1 00:00:01,751 --> 00:00:04,921 [♪♪♪] 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.BZ 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.BZ 4 00:00:11,553 --> 00:00:12,637 [engine revs] 5 00:00:17,559 --> 00:00:19,310 -There's Steve McQueen, and then there's cool. 6 00:00:23,898 --> 00:00:26,359 He walks onto the screen, and he kidnaps you. 7 00:00:26,401 --> 00:00:28,653 You just want to look at Steve McQueen. 8 00:00:28,695 --> 00:00:30,280 -Steve had an edge. 9 00:00:30,321 --> 00:00:32,907 You can't fake the way he was. 10 00:00:35,702 --> 00:00:38,371 -Every man I met wanted to be him. 11 00:00:38,413 --> 00:00:40,040 Every woman wanted to sleep with him. 12 00:00:40,081 --> 00:00:42,459 Every kid wanted to be mentored by him. 13 00:00:42,500 --> 00:00:44,377 -He was larger than life in the public eye 14 00:00:44,419 --> 00:00:45,879 and in our family. 15 00:00:48,548 --> 00:00:52,969 -I think what Steve stood for was impulse. 16 00:00:53,011 --> 00:00:55,597 -His need for speed was so genuine. 17 00:00:55,638 --> 00:00:57,891 Speed was a fix that he had to have. 18 00:01:00,894 --> 00:01:03,480 -If he wanted to go fast, he would go fast. 19 00:01:03,521 --> 00:01:04,314 If he wanted to fight, he would fight. 20 00:01:04,356 --> 00:01:06,274 -And he would fight to the death 21 00:01:06,316 --> 00:01:08,610 to get his way. 22 00:01:08,651 --> 00:01:11,988 -Where does one begin to pick a favorite Steve McQueen movie? 23 00:01:12,030 --> 00:01:13,365 -The chase sequence in Bullitt. 24 00:01:13,406 --> 00:01:16,451 There's one massive slide-out... Waah! when he gets loose. 25 00:01:16,493 --> 00:01:19,204 Every single time, I'm like, [gasping] 26 00:01:19,245 --> 00:01:20,663 -Those eyes... 27 00:01:20,705 --> 00:01:22,665 He could give you that stare, and you knew he meant business. 28 00:01:22,707 --> 00:01:24,876 -You work your side of the street, 29 00:01:24,918 --> 00:01:26,044 and I'll work mine. 30 00:01:26,086 --> 00:01:27,545 -He lived life to the fullest, man. 31 00:01:33,093 --> 00:01:36,012 -Steve McQueen was the coolest of the cool, 32 00:01:36,054 --> 00:01:37,931 with searing performances in blockbusters 33 00:01:37,972 --> 00:01:41,059 like The Magnificent Seven and Bullitt, 34 00:01:41,101 --> 00:01:43,436 and his love for fast cars, beautiful women, 35 00:01:43,478 --> 00:01:47,023 and life on the edge. 36 00:01:47,065 --> 00:01:48,566 He was one of the hottest cultural icons 37 00:01:48,608 --> 00:01:50,610 of the 20th century. 38 00:01:50,652 --> 00:01:52,570 -My dad has gotten the nickname since he's passed 39 00:01:52,612 --> 00:01:54,614 "The King of Cool," 40 00:01:54,656 --> 00:01:56,449 but, you know, even when he was alive, 41 00:01:56,491 --> 00:01:58,243 he always had that. 42 00:01:58,284 --> 00:02:00,412 Everybody would say, "Your dad's so cool." 43 00:02:00,453 --> 00:02:02,706 "He's cool," you know? He was cool. 44 00:02:02,747 --> 00:02:04,791 -There's Steve McQueen, and then there's cool. 45 00:02:04,833 --> 00:02:08,294 -Steve McQueen is somebody too cool to be bothered 46 00:02:08,336 --> 00:02:12,465 with the things that bother the rest of us 24 hours a day. 47 00:02:12,507 --> 00:02:13,466 [slapping] 48 00:02:13,508 --> 00:02:15,301 -Ow! 49 00:02:15,343 --> 00:02:17,220 -It's one thing to have that confidence, though. 50 00:02:17,262 --> 00:02:20,015 It doesn't hurt to look like Steve McQueen. 51 00:02:20,056 --> 00:02:23,476 It doesn't hurt to have those eyes. 52 00:02:23,518 --> 00:02:25,270 -Those eyes were just... 53 00:02:25,311 --> 00:02:26,438 They were just piercing. 54 00:02:26,521 --> 00:02:29,983 When he's in a scene, even if he's not talking, 55 00:02:30,025 --> 00:02:31,568 there was so much being said. 56 00:02:31,609 --> 00:02:33,445 -Everything that Steve McQueen did, 57 00:02:33,528 --> 00:02:34,779 he looked cool doing it. 58 00:02:34,821 --> 00:02:37,657 Driving that dune buggy in The Thomas Crown Affair, 59 00:02:37,699 --> 00:02:38,742 or, of course, you know, 60 00:02:38,783 --> 00:02:41,786 the Mustang chase scene in Bullitt. 61 00:02:41,828 --> 00:02:43,580 My favorite images of Steve McQueen 62 00:02:43,621 --> 00:02:46,583 are of him holding a beer next to his pick-up truck 63 00:02:46,624 --> 00:02:48,335 with the beard and the cowboy hat. 64 00:02:48,376 --> 00:02:51,046 Whatever look Steve McQueen had, it looked cool. 65 00:02:51,087 --> 00:02:53,089 -It's that something, you know? 66 00:02:53,131 --> 00:02:56,343 He was a man unlike any other, and he owned it. 67 00:02:56,384 --> 00:02:58,053 -He's the guy's guy. 68 00:02:58,094 --> 00:03:01,097 He embodied all the things that every... 69 00:03:01,139 --> 00:03:04,100 Man, I want to be able to jump a motorcycle 70 00:03:04,142 --> 00:03:07,979 and race cars and get the girl, and, you know... 71 00:03:08,021 --> 00:03:09,189 -He loved women. 72 00:03:09,230 --> 00:03:10,523 He loved the danger of life. 73 00:03:10,565 --> 00:03:11,858 He lived on the edge. 74 00:03:11,900 --> 00:03:15,445 He came out of a rough-hewn kind of existence. 75 00:03:15,487 --> 00:03:18,114 -I like a guy to have, you know, 76 00:03:18,156 --> 00:03:19,908 maybe a little dirt under his fingernails, 77 00:03:19,949 --> 00:03:24,537 but to be able to put a suit on and have that sophistication, 78 00:03:24,579 --> 00:03:26,790 it just added a whole 'nother level. 79 00:03:26,831 --> 00:03:31,544 -Great looks, charisma, masculinity, 80 00:03:31,586 --> 00:03:34,631 vulnerability, menace... 81 00:03:34,673 --> 00:03:36,049 He had the lot, you know? 82 00:03:36,091 --> 00:03:39,177 All his numbers came in. 83 00:03:39,219 --> 00:03:44,099 -In Hollywood, there are actors who play the part... 84 00:03:44,140 --> 00:03:46,101 And actors that live it. 85 00:03:50,313 --> 00:03:53,024 This is the story of one man who pushed the boundaries, 86 00:03:53,066 --> 00:03:54,025 broke the rules, 87 00:03:54,067 --> 00:03:57,654 and drove through life on his own terms, 88 00:03:57,696 --> 00:04:02,450 but for McQueen, the road to success was not an easy one. 89 00:04:02,492 --> 00:04:03,493 -Steve McQueen really had 90 00:04:03,535 --> 00:04:05,120 all the odds stacked against him. 91 00:04:05,161 --> 00:04:07,747 He had two alcoholic parents. 92 00:04:07,789 --> 00:04:10,083 He was born six months after the Great Depression. 93 00:04:10,125 --> 00:04:13,253 He was on the fast track to jail, 94 00:04:13,294 --> 00:04:16,214 and he lived pretty much a homeless existence. 95 00:04:16,256 --> 00:04:19,551 -He had a very crappy existence as a kid, you know? 96 00:04:19,592 --> 00:04:21,344 -You know, Steve came up from nothing. 97 00:04:21,386 --> 00:04:23,096 He was in a boys' home, the Boys Republic. 98 00:04:23,138 --> 00:04:25,223 -From the way I hear it, 99 00:04:25,265 --> 00:04:27,767 it was because he was doing delinquent... you know? 100 00:04:27,809 --> 00:04:29,144 He was stealing and, you know, 101 00:04:29,185 --> 00:04:30,103 and I don't think he was stealing 102 00:04:30,145 --> 00:04:31,771 just to be one of the guys. 103 00:04:31,813 --> 00:04:34,149 I think, if anything, it was to feed himself. 104 00:04:34,190 --> 00:04:36,234 -He escaped from the Boys Republic, 105 00:04:36,276 --> 00:04:37,694 and they caught him, 106 00:04:37,736 --> 00:04:39,112 and, of course, they punished him, 107 00:04:39,154 --> 00:04:40,613 and he escaped another time, 108 00:04:40,655 --> 00:04:42,198 and then they brought him back 109 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:44,284 and said, "Okay, if you don't settle down," 110 00:04:44,325 --> 00:04:47,162 he said, "We're going to have to really be severe with you." 111 00:04:47,203 --> 00:04:49,831 -If you screw up after Boys Republic, 112 00:04:49,873 --> 00:04:51,124 you go to prison. You go to jail. 113 00:04:51,166 --> 00:04:52,125 You go to the big house. 114 00:04:52,167 --> 00:04:54,544 -As Steve learned to curb his wild side, 115 00:04:54,586 --> 00:04:56,254 his estranged mother, Julia, 116 00:04:56,296 --> 00:04:59,174 invited him to live with her in New York City. 117 00:04:59,215 --> 00:05:03,345 -She sent him a little money, $5, 118 00:05:03,386 --> 00:05:08,266 and so with $5 on him, 119 00:05:08,308 --> 00:05:15,523 the Boys Republic gave him a pair of jeans and a shirt. 120 00:05:15,565 --> 00:05:18,651 It's hard for me to go through that. 121 00:05:18,693 --> 00:05:21,154 I don't know why, but every time I think of it, 122 00:05:21,196 --> 00:05:25,158 I really see this kid at 16, 123 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:31,373 traveling across the country with only $5 in his... 124 00:05:31,414 --> 00:05:34,167 With only $5 on him, 125 00:05:34,209 --> 00:05:36,461 going to New York to meet up with his mother, 126 00:05:36,503 --> 00:05:40,173 you know, and then when he got off the bus, 127 00:05:40,215 --> 00:05:42,300 he smelled liquor on her breath, 128 00:05:42,342 --> 00:05:46,262 and she had started to drink at that point in time, you know? 129 00:05:46,304 --> 00:05:50,475 -My dad's mother, Julia, my dad really never... 130 00:05:50,517 --> 00:05:52,852 Never brought her up that I can remember. 131 00:05:52,894 --> 00:05:57,065 I know there was a tremendous amount of anger, 132 00:05:57,107 --> 00:05:59,818 as expected, 133 00:05:59,859 --> 00:06:03,113 but then my mom tells me the day she died, he broke down, 134 00:06:03,154 --> 00:06:05,323 so you try and figure that one out, you know? 135 00:06:05,365 --> 00:06:08,118 It's a heavy dynamic. 136 00:06:11,454 --> 00:06:14,249 -You did come from a broken family 137 00:06:14,290 --> 00:06:17,669 and you went through, probably, what, 50 odd jobs? 138 00:06:17,711 --> 00:06:20,046 -I went through an awful lot, dishwashing, truck driving, 139 00:06:20,088 --> 00:06:21,256 post office, everything. 140 00:06:21,297 --> 00:06:24,175 -At 17, he joined the Marine Corps. 141 00:06:24,217 --> 00:06:25,677 He was assigned to the motor pool, 142 00:06:25,719 --> 00:06:28,013 and then he became a tank driver. 143 00:06:28,054 --> 00:06:29,556 He was one happy boy over there 144 00:06:29,639 --> 00:06:31,141 because suddenly, 145 00:06:31,182 --> 00:06:33,309 all this machinery was right in front of him, 146 00:06:33,351 --> 00:06:36,104 and he was fascinated by it all. 147 00:06:39,524 --> 00:06:43,236 The Boys Republic and the Marine Corps 148 00:06:43,278 --> 00:06:46,239 really were his true homes. 149 00:06:46,281 --> 00:06:50,744 He found an anchor in his life, you know, for the first time. 150 00:06:50,785 --> 00:06:52,370 When he was discharged at 20, 151 00:06:52,412 --> 00:06:54,414 he was looking around to see what to do. 152 00:06:54,456 --> 00:06:58,418 -With the GI bill, he decided to take up acting, 153 00:06:58,501 --> 00:07:00,920 like a lot of people did, because of the girls. 154 00:07:00,962 --> 00:07:02,380 It's God's way, man. 155 00:07:02,422 --> 00:07:04,299 Look, he ended up being one of the best actors ever. 156 00:07:04,341 --> 00:07:07,135 -It may well have been the girls, 157 00:07:07,177 --> 00:07:08,720 but in the '50s, if you wanted to act, 158 00:07:08,762 --> 00:07:10,263 you chased the dream to New York City, 159 00:07:10,305 --> 00:07:12,640 like James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, 160 00:07:12,682 --> 00:07:16,353 and thousands of actors that never had a chance. 161 00:07:16,394 --> 00:07:18,229 -I know that when I was studying in New York, 162 00:07:18,271 --> 00:07:20,815 I knew that I couldn't afford to fail, 163 00:07:20,857 --> 00:07:23,318 because it was the only thing that I knew how to do, 164 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,612 and I didn't know any other trade, 165 00:07:25,695 --> 00:07:28,239 but then I really... I do enjoy acting. 166 00:07:28,281 --> 00:07:30,367 It's a great craft, you know? 167 00:07:30,408 --> 00:07:32,202 I mean, it's a marvelous kind of feeling, you know? 168 00:07:32,243 --> 00:07:35,163 -Steve, at that time, was... 169 00:07:35,205 --> 00:07:37,374 Oh, he was real skinny 170 00:07:37,415 --> 00:07:39,292 and he wore some kind of an old black raincoat 171 00:07:39,334 --> 00:07:41,211 all the time, 172 00:07:41,252 --> 00:07:45,298 and he spent all of his time hustling people 173 00:07:45,340 --> 00:07:47,425 and trying to get work, 174 00:07:47,467 --> 00:07:51,388 and he would do anything, he said, anything for a part. 175 00:07:51,429 --> 00:07:53,390 -When you were accepted in this famed school, 176 00:07:53,431 --> 00:07:55,100 it was quite a turning point of your career 177 00:07:55,141 --> 00:07:56,434 and certainly a thrill for you, wasn't it? 178 00:07:56,476 --> 00:07:57,602 -Oh, boy, yeah. 179 00:07:57,644 --> 00:07:59,938 I was living on a coldwater flat 180 00:07:59,979 --> 00:08:01,356 under the 3rd Avenue El, 181 00:08:01,398 --> 00:08:03,400 and, you know, working all night and going to school all day, 182 00:08:03,441 --> 00:08:06,069 and at the time, I guess it doesn't seem much now, 183 00:08:06,111 --> 00:08:07,445 but at the time, they were accepting something 184 00:08:07,487 --> 00:08:11,449 like four out of 2,000 people a year, you know, 185 00:08:11,491 --> 00:08:12,367 to be accepted in the studio, 186 00:08:12,409 --> 00:08:13,451 and it was free, 187 00:08:13,493 --> 00:08:15,120 and you could go three days a week. 188 00:08:15,161 --> 00:08:17,414 -I went to a drama school in London. 189 00:08:17,455 --> 00:08:20,333 It is a great education to have for any actor, 190 00:08:20,375 --> 00:08:22,210 but at the end of the day, 191 00:08:22,252 --> 00:08:25,505 you can have all the instincts and all the intellect 192 00:08:25,547 --> 00:08:27,549 and be able to talk till the cows come home about it, 193 00:08:27,632 --> 00:08:29,592 but if you can't do it, 194 00:08:29,634 --> 00:08:32,345 then, you know, you're dead in the water, 195 00:08:32,387 --> 00:08:34,139 and acting is about doing. 196 00:08:34,180 --> 00:08:36,266 -I'm an intuitive actor. I mean, I don't... 197 00:08:36,307 --> 00:08:37,350 I couldn't sit and talk about acting and say, 198 00:08:37,392 --> 00:08:38,601 "This is what I do," 199 00:08:38,643 --> 00:08:40,061 because I don't really know. 200 00:08:40,103 --> 00:08:41,646 -And yet you studied it for years 201 00:08:41,688 --> 00:08:43,023 in some of the finest academies. 202 00:08:43,064 --> 00:08:44,024 -Yeah, but it's a study... 203 00:08:44,065 --> 00:08:45,400 -And intuit yourself? 204 00:08:45,442 --> 00:08:47,360 -Yeah, I did. It's self-therapy. I mean, that's what it is. 205 00:08:47,402 --> 00:08:51,114 -Steve was fiercely competitive. 206 00:08:51,156 --> 00:08:53,450 I mean, really, fiercely competitive. 207 00:08:53,533 --> 00:08:56,453 If you were blond and blue-eyed and good-looking... 208 00:08:56,536 --> 00:08:58,038 -What's it going to be? 209 00:08:58,079 --> 00:08:59,497 -You were just like a rattlesnake to Steve. 