Keith Carradine has been on Broadway several times. His career didn't start in this movie. In recent years, he was on Dexter, playing FBI agent, Frank Lundy, who was looking for a serial killer (Dexter.) In the series, he became Dexter's sister Debra's lover. I think he's terrific.
lulujean88 One of my absolute favorite roles (by Keith, or anyone for that matter) is his in Alan Rudolph's "Trouble in Mind". His transition from innocent country boy to wanna-be felon is handled with complete originality. Great film.
SOOO interesting to find these clips now and to hear Keith Carradine's take on "Nashville." I've LOVED the song "I'm Easy" for years. The film made an impression when I saw it way back then, but that scene with "I'm Easy" is the only part I remember so clearly and feel so strongly about.
"Kind of a hobo song." Really interesting to get this little explanation of "It Don't Worry Me," which also took on a totally different meaning in the movie.
Keith Carradine was such a mystery to me as an actor, always seemingly confused and tentative, never quite knowing what he wanted, and so painfully young that he just had to steal part of your heart. The first film I saw him in must have been McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971, when Keith was about 22) and the second one I saw was Welcome to LA (1976, when Keith was about 27). But by then I didn't recognize him as the same actor who had played the innocent boy in McCabe. So I was seeing him, so to speak, for the first time again. His character in Welcome to LA seemed so mixed up, and I got the feeling that the actor must have been mixed up too. But in those early days you had to love that mixed up guy, whatever part he was playing.
Keith is a complex guy. In the 90s he won a Tony Award for the Broadway musical, The Will Rogers Follies, for Best Actor in a musical. Nashville is really my favorite Altman movie and the best of the large cast, multiple story line films that Altman did. Using songs that the actors wrote is so effective in this film and produced many fantastic performances.
@@suzettebennett2564 Suzanne, you're absolutely right. I went to NYC in '91 and saw the Tony nominated musicals. Follies at the Palace was wonderful as was Carradine. I should have googled it. If I had reviewed the musicals nominated I would have known that Jonathan Pryce and Lea Salonga won musical actor and actress for Miss Saigon that year even though TWR Follies did win the Best Musical Tony that year.
Gary Busey would have played Tom as a guy totally comfortable with his own sleaziness. And would have been great. Keith played Tom as a guy wallowing in self-loathing. And was great.
I love how Keith is so honest about judging his character, and how it worked for the film in the end. Every actor seems to be trained on saying that they don't judge their characters, ever. Yet they are so judgemental of political figures in real life. I think most actors *do* judge their characters. How could they possibly not? It's like they're afraid of being accused of not being fully immersed in the character or something.
@@micheladerry5681 Yes, and he looks like a completely different kind of person now, at least until you hear him talk for a while. It is sort of like we the audience got to watch him grow up. And that is always thrilling to see.
