Ladies and Gentlemen here he is please give it up please welcome TOM WILSON!!
Thank You, Thank You. Please, please sit down
please sit down, you're embarrassing me
Please sit down
It's too much, really, it's too much
If you really examined it, only 28% of you are actually applauding
thank you very much.
don't sneak up behind me man
I almost took you out with a Kung-fu move
I know you could kill me with in like 5 different ways
Check one two three
How's it going tonight everybody?
Hello, How are you? I've met you guys before. I've met so many of you before.
and I'm glad we've come together
because I'm going to take this opportunity to talk about Amway
You know I'm a distributor, and I'm here to talk about a fabulous opportunity for each and every one of you
It's good to be in Pennsylvania huh?
yes some people have come here from Ohio?
And we welcome you
Though we judge you a little bit, but we welcome you
Ohio I'm from Pennsylvania. Did you know that?
I'm a son of Pennsylvania
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
I'm from the you know the good side, but still.....it's fine.....it's fine
We get along with each other
We have a great city you guys
have a good city that always beats us in sports, but that's okay who cares about hockey but
um, but you know Ohio, I know people are from Ohio
Ohio has there thing, right?
What do they do in Ohio? They say "OH"......."IO"
Right see that was a spirit. Can you feel the spirit people?
When they do that a wage, I know Oh agile don't they Ohio people yes all the time
It's time for us to start competing with you people
You know we're gonna start this
Does a Tom started okay? You know how people they started up with their state because it's four letters Ohi though
We can still do it
That makes me a celebrity
Tom Wilson starting his thing cuz he is very important
excitement cranking through the air
Lose your worries forget your kids you people in back should be sitting up here because sometimes I spent when I sing
And you can sell it on eBay
Show PES is my life my friends. I know just what to do
I'm a guy you see on TV and facing people on TV are better than you people want to be are just better than you
Kim Kardashian Anderson Cooper Donald Trump, and me Oh
Survived show pizza paid my dues you gotta give me credit. You can't use
Those Tom Cruise get some that connected
Scientology back to the future. I was in a movie
You don't like me
Relationships relationships Tom Wilson, he's kind of famous he has lost all of his friends
The best
Showbiz party a big success just over your standards not expecting less and let those lowered expectations
Start with me
Thank you, thank you, please in the back stop, you're crushing the kitchen front
It's nice to see you all on an exciting
Friday evening in the greater, Montreux ville Pennsylvania, Metroplex, yeah
one room filled
gateway to
What lurk County
It's good to be here um we usually do Q&A you know when I come on
And I just do my goofball stuff
And I try to tell a couple stories because it's it's a pretty consistent
Question that I get so I took a couple stories
And then we'll do Q&A stuff if that's what you guys want to do. You know fine with me as you seem. I'm pretty relaxed
Sometimes to relax
But um. I'll just tell you a couple stories because people wouldn't hang how to roll it back to the future account of that
and I was a young actor and
I was comes trying to get many job as any young actor what we just try to get job
I'm used to trying to getting commercials. You're trying to get on TV shows
you know I was the guest football player named moose on a a very special facts of life I
Try to describe my episodes of TV shows us a very special
So
Sometimes on the facts of life and I was on Knight Rider
Yeah, Knight Rider with did with Hasselhoff be hassled ass. Yes, I
Can redo my whole role pretty much in that Knight Rider. Hey come back with that car
Some people know I was in the biscuits
Without me no biscuits
Movie back to the future
So for
That my my agent calls them hey you've got to see this young guy very good
He's really good actor gotta see him so I come into the audition
With the assistant casting director nicely, but she sits there as well
You're supposed to be God's gift to acting so let's see
So I act through the scene they have written a specific scene between
Fifth and George McFly that was because was sort of secretive about the story itself
So I had to see
Me get my kid here she calls the casting director. He comes in
so I acted again and
Again and again, and then they called me back and to this day
I've never been called back a copy they called a callback where you go home, and they think about it
