Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Jack Nicholson would prefer to sit under a tree and read a book as he’s still refusing movie offers.
In the 90-minute-plus interview, C.K. revealed both the run-up to and the details of the casting and creative process on his self-financed Horace and Pete web series. Among them: the A-list actors initially approached for key roles on the dark comedy, including Joe Pesci and Jack Nicholson.
“He wants to be quiet,” Adler said. “He wants to eat what he wants. He wants to live the life he wants.”
Part of that life apparently means less time on the floor of the Crypto.com Arena for Lakers games.
Adler, 89, said he had also dialed back the number of games he attended with Nicholson, 86.
“I still go but I don’t go to as many,” Adler said. “I used to go to every game — Jack and I would be at every game.”
Lorne Michaels gave C.K. advice — but he didn’t take it
C.K. was adamant that he didn’t want the pressure or obligation for Horace and Pete to have to be funny, much less print money. “I knew what I wanted it to feel like, and I knew the idea of something that looks like a sitcom, the way a sitcom feels theatrical, but with no laugh track,” he told Maron early in the interview. When he told Lorne Michaels about the idea, the Saturday Night Live creator urged him to reassess his plan. “He begged me to get financing from somebody,” notes C.K., in Michaels’ voice. “And he said, ‘No one’s going to congratulate you for paying for it. No one.’ And I was like, ‘I don’t want to have to talk anybody into the shit I’m doing.’ ”
It’s been 13 years since Jack Nicholson appeared in “How Do You Know,” a dud of a romantic comedy starring Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd and Owen Wilson.
While the supporting role wasn’t the high point of Nicholson’s career — and brought the Hollywood legend to nearly 80 total acting credits — it did little to diminish a legacy that features a formidable if not unmatchable roll call of cinema classics that includes “The Departed” (2006), “The Shining” (1980), “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975) and “Chinatown” (1974), among others.
And though he never announced his retirement, the film by all accounts will be his last. One of those accounts surfaced in the “WTF With Marc Maron” podcast this week, during a wide-ranging interview with famed record producer, Sunset Strip impresario and longtime Nicholson friend Lou Adler.
