Was it quite intimidating, appearing in a film with James Garner, and stalking Lauren Bacall that early in your career?īut I was intimidated by the whole process of the paparazzi. The Fan (1981) was the earliest film I managed to find of yours, back when I had to scour video rental shops up and down the country.
I informed him of my plan to conduct a whistle stop tour of all the movies that had been important to me over the years, and would try not to take up too much of his time, to which he replied, “I have all the time in the world for you.”Īnd with that, I set about asking several decades’ worth of questions, while fulfilling a lifetime ambition… There were a couple of questions that I omitted on this occasion, including his potential casting as Peter Parker, back when Cameron was set to make a film adaptation of Spider-Man, but I was still given more of an insight into his working life than I could have ever asked for.ĭuring a brief chat before the interview, Michael Biehn confessed there was no way that he possessed the organisational skills to be anything like any of the official military, or police type characters he’s played over the years, reckoning that he’d most likely run off and leave his bullets behind in real life. He even took me to task at one point, to make sure that I was paying attention to the specifics of the point he was making, which ended up making us both laugh, even if I did utterly panic for a second.
In an exclusive interview, Biehn spoke candidly to me at length about every film and role in his career that I chose to ask about, including his thoughts on such topics as playing a white supremacist, casting trouble on The Terminator, jumping in at the last minute for Aliens, and turning down The Usual Suspects.