Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King | The Hollywood Collection

the surreality tickets will bear my name a woman he loves will give birth to my son so it will be written like this he will become as bad as Ramses is and as hard-hearted as he is throughout the movie you still love him that is the personality of eul here was a man who was bald he had the courage and confidence to be completely bald and still be one of the sexiest men that women today will tell you that is the sexiest man I have ever seen in my life I don't know if He knew how mysterious, all I know is that he was fascinating, he could charm people, he could dominate people, I'll tell you what I can do, he can kill the first man who even whispers the word about turning in the first man. help me ban his head he was the

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you entered his dressing room and immediately had the aura that you were in the presence of a great star a great performer a great solid and magnetic personality he never stopped there was a story that you started as a gypsy who was born in Outer Mongolia which was more than Switzerland which was Swiss French American and several other nationalities the story I heard was that he was born on the island of Sakhalin off the island of Japan and he was Nyla uh he was born to a black Mongolian gypsy mother who died at giving birth to him, his father was Japanese and Swiss and he told you crazy stories about being a Mongolian prince, this ATAR, all kinds of things that no one knew and he liked to keep some of them.

It was kind of a mystery and I think every time he gave an interview, he gave a different version of where he was born from. Early in his acting career he realized that the interviewers simply weren't going to properly understand the complicated story of his childhood, so instead he dealt with the errors they introduced into his story. He employed all the powers of his imagination to create myths about himself. No, I think about your past and all the different demons that drove it. He always found it interesting that, as close as we were, we mostly talked. about the present and especially about the future, they move you through a period of extraordinary turmoil and a place of immense violence.

He grew up in Vladivostok and the nearby region in eastern Siberia at a time when the Russian Revolution was spreading to eastern Russia. Yul's father, Boris. He left his mother Marusya when he was about seven or eight years old and I think a defining moment in his life, according to Yul, was when he had waited for months to see his father's children visit Shanghai while the family was there and he was waiting. and he waited and waited and Boris never showed up, he never spoke much about his father and when he did it was not with great tenderness but with quite a bit of rejection when the family fled from China to Paris in the 1930s.

Paris was the center of the In everything the white Russian world, his family put him in a very strict, very famous and well-established school. He sort of left his family life and his mother and sister to live his little you know, cozy life and went to make a living in different areas and spent as much time as he could with gypsy families who performed in a variety of Russian restaurants and clubs and he had already come from the East with a seven-string gypsy guitar that he already played and the gypsies taught him many, many many songs. which he remembered clearly and often played until the end of his life and then that night he played guitar in these gypsy clubs he started being an acrobat at the cfd there when he was 17 or 18 he fell off the trapeze they said he would never walk again but In fact he returned to the circus a couple of months later, although he could not act as an acrobat, he began to act as a clown and it was when he was acting as a clown that he met his great acting teacher Michel.

Chekhov, who co-founded the Mouthguard Theater with Stanislavski and with whom he traveled to America in 1941 thanks to his work with Michael Chekhov decided to give acting a try, I don't know to what extent he really decided he was going. To begin with, I still spoke almost no English, very little English, and you would start playing small roles in Shakespeare productions that were presented only in universities and very small theaters and at the same time you would drive the truck that transported the costumes and sets. one's. city ​​to another Yul was 21 22 years old, during the war he could not serve in any Armed Forces because he had tuberculosis scars in his lungs, but he served for the War Information Office and News Broadcasting in French vodcast by the voice of freedom abroad and at the same time performed some of the same gypsy songs that she sang in Paris, in New York nightclubs.

Yul was married to a lady named Virginia Gilmore, a very well-known actress and she had acted in a play with my My wife, Jackson and he had hair in those days and in the evenings, sometimes, after the show, we would all go out together or We would go to his house, they would come to see us and he would sit and sing wonderful Russian songs, gypsy songs that they played on the guitar. my mother, who was already an established movie star, not of immense proportions, but had starred in the first young wile in america swamp water and a variety of other movies, tall, dark and handsome, western union and had starred in a couple of plays on Broadway.

