Bruce Dern Explains His Approach to Acting | TCMFF 2022 

I could listen to this man for hours! So many good stories. Always loved him. The graciousness of the interviewer is amazing.

I've loved Bruce Dern since I was a child, crying at the end of "Silent Running". He mad me an environmentalist at age Nine.

He was so good being nasty in The Cowboys with John Wayne in 1972. Watch the river scene with the boy in that movie. INTENSE is an understatement.

He is my favorite actor of all time. I saw the movie the Cowboys finally about 20 years ago when I was a teenager and he was so method and intense he scared me back to the 1800s. He stole that movie from John Wayne....He finally has his deserved recognition as one of the best ever.

Ben did great and was open to everything that Bruce offered and let him talk. Suggestion TCM, Give Bruce a spotlight show like the old Robert Osborne specials featuring a star from the past! Bruce obviously enjoys talking and still has a great memory of details about movies, on-set occurances, and observations about old vs. new Hollywood. This is the exact type of show your TCM viewers enjoy, walking down movie memory lane with someone that was actually there! I really learned a lot by listening to him. Sadly, it appears other stars like Piper Laurie and Warren Beatty just do not have the same memories or recollections anymore as Bruce did. Anyway, enjoying all the TCM Classic Film Festival highlights, and thanks for sharing!!

THIS IS A MASTERCLASS, THANK YOU, BRUCE DERN! AMAZING

The Detective in The Driver. Marvelous play.

Pure gold! I could listen to Bruce all day long (and all night long too for that matter)! Thanks for sharing so much of the interview with us! 😀

Listen to his interview 2 hrs done in 2014 on foundation interviews. FANTASTIC!

I remember when you were on The Fugitive and lots of other programs in movies when you're on the fugitive I remember we're talking n a m man

Bruce Dern should have been nominated for an Emmy for his work in the last season of Goliath. He was outstanding!

Bruce Dern was fantastic in “The King of Marvin Gardens”.

I hope if bruce sees this it doesn't piss him off but I'm 65 and I remember very well seeing him on various TV shows during the 60s mainly westerns and I thought he was the most convincing bad ass I had ever seen on the small screen and I thought this guy has to be a bad ass in real life. If I live another 20 years I hope I'm half as sharp as he is.

The IHOP hat 👑

Fantastic hour with Sir Bruce Dern, We should knight actors like this in our country and Sir Bruce Dern should get a knighthood. One of our greatest American Actors and a true original.

I've known of Bruce Dern from TV since The Big Valley and I thought he was crazy. To this day, I would be super nervous sitting near him because of how well he played all those crazy men...lol P.S. I'm an Ohio University grad (Dernsy story)

Love you Bruce!! 💖🤙

KING OF MARVIN GARDENS.

Always like Bruce Dern.

He was a great interview, engaging, entertaining, very enjoyable, I had a front row seat to it all close up was even better

The people showing up doing interviews is amazing and the artist mostly 1 of a kind. ........................... thanks - m.

Thanks for posting as I had to miss this at the festival.

Heard about Bruce Dern from an extra, who worked in "Last Man standing." He said about him, "He usually plays an awful person in films, but when he's on the set he was very nice to everyone. He's a real nice guy." I read Kirk Douglas' autobiography and that's what he said about him as well.

The only movie I thought Dern was miscast in was "The Great Gatsby." Just saw him in a movie on RU-vid last night: "The Trip" from 1967 with Peter Fonda. What I noticed was how good Dern was a reacting when another actor is the main focus of a scene. Also love the fact that Dern is a lifelong runner.

I didn't mean to watch all this but it's so good! Haha

Great actor.

Bruce Dern is a great actor. When he was a young man he excelled at playing highly dangerous psychopathic types in westerns. lol And he was totally convincing. I always liked him best as a really mean son of a bitch. lol He could be really scary. ;-)

Legend

The IHop hat is genius.

Silent Running....one of the greatest sci-fi films...

I liked him in" Rebel Rousers".

@49:00 - Daryl Zanuck (Twentieth Century), Robert Taylor, Marlon Brando, and Johnny Carson were all from Nebraska - just sayin'

Dern's been great in so many films, but my favorite role of his was in a movie nobody remembers called Posse (1975). It's a revisionist Western that Kirk Douglas directed and co-starred in, and really was quite a clever adaptation which by that time was something very hard to do with a Western genre. Kirk Douglas never directed another film (he only directed two), which just like Charles Laughton (famously with only one effort that's a masterpiece) was almost tragic, since he obviously had a talent for it.

Been watching Bruce my who life from hitchcock presents to diggs town captivating vocie

I like him

Perhaps a movie star is another word for a model I don’t know. Because when I saw Coming Home it was Bruce Dern that held my attention more then any other actor in the film. And to me that’s a movie star.

Rest in peace Alex Easton

Hey it's Big Bob!!

Andrew Robinson from dirty harry And Bruce Dern in my opinion are the two best bad guy's ever...Would have been cool to see them together in a film...

I wish I had that experience- I would have been an actor

47 miles WOW.... best I ever did was 28 but I was going up and down 2,000 ft drops and back up several times.

"I've never been a movie star" says the immensely accomplished actor wearing an IHOP cap. And you're forgiven for shooting The Duke.

This is the scene with Robert Blake in "Pork Chop Hill" that Bruce Dern is talking about, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SUbNoCx3fqw.html. From beginning to end, it's a ridiculous movie, strictly Amateur Hour. If that's acting, I'm the King of Siam. The death scene Bruce Dern talks about is so moving ... that they left it out of the video clip, lol. Still, Bruce Dern is always interest4ing to listen to when he's being interviewed. HE'S a great actor, and when he lays down a load of shit about how great "Pork Chop Hill" is .... man, that's acting!

He still has his accent.

I never likedBruce Dern. He WON! Always playing the part of the the rotten bastard. Did such a good job I hated him, but I loved watching him in movies. Helluva actor. Hope he is as good of a person as he is actor, I’ve heard he’s a good guy.

Michael bay should be interviewed there next