Name: Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman reflect on 30 years of THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION | TCMFF 2024
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Past simple

They've been waiting for you, haven't you?

To-infinitive

I was very heartened to learn that the two of you had breakfast this morning.

When is the last time you two saw each other?

Well I came to a play of his in Venice at his theater.

You can't say anything disparaging about him.

I've always wondered, what do you say when you don't love the person's show?

I think I've said that's really interesting before.

Now let's take a little bit of a stroll down memory lane with the Shawshank Redemption.

Morgan, I'd be curious to hear if you have a memory of the first time you read it.

I vaguely do remember the first time that I read it.

And a note said that my part was going to be read.

And then I had an interview at Castle Rock with all of the bigwigs there.

And they said, thinking about Andy Dufresne, who do you think would be...

And then they ran off two or three choices, and I said, yeah, there he is.

Tim, my understanding is that Frank Darabont was particularly impressed with your performance in Jacob's Ladder.

Did he make that known to you, or is that lore?

I remember reading that script, and it was one of the best I'd ever read.

I mean, seriously, that script from beginning to end was...

A lot of times when you're doing a film, you see different color pages all the time, and this one was pretty solid.

Oh, and let's point out that he's a writer also.

He writes plays and directs plays and acts in plays and makes me look like I don't know what I'm doing.

Well, actually, now that you mention it, Morgan, I'm doing a play right now.

It's at the Actors Gang Theater in Culver City.

Any relation to the Topsy-Turvy Gilbert and Sullivan Mike Lee?

No, this is an entirely different type of film.

Speaking of titles, did the title of this film give either of you pause?

Well, it was originally Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, but then they shortened it to something that no one could say.

I said to the marketers, why did you do that?

And they said, well, it doesn't fit on the marquee.

But you know what happened with that movie?

It didn't do well in the box office, simply because the best way to sell anything is word of mouth.

And nobody could really get out past Shim-Shunk.

Shim-Shunk Reduction was the best one I heard.

When you guys think back to the filming of this all these decades ago, was it smooth?

What kind of sticks out in your mind, Morgan?

There were some challenges, but they were challenges of ideas.

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