She was a great beauty. She was everything he liked in a woman. She was very feminine. She was an actress. She got involved in her surroundings. Her surroundings also made him dream. He fell madly in love and knew how to do it quite well and soon had a son who was something he had expected and desired in some ways after having auditioned for roles as an actor at the beginning of regular television broadcasting in 1946-47, he got a job directing television in some of the first broadcasts when I met you I was an assistant director at CBS in New York television and I was wor

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with Sidney Lumet, who had been Eul's assistant director, and Yul was a myth to me because Sidney kept telling me these great stories about what it was like to work.

With him on live television, you were always a maverick, you were always his own man. Yul had been directing two or three drama shows a week, but CBS wasn't happy with that, so they said, "Okay, you're going to go on Sunday night," and you're going to direct What's My Line at ten minutes to 10. You just get to be completely calm and then he says to the scriptwriter I want you to tell me when twenty-five minutes of the hour passes so he went on the air with the thing and directed camera one to the contestant camera two to the panel camera three and to the narrator and he was As boring as one could be doing that kind of thing at twenty-five minutes past the hour the girl said it was 25 minutes an hour sir.

Brenner and he said okay, he said we're going to do the credits now and they said, but we have four minutes for the credits, he said we're not doing them yet, he said we're going to do them now, so he put all the credits in and there. There was still about three and a half minutes left to start the show and he said put my credit on the easel there, he said, okay, camera one, he said my credit, the camera actually said, let's go to the audience, she said no. He says, honey, shoot him. applaud anyway, they had three minutes of applause with Yul Brynner led and the producers were trying to break down the control room door and the whole thing, I mean, it was absolute chaos in the studio, at the end of which I never thought They asked me to come back. to direct one of those shows again and it was your idea to say hey, no shit, he was directing and he was having a great time and he was surrounded by fantastic people and through his studies with Michael Chekhov the question arose whether he should to act or he shouldn't act and people pushed him to act, initially they offered him to act and that was a big temptation for him and he did it.

He continued directing for CBS through a song that then went on tour and when he got back to New York, he was directing again the star of The King and I heard that Rodgers and Hammerstein's wish was Gertrude Lawrence, she was this fantastic actress from this great woman and they were looking for someone to play opposite Gertrude Lawrence and apparently my father came for the addition with a guitar in his hand went up on stage, sat down and started playing the guitar and singing these gypsy songs in front of Rodgers and Hammerstein and a group of other people who just couldn't believe what they were seeing, Gertie Lawrence, who was of Of course, the absolute star of her children opened she was alone above the title, the King has only one complete song, really participates in two, but the score is practically practically the lady.

Anna alone, but today no one remembers anything except you when her friend was at the King of Siam. I'm not the sheriff who designed the costumes for the king and I said, shave your head and if the story of Isis you actually went on to direct CBS shows. During the first year or so that he also acted and cast a weak Stein on Broadway, Cana had such a boom, such an unexpected success that it really propelled him to the forefront of the acting career and I think it was more than he expected. that no one could resist you have been very ungrateful to me what do you mean I had made a better forgotten film called New York Harbor in the 1940s?

I swear, you're a bad risk, but the first movie he actually starred in was The 10 Commandments. The 10 Commandments had first been made by Cecily DeMille in 1923 in 1952, him and Henry Wilcoxon, the man whose autobiography I helped write. , decided they would remake the Ten Commandments for modern audiences in VistaVision color the complete works and began a four-year pre-production journey. There was a big search for the man to play Ramses and they had a very, very special problem with the role of Ramses because DeMille wanted it to be as authentic as possible and that meant that the protagonists would have to shave their heads, the most important people in the contention were William Holden, Michael Wilding and Michael Rennie, everyone was kind of biting their lips about what they would look like if they shaved their heads and if the public had left them with shaved heads.