210 00:08:59,539 --> 00:09:01,249 -Because I'll kill you right now. 211 00:09:01,291 --> 00:09:02,417 -And he knew 212 00:09:02,459 --> 00:09:05,337 he just had to somehow get past you 213 00:09:05,378 --> 00:09:07,088 to achieve his goal. 214 00:09:07,130 --> 00:09:08,506 -I got my chance 215 00:09:08,548 --> 00:09:11,051 simply because I could run harder than some other guy, 216 00:09:11,092 --> 00:09:14,262 but if I want a chance now, I've got to grab it. 217 00:09:14,304 --> 00:09:16,473 -He believed, in some weird way, 218 00:09:16,556 --> 00:09:19,517 that I would be in the way from him getting, 219 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:22,020 achieving what he really wanted to achieve, 220 00:09:22,062 --> 00:09:23,063 which was desperate. 221 00:09:23,104 --> 00:09:24,773 He actually would say things 222 00:09:24,814 --> 00:09:27,609 like, "I'll just run over the son of a bitch," you know? 223 00:09:27,692 --> 00:09:30,362 "If he gets in my way, I'll just drive over him." 224 00:09:30,403 --> 00:09:32,447 -I didn't come here to be a petty thief. 225 00:09:32,489 --> 00:09:34,157 -I mean, that's what New York was like. 226 00:09:34,199 --> 00:09:35,950 It was desperate. It was a desperate time. 227 00:09:40,705 --> 00:09:44,250 -Despite some modest success, McQueen was getting nowhere fast 228 00:09:44,292 --> 00:09:46,378 until he met a rising Broadway star 229 00:09:46,419 --> 00:09:48,129 everyone was talking about. 230 00:09:48,171 --> 00:09:49,547 -I was a Broadway baby. 231 00:09:49,589 --> 00:09:51,883 My life was all about dancing. 232 00:09:51,925 --> 00:09:55,345 I'd just come out of Carnegie Hall. 233 00:09:55,387 --> 00:09:58,223 I had been rehearsing for a show called Pajama Game. 234 00:09:58,264 --> 00:10:00,308 There he was, with a dog, a big dog. 235 00:10:00,350 --> 00:10:01,393 He had a German shepherd with him, 236 00:10:01,434 --> 00:10:04,062 and he said, "Hi. You're pretty," 237 00:10:04,104 --> 00:10:05,188 and I said... 238 00:10:05,230 --> 00:10:06,356 I didn't know what to say. 239 00:10:06,398 --> 00:10:08,566 I just saw those blue eyes, you know, 240 00:10:08,608 --> 00:10:13,279 and I said, "Well... you're pretty too." 241 00:10:13,321 --> 00:10:15,281 -I don't know. I suppose that opposites attract, 242 00:10:15,323 --> 00:10:16,408 but I guess if there was ever a thing 243 00:10:16,449 --> 00:10:18,576 of falling in love with a girl at first sight, 244 00:10:18,618 --> 00:10:20,328 I guess that was it, because, boy, 245 00:10:20,370 --> 00:10:22,414 I sure had to chase her for a long time. 246 00:10:22,455 --> 00:10:24,290 -He picked me up on his motorcycle one night, 247 00:10:24,332 --> 00:10:26,001 and that was it. 248 00:10:26,042 --> 00:10:30,463 Four months later, we were married. 249 00:10:30,505 --> 00:10:33,091 And everybody kept saying, "You shouldn't marry him." 250 00:10:33,133 --> 00:10:34,300 -At the time, 251 00:10:34,342 --> 00:10:37,137 I didn't have too much collateral going for myself, 252 00:10:37,178 --> 00:10:39,514 and I think her mother, and rightfully so, 253 00:10:39,556 --> 00:10:42,058 I think she was a bit... 254 00:10:42,100 --> 00:10:43,977 she thought I was a little crazy, you know? 255 00:10:44,019 --> 00:10:45,228 -He was a starving actor, 256 00:10:45,270 --> 00:10:47,439 and I was really working hard, you know? 257 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:50,233 I was never unemployed at that time. 258 00:10:50,275 --> 00:10:51,568 He just kept trying... 259 00:10:51,609 --> 00:10:54,237 He just felt that he would make it eventually, you know? 260 00:10:54,279 --> 00:10:55,488 -He showed hunger, determination, 261 00:10:55,530 --> 00:10:57,115 and, as a result, 262 00:10:57,157 --> 00:10:58,992 he was signed by Neile's manager. 263 00:10:59,034 --> 00:11:00,076 Neile would always say, 264 00:11:00,118 --> 00:11:01,619 "Well, this is what I see in you. 265 00:11:01,661 --> 00:11:04,205 If you give a little of that in your performance, 266 00:11:04,247 --> 00:11:06,416 then you will be recognized," 267 00:11:06,458 --> 00:11:07,667 and that's where you really see 268 00:11:07,709 --> 00:11:11,087 the first of the McQueen persona starting to emerge. 269 00:11:11,129 --> 00:11:12,422 -There's that thing that he has, 270 00:11:12,464 --> 00:11:14,632 which is the passion. 271 00:11:14,674 --> 00:11:16,593 You've got to have that to just keep going, 272 00:11:16,634 --> 00:11:18,178 because you're just going to get, 273 00:11:18,219 --> 00:11:20,138 you know, knocked down, 274 00:11:20,180 --> 00:11:23,767 and, I mean, the sea you swim in is rejection. 275 00:11:24,768 --> 00:11:27,312 -A rugged bounty hunter who played by his own rules 276 00:11:27,354 --> 00:11:29,230 was pure McQueen, 277 00:11:29,272 --> 00:11:30,732 and with this big break, 278 00:11:30,774 --> 00:11:33,318 he was determined to make his mark. 279 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:37,238 -After years of struggling, Steve suddenly became a big hit 280 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:39,324 and became a household name in Wanted: Dead or Alive. 281 00:11:39,366 --> 00:11:41,785 -Hollywood producers who were willing to watch television, 282 00:11:41,826 --> 00:11:43,328 of which there, I don't know how many there were, 283 00:11:43,370 --> 00:11:44,287 since they were deathly afraid of it 284 00:11:44,329 --> 00:11:45,372 in those days, 285 00:11:45,413 --> 00:11:46,373 if they went home at night 286 00:11:46,414 --> 00:11:47,832 and watched Wanted: Dead or Alive, 287 00:11:47,874 --> 00:11:49,376 they obviously saw a guy 288 00:11:49,417 --> 00:11:51,044 who could succeed as a movie star, 289 00:11:51,086 --> 00:11:53,338 as long as they were willing to get past the notion 290 00:11:53,380 --> 00:11:55,965 that no TV star could ever be a movie star. 291 00:11:56,007 --> 00:11:58,009 -You know, he always knew that he would make it. 292 00:11:58,051 --> 00:12:00,303 It was Steve's destiny to make it big, 293 00:12:00,345 --> 00:12:01,805 because he was such an original. 294 00:12:06,017 --> 00:12:08,186 -Then McQueen, he makes The Magnificent Seven 295 00:12:08,228 --> 00:12:10,271 with John Sturges, 296 00:12:10,313 --> 00:12:12,732 and it's got Yul Brynner in it, and he's an Oscar winner, 297 00:12:12,774 --> 00:12:14,067 and he's obviously the star, 298 00:12:14,109 --> 00:12:16,277 and within a couple of scenes, 299 00:12:16,319 --> 00:12:18,905 you see scenes being stolen from Brynner, 300 00:12:18,947 --> 00:12:20,990 who's terrific in the film, 301 00:12:21,032 --> 00:12:24,119 but McQueen, mostly by not saying anything, 302 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:26,037 is sort of stealing Brynner's thunder. 303 00:12:26,079 --> 00:12:27,664 [shaking] 304 00:12:29,958 --> 00:12:31,292 -The shaking of the shotgun shells... 305 00:12:31,334 --> 00:12:33,545 You'll see him fiddling with a hat, you know, 306 00:12:33,586 --> 00:12:36,631 anything to usurp or take away attention from Yul Brynner. 307 00:12:36,673 --> 00:12:39,426 -Litterbug. 308 00:12:39,467 --> 00:12:41,177 -You have two people on a screen, 309 00:12:41,219 --> 00:12:42,470 and you want to watch this person 310 00:12:42,512 --> 00:12:44,723 more than you want to watch that person. 311 00:12:44,764 --> 00:12:48,518 You just want to look at Steve McQueen. 312 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:51,563 He walks onto the screen, and he kidnaps you. 313 00:12:51,604 --> 00:12:54,983 -Steve McQueen's characters all had a very defining quality. 314 00:12:55,025 --> 00:12:56,985 He was the guy that was tough 315 00:12:57,027 --> 00:12:59,362 but without putting it in your face. 316 00:12:59,404 --> 00:13:03,408 He was the guy that you don't want to mess with, 317 00:13:03,450 --> 00:13:04,868 but you look up to him, 318 00:13:04,909 --> 00:13:06,244 and as an actor, yeah, 319 00:13:06,286 --> 00:13:08,246 those are the parts you want to play, 320 00:13:08,288 --> 00:13:11,124 and those are, that's who you want to be. 321 00:13:11,166 --> 00:13:12,167 You watch a movie, 322 00:13:12,208 --> 00:13:13,209 and there's always that character 323 00:13:13,251 --> 00:13:14,419 that you want to be, 324 00:13:14,461 --> 00:13:16,379 and he found a way to always be that guy. 325 00:13:16,421 --> 00:13:18,465 -Brynner was very much the king. 326 00:13:18,506 --> 00:13:21,092 He was living in a lovely home, 327 00:13:21,134 --> 00:13:22,969 and we were all living in a motel that we all stayed in. 328 00:13:23,011 --> 00:13:24,846 We all had connecting doors. 329 00:13:24,888 --> 00:13:26,181 There was a knock on my door. It's Steve. 330 00:13:26,222 --> 00:13:28,433 "Hey, hey, hey, listen to me." 331 00:13:28,475 --> 00:13:30,727 He said, "Did you see that gun Brynner's got? 332 00:13:30,769 --> 00:13:31,811 That silver gun?" 333 00:13:31,853 --> 00:13:32,687 He said, "It catches the sunlight." 334 00:13:32,729 --> 00:13:34,773 Well, he didn't like that at all. 335 00:13:34,814 --> 00:13:35,982 He was very competitive. 336 00:13:36,024 --> 00:13:37,442 He was watching Yul Brynner 337 00:13:37,484 --> 00:13:41,029 like he was lining up somebody to shoot. 338 00:13:41,071 --> 00:13:43,281 -McQueen's street smarts really came into play 339 00:13:43,323 --> 00:13:45,283 with this movie. 340 00:13:45,325 --> 00:13:48,328 -He was one of the first people, if not the first, 341 00:13:48,370 --> 00:13:51,873 to make that transition from TV to being a movie star. 342 00:13:51,915 --> 00:13:53,249 -And all of a sudden, 343 00:13:53,291 --> 00:13:56,670 then a guy who many had predicted stardom for 344 00:13:56,711 --> 00:13:58,004 achieved it. 345 00:14:02,467 --> 00:14:04,761 -With McQueen's new status at the box office, 346 00:14:04,803 --> 00:14:06,971 he realized that to stay on top, 347 00:14:07,013 --> 00:14:09,557 it would mean his films had to be on his terms. 348 00:14:09,599 --> 00:14:11,101 -Steve was looking at The Great Escape 349 00:14:11,142 --> 00:14:12,936 as he was the star of that movie, 350 00:14:12,977 --> 00:14:16,398 but he felt that what was written on the page 351 00:14:16,439 --> 00:14:19,693 wasn't necessarily going to take him there. 352 00:14:19,734 --> 00:14:22,278 He didn't just want to be part of this ensemble. 353 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:24,989 He wanted that separation so that people could say, 354 00:14:25,031 --> 00:14:28,326 "Okay, this is the guy that we want to follow." 355 00:14:28,368 --> 00:14:30,662 McQueen knew he had to do whatever it took 356 00:14:30,704 --> 00:14:33,456 to get that part to where it needed to be. 357 00:14:33,498 --> 00:14:36,292 -During production, McQueen quits. 358 00:14:36,334 --> 00:14:37,127 He walks out, 359 00:14:37,168 --> 00:14:39,337 and United Artists is panicking. 360 00:14:39,379 --> 00:14:41,715 This is a big movie, a big-deal production. 361 00:14:41,756 --> 00:14:43,675 They've got a big-time director in John Sturges. 362 00:14:43,717 --> 00:14:45,051 They've got a big cast, 363 00:14:45,093 --> 00:14:48,221 and their biggest star is all of a sudden not cooperating. 364 00:14:48,263 --> 00:14:49,889 -There's a great deal of compromise involved, 365 00:14:49,931 --> 00:14:52,767 you know, in movies, I suppose, 366 00:14:52,809 --> 00:14:55,353 and I get a bit undone when people try to use me 367 00:14:55,395 --> 00:14:58,023 or there's compromises or injustice, 368 00:14:58,064 --> 00:14:59,607 and I fly off the handle. 369 00:14:59,649 --> 00:15:02,402 -Right is right, and you know what that is, 370 00:15:02,444 --> 00:15:06,740 and being willing to sacrifice if it comes down to that. 371 00:15:06,781 --> 00:15:09,701 In his case, walking off set, it's a pretty big statement. 372 00:15:09,743 --> 00:15:12,037 -When he believed 373 00:15:12,078 --> 00:15:14,414 in a direction that he wanted to go, 374 00:15:14,456 --> 00:15:15,790 he would fight for it. 375 00:15:15,832 --> 00:15:17,167 I mean, he would fight to the death 376 00:15:17,208 --> 00:15:18,460 to get his way, 377 00:15:18,501 --> 00:15:21,463 and if anybody got in the way of his vision, you know, 378 00:15:21,504 --> 00:15:22,672 get ready. 379 00:15:22,714 --> 00:15:25,050 -McQueen said, "I want you to assign a writer to me" 380 00:15:25,091 --> 00:15:27,135 so that I can put my signatures on the film. 381 00:15:27,177 --> 00:15:28,845 -McQueen gets the rewrites. 382 00:15:28,887 --> 00:15:31,639 His character gets enhanced significantly, 383 00:15:31,681 --> 00:15:34,351 and, oddly, the writer who comes in, 384 00:15:34,392 --> 00:15:36,394 Ivan Moffat, who'd been Oscar nominated, 385 00:15:36,436 --> 00:15:37,645 he is responsible 386 00:15:37,687 --> 00:15:39,689 for so many of the things in the movie 387 00:15:39,731 --> 00:15:42,025 which we now associate with McQueen, 388 00:15:42,067 --> 00:15:43,526 which really are the things in the movie 389 00:15:43,568 --> 00:15:45,111 that we associate with the movie, 390 00:15:45,153 --> 00:15:46,196 in the cooler, 391 00:15:46,237 --> 00:15:47,906 with the baseball glove and the great sound. 392 00:15:47,947 --> 00:15:48,948 Da-dum. 393 00:15:48,990 --> 00:15:49,949 [throwing ball] 394 00:15:52,660 --> 00:15:54,287 I mean, when I sit at home 395 00:15:54,329 --> 00:15:55,830 and I bounce a tennis ball off the wall 396 00:15:55,872 --> 00:15:57,123 without a baseball glove 397 00:15:57,165 --> 00:15:58,291 and catch it, 398 00:15:58,333 --> 00:15:59,459 you think about that, of cour... 399 00:15:59,501 --> 00:16:01,878 You don't just think about it. I'm imitating him. 400 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:08,968 -For him to stay true to himself, 401 00:16:09,010 --> 00:16:10,679 no matter what that meant, 402 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:12,639 whether he had to walk off set 403 00:16:12,681 --> 00:16:17,185 or ask something to be rewritten or change his dialogue, 404 00:16:17,227 --> 00:16:18,436 that takes a lot of balls. 405 00:16:18,478 --> 00:16:19,896 -Hills, isn't it? 406 00:16:19,938 --> 00:16:20,897 -Captain Hills. 407 00:16:20,939 --> 00:16:22,857 -John Sturges has written in the script 408 00:16:22,899 --> 00:16:25,694 that when I make my escape, I steal a German motorcycle, 409 00:16:25,735 --> 00:16:29,072 and then we start our escape over the Alps into Switzerland. 410 00:16:29,114 --> 00:16:31,324 -My dad would ride motorcycles when he... 411 00:16:31,366 --> 00:16:32,659 Even when he was working, you know, 412 00:16:32,701 --> 00:16:34,077 he'd sneak off and go to the track. 413 00:16:34,119 --> 00:16:36,079 He incorporated his love for cars and motorcycles 414 00:16:36,121 --> 00:16:37,372 in his films. 415 00:16:37,414 --> 00:16:40,166 -To go in when you're... when a machine can fall apart, 416 00:16:40,208 --> 00:16:41,418 aren't you scared? 