Robert: It was hard to keep a straight face in almost any scene with Leslie, but especially in our first.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lorna Patterson,\u00a0who was wonderful, comes up to me and says, “There’s a problem in the cockpit.” And we do the “Cockpit, what is it? It’s a little room where the pilot sits, but that’s unimportant right now.” So I go into the cockpit for the first time, and Leslie says, “Mr. Striker, can you fly this plane?” And I say, “Surely can’t be serious!” That\u2019s the first time I say that, and then Leslie delivers the other half of the famous exchange: “I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.”<\/p>\n
Leslie had a little “machine” \u2014 nobody really knew about it in Hollywood then, but now everyone does. It became legendary. It was a little thing he put in his hand and squeezed, and it was basically a fart machine. It was like a handheld whoopee cushion, and he just played it like a maestro. Your eyes would be watering, you’re laughing so hard.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Well, when I was doing my closeups, Leslie would make these fart noises off-camera, and I had to keep a straight face. It would sound like, “Mr. Striker [fart] can [fart] you land this plane?”\u00a0<\/p>\n
I’d come from the theater, and sometimes people pull stunts on you when you’re doing something that goes on for months, and you have to learn to keep a straight face. (Laughs) So I guess I was trained my whole life for that moment, and I was able to keep a straight face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert: It was hard to keep a straight face in almost any scene with Leslie, but especially in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[75237,146,2663,6477,85,46,397],"class_list":["post-601729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bfdc-interviews","tag-entertainment","tag-evergreen","tag-geekyfb","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}