Besides the fact that it was vital for men to wear eye makeup, all Egyptian men at the time had to wear eye makeup because it was a form of insect repellent and blindness was a big problem in Nijo. He is dying. Look at the people. and more and he couldn't make a decision about anyone and he saw Yul Brynner in The King and Me and this man who had spent years trying to decide between two actors and this man who never made a snap judgment was backstage. After the first act, telling Yul that he was the only person who would play Ramses DeMille had said to you: Oh, would you like to be in a movie that your children and grandchildren will watch with pride in 50 years and that actually came true?

Won't it be the same? first time the thing has turned a prince against his Pharaoh all that envy has turned a brother his brother envy again during the week I don't think there was any other person at that time and I can't think of anyone now who could having said Those lumps wore those costumes walked in those golden platform sandals and had the authority and bearing they had the mean streak that Ramses had and yet, as bad as Ramses is and hard-hearted throughout the movie, he still You love him. it's eul's personality coming through you love this man no matter what he says and no matter what he does you are saved from the Nile to be a curse on me your shadow fell between my father and me between my fame and me my queen and I, not many people loved the mill, people respected it, people feared it and something very special happened between them. you loved the way they dressed. their way of behaving was always impeccable and I think it was based a lot on dimille's personality. born death to the slave thank God you're Brenner, do you know one of the original Mavericks in the entertainment business?

He had no disrespect for anyone, no matter how powerful the studio boss was or how big the other star was, and he had very, very little patience for The Studio Heads Suits, executives who had no creative power or real creative interest. and he considered them parasites and fought them tooth and nail throughout his film career and, frankly, I don't remember Walter Lang, our director, ever giving him any other direction. You have to stay here because this is where your light is. I don't think you can tell you anything about that role that he hasn't thought of and and and chewed and digested and spit out what was as special about the King as you will. created the role was that he was an animal imbued with the soul of an angel you were the king in real life in the movie there was no real difference I don't think the actors were ever intimidated by him once they started doing scenes with him Deborah Carr was divine with him, she was Anna in her own way, Anna Leonowens, she was an Olivia in a always very English style and at the time my father was preparing to film Anastasia and had the approval of the contract for the cast of the film and his first choice was Ingrid Bergman.

Ingrid, her personal decisions like leaving her husband for another man and having a child with that other man, was really on the Hollywood blacklist. He fought very hard to have her because he felt she was the one for him.embody anastasiya. He made The Ten Commandments, The King, I and Anastasia all in a period of about 18 months and all three films were released in 1956, giving him a meteoric rise to stardom and he is one of the few artists to have had two nominations for Best Actor for two different films, King and I and Anastasia, and took great delight in the fact that his Anastasia co-star, Ingrid Bergman, won her second Academy Award for that performance.

It's the biggest night of the year in Hollywood when the Oscar comes on the scene. but of course he won the Academy Award for best actor for The King and I hope they weren't wrong in sending it to me because I'm not going to go. To return it for nothing in the world I think that throughout his career my father was somewhat typecast following the king and I offered him a rose that showed him as a strong man as a macho man you must remember that you were dealing with a medium the films in which he was physically unique with a slight accent his physical appearance was very limiting because he had a very strong appearance , but the fact that he was bald was somehow at a disadvantage - he was not, as he liked to joke, your average clean-cut American kid - so producers and directors typically didn't think of him according to conventional rules.

He came here today. My father was always very proud of his performance on screen in my brother's outings. I want to change my life. That life, a certain death, disappears. find a new life leave with crucian you will never understand her she will come to see me tonight I am sure why a man like that is alive you I am Paris tell them no, but next time I will have the most distinctive characteristic of man a force of will that does not He was stopped by pain, by discomfort, by adversity in the world. I had an extraordinary example of that when he was about six years old when we had actually gone to Darien to water ski during the afternoon he had free because he was doing eight shows. one week on Broadway and his costume man, Don Lawson, threw the tow rope and it hit my dad's head and made a big gash on his head and that was going to ruin our day of water skiing.