And then the crowd of auditions just get smaller from 800 to 350. You know all the way down then you can call back
I've never been called back more times then I was
Well with some guys
So I go to the
First guy they say
Okay, so we go outside
And I start the scene, and I'm thinking I probably won't be cast as Beth, maybe you'll meet one of nips gang members
That'd be great, but if they don't hire this guy. They're out of their minds
He's unbelievable well anyway. I never auditioning with another actor
besides Crispin from that point forward
We came in together, and then we just did it together
They called say we want to put you an age makeup and see how you would act as an older person
So we did that and we did that and then the last night
I had tickets to a Bruce Springsteen concert 8 o'clock
La sports arena Springsteen with my girlfriend
So so I have spring steez things I said they want to see you because back in future that was 6:30 to 9 6:30
So on wave named Springsteen tickets and go in for this last thing and it's a big conference table and Steven Spielberg
there and the head of the studio and Roberts were all
Important people I've never had an audition like this in my life
And we hope we go through the scene once. We've lined the hallways we're doing the thing in the dirt
You know all right man, let's go, and I just have them in headlocks
Dragging them around the room drag them across the table
And I'm just sort of doing the whole scene very physical. I grab a shirt
I lift them up her to be here, but in all of this physicality and all this going for it
I've completely lost my place in the scene I
Don't know the lines anymore. I don't know what I'm doing and I pray like I have the guy in the air
You know just like I put him down
you
know that's a
Scene that's whatever. That's you know the oh well. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot tom
Thanks Christian. Could you stay here Tom? Thank you very much for coming?
a sadist person who has ever been at a Bruce Springsteen
I'm seeing the whole crowd
Section Q with my girlfriend
Just just ruin every opportunity ever had the next morning they call this a you've got the role of
Hard work was great fun. One other story will do cumin
Blast which was your favorite
So many different iterations so many different ages and people Biff
Griff
Buford Mad Dog Tannen this
Pennsylvania, I know how to ride a subway
So forgive from Philadelphia like Pittsburgh to get to go on a big set of a big movie a big Western and
Ride horses with Corky Randall the man who used to write stunts with John Wayne
Go talk John Ford the great director. How to ride a horse
To learn how to ride with him to learn all these things to work with historic western people don't have ride a horse
Rope over my head. I mean I couldn't imagine
You know kind of galloping on a horse and keeping the rope over your head as you're going to
Learn quick draw a gun I had from Hollywood's most
famous
quick-draw expert a man arvo Jolla the
Slowest fastest gun I've ever seen the Argo at that point was in his 80s
And he was still quick-draw expert, but he would move so slowly you said this guy's a quick-dry expert
He could shoot 3 bullets of a gun a single action revolver which is in the Old West?
So you had to click bang so the first one you hit with your thumb
And then he would use his other hand and hit one with his phone click click bang
And then this pinkie clicks and shoot 3 bullets. I just go
So that was that was a great great thrill and
Acting in that movie where I was facing a lot of my movements the way that I carried my body
the way that I had my hand in the holster in this thing off of
Lee Marvin's performance in a movie called the man who shot Liberty valance
which if you happen to
Know the great historic bad guys in westerns Jack Palance in the movie Shane
Which is the scariest guy Wow and?
Lee Marvin in the man who shot Liberty valance
So I was moving like him. There's a court that small wig that I'm carrying
I'm doing that because that's what Lee Marvin had a man who shot but his balance he had short road that he beats up
He beats up, Jimmy Stewart with that movie, so I'm doing that in the movie were three
historic Western actors
dub Taylor and Harry Carey jr. And Pat Buttram guys have been
Such a thrill for everybody to be working with that document the history of Hollywood at this table
Oh
Cutting few borders
And I got to meet them you know one of the scenes we're doing and I got to talk to them
And pack you know - um
Me and the fellas have been talking about it and boy
You know what were you remind yourself?
