Bobby Duvall says election is a toss-up.
Sadly, that’s about the sum total of what I got off Robert Duvall at a dinner event at Gov. Bill Richardson’s mansion Sept. 21. I should have been able to do better, given that I was seated at Duvall’s table, but, as has been proven to me repeatedly, I’m not actually very good at interviewing celebrities.
Duvall was at the dinner, along with Jeff Bridges, in honor of the movie Crazy Heart , currently filming here in Santa Fe. (My brief conversation with Bridges concerned 1. how much Santa Fe must have changed in the time I’ve lived here and how cool it must be that I can remember a time when it was just dirt roads…his words…not mine. How old do I look? and his bad back, for which I recommended a trip to Ten Thousand Waves).
Anyway, back to Duvall. I asked him, over coffee, what he thought would happen on Nov. 4. He said it was a toss-up but he’d told a close friend of his with different political views that no matter what happens, “we’ll still be friends.” I wanted to ask Duvall a bit about “Service,” the documentary he narrated at the GOP convention. I personally think Duvall could read a grocery list and make it sound good, but I found the script of the documentary a little weird, particularly the line, “You can’t really see your country, but you can love it.” I don’t get it; Why can’t you see it? Anyway, we didn’t really get to that because Duvall seems to be under the impression that they never used his narration at the GOP and that it can only be seen on Youtube, and my attempts to convince him otherwise were a. short-lived and b. ineffective.
My only other celebrity encounter was with Paul Herman, who plays Marvin on Entourage . He told me if I rushed home I could probably catch him on that night’s episode, and proceeded to give me exuberant farewell kisses on each cheek.
I think I will probably stick to covering the local news.
p.s. I did not actually call Robert Duvall “Bobby,” but that is how he introduced himself.
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