Instead, he opened up the fishing tackle he had and found a hook and a little fishing line and found some duct tape, so in a moment or two, he stitched the cut with the hook. on the head, put a piece of duct tape on it, jumped into the water and went straight into water skiing, as far as I know, no one bothered to write papers for Yule now, in the old days, that used to happen, they said, let's make a vehicle for Clark Gable or let's make a vehicle for Veronica Lake or Lana Turner, whoever. At the time you got into movies that didn't exist anymore, no one was writing special scripts for special people and because of that Yul's career was very, very limited, casting Brenner in movies always required a certain amount of creativity and trust.

The part of the filmmakers involved because with his incredibly strong physical appearance and his intellect that shows in his eyes and his shaved bald patch they brought Yul Brynner and the King to every part, the truth is that I don't think people would have accepted it in anything other than real roles and, in a funny way, he was also hoisted by his own petard because I don't know if he could play a scene where he had to be vulnerable, really vulnerable. Yul didn't try to play away from the guy, he tried to play to his strengths and if you looked at his series of movies the only ones that were never seen were the ones where he put on a silly hairpiece which he only did twice that I know of, there were a movie called Solomon. and Sheba, which was a hugely expensive production that was being filmed in Madrid, and Tyrone Power, who had originally played Solomon, died and ruled a penniless guy, he was deliberately bored, he had to be happy, so this hairpiece had I had to meet Tyrone Power and it was a lot of fun.

Happy was a very expensive production and I can remember that many Hollywood bigwigs from the studios came and oversaw everything. Now I met you just before and we were tired, mighty dad and they called you to replace him. he was not in very good shape because his merit had collapsed and he was having a few drinks my father met my mother Doris at a party in Versailles it was the 50s and it was really the glamorous era and my mother was very well connected in that life in Paris knew a lot of people, she was incredibly beautiful and they fell madly in love that same night as their relationship evolved and when they got married, I think she brought him a social life that he didn't really like. one of the best dressed women in Europe, resorted to criteria such as Valentina and balance yoga and she brought him a whole sophistication and taste that he knew instinctively but that he didn't really know materially speaking and she had that wonderful and fantastic personality that she was. strong he was brig eras he was sexy he was handsome here he was talented he was reliable he was wonderful he was wonderful he was on top of everything I think anyone can have I had a wonderful thirteen year old son and there he Do you know this punk hairless guy that I we got married in 1960 during the Magnificent Seven to all of you who went to the yucca and bought the rights to the Seven Samurai and brought them to America and sold them to United Artists and it became the new Magnificent Seven in town, yeah, Where are you from, from the darkness, yes, the tombstone sees any action up there, don't those same people set up shop in a second story window and move around?

I'm not in a good position, let him nickel and dime. They dominated me very well. I always felt on set that Steve McQueen was going to become a star mainly because of his attitude and there was a kind of arrogance, there are scenes where the Magnificent Seven are on horseback going through some place where he would pick up a twig and ripple the water, I'm so sure I focused on him and then somehow he created a fight with you that the newspapers picked up and then you will issue a tourist statement saying that I never fight with actors, I only fight with Studios III, I don't know how to define. his ability to function in front of the camera he was comfortable with the camera also because he knew all the lenses, he knew everything about photography, so when he appeared in front of the camera he knew exactly where to stand and how to move on it . how to be and the nights just a small gesture for sure these people who are the real bosses not many people know that you and Magnum the Year the famous photography enclave used to use you la la he was a wonderful and wonderful photographer, I think you will enjoy being a part of both worlds, he was certainly for the underdog and he enjoyed being an outsider and being next to his man in the rings, but at the same time he enjoyed all this entertaining with the whiff of being a big star, which was, you know, going to parties. he was going to do Ville, you know, play roulette and drive really fast cars when you left the United States.

