He turned around and he looked at me and he said, 'You are exactly what I pictured in my mind that John Coffey looked like,' ... All my questions went away. |
I always say YCDA: you can do anything. If you want to be a successful actor, you have to believe in yourself more than anything else, and don't let anybody tell you that you cannot do it because you can. |
I have advice for people, period, |
My mother told me years ago, "You're gonna be an actor." So I could not play football, I could not wrestle, I couldn't do anything physical but play basketball. And I wasn't really that good. I'd just kind of knock people around on the court, that was my little claim to fame. |
My sister used to say I had a frail chest and she 'd beat me up all the time. |
People talk about Michael Clarke Duncan and the Oscar. That's just weird to me. To me, I just hope that I'm not is some hospital somewhere, in a coma, and somebody's gonna say, man, you were in a coma for six months and I'll be like "No! I was in the Green Mile!" |
She takes care of me, |
Tired isn't even a good word |
We did one of those scenes where I take his hand and show him some things, ... and I remember Frank saying, 'Cut,' and everybody was just silent for a couple of minutes. Everybody was kind of crying. Tom was still crying. I was still crying. Frank didn't even know what to say. That was a moment I will never forget. |
We started hugging each other, taking pictures, ... It couldn't have been better. |
Without him I would not have been able to bring that emotion up, |