Josh Duhamel: Forgetting James Caan was in The Godfather | Forward Progress

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0:42James Kahn. What do you think you learned from him? A lot. I love James Kahn. He was a mentor to me. I mean, I could go on and on. I worked with the guy for five years. Always miserable, but always in a great mood. like that guy who always has to even when things are really good he'll find a way to make it to make it dramatic or make it stir it up a bit but tremendously helpful always had time for me always had time for anybody on set he never showed up and was like aloof he was always like talking to people whether it's the camera guys or the messing with some gutty over here he's like Josh go over here tell him the story about that he's like that guy um just a absolute legend and he'd give you notes oh yeah in between takes yeah so i again this was early in my career i was pretty green i'd just come off all my children and uh trying to prove myself in the prime time world and uh you always knew when when jimmy didn't like your performance when he'd be like hey come over here for a minute kid will you i'm like oh god here we go he'd be Like, just relax.

1:56You're working, you're trying too hard. You know, you got to just let the lines come. Try it again. Just don't care so much. Just go. Okay, dude. Or he'd give you whatever. He'd like literally take you aside and give you notes. Normally you don't do that with actors, but with a guy like James Caan and a young guy like me, I was like, thank you very much. I needed it. You know, and I'm glad that he took the time to do it. Didn't he give you family advice too? Oh, I remember him saying something like, you can learn a lot from me, what to do and what not to do. You know, he was a wild man in the 80s.

2:29He'd probably be the first one to admit, you know, he let it get away from him a little bit, but never lost that fire, and I love that about him. How about when you asked him if he'd ever worked with Brando? Yeah, that was one of my dumbest moves. We were sitting around waiting during a setup of some sort, and we're talking about movies and I asked him if he'd ever worked with Brando. And he's like, what, are you kidding me? I was like, oh yeah, he's like, I was in The F***ing Godfather, you dumbass. I was like, oh my God, Sonny Corley, I'm so sorry. Yes, of course you know, because I hadn't put the two together that he clearly had worked with Brando.

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