You ever seen
Yes
so historic Western approved
but but it was just it was a
Huge thrill to be in the footsteps of who I think are just Hollywood history
You know because something like yourselves
I think appreciate it and think it's great a lot of people don't but people are interested in what they're interested in you know
but for me I
Love those old movies, and it's just a thrill
I mean the first the first Back to the Future there was an older man
Who was doing my makeup who was doing some of the prosthetic pieces that I did?
And I just wanted a jean with this gentleman is
Quite elderly it's interesting that he would be still still working and the other makeup artists you know Tom
if you worked on the makeup in The Wizard of Oz
You know to be a bunch of them just near that kind of history
Anyway, that's just me I still shoot on the Paramount lot you know and I'm walking down the Paramount mob with a bunch of young
People you know the technicians and the assistant directors the kids, and they've got their microphone their
Walkie-talkies and everything and I just say oh my gosh guys
they said this was William Holden's office in the movie Sunset Boulevard and
Gloria Swanson came in in her inner elimi scene and met Cecil B. DeMille right at this door
What are you talking about dude we're just going to lunch
So
You know to each their own, but it wasn't thrilled for me anyway
I know we have limited time because you know Lou Ferrigno's going to come out or the kind of you know arm-wrestle
I'm a particularly big fan of this, but by that. I mean I am physically large
But so that was it to be to be just a part of
The history of movies and to meet these people to meet these older actors
Who that was such a great thrill to me, and it still is it still is?
I'm just I'm still I'm the guy on every cent you know and I'm on some TV show and it's an older actor and we're
the scene
So you know so I'm that guy now
I know I know we have other people coming and other things so I wouldn't have your questions and everything
So I'm certainly Mike Mike you want to sort of see the questions Doug the question guy the question
Question raise your hand I got a question
Sure
Oh kids good
Back to the future did you do what he seems with Eric Stoltz and can you tell us a little bit about
What happened with I did almost all the scenes with Eric Stoltz?
I mean I did
We did we did so much with Eric Stoltz that that we were kind of asking each other this because hey you got anything lined
Up after this it was sort of wrapping up
Wrapping up so Eric Stoltz for those of you. Who don't know was cast as the first Marty
It really was no Marty in the movie and something was going on they they thought you know he was miscast it wasn't
It just wasn't good enough for the filming Lou Ferrigno's coming up cuz he has a part of that Eric Stoltz story. I'm sure oh
You have a question after the Eric stone Eric
Eric was fired from the movie if there was something wrong with the set
People were nervous. I thought of course because I'm a young man. It's me
I'm going to get fired because I'm not good and
and
Production shut down the producers called me at home said Tom
Could you come in and have a meeting with us? We'd like to talk to you. Oh my god. It's true. I'm getting fired
the first big movie my first picture oh
You can tell me just tell me the phone I can take it we'd like to tell you the person I go into the office
Not me right, I'm still working yes, you're stupid oh
Whoa?
Hey, man is he okay? Oh?
So we continued with a TV guy from the TV show Michael J Fox and
and the rest is history their takes on the role were very different and
Michael's a great guy
Anyway, you know I kind of question for you
But first of all I never see him to stand-up comedy that guy's great, and I'm saying yeah in the great actor
I got a question for you. Everybody when you bring the boat the first of bid yes
Yes, yes, I went to the mall
And I just looked
And I found I really found that people
People don't act old okay, they're fine. I just found that when they're older
Their head goes down a little bit like this
Their feet get a little wider and their wards gets a little bit lower, so that's good. It's kind of like this
Kind of this movement rather than this guy so Biff it has a hi boys hey McFly
I thought I told you never to come in here older Beth
Even fly
There's only so much human being so you have your voice
It's not perfect, but yes, that's how that's how
To be immortalized doesn't I call myself?
