's related to
Speaker 7: and try to get to them through us and stuff
Speaker 7: like that. But it's not a big issue. It's not
Speaker 7: it's it's it's always very manageable and very dealable. We're
Speaker 7: really grateful to be working period. I mean, we really
Speaker 7: appreciate it. We continue to take care of our family.
Speaker 7: You know, our kids are grown and everything, but but
Speaker 7: there now they have kids. I mean there's always you know,
Speaker 7: people need stuff and that's why we're doing this, and
Speaker 7: and so we're just really glad to be working.
Speaker 5: Now. You have I'm not sure you have a son.
Speaker 5: I don't know if it's a son or it's stepson
Speaker 5: who's in the music business. Who's done very well with.
Speaker 7: Steps and they say, bonus, he's in the music business.
Speaker 7: You know, those those businesses are cousins to each other.
Speaker 7: There are very similar stuff going on in both businesses.
Speaker 7: He's the music business. He's doing great. But it's listen,
Speaker 7: it's really it's really hard. Even people who have made
Speaker 7: it go through a lot of stuff, a lot of disappointment.
Speaker 7: And then my daughter, she's a chef and she caters
Speaker 7: movies and she's a creator. She does those incredible cakes
Speaker 7: that look like other things and stuff. And she and
Speaker 7: her wife live really close to us, thank goodness, and
Speaker 7: they have two little girls and her wife's a labor
Speaker 7: and delivery nurse. My family refers to her as the
Speaker 7: person in the family who has the real job, and
Speaker 7: we kind of envier. I mean, you know, there's retirement
Speaker 7: and stuff. I mean, that's those jobs in the world.
Speaker 7: Are they offer a lot that we can't offer.
Speaker 5: People don't realize that. I remember in Eric's buck he
Speaker 5: mentions the fact that, you know, those people think that
Speaker 5: actors are just kind of printing money, and it's not
Speaker 5: necessarily the case. Being a working actor and working actors
Speaker 5: it's it's uh, it's challenging, and you have to be
Speaker 5: on it all the time. And one of the things
Speaker 5: I admire about what you're some of the decisions you've made,
Speaker 5: and how you've driven the process aize it is that Eric,
Speaker 5: you know, he was open to music videos and he's
Speaker 5: a huge music video icon because of that. And it's
Speaker 5: just I guess if you're trying to break into the business,
Speaker 5: you have to be open to a lot of different ideas.
Speaker 5: You have to be selective, of course, but you have
Speaker 5: to have an open mind. Is that Is that true?
Speaker 7: Absolutely? Because I mean it's it's all a gamble. So otherwise,
Speaker 7: what you're trying to do is protect predict algorithms, trends,
Speaker 7: you know, outcomes. That's that's exhausting and not fun to
Speaker 7: try to predict all that. So instead you find one
Speaker 7: element that compels you to say yes, and then you
Speaker 7: just have a good time and let go. I mean,
Speaker 7: you're not there for the result. You support the project
Speaker 7: like we're doing right now, you know, with your because
Speaker 7: we love it, believe in it, we love all the people.
Speaker 7: But yeah, you don't. It's in the old days. I
Speaker 7: think they used to try to do that. It didn't work.
Speaker 7: It's never worked it, so yeah, just jump in.
Speaker 5: Okay, one last question for both of you. What's your
Speaker 5: best piece of advice to our audience out there burgaining filmmakers.
Speaker 12: Oh my god, My best piece of advice is is
Speaker 12: to become a student of the industry and never ever
Speaker 12: ever give up, never quit, and never listen to the
Speaker 12: people who tell you what makes you think, what makes
Speaker 12: you think you can blah blah.
Speaker 7: Blah okay, Eliza, I would say it's do it. Start
Speaker 7: doing it right now, put in that Malcolm Gladwell, practice
Speaker 7: and and and absolutely just kind of eye on the
Speaker 7: ball and keep going in every way that you possibly can.
