
Marlon Brando interviewed by Truman Capote in 1956 – on being asked to narrate the film The James Dean story.
“He listened to me. He knew he was sick. I gave him the name of an analyst, and he went. And at least his work improved. Toward the end, I think he was beginning to find his own way as an actor. But this glorifying of Dean is all wrong. That’s why I believe the documentary could be important. To show that he wasn’t a hero; show what he really was-just a lost boy trying to find himself. That ought to be done, and I’d like to do it - maybe as a kind of expiation for some of my own sins. Like making The Wild One.”

Farm boy slicking up in Colby, Kansas
July 26, 1953
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