You know it feels really
The iconography of
Back to the future if this makes sense to you is outside of my control
you know it's not something that I that I steer or that I'm even really a part of because that
Part back to the future is in your mind. I know is in your mind
I mean, it's different in everyone's mind, but but it's something
It's a world that you create your idea of popular tonight
So I
Really, I mean if you had consent. I think I'm just a regular guy
from outside, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania I
cannot believe
believe that the shot that I took
I'm just gonna go I'm gonna try my best, and I'll probably keep the teeth and come home
but you know one you don't want to be the one like I would say you know my
Tried my hardest, and I went for it and I had the guts to give it a shot and yes
You know maybe I'm not as good as them at ultimately
I don't know, but I tried and I feel good about that so I can't believe
Getting jobs
You know I can't believe it. I can't believe it
But I mean a movie like Back to the Future 2 or 3
You're going to play in an alternate universe of the same character yet different
you're going to play a different Geiger if your only grandson, and you're going to play an old western gunslinger and
Honestly I went home
To bed because something hits you so hard
Not because it's like this is a wonderful opportunity. This is really like
But what do you do you just start thinking you start using your brain you start going to the mall and watching people
You start moving your body in different ways you start looking at other actors to rip off whatever they did
And you come up with something you know so I
can't
Say enough how much I like I appreciate the appreciation of people
For the Back to the Future movies and for you know and look for the work
I did you know because it was it was hard work. It was something that you create
No, and you don't know if people are going to like it when you create it. You're just trying something
You know so to create something to work hard
To really go to be at work when it's dark outside again when it's dark outside because you're working hard is
Their satisfaction than that but to have people that see it go man that was great
Wow it's unbelievable so
It's a fantastic thing
It's a fantastic thing to be a part of but there's a there is that Tomic sense of the whole thing
Because you know because I'd go home and you know just take out the trash
And you know the dog dig some holes in the back. I'm just you know
I'm just like a regular guy literally like everyone. What would I do is just you know?
what's unusual and it's out of the ordinary and people have come to think of it as a
Different thing some people think of it. It's a better thing. It's not it's just a different thing
it's just like my kids are just kids and
Just that works just that goes to working. That's what he does
But your dad this and that
Does that make sense
Anybody else with the question sir we have Fort Lauderdale happen
If I could talk about The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson that was a big thrill to do
I've done The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and with Jay Leno and
David Letterman and a lot of people it was almost nerve-racking. It's not very nerve-wracking, but Johnny Carson was
Very nice to me very supportive of me and really
It was a wonderful experience my goodness to be loved Tonight Show
My grandfather was alive at that time said pop up on being to the nation
That was like you might as well told him I'm moving to Mars
You're going to be on the Johnny Carson show
So so it was a great thrill it was a great thrill and it was good
Johnny Carson show was my first one and they have this interview that they do before you do the show
Kind of producer talks to you
Funny stories from the sad or something that maybe Johnny could ask you about now Johnny Carson liked for there to be no
surprises
He liked to kind of know
Where what direction you would like to go in and he would like a card with the number of questions that we could you know?
So we know where we're going and he would always
Look down the car
So it almost kind of made sense and flow
David Letterman
They would do that same preview you have any story anything
He would do that whole thing and they give him a card, and he didn't pay attention
So we would just talk about whatever whatever you talk about so so one was very thrilling
But you knew the plan and the other was sort of thrilling and sort of really scary because you didn't know what was gonna
Make sense
Did you see the back of future cartoon that came in the early 90s. I not only saw him
So yeah
I was in that because who wouldn't do that Biff gets to beat like a Spartacus like guy with your chariot races
Would you get to be all kinds of things so we had fun with that and I was just at that point?
