Hi everybody, Tyler here. Actor Kier Dullea,
most famous for playing Dave in Stanley Kubrick’s
2001: A Space Odyssey, did an ‘ask me anything’
on reddit recently. Here’s what we found out...
 
Okay, Number 5…
At almost 80 years old, Keir looks better
than his old man make-up from the movie. He
chalks up his good looks to genes. Go figure…
Number 4…
During the filming of 2001, Stanley Kubrick
remained calm. Keir says, “He never raised
his voice, he had a quiet droll sense of humor
and was a man with great curiosity.”
Number 3…
Stanley Kubrick’s perfectionism caused them
to stop production on Keir’s first day because
the shoes “weren’t right.”
To be fair, the shoes do make the man. And
now that I look at them, they are pretty great.
Number 2…
This is a cool one: When asked about his favorite
scene he was in he said his favorite was the
scene where he dismantles HAL’s brain. He
talks about him of the ending of Of Mice and Men, 
specifically the scene where George is
forced to kill his best friend, Lenny to avoid
Lenny being killed by an angry mob.
George: And then, down on the flat, we’re
gonna have a field of alfalfa.
Lenny: For the rabbits!
He says, “in some way, emotionally, that
scene from Of Mice and Men affected the way
I played the scene with HAL.”
Let’s take a look…
HAL: And he taught me to sing a song. If you’d
like to hear it, I can sing it for you.
Dave: Yes. I’d like to hear it, HAL. Sing
it for me.
Number 1…
This one is my favorite.
When asked about shooting the famous stargate
sequence, Keir responded, “The visual effects
of my journey through time and space were
created well after I had finished the film.
Stanley filmed me mostly in close-up reacting
to something that I actually wasn’t seeing.
He created an old silent movie trick: he played
some extraordinary music to put me in the mood. 
Specifically, a movement from Ralph
Vaughan Williams’ Sinfonia Antartica. If
you’re interested, look it up and wait for
a very mysterious section of the piece. That’s
what helped me react to something I wasn’t
seeing.”
And, just in case you were wondering, it sounds
a little something like this…
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Thanks for watching.