417 00:16:41,459 --> 00:16:43,670 -No, no. It doesn't scare me. 418 00:16:43,712 --> 00:16:46,548 -Steve McQueen just took a jump on a dirt motorcycle, 419 00:16:46,589 --> 00:16:48,591 and this is what he calls "scrambling." 420 00:16:48,633 --> 00:16:51,553 -Whether Steve McQueen was doing the actual, 421 00:16:51,594 --> 00:16:52,971 all of the stunts or not, 422 00:16:53,013 --> 00:16:55,015 the fact that he was so obviously capable, 423 00:16:55,056 --> 00:16:56,975 it made it really easy to interchange 424 00:16:57,017 --> 00:16:58,768 between an actor and a stunt guy. 425 00:16:58,810 --> 00:17:00,562 I can recognize when it's him on the motorbike. 426 00:17:00,603 --> 00:17:02,439 There's something kind of bouncy about him, 427 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:05,608 like he's sort of always got his feet, 428 00:17:05,650 --> 00:17:07,819 using his legs as suspension. 429 00:17:07,861 --> 00:17:09,821 -He loved Bud Ekins. 430 00:17:09,863 --> 00:17:11,322 They were very, very close. 431 00:17:11,364 --> 00:17:12,991 He trusted him. 432 00:17:13,033 --> 00:17:14,117 Bud went with him 433 00:17:14,159 --> 00:17:16,536 and did the picture as a stunt double for him. 434 00:17:16,578 --> 00:17:18,830 -Bud Ekins came into town because Steve had wanted him, 435 00:17:18,872 --> 00:17:21,082 because he wanted to do some motorcycle stuff. 436 00:17:21,124 --> 00:17:24,586 I watched them build this jump. 437 00:17:24,627 --> 00:17:26,504 Every day, he kept jumping, 438 00:17:26,546 --> 00:17:29,883 and the thing got bigger and wider. 439 00:17:29,924 --> 00:17:31,718 One day, after conferring with Steve, 440 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:33,428 Sturges asked Bud, 441 00:17:33,470 --> 00:17:36,681 "Can you jump five feet over that fence?" 442 00:17:36,723 --> 00:17:40,018 and Bud said, "I think I can do it better." 443 00:17:47,150 --> 00:17:49,402 Bud jumped something like 14 feet 444 00:17:49,444 --> 00:17:51,863 in I don't know how wide. 445 00:17:51,905 --> 00:17:53,198 Steve did it, 446 00:17:53,239 --> 00:17:55,992 but insurance wouldn't let him do it on film, 447 00:17:56,034 --> 00:17:57,369 because if something had happened, 448 00:17:57,410 --> 00:17:58,495 he had fallen, 449 00:17:58,536 --> 00:17:59,788 that film would have shut down, 450 00:17:59,829 --> 00:18:00,997 and it would have cost them a fortune. 451 00:18:01,039 --> 00:18:02,540 -Wasn't it a while ago 452 00:18:02,582 --> 00:18:04,668 that the studios prohibited you doing any racing 453 00:18:04,709 --> 00:18:07,170 while you were actually in production? 454 00:18:07,212 --> 00:18:08,630 -Shh. 455 00:18:08,672 --> 00:18:11,549 -When McQueen's character on film made that jump, 456 00:18:11,591 --> 00:18:13,176 audiences jumped in the air and cheered for him. 457 00:18:13,218 --> 00:18:15,387 - Variety, 1962. 458 00:18:15,428 --> 00:18:17,722 "There are some exceptional performances. 459 00:18:17,764 --> 00:18:19,641 The most provocative single impression 460 00:18:19,683 --> 00:18:21,309 is made by Steve McQueen." 461 00:18:21,351 --> 00:18:22,894 -After making The Great Escape, 462 00:18:22,936 --> 00:18:25,689 he is if not the biggest star in the world, 463 00:18:25,730 --> 00:18:27,899 he is in the top two or three. 464 00:18:42,247 --> 00:18:44,040 -Now a bona fide movie star, 465 00:18:44,082 --> 00:18:45,542 McQueen set his sights 466 00:18:45,583 --> 00:18:48,420 on Hollywood legend Edward G. Robinson. 467 00:18:48,461 --> 00:18:50,296 -I went up to his house. 468 00:18:50,338 --> 00:18:53,174 There was a pool table, and he said, "Do you play?" 469 00:18:53,216 --> 00:18:55,468 I got lucky and sank a few balls. 470 00:18:55,510 --> 00:18:58,680 There was applause. 471 00:18:58,722 --> 00:19:03,268 He said, "Tell me about Edward G. Robinson," 472 00:19:03,309 --> 00:19:04,769 and I could tell 473 00:19:04,811 --> 00:19:07,522 that he was worried about Edward G. 474 00:19:07,564 --> 00:19:09,607 I said, "He's a good actor. 475 00:19:09,649 --> 00:19:13,278 I think you should be careful with Edward G.," 476 00:19:13,319 --> 00:19:18,199 because right away I was trying to set him up 477 00:19:18,241 --> 00:19:20,660 so that he was a little insecure. 478 00:19:23,997 --> 00:19:29,586 That scene where he just looks at him... 479 00:19:29,627 --> 00:19:31,463 and you feel the tension right away. 480 00:19:31,504 --> 00:19:33,590 -You're good, kid, 481 00:19:33,631 --> 00:19:35,550 but as long as I'm around, you're second best. 482 00:19:35,592 --> 00:19:38,511 You might as well learn to live with it. 483 00:19:38,553 --> 00:19:41,598 -There was something impish about him, 484 00:19:41,639 --> 00:19:44,059 so I used to have to talk to the other actors 485 00:19:44,100 --> 00:19:46,353 because they were always complaining. 486 00:19:46,394 --> 00:19:49,314 He'd be looking down or he'd be looking off, 487 00:19:49,356 --> 00:19:51,608 and then when it came to his line, 488 00:19:51,649 --> 00:19:55,195 he'd look right just off the edge of the camera, 489 00:19:55,236 --> 00:19:57,781 bing. 490 00:19:57,822 --> 00:20:02,410 He had all these little tricks, and actors used to hate that. 491 00:20:02,452 --> 00:20:04,329 "Why doesn't he look into my eyes? 492 00:20:04,371 --> 00:20:07,457 He's not giving me anything." 493 00:20:07,499 --> 00:20:10,418 I said, "Because he doesn't want to." 494 00:20:10,460 --> 00:20:12,420 -He always played with such mystery. 495 00:20:12,462 --> 00:20:14,172 He had such a reserve to him, 496 00:20:14,214 --> 00:20:18,093 and he had this emotional underpinning, 497 00:20:18,134 --> 00:20:20,136 keeping you, the viewer, 498 00:20:20,178 --> 00:20:24,349 involved with what he was doing. 499 00:20:24,391 --> 00:20:26,976 -As an actor, he was not that secure. 500 00:20:27,018 --> 00:20:29,062 He liked an older director. 501 00:20:29,104 --> 00:20:31,272 I said, "You're looking for a father image." 502 00:20:31,314 --> 00:20:35,485 I can't be your father, but I can be your older brother, 503 00:20:35,527 --> 00:20:37,654 the one who went to college. 504 00:20:37,696 --> 00:20:40,240 You can always count on me. 505 00:20:40,281 --> 00:20:42,158 "I'll look out for you," 506 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:45,203 and I think he believed that, 507 00:20:45,245 --> 00:20:48,289 and that's why we had a great relationship. 508 00:20:48,331 --> 00:20:50,166 -Sometimes you bump into a director 509 00:20:50,208 --> 00:20:52,127 that really will challenge you, 510 00:20:52,168 --> 00:20:53,169 or you're opposite an actor 511 00:20:53,211 --> 00:20:56,131 who is just so electric, so smart, 512 00:20:56,172 --> 00:20:57,507 they raise your game. 513 00:20:57,549 --> 00:21:01,386 The Digital Fix, 2005. 514 00:21:01,428 --> 00:21:04,139 "Steve McQueen is effortlessly watchable as the Kid, 515 00:21:04,180 --> 00:21:05,348 providing a master class 516 00:21:05,390 --> 00:21:08,143 in the power of natural screen presence. 517 00:21:08,184 --> 00:21:09,269 -All that stuff 518 00:21:09,310 --> 00:21:11,104 that was moving around inside of him 519 00:21:11,146 --> 00:21:12,147 all of his life 520 00:21:12,188 --> 00:21:13,398 came across on the screen, 521 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:18,111 that madness, that... chilling quality that he had. 522 00:21:18,153 --> 00:21:21,406 -It came from his childhood. 523 00:21:21,448 --> 00:21:25,577 It came from the life he lived as a young man. 524 00:21:25,618 --> 00:21:30,206 It came from the insecurity of life, 525 00:21:30,248 --> 00:21:32,250 the pain of that insecurity. 526 00:21:32,292 --> 00:21:34,961 -What do you remember most about your childhood? 527 00:21:35,003 --> 00:21:36,254 You didn't go very far. 528 00:21:36,296 --> 00:21:38,006 You didn't dig school, I know that. 529 00:21:38,048 --> 00:21:39,090 -Oh, I liked it all right, 530 00:21:39,132 --> 00:21:41,217 but I had to get out and earn a little bread. 531 00:21:41,259 --> 00:21:42,385 I had to get out and earn a living. 532 00:21:42,427 --> 00:21:45,472 Oh, what do I remember most about my childhood? 533 00:21:45,513 --> 00:21:47,057 Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, 534 00:21:47,098 --> 00:21:48,141 if you want to know the truth. 535 00:21:48,183 --> 00:21:49,267 -That's great. That's great. 536 00:21:49,309 --> 00:21:50,894 -We went back to the Boys Republic 537 00:21:50,935 --> 00:21:52,479 for the first time, 538 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:56,149 and he was all dressed up in his Brioni suit. 539 00:21:56,191 --> 00:21:57,776 I said, "Why are you getting so dressed up?" 540 00:21:57,817 --> 00:22:01,404 He said, "I want those boys to see me now, today", 541 00:22:01,446 --> 00:22:05,241 so that maybe one of them will look at me and say, 542 00:22:05,283 --> 00:22:08,370 "I want to be him someday." 543 00:22:08,411 --> 00:22:11,331 -On-set he would sometimes have these diva-ish demands, 544 00:22:11,373 --> 00:22:13,500 like hundreds of razor blades and hundreds of T-shirts 545 00:22:13,541 --> 00:22:15,669 and hundreds of blue jeans. 546 00:22:15,710 --> 00:22:18,505 He would donate all of that to the Boys Republic. 547 00:22:18,546 --> 00:22:22,592 Steve had a huge heart, and he wanted to give. 548 00:22:22,634 --> 00:22:25,970 -He came from dirt poor with nothing, 549 00:22:26,012 --> 00:22:28,431 and he rose to be the number-one star. 550 00:22:28,473 --> 00:22:30,266 I mean, talk about a success story. 551 00:22:30,308 --> 00:22:33,311 He opened up so many minds. 552 00:22:33,353 --> 00:22:36,064 If he could do it, anybody could do it. 553 00:22:36,106 --> 00:22:38,233 -He was larger than life in the public eye 554 00:22:38,274 --> 00:22:39,984 and in our family. 555 00:22:47,033 --> 00:22:49,035 -I mean, can you imagine coming from nothing, 556 00:22:49,077 --> 00:22:51,454 and all of a sudden, he's living in Oakmont, 557 00:22:51,496 --> 00:22:53,164 the compound at Oakmont in Brentwood. 558 00:22:53,206 --> 00:22:56,251 No, I mean, he had a good time. 559 00:22:56,292 --> 00:22:58,003 He loved life, man. 560 00:22:58,044 --> 00:22:59,504 He enjoyed it. 561 00:23:15,270 --> 00:23:17,397 -Life was good, 562 00:23:17,439 --> 00:23:19,899 and McQueen's two children, Chad and Terry, 563 00:23:19,941 --> 00:23:24,070 meant everything to him. 564 00:23:24,112 --> 00:23:27,407 -Terry really was the apple of his eye, you know? 565 00:23:27,449 --> 00:23:31,036 He saw the world through the eyes of a child, you know, 566 00:23:31,077 --> 00:23:35,415 and so he always related well to kids. 567 00:23:35,457 --> 00:23:41,129 Terry was the powder puff champion at 14, you know? 568 00:23:41,171 --> 00:23:46,384 They were riding bikes at Indian Dunes, 569 00:23:46,426 --> 00:23:48,511 and, of course, Chad, 570 00:23:48,553 --> 00:23:52,265 being the boy who idolized his dad, 571 00:23:52,307 --> 00:23:53,391 was just... 572 00:23:53,433 --> 00:23:56,311 Did everything that Steve did. 573 00:24:13,161 --> 00:24:15,830 -They had this big party, the best in Hollywood, 574 00:24:15,872 --> 00:24:17,290 young people are there. 575 00:24:17,332 --> 00:24:21,336 I saw Steve out on the veranda, looking out toward the ocean. 576 00:24:21,378 --> 00:24:22,462 I said to him, 577 00:24:22,504 --> 00:24:24,130 "When you were back there in Greenwich Village 578 00:24:24,172 --> 00:24:25,799 with Neile on the back of your bike, 579 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,885 did you ever think you'd wind up like this?" 580 00:24:28,927 --> 00:24:29,969 There was a long pause, 581 00:24:30,011 --> 00:24:33,431 and he said, "What makes you think 582 00:24:33,473 --> 00:24:35,934 I'm going to wind up like this?" 583 00:24:35,975 --> 00:24:37,811 It was a terrifying moment. 584 00:24:37,852 --> 00:24:38,687 I mean, he didn't even look at me. 585 00:24:38,728 --> 00:24:41,189 He just said it out into the air. 586 00:24:41,231 --> 00:24:44,192 Something was hovering over him all the time 587 00:24:44,234 --> 00:24:47,946 that made him aware that this was transitory, 588 00:24:47,987 --> 00:24:48,988 this life that he was living. 589 00:24:54,911 --> 00:24:58,790 -He had all these stories about his childhood, 590 00:24:58,832 --> 00:25:01,710 and he was a bad kid, 591 00:25:01,751 --> 00:25:05,005 I mean, because he was looking for a father. 592 00:25:05,046 --> 00:25:06,965 That's who... 593 00:25:07,007 --> 00:25:08,466 I'd bring it all down to that. 594 00:25:08,508 --> 00:25:10,844 Steve was really looking for his father. 595 00:25:10,885 --> 00:25:15,140 -Once my dad became successful, he wanted to find his dad, 596 00:25:15,181 --> 00:25:17,976 and he was trying to hunt him down. 597 00:25:18,018 --> 00:25:18,893 -Steve was like a detective. 598 00:25:18,935 --> 00:25:20,645 When he wanted to find out something, 599 00:25:20,687 --> 00:25:22,731 he would be tenacious over the whole thing. 600 00:25:22,772 --> 00:25:26,818 Eventually, we found the trail, 601 00:25:26,860 --> 00:25:29,612 and we met up with his girlfriend. 602 00:25:29,654 --> 00:25:32,032 -And he'd died two weeks before. 603 00:25:32,073 --> 00:25:33,867 He used to watch Wanted: Dead or Alive 604 00:25:33,908 --> 00:25:35,660 and go, "I think that could be my son." 605 00:25:35,702 --> 00:25:38,538 -But he'd had a heart attack, you know. 606 00:25:38,580 --> 00:25:40,123 It was sad. 607 00:25:52,844 --> 00:25:54,471 -You never know with a Hollywood star 608 00:25:54,512 --> 00:25:57,515 whether you're seeing the real person, you know? 609 00:25:57,557 --> 00:25:59,684 Everyone said that John Wayne was a great hero, 610 00:25:59,726 --> 00:26:00,810 but the reality is 611 00:26:00,852 --> 00:26:02,520 that John Wayne played great heroes. 612 00:26:02,562 --> 00:26:05,482 With McQueen, you definitely got the idea 613 00:26:05,523 --> 00:26:08,985 that you were seeing an authentic person. 614 00:26:09,027 --> 00:26:10,487 -Filmed exclusively in Taiwan, 615 00:26:10,528 --> 00:26:13,073 McQueen would star in an epic wartime saga 616 00:26:13,114 --> 00:26:14,157 that garnered him 617 00:26:14,199 --> 00:26:17,327 his first and only Academy Award nomination. 618 00:26:21,164 --> 00:26:22,791 -Welcome aboard the Sand Pebble. 619 00:26:22,832 --> 00:26:24,209 That's what we call it. 620 00:26:24,250 --> 00:26:25,919 We're sand pebbles. 621 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:27,379 Juan will show you your bunk. 622 00:26:27,420 --> 00:26:29,547 -I want to look at the engine first. 623 00:26:29,589 --> 00:26:32,467 -If you look at his character, Jake, in Sand Pebbles, 624 00:26:32,509 --> 00:26:33,885 it was all about that engine room. 625 00:26:33,927 --> 00:26:36,304 -Hello, engine. 626 00:26:36,346 --> 00:26:39,432 I'm Jake Holman. 627 00:26:39,474 --> 00:26:41,017 -That's when he came alive. 