I was just beginning to try to be a part of a voiceover
With the voice-over world of show business which is up
Which is a huge world that is I mean? Actually it's just beginning to be appreciated more
Behind this thing so very early on I was trying to do that in the back of the future show really helped that because we
Did a few a few seasons of that and I met directors and other factors and sort of learned
How to approach it better from a business perspective and then went off and had done
zillions of different cartoons and stuff like that yeah
Yes
the funniest movies I've seen the last year was the
Last five years was the heat
And I loved your character in that I was wondering if you could maybe talk a little bit about moving
the heat was a lot of fun Paul Feig is a friend of mine and
big-time very important very talented
Director well. I I mean Paul like from stand-up comedy
You know decades before and Paul and I had worked on the show Freaks and Geeks
this was a
Fantastic show a show called crazy XP - yeah, if you haven't seen it honestly
I never tell people to see something but it's a DVD set now check it out
It's really a great show, so I'm starting to fall from that we did the heat and you never know
Honestly when you're meeting them big big big star you really don't know
What the deal is gonna be with them
You know you don't know if they're gonna be totally normal nice person
Or if you say hi good morning my time, and they go talk to Rick
So Sandra Bullock was
fantastic melissa mccarthy was
fantastic, they're funny
Fantastic ladies and really I've got two shorter answers so we get more questions
But a heat especially how Paul directs now. This is my opinion for movie files
Digital
Entertainment digital technology has completely changed the way that specifically comedy actors approach filming
Previously in the Back to the Future in a previous comedy when film was running through the camera that is just money money
Going, so you can rehearse and you were hurt because we don't want you to film in it review rehearse rehearse, okay?
We're going to do a take now all those all those things. You've heard rolling
speed all the
machines are running and
Action you do you rehearse then you hope it's funny. He changed it a couple of times
But it's a couple of times because it's a lot of film and we have other things to shoot now
Digital technology the film now that you take is just like the cameras rolling. It's just all
So was just like improvise just do whatever you want. Just make them some stuff. We already you know we do one take
Where it's the script?
Don't be afraid to just
Do it so
That I think if we had shot ten years earlier
You know because it kind of we
Sew that cheese, but the heat was a very funny movie very improvisational movie which both ladies
Past it, so we had a lot of fun. We have love and my mom god bless her she saw the heat
and she says
Question for Tom hey Tom in the movie plug in glow out
It's a very serious topic about gang violence, but your scenes of Benjamin Bratt. There was quite a bit of levity
Did you bring that to the roller was this ivory Liberty wherever I go?
It was in the audition process
For blood and blood out to Taylor Hackford the director
Wanted me to improvise and then to improvise and I just think I've been around police we did a lot of
Ride-alongs and everything and let's face it every one of their job is it taking it particularly seriously
You know it's pretty hard
so my improvisation
Were we're just pretty light-hearted
Emptying and emptying the guy's pockets in the station, and you're splitting the gum with them
So that kind of thing but but but of course it's a very serious, I mean we
We were doing ride-alongs with LAPD
It was it was very
very crazy
So we're doing all these ride-along we did many
Any kind of hairy things including including a long?
