Steve Martin interview: 'I’ve always had empathy with comedians and their struggle'
Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Outside of projects like his 2007 memoir, Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life, getting Martin, 71, to talk now about his days as “a wild and crazy guy” or movies like The Jerk is like asking him to make you one of his bad balloon animals: it ain’t gonna happen. open image in gallery Martin as a villainous stranger in David Mamet's 1997 film ‘The Spanish Prisoner’ What made you want to do a project like this now? open image in gallery Steve Martin and John Candy in ‘Planes,Trains, and Automobiles’, 1987 Did you help choose your vintage stand-up and movie clips in the lessons? I had never heard of him until I went, “What’s that?” How do you think the Steve Martin of the 1970s would react to the work you’re doing today?
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