628 00:26:41,059 --> 00:26:42,977 -It was just so much Steve. 629 00:26:43,019 --> 00:26:44,938 It was adding those little things 630 00:26:44,979 --> 00:26:47,065 that just put his touch on it. 631 00:26:47,107 --> 00:26:48,525 -If you let me run that engine room 632 00:26:48,566 --> 00:26:51,820 the way I'm supposed to, sir, I can give you up to 12 knots... 633 00:26:51,861 --> 00:26:53,947 Sand Pebbles represents his military experience. 634 00:26:53,988 --> 00:26:55,532 His films were biographical. 635 00:26:55,573 --> 00:26:57,867 They all represented a certain part of his life. 636 00:26:57,909 --> 00:27:00,412 -So I guess I started swinging. 637 00:27:00,453 --> 00:27:02,330 So anyhow, the judge says, "You've got three choices, 638 00:27:02,372 --> 00:27:05,333 army, navy, reform school." 639 00:27:05,375 --> 00:27:06,251 -McQueen, throughout his career, 640 00:27:06,292 --> 00:27:08,086 had this ability, 641 00:27:08,128 --> 00:27:11,214 which is the mark of a really talented actor, 642 00:27:11,256 --> 00:27:15,927 to convey these sort of powerful emotions 643 00:27:15,969 --> 00:27:19,264 without saying a word. 644 00:27:22,475 --> 00:27:24,269 -He's instinctive. 645 00:27:24,310 --> 00:27:27,397 If you say to a director with balls, 646 00:27:27,439 --> 00:27:30,984 and you say, "I'm saying all this," 647 00:27:31,026 --> 00:27:35,071 with a look, that's instinct. 648 00:27:35,113 --> 00:27:37,365 That's someone sort of doing their work. 649 00:27:37,407 --> 00:27:40,577 You can hone intuition. 650 00:27:40,618 --> 00:27:45,623 You can sharpen intuition, work on intuition, 651 00:27:45,665 --> 00:27:48,168 but you have to have the bloody thing to start with. 652 00:27:48,209 --> 00:27:51,463 -If you look at his scripts, he would cross out the dialogue. 653 00:27:51,504 --> 00:27:53,465 He said, "Everybody else fill in the story, 654 00:27:53,506 --> 00:27:54,841 and then when there's something really important to say, 655 00:27:54,883 --> 00:27:56,426 I'll say it." 656 00:27:56,468 --> 00:27:57,510 He knew what his strengths were. 657 00:27:57,552 --> 00:28:03,183 -The art of it is to make it look effortless. 658 00:28:03,224 --> 00:28:07,520 Steve McQueen made acting look as easy as breathing. 659 00:28:07,562 --> 00:28:10,899 - New York Daily News, 1966. 660 00:28:10,940 --> 00:28:13,151 "McQueen gives the most important 661 00:28:13,193 --> 00:28:16,196 and best characterization of his film career." 662 00:28:16,237 --> 00:28:19,949 -When he got the Academy Award nomination for Sand Pebbles, 663 00:28:19,991 --> 00:28:22,202 my dad was... I don't think 664 00:28:22,243 --> 00:28:24,371 really gave a... about stuff like that. 665 00:28:24,412 --> 00:28:26,664 -I do believe one thing, though, that I believe that 666 00:28:26,706 --> 00:28:28,625 I want to lead the type of life that I want to lead. 667 00:28:28,667 --> 00:28:30,752 In other words, my private life is my own, 668 00:28:30,794 --> 00:28:33,338 and I will fight to have that. 669 00:28:33,380 --> 00:28:37,592 -Whatever part of the world my dad was working in, 670 00:28:37,634 --> 00:28:38,968 he'd make sure we went with him. 671 00:28:39,010 --> 00:28:40,303 -So Sand Pebbles, 672 00:28:40,345 --> 00:28:42,430 we thought it was going to be a short shoot. 673 00:28:42,472 --> 00:28:44,432 We were there for nine months. 674 00:28:44,474 --> 00:28:46,559 -As a son, it was so cool 675 00:28:46,601 --> 00:28:48,812 to know that okay, my dad's going away, 676 00:28:48,853 --> 00:28:51,439 but we're going with him, you know? 677 00:28:51,481 --> 00:28:53,608 I'm not going to be away from my dad, 678 00:28:53,650 --> 00:28:55,610 or my mom, or my sister, you know? 679 00:28:55,652 --> 00:28:58,446 -He's criticized for certain things, 680 00:28:58,488 --> 00:29:00,490 but a father was never one of them. 681 00:29:00,532 --> 00:29:03,368 Like, he was, they were his kids, 682 00:29:03,410 --> 00:29:05,829 and there was no getting around that. 683 00:29:05,870 --> 00:29:08,581 -He dug having us around. 684 00:29:08,623 --> 00:29:10,000 I know a lot of that stems 685 00:29:10,041 --> 00:29:12,043 because he had no family at all, 686 00:29:12,085 --> 00:29:15,213 but that being said, 687 00:29:15,255 --> 00:29:16,548 being a six, seven-year-old boy 688 00:29:16,589 --> 00:29:18,466 and moving to Taiwan, 689 00:29:18,508 --> 00:29:21,344 it was pretty, pretty mind-blowing. 690 00:29:21,386 --> 00:29:24,014 It was quite a culture shock. 691 00:29:24,055 --> 00:29:27,058 -The fact that Steve traveled with his family, 692 00:29:27,100 --> 00:29:33,064 I mean, I love that, that he was a good dad. 693 00:29:33,106 --> 00:29:35,358 That got me. 694 00:29:39,696 --> 00:29:41,448 -I said, "Have you read that script 695 00:29:41,489 --> 00:29:43,366 that I put up on your desk?" 696 00:29:43,408 --> 00:29:46,161 He said, "Well, it's okay." 697 00:29:46,202 --> 00:29:48,038 I said, "Well, it's too bad 698 00:29:48,079 --> 00:29:49,956 Norman doesn't want you for that." 699 00:29:49,998 --> 00:29:51,916 He said, "What do you mean?" 700 00:29:51,958 --> 00:29:53,293 I said, "Well, Norman doesn't want you for it, 701 00:29:53,335 --> 00:29:54,252 for that thing." 702 00:29:54,294 --> 00:29:56,212 He couldn't believe what I was saying, 703 00:29:56,254 --> 00:29:57,464 and I said, 704 00:29:57,505 --> 00:29:59,424 "Well, everybody else has the script, too, you know. 705 00:29:59,466 --> 00:30:01,801 There's Sean Connery, Rock Hudson, 706 00:30:01,843 --> 00:30:02,802 Robert Wagner, Paul Newman. 707 00:30:02,844 --> 00:30:04,137 Everybody has the script." 708 00:30:04,179 --> 00:30:05,597 So he said, "Well, excuse me." 709 00:30:05,638 --> 00:30:08,850 So he got up and went upstairs and called Norman. 710 00:30:08,892 --> 00:30:10,185 -And I said to him right away, 711 00:30:10,226 --> 00:30:12,979 I said, "You know, you've never played a part like this." 712 00:30:13,021 --> 00:30:15,065 There's no motorcycles. 713 00:30:15,106 --> 00:30:16,649 There's no gun play. 714 00:30:16,691 --> 00:30:18,777 I've never seen you wear a tie. 715 00:30:18,818 --> 00:30:20,904 "I mean, how can you play Thomas Crown?" 716 00:30:20,945 --> 00:30:22,947 -By the time the conversation ended, 717 00:30:22,989 --> 00:30:24,532 he'd got the part. 718 00:30:24,574 --> 00:30:27,535 -Doing Thomas Crown Affair, it was a departure, 719 00:30:27,577 --> 00:30:28,661 and it was a challenge. 720 00:30:28,703 --> 00:30:30,497 It was about excess. 721 00:30:30,538 --> 00:30:34,501 It was about the theatricality and the flamboyance of excess. 722 00:30:34,542 --> 00:30:36,586 It was about money. 723 00:30:36,628 --> 00:30:39,964 It was about luxury, and it was about sex. 724 00:30:40,006 --> 00:30:43,510 -He was a little worried about the casting. 725 00:30:43,551 --> 00:30:46,137 He wanted me to meet a couple of other women 726 00:30:46,179 --> 00:30:49,766 that he felt would be right for the Faye Dunaway part. 727 00:30:49,808 --> 00:30:51,893 I said, "Listen, I saw her. 728 00:30:51,935 --> 00:30:55,063 I think she could be very, very sexy. 729 00:30:55,105 --> 00:30:56,731 I think it's all in here. 730 00:30:56,773 --> 00:30:59,567 It's all in your eyes, and..." 731 00:30:59,609 --> 00:31:02,862 The chess scene, for instance. 732 00:31:02,904 --> 00:31:05,699 It's not really about chess. 733 00:31:05,740 --> 00:31:07,534 It's about power. 734 00:31:07,575 --> 00:31:09,703 It's about control. 735 00:31:09,744 --> 00:31:11,121 Who's got the control? 736 00:31:11,162 --> 00:31:15,208 She looks at the chessboard and looks at you, 737 00:31:15,250 --> 00:31:20,088 and you look at her looking, and all you say is... 738 00:31:20,130 --> 00:31:21,089 -Do you play? 739 00:31:24,676 --> 00:31:25,927 -Try me. 740 00:31:25,969 --> 00:31:30,849 -And that's it, and we're going to play chess 741 00:31:30,890 --> 00:31:35,520 for the next three or four minutes of screen time. 742 00:31:35,562 --> 00:31:38,148 She's going to win. 743 00:31:38,189 --> 00:31:39,691 When she says "Checkmate"... 744 00:31:43,319 --> 00:31:45,280 -Let's play something else. 745 00:31:46,531 --> 00:31:48,533 -And that's going to be 746 00:31:48,575 --> 00:31:53,580 the longest kiss in screen history. 747 00:31:53,621 --> 00:31:54,998 He liked that. 748 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,334 He liked the challenge of it. 749 00:31:57,375 --> 00:32:00,211 -Who plays chess like that? 750 00:32:00,253 --> 00:32:06,426 The love scene he has, the longest kiss ever. 751 00:32:10,347 --> 00:32:15,727 -Who wears a British-cut tailored three-piece suit 752 00:32:15,769 --> 00:32:19,397 better than Steve McQueen in The Thomas Crown Affair? 753 00:32:19,439 --> 00:32:22,025 I mean, no one looks as good in those clothes. 754 00:32:22,067 --> 00:32:24,069 He's sophisticated and he's... 755 00:32:24,110 --> 00:32:25,195 -Hello. 756 00:32:25,236 --> 00:32:29,616 -Charming, and this bit of street underneath. 757 00:32:29,657 --> 00:32:30,658 Any minute now, 758 00:32:30,700 --> 00:32:32,744 he could sort of say, "Don't... with me." 759 00:32:40,335 --> 00:32:43,171 -With success and money, McQueen collected cars, 760 00:32:43,213 --> 00:32:44,964 and only the best. 761 00:32:45,006 --> 00:32:46,466 Shelby Cobra... 762 00:32:46,508 --> 00:32:48,510 Jaguar XK-SS, 763 00:32:48,551 --> 00:32:50,762 Porsches, Lotus... 764 00:32:50,804 --> 00:32:52,972 They all found a home in McQueen's garage. 765 00:32:53,014 --> 00:32:54,974 -I would talk to random people and they'd say, 766 00:32:55,016 --> 00:32:57,018 "You know, when I was younger, I was driving, 767 00:32:57,060 --> 00:33:01,106 and this car just raced past me, and I looked in the window. 768 00:33:01,147 --> 00:33:02,315 It was Steve McQueen." 769 00:33:02,357 --> 00:33:04,484 -Money meant toys, lots of trucks, 770 00:33:04,526 --> 00:33:06,945 lots of motorcycles, some planes. 771 00:33:06,986 --> 00:33:08,697 -His tastes were all over the place, 772 00:33:08,738 --> 00:33:10,907 but if you look at what he was buying 773 00:33:10,949 --> 00:33:13,368 and what he kept, you know, 30 years later, 774 00:33:13,410 --> 00:33:15,745 I mean, they're significant pieces of machinery. 775 00:33:15,787 --> 00:33:18,289 -Steve definitely seemed passionate about his cars. 776 00:33:18,331 --> 00:33:19,582 He had an eclectic collection, 777 00:33:19,624 --> 00:33:21,584 from the Mini to the XK-SS 778 00:33:21,626 --> 00:33:24,295 to the, obviously, the Porsches and the Ferraris, 779 00:33:24,337 --> 00:33:25,839 and he seemed to get the most 780 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,426 out of whatever it was he was driving. 781 00:33:29,467 --> 00:33:31,636 -The '58 Porsche Speedster, 782 00:33:31,678 --> 00:33:33,388 that was his first new car he bought, 783 00:33:33,430 --> 00:33:34,514 and the first car 784 00:33:34,556 --> 00:33:36,891 in which he won his first race at SCCA, 785 00:33:36,933 --> 00:33:39,394 and he sold it. 786 00:33:39,436 --> 00:33:41,896 -I paid $1,500 for it. 787 00:33:41,938 --> 00:33:43,231 The gentleman that owned it said, 788 00:33:43,273 --> 00:33:44,566 "Oh, by the way, 789 00:33:44,607 --> 00:33:47,360 the original owner was Steve McQueen." 790 00:33:47,402 --> 00:33:48,820 It was like, "Well, that's cool." 791 00:33:48,862 --> 00:33:50,447 -A Porsche dealer in Hollywood 792 00:33:50,488 --> 00:33:53,324 said he knew this guy Bruce had had my dad's old Speedster. 793 00:33:53,366 --> 00:33:55,744 My dad said, "Impossible. No way." 794 00:33:55,785 --> 00:33:58,455 -A few weeks later, I get a call from Steve. 795 00:33:58,496 --> 00:34:01,082 "I understand you have my car, but you couldn't have my car." 796 00:34:01,124 --> 00:34:04,419 -My dad went back where he had the roll bar in place. 797 00:34:04,461 --> 00:34:06,379 -He pulled back the tonneau cover. 798 00:34:06,421 --> 00:34:08,798 It had this German weave carpet, 799 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:10,925 and he literally just... it's glued down. 800 00:34:10,967 --> 00:34:12,302 He just kind of peeled it back, 801 00:34:12,344 --> 00:34:13,386 and I'm kind of thinking, 802 00:34:13,428 --> 00:34:15,388 "Well, that's kind of presumptuous," 803 00:34:15,430 --> 00:34:18,308 and there was the mounting for the roll bar. 804 00:34:18,350 --> 00:34:19,392 He says, "Oh, my god," 805 00:34:19,434 --> 00:34:20,602 and he was just all over the car, 806 00:34:20,643 --> 00:34:23,355 and you could tell he was going through, you know, 807 00:34:23,396 --> 00:34:25,440 a real connection with this car. 808 00:34:25,482 --> 00:34:26,941 He says, "You've got to sell me this car," 809 00:34:26,983 --> 00:34:28,735 and I said, "I don't want to sell the car," you know, 810 00:34:28,777 --> 00:34:31,446 "I enjoy the car. I've had it a long time." 811 00:34:31,488 --> 00:34:33,740 -My dad could be persuasive, to say the least. 812 00:34:35,909 --> 00:34:37,243 Three months, four months later, 813 00:34:37,285 --> 00:34:38,244 the car's at our house. 814 00:34:40,497 --> 00:34:42,499 -I think if they brought it to market now, 815 00:34:42,540 --> 00:34:44,292 I wouldn't be able to afford it. 816 00:34:44,334 --> 00:34:45,794 It would be a seven-figure number. 817 00:34:45,835 --> 00:34:48,505 Not single million, but millions, 818 00:34:48,546 --> 00:34:50,215 and at the Peterson Automotive Museum, 819 00:34:50,256 --> 00:34:51,633 we have his XK-SS, 820 00:34:51,675 --> 00:34:54,886 which is an extremely rare car. 821 00:34:54,928 --> 00:34:58,515 A car like that today, without the McQueen provenance, 822 00:34:58,556 --> 00:35:03,311 would be in the neighborhood of four or five million dollars, 823 00:35:03,353 --> 00:35:05,855 and if that car came available today, 824 00:35:05,897 --> 00:35:08,858 I'm guessing it would be well over $10 million. 825 00:35:08,900 --> 00:35:11,319 -When the D-Type Jaguar became uncompetitive, 826 00:35:11,361 --> 00:35:13,738 they turned the last 16 into road cars. 827 00:35:13,780 --> 00:35:15,824 The XK-SS, he loved that thing. 828 00:35:15,865 --> 00:35:19,160 It was really a racecar for the street. 829 00:35:19,202 --> 00:35:21,204 My dad used to flog that thing. 830 00:35:23,164 --> 00:35:24,332 When he decided to pedal down, 831 00:35:24,374 --> 00:35:28,378 it was, you know, get ready for a ride, you know? 832 00:35:28,420 --> 00:35:32,298 -Once you're behind the wheel, it's freedom. 833 00:35:32,340 --> 00:35:33,466 -I'm not a doctor, but I always imagined 834 00:35:33,508 --> 00:35:36,219 that somebody who came from McQueen's background 835 00:35:36,261 --> 00:35:40,974 was always trying to get away as quickly as possible 836 00:35:41,016 --> 00:35:43,351 from wherever he was, from that situation, 837 00:35:43,393 --> 00:35:47,063 so the idea of explosive speed, 838 00:35:47,105 --> 00:35:49,315 I could see how that would appeal to somebody. 