chase where we're just and we're behind like three other police cars with the lights going to be and we're going in the lights and
the police
The officer who's driving us where the backseat say now if anything
Happens the key to the shotgun is right on my belt right on the right side the tasers and the Trump
You know my service revolver
I don't I'm not gonna. I don't put the shotgun feet sir
I want to I'm gonna change my shoes and run okay, that's gonna be mine pretty much my plan
So we go to the bunch in
East LA
So we're having lunch, we're having lunch with these to
The restaurant and says officers shooting at me
What do you what do you mean he was there right there, there's shit the guys were in the car
through the drive-by while we were you know eating at a restaurant so
Chase them so yes, it's a very very serious movie, but in the police station itself
This guy's stuff
All kinds of scenes unfortunately, you know I'm trying to get famous and directors keep putting me in makeup to hide me from the audience
Anybody else other guys right there. I was worrying if you kept any props from Back to the Future
I have Mythili only three of the picture DeLoreans
People think that there's some subterranean vault
Full of things that I absconded with off the movie the mystery Tom goes down
And he's got the Lost Ark right in that Factory
No then then I just I
Experienced at calm. This is the first year. I'm just you know trying this and meet people at everything
I haven't done much, but what I'm amazed at is people it bringing me some item from a movie that they want me to sign
like
What are you doing, but I was trying it was in the movie
So people generally have way cooler stuff than me but cool myself
My office cool because I have cooler stuff than that guy
Brag or whatever over that close
No we're not I
Uh two things, I wish I had I wish I was big scar the 46 Ford
Yes, sir
Thank you, thank you very much
Absolutely the 46 Ford is in private hands
And it's with and I love this it's with the family that that that had the car that
Rents cars like a movie anyway. They're part of the industry you know and they have the cars
And they realize that now that cars probably worth a lot of money, and they could auction it off or whatever
But they just think like me they love the movies. They love being a part of that
You know and as more than the money
They say we're just keeping the car because we love the car not because we just had to sell everything you know from money
Question right over here of the three worlds
Again I
Back to sort of back to this children's question. I can't believe I can't believe
that in high school
I
Didn't I didn't fit in with a lot of groups
I
wasn't I wasn't an athlete I wasn't a mathlete I
Wasn't you know, but but as you know as you're a young person you started trying to figure out am I good anything?
What can I do know do I have a skill sent and to begin working in the arts?
You know I just don't have step. I'll just start over that was really good and my first reaction was not
Looks like I'm an artist. It was like it was actually
Something and like like an acting like in the school plays would say no you really have a talent and
Acting teachers are to say you really shouldn't pursue this so
I'm sorry, but in answer to your question
Man I have fun with all that stuff
You know I love every bit of it
Now some no I do it for a living you know
And I'm not kidding what you do as you all know we all know that we can do something for a living
It's work its work
everybody goes to work right everybody has to figure out ways that we're gonna pay for food and
our house and all that so
There are parts of it like that. I wish I could paint all the time
So so so
voiceover and acting in movies and
Stand-up comedy because they slow down you're not you know you can make cast in three movies in a row
You can just not be cast in any movies for a while you know
It's not just doesn't pour in you have to keep working at it and working it so my goods
Stand-up comedy the ability to say well
it's a drug theory, but you know what I can put on a show and at the end they give me money and
All of the people at the end of the show thought well, I was really worth
That's that's you know that's a wonderful thing so so I really have fun doing everything
But you know I mean stand-up comedy improvising in front of people and just going off your own ideas and your own crazy
Tangents and having people appreciate that oh, that's that's that's fun. That's a fun field
Anybody else have no all that everybody knows you have to go eat dinner and everything
How did the voice of grip all right, I'll bore you with one more story, and then all you people I
Was in a play in high school
Frankenstein
It's actually the Mary Shelley book was
Was made into a play which is actually not the Boris Karloff
But it's about
Creating this monster, and then what happens in the relationships of this battle dr. Frankenstein of the creature
Examining what it is to be a complete outcast those kinds of issues
so
Everybody so yeah the theater teacher in high school decides to do Frankenstein I was
highly compliment
We want you to be the creature in Frankenstein
so I thought
Frankenstein not only not only was he was he was he an outcast, but I wasn't green acted like this I
Will be a preacher. I thought maybe something happened to his brain
And
his whole
life
is struggling to find words trying to struggle to find expressing himself for me to just it'll have a
Try Trump, you like that truck just being absolutely
Frustrated at
Everything he was so I ripped that off for Griffith
So I thought well bred and they put that in the script to make
Have this thing when something happened I said maybe something like he almost lost his loving only operating in the future
He has some implants or electronic impulses that just because as I said you have to come up with something you know
It's a completely different character you better think
You can you know what if to say the higher voice?
So I thought from that play I had that ideas so I applied it to Grif and actually put it in the scriptures
There's something wrong with his implants
That kind of thing they made it a part of the script so you were prepared to
See Grif and the unusual things I was doing with that
now
Wow
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