He came to live in Switzerland saying that it was his consolation, his father was the first, which none of us believed and he really wanted to beat the Swiss. Victoria was born in Switzerland. We had a house on the lake with dogs and horses and it was really a wonderful life water skiing on it, I had no support on a turtle walk through a prize, I loved the waters and it was beautiful, it really was very, very, very good, my name is Fernando. What he could do physically was one of the most beautifully coordinated men I have ever met and in his 60s he could stand on his stomach on one hand and do push-ups with his legs towards the ceiling, so I started a stamp

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and we started collecting United Nations refugee stamps and one thing led to another and the next thing we knew he was a special consultant to the United Nations on the refugee problem for the Upper Refugee Commissioner and We were making two television documentaries about the global refugee problem from Hong Kong to the Middle East with Edward Armel and at the same time making an extraordinary photo book about the problems of refugee children that he did with the incomparable photographer by Magnum Inga Morales. with CBS, but it was not easy to enter the refugee camps, it was certainly not easy to get permits because sometimes the Egyptian army was involved, sometimes the Jordanian army was involved and Giroux was not afraid at all.

His gypsy background which he was very proud of gave him an incredible sense of belonging wherever he was and when he was in the United States he was American when he was in France where he lived for years he was French and when he was in China Japan the Far East he was Asian I was actually very excited when I was first offered Tara's Bulba, especially since you, Bryna, would be playing Teres Boober. We all left for Argentina to stop the film. Your name, Tara's Bulba. Colonel Dumansky, because I know and a film about the wonders of the world.

Harold they would fall. a considerable amount of extra pay, but the people who were going to fall had to be well selected, then it went off, the obvious thing happened between five or six hundred gauchos, but about 400 fell to the ground when that night they tried to get their money back. They were told that they did not obey the instructions which were that only the selected riders would fall, this bothered the gauchos very much and they said that they would go on strike that they would not return the next day now the gauchos lived in the countryside with their horses and that The night Brynner He ordered hundreds of steaks, sent them there and he himself went out and for three hours gave a concert to the gauchos playing and singing Russian songs, French songs, English songs, it was like an Argentine Woodstock.

Did this impress the gauchos that much? They were so happy with this that they all returned the next day. The first cut we called you was delighted. He saw it in Paris and we dubbed it in Paris and he was really overwhelmed the next time he saw it. I think he wanted to. to commit suicide we sometimes take movies we shouldn't take if there's a good scene in a movie you think you can put all the other scenes for John so well it very rarely works two things worked against it the business of stereotyping or typecasting, particularly in the movies, and then the business of doing what is easiest for you in a way that you take the easy way out, but it is a trap, it is a terrible trap and it is a trap also because people love you so much in it and you receive such praise and so much adulation, so much adoration for being that character that I would become suicidal, I would be terribly depressed and who knows what, that wasn't it, I smoked too much, I smoked constantly and I never got as far as I remember making any effort to quit.

He liked to smoke and he smoked. I think it was part of his life. It was something you did. It was kind of glamorous. It was kind of sexy. And he knew about the access, so he did it with the access. We were talking. about how so many people put up these barriers and refused to allow themselves to get involved with anyone or anything and particularly in terms of loving a woman and he said, you know, he said, all these people who say they don't want to be hurt. He said for the love of God he said he was hurt he said you know that reminds me he said if someone goes to the best restaurant in the world and has the best dinner they have ever had and then gets angry when the bill comes he said being the pain is having the check that is the problem. with you and I was at a certain point the love was still there but we couldn't live with each other we had butt heads but I know I want to believe that he loved me and I loved him but we just couldn't live together you didn't tell me too much about his personal life the background of his father and mother but when you knew that there was somewhere something that had hurt him in days past here was this man who was the king who dominated Brailey, all the people he came into contact with and However, at some point you would see him sitting down and a sheen of tears would appear in his eyes and he would be thinking deeply about something that I knew that you with all your grandiloquence was also a very human person who had been hurt and had now managed to cover up in To a large extent those moons careless with your drink you talk too much you move well what I find really surprising is his ability to play his role in the Western world really in At the same level that he played his role in the Magnificent Seven, he did not allow his self-image to lower Even if all the science, the outward signs were pointing downwards and this was not a good stage in his career, he would not allow that to happen.