839 00:35:49,357 --> 00:35:51,234 I mean, that is armchair psychology 840 00:35:51,276 --> 00:35:53,111 in its basic levels, 841 00:35:53,153 --> 00:35:55,989 but it seems to make sense for a guy 842 00:35:56,031 --> 00:35:57,282 who, according to everybody 843 00:35:57,323 --> 00:35:59,826 who knew him from the earliest age, 844 00:35:59,868 --> 00:36:03,038 lived to drive fast, to go fast. 845 00:36:09,002 --> 00:36:11,254 -The need for speed is in your DNA. 846 00:36:11,296 --> 00:36:13,882 It's not like you can train somebody to go fast 847 00:36:13,923 --> 00:36:15,050 or brave speed. 848 00:36:15,091 --> 00:36:17,802 It's just part of your genetic makeup. 849 00:36:17,844 --> 00:36:22,807 It's a mutant gene that just is very hard to satisfy. 850 00:36:22,849 --> 00:36:25,935 No matter how fast you go, you need to go faster. 851 00:36:25,977 --> 00:36:28,396 -And McQueen would go faster. 852 00:36:28,438 --> 00:36:30,315 He competed at the highest level, 853 00:36:30,357 --> 00:36:31,900 bankrolling his own racing team, 854 00:36:31,941 --> 00:36:32,984 Solar Racing, 855 00:36:33,026 --> 00:36:34,944 entering Santa Barbara, Del Mar, 856 00:36:34,986 --> 00:36:37,989 and Sebring's 12-hour, around-the-clock endurance race. 857 00:36:38,031 --> 00:36:41,368 -Steve was a very talented driver 858 00:36:41,409 --> 00:36:44,996 and very gutsy and fearless, 859 00:36:45,038 --> 00:36:47,207 and that's a terrific combination, 860 00:36:47,248 --> 00:36:49,125 and every motorhead and every racer 861 00:36:49,167 --> 00:36:50,543 respected Steve 862 00:36:50,585 --> 00:36:53,797 for his genuine, bona fide driving talents. 863 00:36:53,838 --> 00:36:55,465 -It was always about testing himself. 864 00:36:55,507 --> 00:36:58,259 He always wanted to measure himself against the best. 865 00:37:00,637 --> 00:37:03,556 - Motor Trend magazine, 2004. 866 00:37:03,598 --> 00:37:06,351 "Steve McQueen's legend lives large. 867 00:37:06,393 --> 00:37:08,353 His love of all things mechanical 868 00:37:08,395 --> 00:37:10,438 was legitimate and genuine." 869 00:37:13,316 --> 00:37:16,069 [♪♪♪] 870 00:37:16,111 --> 00:37:18,321 -Every one of my dad's cars, 871 00:37:18,363 --> 00:37:20,240 they've all got their little stories. 872 00:37:38,508 --> 00:37:40,468 The funny thing about that car, 873 00:37:40,510 --> 00:37:42,429 I get more thumbs-up in that one than anything. 874 00:37:42,470 --> 00:37:43,722 People know that car from Bullitt. 875 00:37:46,307 --> 00:37:49,185 -When anyone ever does a top 10 list 876 00:37:49,227 --> 00:37:51,438 of car chases onscreen, 877 00:37:51,479 --> 00:37:55,483 it's always Bullitt that's number one. 878 00:37:55,525 --> 00:37:57,360 The interesting thing is that in this script, 879 00:37:57,402 --> 00:37:59,904 it just says, really, two words, and that is "car chase." 880 00:37:59,946 --> 00:38:01,197 In McQueen's head, 881 00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:02,866 he knew exactly what he was going to go for. 882 00:38:02,907 --> 00:38:05,118 -To have that kind of control, 883 00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:06,953 it's like a kid in a candy store, 884 00:38:06,995 --> 00:38:09,914 like, he gets to write his own car chase? 885 00:38:09,956 --> 00:38:11,249 He got to do what he loved 886 00:38:11,291 --> 00:38:13,293 and do it the way he wanted to do it. 887 00:38:13,335 --> 00:38:14,919 -The genius of my dad 888 00:38:14,961 --> 00:38:17,047 was when he knew he was going to do Bullitt, 889 00:38:17,088 --> 00:38:23,970 he had to figure out a great car that a detective could afford. 890 00:38:26,765 --> 00:38:27,766 They picked the Mustang, 891 00:38:27,807 --> 00:38:29,601 and then he got some of the best engineers 892 00:38:29,642 --> 00:38:30,560 to work on the car, 893 00:38:30,602 --> 00:38:31,978 get it ready for jumping. 894 00:38:33,938 --> 00:38:34,898 -The chase sequence in Bullitt... 895 00:38:34,939 --> 00:38:36,441 Every time I watch it, 896 00:38:36,483 --> 00:38:40,487 there's one massive slide-out... Waah! when he gets loose. 897 00:38:40,528 --> 00:38:42,947 Every single time, I'm like, [gasping] 898 00:38:42,989 --> 00:38:44,949 -We had Bill Hickman, who was probably 899 00:38:44,991 --> 00:38:47,535 one of the finest stunt drivers in the world today, 900 00:38:47,577 --> 00:38:49,662 and myself, who's probably the worst. 901 00:38:49,704 --> 00:38:51,539 We felt that we should start off 902 00:38:51,581 --> 00:38:53,500 working in close harmony at a racetrack 903 00:38:53,541 --> 00:38:54,584 so that Bill Hickman and myself 904 00:38:54,626 --> 00:38:57,253 would be used to working close to each other 905 00:38:57,295 --> 00:38:58,463 at high speed, 906 00:38:58,505 --> 00:38:59,673 so we went out to Cotati Raceway 907 00:38:59,714 --> 00:39:01,549 up above San Francisco 908 00:39:01,591 --> 00:39:05,595 and worked at high speeds at well over the ton mark. 909 00:39:05,637 --> 00:39:08,598 -It seems real, you know, it really does seem 910 00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,434 that that was a no-holds-barred chase. 911 00:39:11,476 --> 00:39:12,644 It really feels 912 00:39:12,686 --> 00:39:14,354 like you're there with them in the driver's seat. 913 00:39:14,396 --> 00:39:15,689 It's just thrilling. 914 00:39:15,730 --> 00:39:16,856 -The fact that Steve was doing it 915 00:39:16,898 --> 00:39:19,192 made it maybe the coolest car chase 916 00:39:19,234 --> 00:39:21,194 in the history of car chases. 917 00:39:21,236 --> 00:39:22,696 -When I watch Bullitt, 918 00:39:22,737 --> 00:39:26,741 I believe that Steve did it all, you know, 919 00:39:26,783 --> 00:39:29,202 and the truth is that he did a lot of it, you know, 920 00:39:29,244 --> 00:39:30,495 and, of course, the studio freaked out. 921 00:39:30,537 --> 00:39:31,579 -There are going to be those times 922 00:39:31,621 --> 00:39:34,499 where the risk is if you're doing it enough, 923 00:39:34,541 --> 00:39:37,168 the possibility and the chances of you getting nailed 924 00:39:37,210 --> 00:39:39,587 become more likely, 925 00:39:39,629 --> 00:39:42,882 and if he hurts himself, the whole production's screwed. 926 00:39:42,924 --> 00:39:46,052 Your lead guy, if he's out, 927 00:39:46,094 --> 00:39:47,387 the whole production has to stop. 928 00:39:47,429 --> 00:39:51,016 He kind of liked that rebellious 929 00:39:51,057 --> 00:39:52,976 "screw you, I'm doing it." 930 00:39:53,018 --> 00:39:53,935 -It's authenticity. 931 00:39:53,977 --> 00:39:56,146 Audiences, especially movie audiences, 932 00:39:56,187 --> 00:39:58,440 can smell out a fake from, like, miles away. 933 00:39:58,481 --> 00:40:00,734 -He saw the inside 934 00:40:00,775 --> 00:40:02,235 of how police work was really done. 935 00:40:02,277 --> 00:40:04,362 -You work your side of the street, 936 00:40:04,404 --> 00:40:06,990 and I'll work mine. 937 00:40:07,032 --> 00:40:09,159 - Bullitt was released in October of '68. 938 00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:10,994 The reaction was absolutely through the roof, 939 00:40:11,036 --> 00:40:13,788 and the profits were just crazy, 940 00:40:13,830 --> 00:40:16,291 and Steve McQueen as Bullitt just became an instant icon. 941 00:40:19,336 --> 00:40:20,462 This is truly 942 00:40:20,503 --> 00:40:23,423 where the Steve McQueen legend really takes off. 943 00:40:23,465 --> 00:40:26,551 -The New York Times, 1968. 944 00:40:26,593 --> 00:40:28,053 "Existential cool, 945 00:40:28,094 --> 00:40:30,764 less taut and hardshell than Bogart, 946 00:40:30,805 --> 00:40:33,475 McQueen simply gets better all the time." 947 00:40:37,437 --> 00:40:38,605 -I mean, no one looks better 948 00:40:38,646 --> 00:40:41,483 in white Levi corduroys and sneakers 949 00:40:41,524 --> 00:40:42,567 than Steve McQueen. 950 00:40:42,609 --> 00:40:44,903 No one wears sunglasses like Steve McQueen, 951 00:40:44,944 --> 00:40:47,072 and no one can look as wonderful 952 00:40:47,113 --> 00:40:48,782 behind the wheel of a fast car. 953 00:40:48,823 --> 00:40:51,993 -On and off the screen, McQueen was paired 954 00:40:52,035 --> 00:40:54,245 with some of the hottest actresses in Hollywood. 955 00:40:54,287 --> 00:40:56,498 Never one to turn down a good time, 956 00:40:56,539 --> 00:40:59,751 the line between the two worlds began to blur. 957 00:40:59,793 --> 00:41:01,294 -At that point in time in Hollywood, you know, 958 00:41:01,336 --> 00:41:02,837 we're talking the '60s and '70s, 959 00:41:02,879 --> 00:41:04,506 when everything was sort of a free-for-all, 960 00:41:04,547 --> 00:41:07,592 I don't really think that he knew how to adjust. 961 00:41:07,634 --> 00:41:10,553 He obviously wanted to retain his family 962 00:41:10,595 --> 00:41:12,514 and be the family guy, 963 00:41:12,555 --> 00:41:14,599 but then there were these temptations on the other hand 964 00:41:14,641 --> 00:41:16,393 that just made that impossible. 965 00:41:16,434 --> 00:41:18,478 -I mean, a beautiful woman 966 00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:21,022 wouldn't have been a real problem, you know, 967 00:41:21,064 --> 00:41:22,691 at all, you know, 968 00:41:22,732 --> 00:41:25,527 and I certainly saw women coming up to him, you know, 969 00:41:25,568 --> 00:41:28,822 they could basically not formulate three words together 970 00:41:28,863 --> 00:41:29,823 because it was Steve McQueen. 971 00:41:29,864 --> 00:41:31,866 -There's just something about him for me 972 00:41:31,908 --> 00:41:36,830 that starts, just, like... what was I talking about again? 973 00:41:36,871 --> 00:41:38,415 -And he'd just look at them and be very charming, 974 00:41:38,456 --> 00:41:40,041 which he totally could. 975 00:41:40,083 --> 00:41:41,042 He had that one down, 976 00:41:41,084 --> 00:41:42,752 which was why, you know, 977 00:41:42,794 --> 00:41:45,964 he was the King of Cool, you know? 978 00:41:46,006 --> 00:41:48,508 -Girls would blatantly throw themselves at my dad 979 00:41:48,550 --> 00:41:50,969 in front of their boyfriends or husbands, 980 00:41:51,011 --> 00:41:53,054 and he was always so cool about it. 981 00:41:53,096 --> 00:41:58,018 -There was just free love and free everything, 982 00:41:58,059 --> 00:42:00,645 and sometimes he would come to me and say, 983 00:42:00,687 --> 00:42:02,856 "Why do I have to work for love at home 984 00:42:02,897 --> 00:42:04,607 when I can get it for free outside?" 985 00:42:04,649 --> 00:42:07,235 -Every man I met wanted to be him. 986 00:42:07,277 --> 00:42:08,903 Every woman wanted to sleep with him. 987 00:42:08,945 --> 00:42:11,072 Every kid wanted to be mentored by him. 988 00:42:11,114 --> 00:42:15,452 He just had that extraordinary, charismatic 989 00:42:15,493 --> 00:42:20,665 sort of sexual but dangerous but soft underneath, 990 00:42:20,707 --> 00:42:23,710 bright, street-smart power. 991 00:42:29,132 --> 00:42:30,300 -He's pretty hot. 992 00:42:30,342 --> 00:42:31,676 I've gone back a couple times and gone, 993 00:42:31,718 --> 00:42:33,178 "Okay, maybe if I didn't know him 994 00:42:33,219 --> 00:42:34,554 to be as cool as he was, 995 00:42:34,596 --> 00:42:36,097 and if you just take a random photo 996 00:42:36,139 --> 00:42:37,349 and you see a photo 997 00:42:37,390 --> 00:42:39,100 and, I mean, he's got pretty eyes and this and that, 998 00:42:39,142 --> 00:42:40,477 and then you watch any footage where he's talking, 999 00:42:40,518 --> 00:42:41,644 and the dude's just hot. 1000 00:42:41,686 --> 00:42:46,566 -There's no way out. 1001 00:42:46,608 --> 00:42:50,320 You've done too good a job, Vicki. 1002 00:42:50,362 --> 00:42:52,947 -Steve's body was really just perfectly shaped, you know, 1003 00:42:52,989 --> 00:42:54,032 and he kept it that way. 1004 00:42:54,074 --> 00:42:56,201 He had a bus stop sign 1005 00:42:56,242 --> 00:42:58,286 that he had stolen from one of the streets in New York, 1006 00:42:58,328 --> 00:42:59,454 and he would work out with that. 1007 00:43:06,586 --> 00:43:08,088 -Being, you know, in front of the camera, 1008 00:43:08,129 --> 00:43:10,465 being a leading guy like he was, 1009 00:43:10,507 --> 00:43:12,217 you've got to have that physical presence, 1010 00:43:12,258 --> 00:43:13,968 especially when you start wearing a couple hats, 1011 00:43:14,010 --> 00:43:17,222 producer and leading man actor, 1012 00:43:17,263 --> 00:43:19,891 you've got to be in great shape to have the concentration 1013 00:43:19,933 --> 00:43:23,228 to be able to do that for long periods of time. 1014 00:43:23,269 --> 00:43:26,523 Because he was that kind of hands-on type of guy, 1015 00:43:26,564 --> 00:43:29,484 it was natural for him to gravitate towards martial arts 1016 00:43:29,526 --> 00:43:31,778 and towards a sport like that that's very physical. 1017 00:43:31,820 --> 00:43:33,988 There's also a mental discipline involved. 1018 00:43:34,030 --> 00:43:36,324 It probably tripped a lot of triggers for him. 1019 00:43:36,366 --> 00:43:38,660 -And McQueen would train with the very best, 1020 00:43:38,702 --> 00:43:41,913 Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, and Pat Johnson. 1021 00:43:41,955 --> 00:43:45,291 -Steve was probably the most aggressive guy 1022 00:43:45,333 --> 00:43:47,419 I've ever, ever trained. 1023 00:43:47,460 --> 00:43:49,421 He really wanted to get the martial arts 1024 00:43:49,462 --> 00:43:51,172 so he could learn some self-discipline. 1025 00:43:51,214 --> 00:43:53,591 He had an ego, no denying that at all. 1026 00:43:53,633 --> 00:43:55,677 He had a real short fuse. 1027 00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:57,804 He could go off in an instant, 1028 00:43:57,846 --> 00:44:00,306 but he wanted to learn to control that temper 1029 00:44:00,348 --> 00:44:02,600 and to... as well as know how to fight, 1030 00:44:02,642 --> 00:44:04,102 so if somebody did get in his face, 1031 00:44:04,144 --> 00:44:06,312 he'd be able to either walk away 1032 00:44:06,354 --> 00:44:09,649 or know that he could put the guy out right now. 1033 00:44:09,691 --> 00:44:11,359 -You're out there all by yourself. 1034 00:44:11,401 --> 00:44:13,445 You're going to get out of it exactly what you put into it. 1035 00:44:13,486 --> 00:44:15,697 -I can totally see why martial arts 1036 00:44:15,739 --> 00:44:18,116 and working out every day 1037 00:44:18,158 --> 00:44:20,326 was a really important part of his life. 1038 00:44:20,368 --> 00:44:22,120 It's so much more than, you know, 1039 00:44:22,162 --> 00:44:23,663 physically looking good. 1040 00:44:23,705 --> 00:44:26,624 It's very mental. 1041 00:44:26,666 --> 00:44:29,336 - L.A. Times, 2010. 1042 00:44:29,377 --> 00:44:31,546 "McQueen embodies effortless cool, 1043 00:44:31,588 --> 00:44:34,007 dangerous masculinity, edgy charisma 1044 00:44:34,049 --> 00:44:36,843 that are coveted by men, embraced by women." 