Andy Garcia Interview For City Island

Last week I caught up Andy Garcia while he WAS in London Promoting His Latest Film City Island - a charming dysfunctional family flick That Will Melt Even The Coldest Heart - I promise you, you'll leave The Cinema With A big fat smile on your face ! Andy Garcia incredibly talented actor ya une That I love seeing in Anything, Especially in great roles like this one.

What Attracted you to City Island? And how did you get Involved?

Andy Garcia: The script leur envoi to me by the director for, Who Was Also The writer - Raymond De Felitta, With The offer of Playing the part and to Produce Film With The HIM if I liked to. I was very charmed by The Script, it was easy to fall in love With. First of all It Was That Does not Necessarily hand has come my way That Often, it wasn't The type of character I Recognise Immediately, The Humanity in it, The humor, The emotion in it. Also The Surprise in the Story telling, There Were Always turns I wasn't expecting, it was very clever. But Then I Had to decide if I wanted to co aussi Produce It Because I Know What That challenge IS HAVING done about half a dozen films Independently, I know it's not a vanity title. I guess if it Can Be The Film Comes to You Already Financed. I Knew With The climate That We Have In today's international distribution system, people That Would Most Likely Recognise The Beauty In The script and we'll be Able to cast the movie Well with Great Actor Because Actors want to play great parts.

It's a challenge as a producer to get money, you challenge yourself by thinking, you've got no money, no one's interested in. your movie, do you drop it or do you put it on your Shoulders and say come on we've got to find a way and that's What We Did. It Took us Two and a Half Years, so I'm kind of very Careful Where I Say I Want to Be a Producer, I Could Have Just Said I love the part, I'd love to play it, you CAN use my name for whatever and let me know When We Start. That Would Have Been Easier (laughs).

There's Such A great overall feel to the film, Against the Struggling With That's odd feeling do you think That Added to Feel That?

Andy Garcia: Yeah, like I said I Knew The Film Would ATTRACT Great Actor, Both Julianna and Emily Were friends of mine and people I HAD WORKED With Before, They Were The First People That Came to my mind for thesis units. In a way the stars line up Because Had To With Emily When We Called Her first she wasn't available, But Then When We Got the money pour la film, The Actress That We Had she HAD HAD Another Commitment to Honor, n The Part became available again. Everyone was great, Julianna jumped in With No prep, There Was No rehearsal, the movie WAS shot in 27 days, We had a table read on Sunday, We Started shooting on Monday. On Monday weekends sat Around the dining room table and started "eating pasta and Arguing.

How Did you Find the easy accent?

Andy Garcia: I WORKED on it for a while. Therefore I Had's focus from the New York region, to Brooklyn Is Different From The Bronx, Every area is Different. I Had Some Time to work on it. It's an ear that's familiar to me to Fairly Some degree Because I Had Gone Into That World Before, I'm not from New York, I'm Not an Italian American Even though i would say I'm Italian American by digestion (laughs) , at Some point I think I inherited Completely The Italian Culture Through the Amount of pasta I've Consumed Over the Years. I've been blessed to play Some Great share'm his culture. I enjoyed the accent a lot, I enjoyed the character so much, I Thought He Was so uniquely drawn. I Had So Many ideas thinking about earning The Right to Go With HIM some places.

What Was It Like Working with your own daughter?

Andy Garcia: She was great, she's a terrific actress, She Was Completely Prepared and professional, she's acting Been All Her Life. You always try to Personalize Things for "any part, But The Fact That She Was There, We Were Able To Exist In Our Own dy.