our next guest has starred in some terrific motion pictures such as goodfellas and also field
of dreams his latest movie is entitled no escape and it opens on april 29th let's go see that paul
folks please welcome ray liotta ray
ray nice to see him next i know i like the cold you you like it i like the color well good for you
there you go and also i i used to do on a i was on a soap opera another world and i worked with this
oh you know so you know biff anderson yes he's very talented don't you think yes he helped me
with my commercial oh you did a commercial i did i did a love songs of the 50s it was
the first thing i've ever done and uh it actually was just stills so we just looked
in each other's eyes what is your favorite love song of the film not you know i don't remember
you uh i don't see you on a lot of television shows and as tom mentioned everybody has a
television show are you are you nervous about coming on show yeah i'm a little uncomfortable
with what is the apprehension oh just making a fool of myself i guess hell hasn't stopped me
uh and this this week has been especially bad because i had to throw the first pitch out
uh for the san francisco giants and that's a great honor it was a great
honor but i hadn't thrown a a a ball since i did uh field of dreams and i was nervous
because you know here all these guys are these big jocks and you know 50 000 people
right exactly and you want to make sure you throw it to the plate and look somewhat manly
and and luckily you know i cheated of course and i threw and i got it over and dusty baker said that
was great and uh uh cindy crawford was there the the week before and she threw it over the backstop
so i felt manly uh now when you when you were uh doing um like goodfellas man that that movie just
i was like twitching for weeks after that thing that was ooh geez what a what a gritty
edgy uncomfortable film that was but endlessly entertaining but you know what i mean yeah because
i just i just i just i wanted to get home you know i thought let me just get away from these people
they were just uh they lived in it yeah and did you hang around with guys like that did you did
you ever meet the the i guess your character henry hill did you what was that uh henry i met after uh
after the movie and that uh he was glad that i didn't play him as a dirtbag as he said which
i wasn't too um but when marty and i we went to a restaurant and we uh directed yeah and uh these
guys would be coming up like auditioning for him we were at this italian restaurant they heard that
marty was there and that marty uses real people in in his movies so these are like real life wise
guys but they wouldn't admit it they all came up with stories as if they were auditioning for him
and one you know they would all come and talk in third person i knew a guy who did this oh i knew
a guy i had to i knew somebody who had to whack their this guy in a diner and and his sister was
there i knew a guy who had to whack this guy in a diner and his mother was and really they actually
was like competing with each other so and what was what was uh henry hill himself like now this guy
he's still in the federal witness protection program is that correct yeah i had met him uh
uh that one time then i met him and then the movie came out he was very uh he was seen around town a
lot and i was at a premiere once and he uh he came over to me and and i didn't know what to say here
he is in a witness protection program i don't know what's going to happen why is he going to premiere
exactly so he comes over i'm sitting with a group of people and not i don't know whether
to introduce him or what to say i'm afraid i'm not i don't know what's going to happen sure
and and uh he so he's saying hi how are you and then he starts introducing himself to
hi i'm henry hill oh my god you've never seen a crowd disperse okay yeah i would think so
but what d what do you know of his life these days is he i mean do you know where he is do you know
how he is do you know what he's up to nope and i don't want to and that'll that'll be it for him
the rest of his life well actually he came up to me uh uh one time at that same party saying that
he wanted to do a sequel of the movie and he said do you think the beginning of the beginning of
my life was tough where do you see the rest of it but it i mean that must be it strikes me as being
insane that he shows up at the premiere i know and then he's at the party having a couple of drinks
next thing you know somebody slaps a sign in his back
and tonight he's sitting in the bands
next thing you know somebody slaps a sign in his back that says shoot me
uh tell us about uh no escape what kind of a film is that um it's a nice big action movie we shot
it in australia uh what part of australia uh in the rain forest um i was doing a scene there in
the rainforest and there's all kinds of creatures around and you never know what you're coming up
against and i'm getting ready for a scene it's a real serious scene and i'm pacing back and forth
back and forth and every time i pace to my left there would be a lot of noise a lot of i didn't
understand what it was i'm pacing back and forth pacing back and forth again get to my left there's
this noise and i just felt uncomfortable so i started walking away and i just felt like
i saw i just felt like something was behind me i turned around and i was being attacked by a bird
what kind of bird i don't know i called it a hitchcock i don't know what it was
it just actually gets you in there just just came after me and i'm running away flailing my
arms and the crew is getting ready and their heroes are these macho uh australians and um
it's the bird
so you really impressed these big tough australian
guys where's your good fellas now oh look it's tippy hedren hello tippy
that's funny uh but the film is you are like at the last
outpost for uh convicted nasty felons in the year 2020 yeah it takes place in the future
and i'm a wrongly convicted marine i get sent to this penal colony where there's good guy good bad
guys and bad bad guys and it's just how i want to get off the island and you you saved the day
for everybody yeah all right opens april 29th yes a lot of fun you happy with how it came out yeah
ray it's a pleasure to see you thanks thank you very much for being here tonight ray leona kids