1045 00:44:40,221 --> 00:44:41,973 -Everybody knew that Steve McQueen 1046 00:44:42,015 --> 00:44:45,352 was the coolest of them all, 1047 00:44:45,393 --> 00:44:49,439 but I found out as I worked with him, you know, 1048 00:44:49,481 --> 00:44:52,067 I think he was a warlock. 1049 00:44:52,108 --> 00:44:54,361 I think he was affected by the moon. 1050 00:44:54,402 --> 00:44:57,238 -I, uh... I rarghhh... 1051 00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:58,698 I bark and growl. 1052 00:44:58,740 --> 00:45:02,160 Every full moon, I go like an animal. 1053 00:45:02,202 --> 00:45:05,914 -Whenever there was a full moon, 1054 00:45:05,955 --> 00:45:11,878 I'll never forget his publicity guy said to me, 1055 00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:13,421 "You'd better watch him next week. 1056 00:45:13,463 --> 00:45:15,507 Full moon, you know. 1057 00:45:15,548 --> 00:45:16,883 He's affected by the moon." 1058 00:45:16,925 --> 00:45:19,344 I said, "What are you talking about?" 1059 00:45:19,386 --> 00:45:24,599 and sure enough, he disappeared on his motorbike, 1060 00:45:24,641 --> 00:45:26,101 out on the desert. 1061 00:45:26,142 --> 00:45:27,435 It was kind of strange. 1062 00:45:27,477 --> 00:45:28,770 I'm thinking [inhales]. 1063 00:45:28,812 --> 00:45:31,523 I think there was a little pot going there. 1064 00:45:31,564 --> 00:45:34,150 He totally disappeared, 1065 00:45:34,192 --> 00:45:35,777 and nobody knew where he went. 1066 00:45:35,819 --> 00:45:38,530 -And it's no secret my dad liked his grass, 1067 00:45:38,571 --> 00:45:40,448 and it was the '60s, you know what I mean? 1068 00:45:40,490 --> 00:45:44,411 I mean, they were trying everything, you know? 1069 00:45:44,452 --> 00:45:45,787 Dennis Hopper told me a story once 1070 00:45:45,829 --> 00:45:47,414 about him and my dad in a Jeep 1071 00:45:47,455 --> 00:45:49,082 taking mescaline out in the middle of nowhere 1072 00:45:49,124 --> 00:45:50,250 in the desert. 1073 00:45:50,291 --> 00:45:52,752 Just take it right up to the edge. 1074 00:45:52,794 --> 00:45:53,920 That was my dad. 1075 00:45:53,962 --> 00:45:56,131 Everything was right up to the edge, wasn't it? 1076 00:45:57,340 --> 00:46:00,301 [♪♪♪] 1077 00:46:04,848 --> 00:46:06,516 -Do you ever relax, though? 1078 00:46:06,558 --> 00:46:08,685 -Sure, sure. I'm relaxed right now. 1079 00:46:08,727 --> 00:46:09,644 -Are you? -Yeah. 1080 00:46:09,686 --> 00:46:11,479 -Yeah? So you do relax. 1081 00:46:11,521 --> 00:46:12,981 You seem to relax... just a little thing, 1082 00:46:13,023 --> 00:46:14,524 I was watching you race, 1083 00:46:14,566 --> 00:46:17,193 and when you're on a motorcycle, you seem to be loose, 1084 00:46:17,235 --> 00:46:18,528 and there seems to be a little tenseness 1085 00:46:18,570 --> 00:46:20,280 about you otherwise. 1086 00:46:20,321 --> 00:46:23,533 -The only time I really, really, honestly relax relax 1087 00:46:23,575 --> 00:46:25,201 from the tensions, 1088 00:46:25,243 --> 00:46:27,620 it seems as though is when I'm motor racing. 1089 00:46:27,662 --> 00:46:30,123 I do relax a lot at speed. 1090 00:46:30,165 --> 00:46:33,209 One really has to, you know, I mean, you must stay relaxed, 1091 00:46:33,251 --> 00:46:34,836 because then if any trouble comes up, 1092 00:46:34,878 --> 00:46:36,254 you don't want to be tense. 1093 00:46:36,296 --> 00:46:38,465 You want to stay very relaxed so that you can cope with it. 1094 00:46:38,506 --> 00:46:40,675 [engines rev] 1095 00:46:45,597 --> 00:46:48,391 -He liked the speed and the action and the muscles 1096 00:46:48,433 --> 00:46:50,060 and the dirt in the face 1097 00:46:50,101 --> 00:46:53,021 and the rain and rocks hitting you 1098 00:46:53,063 --> 00:46:54,773 and falling off and all that. 1099 00:46:54,814 --> 00:46:58,276 It was all part of his world of masculinity. 1100 00:46:58,318 --> 00:47:00,487 -You're dealing with a few-hundred-pound motorcycle 1101 00:47:00,528 --> 00:47:03,156 and taking it through circumstances 1102 00:47:03,198 --> 00:47:05,408 that not a lot of people can handle. 1103 00:47:05,450 --> 00:47:06,951 -He was very strong, 1104 00:47:06,993 --> 00:47:08,870 he was very fast, 1105 00:47:08,912 --> 00:47:11,831 and he showed that in the way he rode a motorcycle. 1106 00:47:11,873 --> 00:47:13,875 He was very aggressive. 1107 00:47:13,917 --> 00:47:17,128 If you were in front of him in a race, sooner or later, 1108 00:47:17,170 --> 00:47:20,465 he'd be on your tail, because he had to pass you. 1109 00:47:20,507 --> 00:47:22,175 That was his personality, 1110 00:47:22,217 --> 00:47:23,843 and that's why he was so successful 1111 00:47:23,885 --> 00:47:27,013 is because he had to win. 1112 00:47:27,055 --> 00:47:28,848 -And Steve was a natural, 1113 00:47:28,890 --> 00:47:32,519 racing competitively at Sebring, Baja, Elsinore, 1114 00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:35,146 and the International Six-Day Trials. 1115 00:47:35,188 --> 00:47:37,065 -He dug hanging out with guys like that, you know? 1116 00:47:37,107 --> 00:47:41,444 I mean, he was really... he was in his element. 1117 00:47:41,486 --> 00:47:44,948 I think for him, doing movies was a battle, you know? 1118 00:47:44,989 --> 00:47:48,535 He knew that he had to get his game face on. 1119 00:47:48,576 --> 00:47:49,619 With motorcycles, 1120 00:47:49,661 --> 00:47:51,621 he'd just blend in with the rest of the guys. 1121 00:47:51,663 --> 00:47:53,748 -He really lived life. 1122 00:47:53,790 --> 00:47:56,126 It wasn't like he was in this Hollywood box, 1123 00:47:56,167 --> 00:48:00,755 trying to be that actor or trying to be anything. 1124 00:48:00,797 --> 00:48:04,759 He just was who he was. 1125 00:48:04,801 --> 00:48:07,470 -Once he got a helmet on, nobody knew who he was. 1126 00:48:07,512 --> 00:48:09,639 He was the biggest star in the country, in the world. 1127 00:48:09,681 --> 00:48:11,599 -He just... he wanted to be one of the guys. 1128 00:48:11,641 --> 00:48:13,560 He wanted to be one of the racers. 1129 00:48:13,601 --> 00:48:15,186 He entered the Elsinore Grand Prix 1130 00:48:15,228 --> 00:48:18,023 under "Harvey Mushman." 1131 00:48:18,064 --> 00:48:19,190 When you saw the guy with the white helmet 1132 00:48:19,232 --> 00:48:21,026 and the yellow jersey go by, 1133 00:48:21,067 --> 00:48:22,610 it was Harvey Mushman. 1134 00:48:22,652 --> 00:48:25,196 -I was a big fan of his, 1135 00:48:25,238 --> 00:48:27,657 and when I decided to try and do On Any Sunday, 1136 00:48:27,699 --> 00:48:29,951 I went up to his office in L.A., 1137 00:48:29,993 --> 00:48:31,661 and he was familiar with the Endless Summer, 1138 00:48:31,703 --> 00:48:33,246 the surf film I made. 1139 00:48:33,288 --> 00:48:35,707 Told him what I wanted to do, and he went, "Oh, cool," 1140 00:48:35,749 --> 00:48:37,751 you know, "What do you want me to do?" 1141 00:48:37,792 --> 00:48:40,712 and I went, "Well, pay for it," and he started laughing. 1142 00:48:40,754 --> 00:48:42,630 He went, "Hey, man, you know, I'm in movies. 1143 00:48:42,672 --> 00:48:45,050 I don't finance them," 1144 00:48:45,091 --> 00:48:47,761 and I went, "Well, you can't be in my movie then," 1145 00:48:47,802 --> 00:48:49,596 and he laughed, and the next day he called me 1146 00:48:49,637 --> 00:48:51,765 and said, "Okay, let's go for it." 1147 00:48:51,806 --> 00:48:53,975 Put the money up, and he was a great, great partner. 1148 00:48:54,017 --> 00:48:55,769 -This is Steve McQueen, 1149 00:48:55,810 --> 00:48:58,146 and I'm proud to have a little ride on the film. 1150 00:48:58,188 --> 00:48:59,647 Whether you ride or not, 1151 00:48:59,689 --> 00:49:02,525 I think you'll enjoy On Any Sunday. 1152 00:49:02,567 --> 00:49:04,110 -The thing is that most people have the feeling 1153 00:49:04,152 --> 00:49:06,363 that motorcyclists are, you know, long sideburns 1154 00:49:06,404 --> 00:49:08,490 and those great, funny motorcycles and everything, 1155 00:49:08,531 --> 00:49:10,492 and they're all kind of, you know, 1156 00:49:10,533 --> 00:49:11,493 looking for trouble and everything, 1157 00:49:11,534 --> 00:49:12,952 and that really isn't the case. 1158 00:49:12,994 --> 00:49:14,037 People who enter into competition, 1159 00:49:14,079 --> 00:49:16,081 especially in the United States, 1160 00:49:16,122 --> 00:49:18,541 are very good sportsmen, 1161 00:49:18,583 --> 00:49:20,043 and all of them are very keen on the sport 1162 00:49:20,085 --> 00:49:21,211 and interested, 1163 00:49:21,252 --> 00:49:22,170 and they're some of the best sportsmen 1164 00:49:22,212 --> 00:49:23,171 I've ever run into in my life. 1165 00:49:23,213 --> 00:49:25,131 -And when I'm six years old, 1166 00:49:25,173 --> 00:49:28,093 he got me my first minicycle, a little Benelli, 1167 00:49:28,134 --> 00:49:31,054 and we used to go three days a week, you know. 1168 00:49:31,096 --> 00:49:32,013 After school, he'd pick me up 1169 00:49:32,055 --> 00:49:33,181 and take me and Terry 1170 00:49:33,223 --> 00:49:36,685 out to Indian Dunes to go practice, 1171 00:49:36,726 --> 00:49:40,897 and then during the summers, our races were Friday nights. 1172 00:49:40,939 --> 00:49:42,107 During the winters, they were Sundays. 1173 00:49:42,148 --> 00:49:45,110 My dad never missed one, always there. 1174 00:49:47,612 --> 00:49:51,116 When he got into the vintage motorcycles, same thing. 1175 00:49:51,157 --> 00:49:53,118 He hung out with the vintage crowd, 1176 00:49:53,159 --> 00:49:55,537 you know, the old guys that would go on runs. 1177 00:49:55,578 --> 00:49:57,997 -Triumph remade the bike from The Great Escape, 1178 00:49:58,039 --> 00:49:59,207 and I found out 1179 00:49:59,249 --> 00:50:02,252 that there was only a thousand of them being made. 1180 00:50:02,293 --> 00:50:04,337 I had to get one. 1181 00:50:04,379 --> 00:50:06,089 It was a really cool experience. 1182 00:50:06,131 --> 00:50:08,341 Me and my dad were driving those bikes around. 1183 00:50:08,383 --> 00:50:10,468 Of course, his is all souped up. 1184 00:50:10,510 --> 00:50:14,347 There was just this moment of riding down by the beach, 1185 00:50:14,389 --> 00:50:16,224 and, I don't know, 1186 00:50:16,266 --> 00:50:18,977 it just, it kind of made me feel closer to my grandfather, 1187 00:50:19,019 --> 00:50:22,063 and it was really cool. 1188 00:50:22,105 --> 00:50:23,690 I wish when I was younger 1189 00:50:23,732 --> 00:50:24,774 that was something 1190 00:50:24,816 --> 00:50:27,360 that we could have all experienced together. 1191 00:50:30,530 --> 00:50:33,366 -He was good, you know, in that Elsinore race, 1192 00:50:33,408 --> 00:50:35,368 there was a thousand guys, 1193 00:50:35,410 --> 00:50:38,204 and he finished in the top 10 in both classes. 1194 00:50:38,246 --> 00:50:40,123 We were at my house after the race, 1195 00:50:40,165 --> 00:50:42,167 and his foot was like a basketball, 1196 00:50:42,208 --> 00:50:46,129 all swollen up, and he goes, "I think I broke my foot. 1197 00:50:46,171 --> 00:50:49,507 Well, I know I broke my foot." 1198 00:50:49,549 --> 00:50:52,177 -Two weeks later and despite a broken foot, 1199 00:50:52,218 --> 00:50:55,096 McQueen would race the grueling 12 hours of Sebring. 1200 00:50:55,138 --> 00:50:59,100 -He said he was going to race the race, 1201 00:50:59,142 --> 00:51:02,062 and they let him drive it with a cast on his foot. 1202 00:51:02,103 --> 00:51:03,104 It's unbelievable, you know? 1203 00:51:03,146 --> 00:51:05,231 -I busted it in a motorcycle race 1204 00:51:05,273 --> 00:51:06,733 up at Lake Elsinore. 1205 00:51:06,775 --> 00:51:08,943 It was a 100-miler. 1206 00:51:08,985 --> 00:51:12,072 Busted it in six places and I'd already said I'd drive, 1207 00:51:12,113 --> 00:51:16,159 so I got the cast on 1208 00:51:16,201 --> 00:51:19,454 and we just taped it up, and I can't use a foot rest, 1209 00:51:19,496 --> 00:51:21,122 we had to cut part of it off 1210 00:51:21,164 --> 00:51:22,374 because I'm five and one-eighth inches 1211 00:51:22,415 --> 00:51:24,209 across the bottom of my foot, 1212 00:51:24,250 --> 00:51:26,002 and we put some sandpaper on the bottom, 1213 00:51:26,044 --> 00:51:27,128 taped it on 1214 00:51:27,170 --> 00:51:28,004 so I can keep it on the clutch pedal 1215 00:51:28,046 --> 00:51:29,047 and adjust it. 1216 00:51:29,089 --> 00:51:30,924 -He was so at ease. 1217 00:51:30,965 --> 00:51:33,134 You see, that's the thing that people don't realize. 1218 00:51:33,176 --> 00:51:36,137 I think he was, like, a born car-racer. 1219 00:51:36,179 --> 00:51:38,098 Some people just are completely natural. 1220 00:51:38,139 --> 00:51:40,809 He lived it 24 hours a day. 1221 00:51:40,850 --> 00:51:42,310 I mean, that's all he could talk about, 1222 00:51:42,352 --> 00:51:44,104 racing, racing, racing. 1223 00:51:44,145 --> 00:51:45,814 -McQueen was neck and neck 1224 00:51:45,855 --> 00:51:49,025 with Mario Andretti in the Ferrari 512S. 1225 00:51:49,067 --> 00:51:51,861 With an average speed of 113 miles an hour, 1226 00:51:51,903 --> 00:51:53,988 McQueen and his team would challenge for the lead 1227 00:51:54,030 --> 00:51:55,115 in their Porsche 908 Spyder 1228 00:51:55,156 --> 00:51:57,450 throughout the 12-hour marathon. 1229 00:51:57,492 --> 00:52:00,036 In the end, Andretti would cross the finish line 1230 00:52:00,078 --> 00:52:04,165 a scant 23 seconds ahead of McQueen. 1231 00:52:04,207 --> 00:52:05,125 -I think if you were to ask him then 1232 00:52:05,166 --> 00:52:08,128 if he was an actor or a racecar driver, 1233 00:52:08,169 --> 00:52:11,047 he wouldn't have known what to say. 1234 00:52:14,384 --> 00:52:16,886 -His passion definitely was motor sports. 1235 00:52:16,928 --> 00:52:19,431 It was a fix that he had to have. 1236 00:52:19,472 --> 00:52:22,559 -When you're racing, it's life. 1237 00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:26,604 Anything that happens before or after is just waiting. 1238 00:52:35,822 --> 00:52:38,783 -Nobody else would make a movie about the 24 hours of Le Mans 1239 00:52:38,825 --> 00:52:41,286 except Steve McQueen, 1240 00:52:41,327 --> 00:52:42,620 and because it was the thing he knew, 1241 00:52:42,704 --> 00:52:43,872 the thing he loved, 1242 00:52:43,913 --> 00:52:46,875 nobody, nobody else would make that movie. 1243 00:52:48,460 --> 00:52:51,087 -He had been wanting to do that film for 10 years. 1244 00:52:51,129 --> 00:52:54,132 He was finally able to bring it to life. 1245 00:52:58,636 --> 00:53:05,560 -Steve was completely obsessed with making Le Mans 1246 00:53:05,602 --> 00:53:10,273 the greatest car racing movie ever, ever filmed. 1247 00:53:10,315 --> 00:53:12,734 He was, like, very obsessed with the action 1248 00:53:12,776 --> 00:53:16,029 and the new way of filming the car racing, 1249 00:53:16,071 --> 00:53:19,074 and trying to find ways to show the sport 1250 00:53:19,115 --> 00:53:22,243 and to make the person feel like you're part of it, 1251 00:53:22,285 --> 00:53:23,578 the audience, 1252 00:53:23,620 --> 00:53:25,872 in a way that was never done before. 