USA: PREMIERE OF DANNY DE VITO AND KEVIN SPACEY'S LATEST FILM "THE BIG KAHUNA"

Record ID: 389291

  • Title: USA: PREMIERE OF DANNY DE VITO AND KEVIN SPACEY'S LATEST FILM "THE BIG KAHUNA"
  • Date: 13th April 2000
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (APRIL 13, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) SCU SOUNDBITE (English) DANNY DEVITO TALKING ABOUT BEING APPROACHED BY KEVIN SPACEY TO ACT IN THE FILM, SAYING "First of all, the total picture of Kevin calling me on a Friday night and sending me the script -- he was kind of in a bind --he was going to shoot on Wednesday, so he sent me the script on a Friday night, I read it, I thought the character was great, the story was great, it's about something, it's about loyalty and about trusting and about yourself and about the dedication of your life. It's such a universal theme, you know you can be a mailman or a hairdresser or a plumber or a studio executive or artist. It fits in this, getting up in the morning and going to work with the dedication and caring about the people you're working with."
  • Embargoed: 28th April 2000 13:00
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  • Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES AND VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVA98NN1H45WCYK9ZI1DR6WYRUI6
  • Story Text: "American Beauty" star Kevin Spacey attended the premiere of his latest film, "The Big Kahuna," which was shot in sixteen days on a small budget budget and features the producing debut of the two-time Oscar winner.
    The place: An industrial lubricant company's 16th floor hospitality suite overlooking beautiful downtown Wichita.The reason: the Midwest Manufacturer's Annual Convention.The hors d'oeuvres: a cheese ball and carrot sticks.The mood: not good.
    This is the setting for "The Big Kahuna", Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey's post-"American Beauty" return to the big screen.
    Spacey has a lot more at stake this time around.The two-time Oscar winner (best supporting actor for "The Usual Suspects" and best actor for "American Beauty") makes his producing debut with "Kahuna".
    Joined on camera by veteran Danny Devito and newcomer Peter Facinelli, "The Big Kahuna" is the story of Larry (Spacey), Phil (Devito) and Bob (Facinelli), three Midwestern businessmen at crucial stages of their lives.
    Larry is a smooth-talking slick operator whose brutal honesty comes as no surprise to his old pal Phil but shocks and offends young Bob.Recently married, deeply religious and a bit nervous about his first convention, Bob's wholesome righteousness irks Larry to no end.Trying to keep the peace is Phil, whose been in the business the longest.Recently divorced and emotionally and physically exhausted, Phil has suddenly found himself forced to reassess his life and purpose.As the evening progresses with the three men waiting for an important potential client to stop by - "the big kahuna" - they find themselves opening up in unexpected ways.
    As night turns to day, each man has been transformed in ways that they - and the audience - would never expect.
    Originally written for the stage under the title "Hospitality Suite", Spacey couldn't fit another stint on Broadway into his schedule, so he and veteran stage director John Swanbeck, who he befriended during the New York production of "Hurly Burly", decided "The Big Kahuna" would be the perfect film debut for Swanbeck as well as the producing debut of Spacey and his recently founded Trigger St.
    Productions which will follow "Kahuna" with "Ordinary Decent Criminal" starring Linda Fiorentino later this year.
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