Something like this happens to tentpoles at different dramatically different points in his career, you know, with the magnificent seven and the western world, both very similar characters, both loners, both strong tough men, one real, one robot, but the heart of both came through in both films. although in this one he is a robot when they offered him the role of the king and ion to bring him back to Broadway I think it was a blessing, he had been waiting for apaper, I really wanted to do something and suddenly this appeared. material that was completely his own and that he had done for years in the first rehearsal, so excited and excited to play The King again, he let his voice come out loud and damaged his vocal cords and on the opening night we had in Indianapolis , I barely knew it. him but I was his lady.

He and Anna had deep laryngitis. I had never in my life heard anyone with laryngitis who couldn't even whisper, so I proposed that, having grown up backstage with the king and I, and having heard over 500 performances personally, he would do the stage performance and I would. he gave his voice to him from a seat next to the director in the orchestra pit with a microphone and his son Rock came into the pit and read him the lines and he came up on stage and made a gesture and I told him I said everything you have what to say.

What you have to do is get out in front of that audience, Mr. Brenner they want to see you and you are the king and you will be the king for them. I went backstage to see him during intermission and we hugged and you will still have no voice, you whispered to me, you must play the eldest king, now rock. I'm older, you're playing him like the 30-year-old player you have now and I was then, but now he's an older king. He always said about playing the king when I played him in the '70s that he had finally grown into the role that he was also young when he played it in 1951 and he had to make up for the role, suddenly he didn't have to make up for it anymore.

The second time, when we premiered it on Broadway, it was a resounding success, the critical response was overwhelming, we had support. With exclusive in-house audiences for two years of URI theatre, you then went to London when our show closed and was a huge success in London at the Palladium. Then he came back and just couldn't put it down. It was the great joy of his life and he did it until practically the day he died and people didn't know when we danced on stage that he was actually dancing. Let's dance? He did the polka with a limp and we both made up for it.

The limp he had looked really bad off stage but when he appeared on stage as the King of Siam the King didn't limp so he didn't limp, it's very hard to say where the King ended and where Brynner began because he actually lived that role and he loved the role of the King, in fact, this long list of supposed producers regrets that their demands had to publish it. I think in variety one of his demands was that he always be provided with the The car this year was a limousine and it had to be the best car in his line and I asked him.

I told him why you needed that from a producer and he said, honey, can you imagine the car a producer could give me if he did it? I didn't make this specific demand and he said, Do you know how disappointed my audience would be? My fans standing in the street as I leave if I went out in an old Ford instead of the big, lovely limousine we installed for the King of Siam. It was all a joke to him, I mean, it was all part of a role he liked to play. He loved the fact that he was a star.

He loved the fact that they told him the limos, that he was making all this money because he would come from a place where there was no money, he would like to live well, but I honestly believe that if everything had gone, he could have lived on it; Well, Yul Brynner just owned that role, I think more than any actor I've known in modern times he's ever had a role. I mean, he worked on the curtain for the King and what is one of the most famous curtains of all time. He worked hours and weeks perfecting exactly what he was supposed to do.