1253 00:53:25,914 --> 00:53:29,459 They had really tricked out a car 1254 00:53:29,501 --> 00:53:30,794 with a lot of cameras on it, 1255 00:53:30,835 --> 00:53:33,630 and it was a camera car that actually drove in the race. 1256 00:53:36,841 --> 00:53:39,969 -That 917 he drove at Le Mans, every day I would say, 1257 00:53:40,011 --> 00:53:43,431 "Dad, you've got to give me a ride in this thing, please." 1258 00:53:43,515 --> 00:53:45,350 You know, yeah, yeah. 1259 00:53:45,392 --> 00:53:46,768 I'm busy. I'm busy. 1260 00:53:46,810 --> 00:53:48,019 They're shooting down the Mulsanne, 1261 00:53:48,061 --> 00:53:50,689 my dad in the other car's coming down off the kink, 1262 00:53:50,772 --> 00:53:52,232 and they're braking to hang the right 1263 00:53:52,273 --> 00:53:53,400 into Mulsanne corner. 1264 00:53:53,441 --> 00:53:56,695 He opens the door and he, "Come on. Come here." 1265 00:53:56,778 --> 00:53:58,738 I'm going to get a ride in the 917. 1266 00:53:58,780 --> 00:54:00,949 So he sat me down in his lap 1267 00:54:00,990 --> 00:54:03,660 and I remember the seatbelt sticking into my back, 1268 00:54:03,702 --> 00:54:05,412 and I kind of went to the side, 1269 00:54:05,453 --> 00:54:08,790 and that sound of the flat 12 and the G-forces, 1270 00:54:08,832 --> 00:54:11,793 as a kid, pressing back into my dad. 1271 00:54:11,835 --> 00:54:13,962 There's nothing to hold on to for me, 1272 00:54:14,004 --> 00:54:16,381 so I put my hand on top of my dad's glove, 1273 00:54:16,423 --> 00:54:19,843 on the wheel, on the 917. 1274 00:54:19,884 --> 00:54:22,679 He went through the first three gears, whap, whap, 1275 00:54:22,721 --> 00:54:24,305 and then just for a brief second, 1276 00:54:24,347 --> 00:54:25,515 he took his hands off, 1277 00:54:25,557 --> 00:54:28,727 so I was actually steering a 917 at 10 years old. 1278 00:54:28,768 --> 00:54:29,811 I think that's what got me 1279 00:54:29,853 --> 00:54:32,814 addicted to motor sports and driving myself, 1280 00:54:32,856 --> 00:54:36,026 was that feeling that I felt of the G-force, 1281 00:54:36,067 --> 00:54:39,779 I mean, just and the sound, and, you know, sitting so low 1282 00:54:39,821 --> 00:54:41,364 with the fenders up high like that. 1283 00:54:41,406 --> 00:54:43,324 It just, the whole thing was an addicting experience, 1284 00:54:43,366 --> 00:54:45,535 to say the least. 1285 00:54:45,577 --> 00:54:47,537 - Le Mans was kind of a crazy experience. 1286 00:54:47,579 --> 00:54:49,247 It was doomed from the beginning. 1287 00:54:49,289 --> 00:54:50,832 He wasn't focused. 1288 00:54:50,874 --> 00:54:52,459 He'd much rather hang out with the guys 1289 00:54:52,542 --> 00:54:53,877 than hang out with the executives, you know? 1290 00:54:53,918 --> 00:54:56,338 -John Sturges wanted to make it a love story 1291 00:54:56,379 --> 00:54:58,423 with the race as a background, 1292 00:54:58,465 --> 00:54:59,591 and McQueen was like, 1293 00:54:59,632 --> 00:55:00,800 "I didn't wait to make this movie 1294 00:55:00,842 --> 00:55:02,218 to have the race be the background. 1295 00:55:02,260 --> 00:55:03,720 It's about the race." 1296 00:55:03,762 --> 00:55:05,847 -Sturges kept saying, "Well, where's the human story?" 1297 00:55:05,889 --> 00:55:08,058 because it was just all about machines. 1298 00:55:08,099 --> 00:55:11,227 So you had them bumping heads from the very beginning. 1299 00:55:11,269 --> 00:55:14,481 -John wanted a script, and there was no script. 1300 00:55:14,564 --> 00:55:16,858 -I don't think Steve McQueen says anything 1301 00:55:16,900 --> 00:55:19,027 for the first 35 minutes of that film, 1302 00:55:19,069 --> 00:55:20,987 but you're just sort of drawn to it. 1303 00:55:21,029 --> 00:55:22,864 It's almost like you could smell it, you know. 1304 00:55:22,906 --> 00:55:25,700 That's how visceral and visual it is. 1305 00:55:25,742 --> 00:55:27,035 -He was in the car five days a week, 1306 00:55:27,077 --> 00:55:28,787 and, you know, going racing speeds, 1307 00:55:28,828 --> 00:55:30,622 and he said, 1308 00:55:30,663 --> 00:55:31,956 "Every day I thought I was going to get killed." 1309 00:55:31,998 --> 00:55:33,875 -It was a very, very dangerous film set. 1310 00:55:33,917 --> 00:55:35,377 There was rain. 1311 00:55:35,418 --> 00:55:36,294 There were crashes. 1312 00:55:36,336 --> 00:55:38,838 There was a driver that lost his leg. 1313 00:55:41,758 --> 00:55:43,343 -And I think, in a way, 1314 00:55:43,385 --> 00:55:45,387 it's like the painter's madness. 1315 00:55:45,428 --> 00:55:48,932 I think that he went mad a little bit 1316 00:55:48,973 --> 00:55:50,850 in the making of the film. 1317 00:55:50,892 --> 00:55:53,728 The obsession took over, and he lost control. 1318 00:55:53,770 --> 00:55:55,146 I mean, he just went, he went nuts. 1319 00:55:55,188 --> 00:55:58,608 - Le Mans was a disaster film for everyone involved. 1320 00:55:58,650 --> 00:56:00,026 It was a disaster for me. 1321 00:56:00,068 --> 00:56:01,069 It was disastrous for Steve. 1322 00:56:01,111 --> 00:56:02,028 It was disastrous 1323 00:56:02,070 --> 00:56:04,030 for his relationship with John Sturges. 1324 00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:09,744 -He wasn't showing up for the filming. 1325 00:56:09,786 --> 00:56:12,038 The director got fed up, John Sturges. 1326 00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:16,126 They finally had a big blowout, and John left, 1327 00:56:16,167 --> 00:56:18,294 and they replaced the director, 1328 00:56:18,336 --> 00:56:21,756 and from then, it just became something different. 1329 00:56:21,798 --> 00:56:23,675 -In asserting himself 1330 00:56:23,717 --> 00:56:27,095 and essentially parting company with John Sturges, 1331 00:56:27,137 --> 00:56:28,722 who he'd been so successful with, 1332 00:56:28,805 --> 00:56:30,807 and getting the television director to come in 1333 00:56:30,849 --> 00:56:33,685 and really having McQueen direct this movie, 1334 00:56:33,727 --> 00:56:35,437 perhaps he wasn't threatened. 1335 00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:38,106 -He wanted to be a filmmaker, 1336 00:56:38,148 --> 00:56:41,067 and he was being adored by everybody. 1337 00:56:41,109 --> 00:56:42,944 Everything was "Yes, Steve," and "Yes" that. 1338 00:56:42,986 --> 00:56:44,904 -I don't think Steve was that cooperative. 1339 00:56:44,946 --> 00:56:45,989 One thing led to another, 1340 00:56:46,031 --> 00:56:47,907 and things began to disintegrate. 1341 00:56:47,949 --> 00:56:49,117 -I mean, the whole thing, 1342 00:56:49,159 --> 00:56:50,535 they took the money away from Steve. 1343 00:56:50,577 --> 00:56:51,953 They took the production, everything. 1344 00:56:51,995 --> 00:56:53,663 They took everything away from Steve, 1345 00:56:53,705 --> 00:56:56,332 and everybody at that point in time 1346 00:56:56,374 --> 00:56:58,001 seemed to be doing drugs. 1347 00:56:58,043 --> 00:57:01,421 That was the start of the tearing of the family, 1348 00:57:01,504 --> 00:57:06,092 because it was just getting too heavy. 1349 00:57:06,134 --> 00:57:07,677 -I think the issue was Steve at the time. 1350 00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:11,348 He was distracted by cars, car racing, 1351 00:57:11,389 --> 00:57:14,392 motorcycle racing, women. 1352 00:57:14,434 --> 00:57:17,520 -There were times that I didn't look away, 1353 00:57:17,562 --> 00:57:19,230 and there was a time when I retaliated, 1354 00:57:19,272 --> 00:57:22,317 and when I did, the marriage never recovered from that. 1355 00:57:24,611 --> 00:57:28,573 He had a terrible temper, you know, and it just... 1356 00:57:28,615 --> 00:57:30,742 he, uh... 1357 00:57:30,784 --> 00:57:35,705 He terrified me, so I just said, "I have to leave." 1358 00:57:35,747 --> 00:57:38,249 -With Le Mans, McQueen was all in. 1359 00:57:38,291 --> 00:57:41,920 He gambled everything on Le Mans, and he lost. 1360 00:57:41,961 --> 00:57:44,964 - Los Angeles Times, 1971. 1361 00:57:45,006 --> 00:57:45,799 "Le Mans loses revs 1362 00:57:45,882 --> 00:57:47,801 the minute it gets off the track. 1363 00:57:47,884 --> 00:57:50,261 It is more than a little schizophrenic." 1364 00:57:50,303 --> 00:57:51,429 -At the age of 40, 1365 00:57:51,513 --> 00:57:54,641 Steve McQueen now found himself divorced, broke, 1366 00:57:54,724 --> 00:57:57,060 and doesn't really know 1367 00:57:57,102 --> 00:57:58,770 what's going to happen with his movie career, 1368 00:57:58,812 --> 00:58:00,063 because he's suffered this huge flop. 1369 00:58:08,822 --> 00:58:09,781 -Straight ahead. 1370 00:58:13,660 --> 00:58:15,787 The Getaway, obviously a life-changing experience 1371 00:58:15,829 --> 00:58:17,080 for Steve McQueen. 1372 00:58:17,122 --> 00:58:19,708 He meets his co-star, Ali MacGraw. 1373 00:58:19,749 --> 00:58:21,084 -Hi, Doc. 1374 00:58:21,126 --> 00:58:23,211 -McQueen produced The Getaway. 1375 00:58:23,253 --> 00:58:25,588 The casting process was very simple. 1376 00:58:25,630 --> 00:58:26,673 Steve said, "I want the girl from Love Story." 1377 00:58:26,715 --> 00:58:28,842 -I was married to Robert Evans, 1378 00:58:28,883 --> 00:58:30,135 who was then the head of Paramount. 1379 00:58:30,176 --> 00:58:31,428 -She's married to Robert Evans, 1380 00:58:31,469 --> 00:58:33,388 perhaps the most powerful man in Hollywood, 1381 00:58:33,430 --> 00:58:35,682 but yet this is still Steve McQueen. 1382 00:58:35,724 --> 00:58:36,766 -Steve called and said, 1383 00:58:36,808 --> 00:58:38,309 "I want to talk to you about doing this film 1384 00:58:38,351 --> 00:58:40,687 and maybe using your wife." 1385 00:58:40,729 --> 00:58:41,938 I had to be talked into doing it. 1386 00:58:41,980 --> 00:58:44,107 I thought I was wrong for the part, 1387 00:58:44,149 --> 00:58:45,567 and they all said, "Wow, I mean, 1388 00:58:45,608 --> 00:58:47,068 you get to work with Steve McQueen. 1389 00:58:47,110 --> 00:58:49,904 This is an absolutely brilliant career move," 1390 00:58:49,946 --> 00:58:51,031 and, of course, I knew 1391 00:58:51,072 --> 00:58:54,117 he was one of the biggest stars in the world, 1392 00:58:54,159 --> 00:58:56,411 but that in itself was kind of intimidating, 1393 00:58:56,453 --> 00:58:59,122 because I was such a neophyte. 1394 00:58:59,164 --> 00:59:02,334 I had no clue how to play in that league. 1395 00:59:02,375 --> 00:59:05,086 The first day with Steve on The Getaway, 1396 00:59:05,128 --> 00:59:08,089 he and Sam Peckinpah picked me up at the airport 1397 00:59:08,131 --> 00:59:11,593 and did, like 360s down the freeway. 1398 00:59:11,634 --> 00:59:13,887 That was kind of a "Wow, we're all going" 1399 00:59:13,928 --> 00:59:15,305 to have a very different kind of life 1400 00:59:15,347 --> 00:59:16,765 than you're used to, 1401 00:59:16,806 --> 00:59:20,268 you repressed New England non-actress. 1402 00:59:20,310 --> 00:59:21,519 "Have a look at this." 1403 00:59:23,063 --> 00:59:24,147 -As soon as they meet, 1404 00:59:24,189 --> 00:59:26,274 there's this instant electricity. 1405 00:59:26,316 --> 00:59:27,567 -I do literally remember 1406 00:59:27,609 --> 00:59:28,943 watching him walk out of the house 1407 00:59:28,985 --> 00:59:30,487 to the edge of the pool, 1408 00:59:30,528 --> 00:59:32,364 which was the color of his eyes, 1409 00:59:32,405 --> 00:59:35,158 which I could see from 700 feet. 1410 00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:40,622 I mean, it was an overwhelming, visceral, turn-on, 1411 00:59:40,663 --> 00:59:43,750 who-is-that kind of feeling. 1412 00:59:43,792 --> 00:59:45,335 You know, that's a stunner. 1413 00:59:45,377 --> 00:59:49,005 It doesn't happen a lot. 1414 00:59:49,047 --> 00:59:51,257 The attraction was electrifying. 1415 00:59:51,299 --> 00:59:52,967 It was scary. 1416 00:59:58,765 --> 01:00:00,350 -It was a foregone conclusion 1417 01:00:00,392 --> 01:00:02,018 that something was going to happen. 1418 01:00:02,060 --> 01:00:05,230 -And of course, eventually she leaves Robert Evans, 1419 01:00:05,271 --> 01:00:07,399 the head of production at Paramount, 1420 01:00:07,440 --> 01:00:10,485 for Steve McQueen while they're making The Getaway. 1421 01:00:10,527 --> 01:00:13,154 Steve McQueen had that sort of power. 1422 01:00:15,615 --> 01:00:18,076 -Steve fell in love with the girl from Love Story, 1423 01:00:18,118 --> 01:00:21,037 and Ali fell in love with one of the most, you know, 1424 01:00:21,079 --> 01:00:24,499 charismatic actors of the century, you know. 1425 01:00:24,541 --> 01:00:27,919 It was a no-brainer, really. 1426 01:00:27,961 --> 01:00:30,839 - Los Angeles Times, 1972. 1427 01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:32,215 "Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw 1428 01:00:32,257 --> 01:00:34,467 generate between them as much electricity 1429 01:00:34,509 --> 01:00:39,889 as any of the fabled screen teams of the past." 1430 01:00:39,931 --> 01:00:42,934 -It was like being a student on an advanced film set. 1431 01:00:42,976 --> 01:00:45,270 Sam Peckinpah once said, "If you want to learn 1432 01:00:45,311 --> 01:00:48,606 everything there is to know about acting for film, 1433 01:00:48,648 --> 01:00:50,191 watch his eyes," 1434 01:00:50,233 --> 01:00:53,653 and that's powerfully true. 1435 01:00:53,695 --> 01:00:55,030 Nobody that I've ever watched 1436 01:00:55,071 --> 01:00:57,741 has come close to doing what he did. 1437 01:00:57,782 --> 01:00:59,409 There are many great things to do. 1438 01:00:59,451 --> 01:01:03,079 He nailed his version for all time. 1439 01:01:03,121 --> 01:01:05,373 -In one of the most challenging roles of his career, 1440 01:01:05,415 --> 01:01:07,250 McQueen would put it all on the line 1441 01:01:07,292 --> 01:01:09,294 in a role based on a true character 1442 01:01:09,336 --> 01:01:12,255 who had risked everything to be free. 1443 01:01:12,297 --> 01:01:15,842 -In Papillon, there was just this broken man, 1444 01:01:15,884 --> 01:01:17,802 and that was amazing to see. 1445 01:01:17,844 --> 01:01:20,180 All his other movies, he was very strong. 1446 01:01:20,221 --> 01:01:22,390 There was always this steel wall 1447 01:01:22,432 --> 01:01:24,559 that no one was going to get through, 1448 01:01:24,601 --> 01:01:26,102 and that was the movie 1449 01:01:26,144 --> 01:01:29,022 that you just saw that kind of crumble. 1450 01:01:29,064 --> 01:01:32,776 [bell tolling] 1451 01:01:32,817 --> 01:01:35,278 -Franklin Schaffner did a brilliant movie, 1452 01:01:35,320 --> 01:01:37,072 and they killed themselves for him. 1453 01:01:37,113 --> 01:01:38,782 They were up to your waist 1454 01:01:38,823 --> 01:01:41,951 in hot, bug-infested Jamaican mud 1455 01:01:41,993 --> 01:01:42,827 and blistering heat. 1456 01:01:42,869 --> 01:01:45,038 -It's physical. 