Speaker 7: And you know, so that would that would be a
Speaker 7: definitely also study, you know, study the trends and the
Speaker 7: artists and what's going on. There's room for new filmmakers.
Speaker 7: Every year there are new people who come along. And
Speaker 7: in terms of what you said about it, it feels
Speaker 7: like you have to attach a name first to get
Speaker 7: your financing. Look at anor I mean, you know, look
Speaker 7: what happened there probably who god knows how many people
Speaker 7: turn that movie down, and there are a lot that
Speaker 7: happens a lot, and then we make stars. I think
Speaker 7: the whole star thing first needs to end because it's
Speaker 7: ridiculous and and it's never been necessary. But I think
Speaker 7: just go for it. That would be my main advice.
Speaker 5: Fantastic, Mike Toe, good luck. Yard sailing is the move.
Speaker 5: Look for it everybody where can do Where can people
Speaker 5: see it out there? Mike?
Speaker 8: Actually it's on my website.
Speaker 5: So what's your website?
Speaker 8: Yeah, Emeraldoakproductions dot.
Speaker 5: Com fantastic and Eliza anything new we need to know
Speaker 5: about where everybody to look for. I know Eric, so
Speaker 5: every time I go online, I see he's appearing someplace else.
Speaker 12: I know.
Speaker 7: There's so much. There is actually so much cool stuff.
Speaker 7: I would say for everybody to look at Hippo, which
Speaker 7: is Dan McBrien and company production. And definitely yard Sailing
Speaker 7: because we really do love yard sailing. It was really
Speaker 7: fun and we really love it. And then just I
Speaker 7: kind of keep up with our IMDb pages because there's
Speaker 7: so much. There is so much new stuff happening.
Speaker 5: There really is, so Thank you, Eric Roberts, Eliza Roberts,
Speaker 5: Mike Toe hang on for a second, but I'm going
Speaker 5: to close out our interview now. Thank you.
Speaker 4: It's Guys Guy Radio.
Speaker 5: Okay, what a fascinating conversation with Eric Roberts. I mean, wow,
Speaker 5: you know, Runaway Train is more than a Hollywood memoir.
Speaker 5: It's a testament to perseverance, accountability, love, and the possibility
Speaker 5: of transformation. I think the listeners and viewers will you
Speaker 5: come away if you read this book inspired by Eric's
Speaker 5: journey and his willingness to tell it all with such authenticity.
Speaker 5: It's really a wonderful autobiography, and I urge everybody to
Speaker 5: pick up a copy because he doesn't hold any puncheons.
Speaker 5: It's very true and very telling and very inspirational. And
Speaker 5: you know, Eric and Eliza are really They're regular people
Speaker 5: and really nice people and super talented, and they give
Speaker 5: a lot back to the industry, and they have some
Speaker 5: positive things to say about Hollywood. They're working actors, they
Speaker 5: do their work, they show up, they do their work.
Speaker 5: They're professionals, and they're really nice people. So it is
Speaker 5: possible we read all this stuff about Hollywood and all
Speaker 5: questionable stuff what's going on there, But there are good
Speaker 5: people in the business, and Eric and Eliza, as far
Speaker 5: as I can tell, are top quality people, really nice
Speaker 5: to work with, and great, super creative talents. You've seen
Speaker 5: Eliza in uh an Animal House. She was one of
Speaker 5: the gals the co Eds who gets left at the roadhouse,
Speaker 5: and that one of those fable scenes in Animal House.
Speaker 5: And Eric's been in such great movies. My personal favorite
Speaker 5: is popa Greenwich Village, and I love the artistic choices
Speaker 5: that he makes, and I love the fact that when
Speaker 5: Eric gets into a role, he really commits himself. So
Speaker 5: I hope you enjoyed the show and then our conversation
Speaker 5: with Eric because wonderful actor, really good guy, and hopefully
Speaker 5: we'll get him on here again at some point. Thank
Speaker 5: you for listening to Guys Guys Radio. We'll be back
Speaker 5: next week with a brand new episode. And until then,
Speaker 5: like I always say, guys, guys finish First.
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