What to do with it is the way it's clear to me He said it's a very difficult curtain call He said after all He said the man is dead He said I have to bring him back to life for the audience to make the call to curtain because it was probably the most ah, blatant, absolutely, it was incredible, this curtain call, all the children came out, they bowed, all the other people in the court came out, the lady Anna came out and bowed, then everyone They would go up on stage and wait and wait and wait and then the King would come out and bow and bow and they would take turns and take the children and bow all the time building, building, building until that moment when he suddenly raised his hands. arms and the audience almost jumped out of their seats, it was very interesting to see him deal with the King and me almost like a corset.

It was something that held him together. He helped him deal with any problems he had in his personal life. Any problems he had physically. He definitely had back problems and they were unbearable. and very difficult to deal with, but he really considered himself a gypsy and he came from this mysterious dark romantic world of wandering nomadic gypsies and somehow he believed it so strongly that you wanted to believe it too, so we, Chariton, you, Sir, I maintain it. his own trash from an old Belize through my young ears I mainly remember this big head holding my little hand in his and reassuring me most of all oh royalties and his coming in and out of my life was always magical it was always a mystery he had This incredible career and he could solve everything and was greater than other men.

It was kind of a magical moment every time he appeared in my existence. Zaza when in the 70s he got married while I was cleaning the mushrooms, who was a wonderful French woman. I desperately wanted to have children and I couldn't have them and it was at the time when Vietnam was at its peak and all these Vietnamese children desperately needed a home and he thought it was totally natural to take into our family too young Vietnamese babies who are my little sisters and me. and melody and then we are a great joy to him, he is everything, he always had a very strong connection with very young children and we found ourselves in separations with different wives and we were always there and somehow our meeting point was obviously him . and I love him, my little sisters had to face a divorce.

I had to deal with two divorces, one from my mother and I had barely gotten used to his third wife, Jaclyn, another divorce. My brother saw three divorces, so we all went through that. and I bonded with him and he made our time with him special. He loved his children and I know he was devoted, especially to the two wives he knew well, the last two, the wonderful French Lady Jacqueline de l'homme and then Kassie Brynna, who worked with him. He is the main dancer of The King and I, during the last long tour, he had all the patients, the appetite and the enormous elegance of a very confident man.

Very few people I've met wear mesh and security and his masculinity is brynjar. I remember talking. about relationships and about missing people and so on and he told me well, he said just remember this, he said: you are born alone, you live alone, you die alone, anything in between is a favor. I remember very clearly the night he called me and said I don't have very good news and I said well, what is it? and he said I have lung cancer and I said well, what's the status and he said they've given me three months to live from then on.

So it was a battle to challenge this illness and he continued to make the king and I had a king and I gave him the structure something to go to every day something to fight for gave him two and a half years which was two and a half years Half year that we really didn't expect, well, everyone was chasing him for the news. I mean, there was a well-known man who had cancer, who had announced it quite officially, and who was still working, so he continued. 60 minutes and it's something that he had always thought about this idea of ​​doing a commercial.

I really wanted to do a commercial when I found out he was so sick and my time was so limited. What to do with the commercial that says simply now that I am. gone I tell you don't smoke whatever you do just don't smoke if I could quit smoking we wouldn't be talking about any cancer I'm convinced that Atlanta has a cheap date until June 30 when you gave his last performance. at the Broadway theater he made an appearance later at a late night party and waved to the crowd, then he went to visit his dying friend in Los Angeles, all of this was agony, agony and took great bravery and he was dead less than two and a half years.

Siemens later I have never heard from anyone since he appeared on the scene in the early 50's. He is a young Yul Brynner. He is the new Yul Brynner. He is next year's Brynner. There is only one. I've never heard anyone compare another actor to him or compare what he does. he could do with what anyone could do people who will live forever from century to century this Charles Chaplin. I counted the moment. Think how many there are, but one of them is certainly you. Brynner Yul Brynner will be remembered through the years. He was an original self.

I suppose there was more to his relationship with the role of the King when he originally met the AIA, but whoever cast him not only changed the fate of that wonderful show but changed his life. I don't think it's anything more than the theater code. They once offered him a kingdom and they did it and he took it