A-Team

[katikat]

I was just reading something about A-Team when I came across this:

George Peppard always resented the fact that his The A-Team co-star, Mr. T, became a bigger star than him. According to Dirk Benedict, George refused to even speak to Mr. T directly and asked him (Dirk) to relay messages. Also, the cast of The A-Team was invited to visit the Netherlands in 1984, but George Peppard would not attend when he heard that Mr. T was also invited.

Huh. Arrogant much?

But I also found some funny quotes by Dirk Benedict aka Face:

• (On the A-Team) I enjoyed it immensely. By nature I'm terribly serious, so as an actor I tend to want to be silly. It was a comedic show, almost like a cartoon. We just had to hang on to enough reality to make it possible for adults to watch it. The actors I worked with, especially Mr T and Dwight Schultz were very funny people. It was pretty much four years of laughter.
  
• You know I tried treating my wives like Big Brother treats me and it got me nowhere. I gave them tasks, gave them rewards...!
  
• When the ship is sinking and someone's having great time and happy about it, you throw them overboard.
  
• (On the new Battlestar Galactica's Starbuck) People kept asking me about Starbuck being a girl and I finally wrote what I thought for a British magazine called Dreamwatch. It was called Starbuck: Lost In Castration, and a lot of people got really angry -- 'this chauvinist pig, this angry bitter old actor, how dare he?' It was about why you can't have a character like Starbuck in a show today -- a cigar-smoking, drinking, womanizing lovable scoundrel. The feminist movement got rid of those guys. In the war against masculinity, the only way that character could work was to make him a woman.
  
• Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.
  
• Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.
  
• America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.

He sounds like a cool guy :)

Comments

[kwycksylver.livejournal.com]

George Peppard did have a very huge ego. If you look up the movies he was in; and some of them are classics, like Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Blue Max and The Carpetbaggers, you can kind of understand why. He was a major star in his younger days.

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that must have hit him pretty hard that Mr T became bigger star. I'm quite happy though that Dirk Benedict sounds like a cool guy :)