Hello Mr. Conductor - Alec Baldwin Interview

my eldest son who is now 24 years old my daughter Ireland you have a son and of course that launches you into the world of contemporary or at least at that time children's media and programming. I became corrupted into a different reality. I grew up on Bugs Bunny. and you know, Popeye and those fools, you know, and all the Warner Brothers cartoons, but at that time Thomas was everywhere and you'd hear that song and I love the naivety of him. I love the innocence of him. I thought it was really very, very. I love the simplicity of it.

I think they contacted me and Carlin had done something. I think Ringo was before me and he asked me if he could voice a season of the show. The key is that I met Britt and when I met Britt, who is an incredibly unusual woman and she told me the story of how she got The Railway Series books and I loved bread and when she said to me, do you want to do this show? I said yes, very often when you do projects in In this business it's who asks and there's, you know, an inevitable sympathy factor and they didn't really love me.

Brett, she was just a great lady and we did a couple seasons of that and then they asked me to do the movie. which is another Saga, important days to see, I think it is a very important day for me and I tell people over time if I ever talk to students, if they interact with student actors or whatever they have between the Las hardest things to do in acting I think is to be light and joyful and to be happy we all have anger inside us we all have pain inside us and the difficult things we've been through and in acting it's easier to cry than to laugh, It's easier to give a very admonishing speech in a courtroom or whatever, and it's being the star of a children's fantasy movie and keeping it warm and simple and having a positive tone in everything you do.

I said when I told myself you can go too far and I'm sure some would say I went too far, but I come from the mindset where you're sitting there thinking what time it is, you know, you just take it all. he's saying what time it is, he seems puzzled Mr. Conductor, well I'm puzzled, this place looks like the island of Sodor, but how would the Burnett Stone travel there without Gold Dust Sparkle? It has been the only way to make the trips if the Lost Engine disappeared. You have to keep everything bright and warm and simple, that's hard to do and some days you come to work when you're just not in the mood to be like you know, we'd better get back to the station and that kind of thing, but that was the job What I felt was to keep that character as someone who was like a host, you're the host, the other characters are going through everything and you're there as a kind of guide to help the kids navigate the whole story anyway.

I came to say goodbye, I have to go right now, well, yes, you see, I have to make sure everything is safe and sound on Soda Island. This is what I try to do here when we did the TV show. It was a situation that It was Brit's baby and she made all the decisions and we went into a booth and she would give you very simple instructions and slow this down, hit this, go in faster here when we did the movie, which was not live action. We were there acting, which was a big difference in behavior and use of costumes and staging of scenes etc., it's a beautiful day, I mean, we're down, but we're not having, we're out, but we're not We are depressed, I always am. from the belief that there is a right number of shots there is a right number it could be four it could be eight it could could and again with this type of children's program there is an ear that you have that you are developing hearing everything is fine in foreign children's programming now my gold dust is truly gone and if I can't find the source to make more, I know how bad the consequences will be.

I saw them in my dream last night, my family never really told me what to do with the gold dust. crisis, they just said that if you can't remember the clue, the windmill will remind you, but where is the windmill? Okay, can we do one more right away? I remember Mr. Conductor. I wanted to keep it positive, warm and sweet. even, but it's not the same all the time, so sometimes I think I lost my train of thought and I thought I was in a Scorsese movie, so I thought, let's do it, let's do 30 takes of me saying it's four o'clock point, you want to give the director what most of the directors I have worked with want, most not all but most people admired them a lot and wanted to make their film when you start making a film the director is the one at the helm. side of the film not you and you an element of it and filmmaking is an extraordinarily collaborative process and you want to make sure that you're doing your part and there were some directors that I wanted, but please, as much as Britain has liked so much, personally, silver sugar Diesel and if I throw this in your tank, it will trap you forever, make the most of it tonight Twinkle Toes because you won't like it tomorrow Mara had some difficulties before we started rolling the camera and she came to work and we were all very worried about it, I think her mother had passed away and she was very, very despondent about it, remember that was something that overshadowed a lot of what we did was her emotional state as a result of this obviously terrible thing that I have.

To tell you something, Mr. C, after the train went up, it sounded like she came from mountain to mountain and the lady will smile, but we need more information. Lily, I know that her grandfather could help bread have partners in a company they were doing. This with her and as with most movies, there are a swarm of non-creative people giving you their opinions on the movie and what I love about Brick is that like all good directors, she didn't broadcast her attention on The set of The Brit movie that I worked on in the TV show booth was the same copy that showed up every day for the movie and I think there's a part of me that was difficult with the movie in that sense because she thought That he had proven himself and he didn't have to do that anymore.

I have to convince men of what she could do and what she was capable of. There seemed to be a bit of that when we made the Brit Allcroft movie. having to return to a place that she thought she had earned her position, she had earned the right to have that creative self-determinism about the film, she went out and had conversations with not very many people. I want to exaggerate and then come back and not seem very happy and then get rid of it and interact with us. She was always the warm and positive driver, so to speak, she was Mrs.

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of the movie experience and kept it positive under those two difficult ones. Things you know, Junior, there's a railroad with palm trees on a tomb and sun. Sunny spells. I will take it. What is the way I did it? I felt like you know when we did the TV programming at the time of the movie. Right at the height of that, it was really like everywhere if people came up to me and stopped and snapped their fingers and came back to their little son and said do you know who that is? They say this.

It's Mr. Driver, some of them got it, the parents were almost always more excited than me, they sent me a box, it was a promotional gift, they told my daughter, I probably should have taken this and kept it somewhere. They gave me a chest that was designed like Thomas, so one end of the chest had the character's face on the back and then you opened the middle with a chest and it was full of Thomas' toy and it was awesome. I loved it and it was at the foot of my daughter's bed for a while. I don't know what happened to him, but I wish I had him back.

I put it in my office right now if I could see you on Shining Time.