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<\/p>\nMcBain blog<\/p>\n
A film starring Christopher Walken was auditioning and I had been requested for one of two roles:
\nIn 1990 I was living in Hollywood when my agent Lynne called to tell me that
\nthe good guy who gets killed or Simon Escobar the bad guy. I chose to audition for Simon Escobar,
\nthe drug kingpin.. I had to fly back to New York for the audition. The morning of the audition, I got a
\nbrainstorm: Since my monologue talked about sending flowers to the ex-president of the country at a
\ncemetery, I bought a beautiful flower and decided I would audition using the flower as a prop.
\nTouching it, smelling it, No shouting, but very intimate, yet menacing. I was in charge! After the
\naudition I offered the flower to the casting director and left quietly. That same afternoon I flew back to
\nHollywood. A few days later my agent called and she said: \u201dI don’t know what you did but, they don’t
\nwant to see anybody else for that part \u201c. Mission accomplished! I left Hollywood and headed back to
\nNYC. Two weeks later I was flying to the Philippines to begin shooting McBain. When I got to
\nManila, the producers wanted me to come to the location set which was three hours away by car. The
\ndriver was waiting at the hotel to take me to the jungle and and upon seeing me said: are you one of
\nEscobar’s men? I got into character, looked at him and said:I am Escobar, let’s go! Three hours later I
\nwas in the Jungle. I had fun doing McBain. The day I finished shooting my scenes, they provided a
\ndriver for me and my henchman Hans a Brit, a driver to get us back to Manila. The car broke down
\nand we had to hitch hike back to our hotel two hours away. Luckily we hitched a ride back from
\nstrangers in the back of a pickup truck. We hanged on for dear life. Not a pleasant ending to a
\nsuccessful shoot. In the lobby of The Mandarin Oriental hotel Christopher Walken and I had a few
\ndrinks. I mentioned to him how odd it was that he plays the hero and I the villain and yet we never
\nmeet in the film . He said \u201c Yes, that doesn’t make sense does it? \u201c.<\/p>\n
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