1457 01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:47,165 It's mental, emotional, and physical. 1458 01:01:47,207 --> 01:01:49,668 You were just in that awful situation with them. 1459 01:01:49,709 --> 01:01:53,004 -It's a grind, 12-, 14-hour-plus days 1460 01:01:53,046 --> 01:01:53,963 on a lot of days. 1461 01:01:54,005 --> 01:01:55,507 There's a physicality to that. 1462 01:01:55,548 --> 01:01:57,342 There's a mental discipline 1463 01:01:57,384 --> 01:01:59,636 that it takes to stay focused and on task. 1464 01:02:02,347 --> 01:02:05,433 -You'll be killed, you know that. 1465 01:02:05,475 --> 01:02:07,227 -Maybe. 1466 01:02:20,198 --> 01:02:21,908 -He insisted that he was doing that stunt himself. 1467 01:02:21,950 --> 01:02:23,743 He wasn't going to have some stuntman do it for him. 1468 01:02:23,785 --> 01:02:26,621 -My assumption was it must have not been Steve, 1469 01:02:26,663 --> 01:02:28,331 because we were so wide 1470 01:02:28,373 --> 01:02:30,208 we couldn't tell if it was or not, 1471 01:02:30,250 --> 01:02:32,335 so why not get in on his face? 1472 01:02:32,377 --> 01:02:35,380 That seemed sort of wasteful to me in this day and age. 1473 01:02:35,422 --> 01:02:37,132 I guess back then, maybe it was more like, 1474 01:02:37,173 --> 01:02:39,217 "Well, he's just going to do it, 1475 01:02:39,259 --> 01:02:40,677 so we're just going to shoot it how we'd normally shoot it." 1476 01:02:40,719 --> 01:02:42,554 Instead of it being five cameras on it, 1477 01:02:42,595 --> 01:02:44,305 and we want one on his face 1478 01:02:44,347 --> 01:02:46,766 and we want to see him all in one frame, in one, 1479 01:02:46,808 --> 01:02:48,852 you know... I want to see that. 1480 01:02:48,893 --> 01:02:52,605 -With The Getaway in '72 and then Papillon in '73, 1481 01:02:52,647 --> 01:02:55,400 if there was a sense after Le Mans 1482 01:02:55,442 --> 01:02:58,695 that the decade of Steve McQueen had come to an end, 1483 01:02:58,737 --> 01:03:00,530 those two films certainly shattered it. 1484 01:03:00,572 --> 01:03:02,323 They were box office successes. 1485 01:03:02,365 --> 01:03:04,659 They were largely critical successes, 1486 01:03:04,701 --> 01:03:06,661 and Steve McQueen was back on top. 1487 01:03:06,703 --> 01:03:08,788 -After Papillon, Steve was exhausted. 1488 01:03:08,830 --> 01:03:10,623 We lived at the beach, and he said, "I want a break." 1489 01:03:13,460 --> 01:03:16,338 On a good day, and there were many, many, many good days, 1490 01:03:16,379 --> 01:03:19,090 we were the most sort of ordinary, 1491 01:03:19,132 --> 01:03:22,302 all-American happy family. 1492 01:03:22,344 --> 01:03:24,262 Chad lived with us, which was great, 1493 01:03:24,304 --> 01:03:27,557 because he looked so up to his father, 1494 01:03:27,599 --> 01:03:30,352 and I found Steve a terrific father, 1495 01:03:30,393 --> 01:03:33,980 you know, really caring. 1496 01:03:34,022 --> 01:03:36,066 -At the end of the summer, it's time to go back to school. 1497 01:03:36,107 --> 01:03:39,611 It was like... you know. 1498 01:03:39,652 --> 01:03:41,738 My dad came in one night and says, "Hey, listen. 1499 01:03:41,780 --> 01:03:43,323 You can live with me if you want, you know, 1500 01:03:43,365 --> 01:03:44,532 or your mom, whatever." 1501 01:03:44,574 --> 01:03:45,658 I thought about it. 1502 01:03:45,700 --> 01:03:48,411 I think, God, it took me about a half a second, 1503 01:03:48,453 --> 01:03:50,288 and I said, "I'm going where the action is, Dad. 1504 01:03:50,330 --> 01:03:51,164 I'm going with you." 1505 01:03:54,376 --> 01:03:56,920 -He was a superb film actor, without any doubt, 1506 01:03:56,961 --> 01:03:59,547 but like a handful of people, 1507 01:03:59,589 --> 01:04:03,927 he had this kind of... bits of danger, 1508 01:04:03,968 --> 01:04:05,428 like what are you really going to do? 1509 01:04:05,470 --> 01:04:07,931 Underneath that, there was tremendous insecurity 1510 01:04:07,972 --> 01:04:10,850 and softness and sensitivity, 1511 01:04:10,892 --> 01:04:15,814 but the survival mechanism was that, like, combustible, 1512 01:04:15,855 --> 01:04:21,069 dangerous, mysterious now-you-see-it, now-you-don't. 1513 01:04:21,111 --> 01:04:23,196 When it was good, it was very, very, very good, 1514 01:04:23,238 --> 01:04:25,115 and when it was bad, it was horrendous. 1515 01:04:25,156 --> 01:04:27,701 There was no kind of gray, boring ground. 1516 01:04:27,742 --> 01:04:29,327 -It's all in love or all out of love, 1517 01:04:29,369 --> 01:04:30,787 you know what I mean? 1518 01:04:30,829 --> 01:04:34,124 It's 100% one way or the other, and it's just the way it was. 1519 01:04:34,165 --> 01:04:38,962 -In the heat of skyrockets in the night passionate love, 1520 01:04:39,004 --> 01:04:40,630 you just go, "Wow, it's always going to be like this," 1521 01:04:40,672 --> 01:04:42,966 but it isn't. 1522 01:04:43,008 --> 01:04:44,843 He was the biggest movie star in the world, 1523 01:04:44,884 --> 01:04:47,887 but I was having my five minutes of being pretty conspicuous. 1524 01:04:47,929 --> 01:04:50,181 You're running in the fast lane, 1525 01:04:50,223 --> 01:04:52,851 and people are clapping every time you turn the corner. 1526 01:04:52,892 --> 01:04:55,270 We were both having such a difficult time communicating, 1527 01:04:55,311 --> 01:04:59,357 it was one of those, like, explosions. 1528 01:04:59,399 --> 01:05:01,317 -I'd wake up in the morning and go down to the kitchen 1529 01:05:01,359 --> 01:05:04,904 and there'd be a plate sailing past my head. 1530 01:05:04,946 --> 01:05:07,323 They're throwing plates, you know. 1531 01:05:07,365 --> 01:05:09,367 -The kids don't know who's going where. 1532 01:05:09,409 --> 01:05:11,119 They're scared when they hear arguments. 1533 01:05:11,161 --> 01:05:14,080 They're relieved when they hear that you're happy together. 1534 01:05:14,122 --> 01:05:17,125 They wonder why they can't go to Father's Day weekend 1535 01:05:17,167 --> 01:05:18,793 because he's in some other country, 1536 01:05:18,835 --> 01:05:19,961 or where's your mother? 1537 01:05:20,003 --> 01:05:22,213 I mean, it's a rotten family scenario. 1538 01:05:22,255 --> 01:05:25,300 The fact that our marriage wasn't working 1539 01:05:25,342 --> 01:05:27,177 was very disturbing to him. 1540 01:05:27,218 --> 01:05:29,763 He was not happy, and I was unhappy, 1541 01:05:29,804 --> 01:05:31,306 and we weren't doing anything about it. 1542 01:05:31,348 --> 01:05:32,849 He sort of checked out. 1543 01:05:35,268 --> 01:05:38,688 -Yeah, you know, eventually, 1544 01:05:38,730 --> 01:05:40,940 they didn't see eye to eye, you know, 1545 01:05:40,982 --> 01:05:42,901 but the time she was there, 1546 01:05:42,942 --> 01:05:43,860 it was pretty fun. 1547 01:05:43,902 --> 01:05:47,739 It was good. 1548 01:05:47,781 --> 01:05:50,909 -McQueen not only left Ali, he left Hollywood, 1549 01:05:50,950 --> 01:05:52,994 the star machine, 1550 01:05:53,036 --> 01:05:56,414 the highs, the lows, the whole crazy thing. 1551 01:05:56,456 --> 01:05:58,875 -He didn't want anything to do with the movie world, you know? 1552 01:05:58,917 --> 01:06:01,753 He wouldn't even let a script come to the house. 1553 01:06:01,795 --> 01:06:03,296 I'd have to go pick it up at the gas station. 1554 01:06:08,468 --> 01:06:10,011 -McQueen walks away from Hollywood, 1555 01:06:10,053 --> 01:06:11,221 but Hollywood doesn't necessarily 1556 01:06:11,262 --> 01:06:12,889 want him to walk away. 1557 01:06:12,931 --> 01:06:15,975 Every great role of the '70s that you can think of 1558 01:06:16,017 --> 01:06:17,852 was offered to McQueen first. 1559 01:06:17,894 --> 01:06:19,229 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1560 01:06:19,270 --> 01:06:20,897 Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1561 01:06:20,939 --> 01:06:23,817 First Blood, The Gauntlet, Apocalypse Now, 1562 01:06:23,858 --> 01:06:25,860 all these great, classic films 1563 01:06:25,902 --> 01:06:28,947 that sort of fit the McQueen type, 1564 01:06:28,988 --> 01:06:30,740 and he turned it all down. 1565 01:06:32,784 --> 01:06:36,079 -At 47, McQueen decided to start a whole new life. 1566 01:06:36,121 --> 01:06:41,876 At age 23, Barbara Minty was the perfect partner. 1567 01:06:41,918 --> 01:06:43,169 -And she was a cover girl, you know? 1568 01:06:43,211 --> 01:06:45,005 She was very young, very exotic, 1569 01:06:45,046 --> 01:06:46,172 and my dad saw her. 1570 01:06:46,214 --> 01:06:48,091 -It was an ad for Club Med. 1571 01:06:48,133 --> 01:06:49,843 It was my butt. 1572 01:06:49,884 --> 01:06:50,885 I was turned around. 1573 01:06:50,927 --> 01:06:52,887 I was clicking my heels up, 1574 01:06:52,929 --> 01:06:55,098 and I guess maybe he liked the spirit? 1575 01:06:55,140 --> 01:06:59,602 -My dad, when he sees somebody on the cover of a magazine, 1576 01:06:59,644 --> 01:07:00,895 "Hello?" 1577 01:07:00,937 --> 01:07:03,732 -When I first laid eyes on him in the Beverly Wilshire, 1578 01:07:03,773 --> 01:07:05,900 he was a scruffy, scary... 1579 01:07:05,942 --> 01:07:07,944 Looked like a homeless old hobo. 1580 01:07:07,986 --> 01:07:09,779 He asked really serious questions. 1581 01:07:09,821 --> 01:07:12,115 I mean, he was going to my soul, to my heart, 1582 01:07:12,157 --> 01:07:14,034 and I think he was that kind of a guy 1583 01:07:14,075 --> 01:07:17,037 that he wanted to know if I was real 1584 01:07:17,078 --> 01:07:19,205 and if I was going to, you know, mess with him or do anything. 1585 01:07:19,247 --> 01:07:23,084 -And she liked Coors Lite and Old Milwaukee like we did, 1586 01:07:23,126 --> 01:07:24,085 so she fit right in. 1587 01:07:24,127 --> 01:07:25,462 -We definitely matched. 1588 01:07:25,503 --> 01:07:26,880 The ages were a little different, 1589 01:07:26,921 --> 01:07:29,132 but it worked, you know? 1590 01:07:29,174 --> 01:07:30,175 We just loved the same things. 1591 01:07:30,216 --> 01:07:31,801 -It was all trucks, you know? 1592 01:07:31,843 --> 01:07:35,138 We all drove trucks from the '40s. 1593 01:07:35,180 --> 01:07:36,222 -We just had so much fun together. 1594 01:07:36,264 --> 01:07:39,267 I liked cars and motorcycles 1595 01:07:39,309 --> 01:07:43,104 and, you know, good pick-up trucks. 1596 01:07:43,146 --> 01:07:45,065 -I toured the western states with him 1597 01:07:45,106 --> 01:07:47,650 looking for a ranch for him to buy, 1598 01:07:47,692 --> 01:07:49,319 because he wanted to get out of L.A. 1599 01:07:49,361 --> 01:07:50,862 -He just said, "Honey, come on. 1600 01:07:50,904 --> 01:07:52,447 We're going to go to Santa Paula airport. 1601 01:07:52,489 --> 01:07:54,282 I found something. Here's the hangar." 1602 01:07:54,324 --> 01:07:55,617 The next day, you have a plane, 1603 01:07:55,658 --> 01:07:57,535 and the next day you have 30 motorcycles with the plane, 1604 01:07:57,577 --> 01:08:01,581 and then it's, "Honey, I bought a house." 1605 01:08:01,623 --> 01:08:02,791 It was a great little house. 1606 01:08:02,832 --> 01:08:05,377 I mean, it was so perfect for us. 1607 01:08:05,418 --> 01:08:06,795 It was old, everything. 1608 01:08:06,836 --> 01:08:08,713 We had the old pull-chain toilet. 1609 01:08:08,755 --> 01:08:09,798 I think he was happy. 1610 01:08:09,839 --> 01:08:12,425 I mean, it was a whole new Steve. 1611 01:08:12,467 --> 01:08:13,802 And had a couple years here, 1612 01:08:13,843 --> 01:08:15,428 and then we had a year in the hangar, 1613 01:08:15,470 --> 01:08:17,263 and this was his little privacy. 1614 01:08:17,305 --> 01:08:18,682 It was his playland. 1615 01:08:18,723 --> 01:08:19,641 -He was walking around the airport 1616 01:08:19,683 --> 01:08:20,975 and he happened upon a guy, 1617 01:08:21,017 --> 01:08:23,728 a World War II veteran, Perry Schreffler. 1618 01:08:23,770 --> 01:08:24,854 Steve asked Perry 1619 01:08:24,896 --> 01:08:26,815 what would be the best way to learn how to fly, 1620 01:08:26,856 --> 01:08:28,817 and Perry said, "Well, that's the way I learned how to fly", 1621 01:08:28,858 --> 01:08:31,903 with a military instructor in a Stearman. 1622 01:08:31,945 --> 01:08:33,405 -I don't think he even thought about it. 1623 01:08:33,446 --> 01:08:34,739 He just went home and bought two Stearman, 1624 01:08:34,781 --> 01:08:36,157 and he learned how to fly. 1625 01:08:36,199 --> 01:08:39,994 -He was sitting on the john reading Trade-A-Plane, 1626 01:08:40,036 --> 01:08:41,871 and he called a guy from the potty 1627 01:08:41,913 --> 01:08:43,415 and bought it. 1628 01:08:44,833 --> 01:08:46,918 -Steve's first Stearman he only owned for a day or two 1629 01:08:46,960 --> 01:08:48,878 because my dad made one comment 1630 01:08:48,920 --> 01:08:50,839 that he didn't think it was a good Stearman, 1631 01:08:50,880 --> 01:08:52,841 so instantly Steve got rid of that 1632 01:08:52,882 --> 01:08:54,801 and bought that Stearman. 1633 01:08:54,843 --> 01:08:57,470 -He could drive cars and he could ride motorcycles, 1634 01:08:57,512 --> 01:09:00,223 but he was a... pilot. 1635 01:09:03,685 --> 01:09:06,604 There's Steve McQueen the actor and Steve McQueen the man, 1636 01:09:06,646 --> 01:09:08,815 so I was lucky enough to know the man. 1637 01:09:08,857 --> 01:09:10,734 We had quiet times. 1638 01:09:10,775 --> 01:09:13,987 I got a quieter, more mature McQueen. 1639 01:09:14,029 --> 01:09:15,613 We used to get in the old pick-up truck, 1640 01:09:15,655 --> 01:09:17,657 and we'd just go driving. 1641 01:09:17,699 --> 01:09:19,451 He'd say, "Well, it's going to be for a week or two, 1642 01:09:19,492 --> 01:09:21,995 so pack a little more," 1643 01:09:22,037 --> 01:09:23,580 and we'd just go for a while. 1644 01:09:23,621 --> 01:09:24,664 It was fun. 1645 01:09:24,706 --> 01:09:28,293 It was... insane, actually. 1646 01:09:28,335 --> 01:09:31,880 -The life that he chose to live 1647 01:09:31,921 --> 01:09:34,674 with the particular movies he chose to do 1648 01:09:34,716 --> 01:09:36,676 after he and I were divorced, 1649 01:09:36,718 --> 01:09:39,262 I think was the life he wanted to live. 1650 01:09:39,304 --> 01:09:44,934 -Steve McQueen really used himself 100%, 1651 01:09:44,976 --> 01:09:47,937 and he didn't really go outside of that box. 1652 01:09:47,979 --> 01:09:50,065 He played to his own strengths 1653 01:09:50,106 --> 01:09:53,485 and his own passions and his own imagination, 1654 01:09:53,526 --> 01:09:56,613 and found pieces that fit him like a glove. 1655 01:10:00,909 --> 01:10:02,035 -Living his new life, 1656 01:10:02,077 --> 01:10:03,995 McQueen would climb back in the saddle 1657 01:10:04,037 --> 01:10:06,706 to play rogue lawman Tom Horn. 1658 01:10:06,748 --> 01:10:08,875 -People don't realize this, but he was a filmmaker. 1659 01:10:08,917 --> 01:10:11,044 I mean, Tom Horn he pretty much directed himself. 1660 01:10:11,086 --> 01:10:13,463 -He asked me to be the assistant director 1661 01:10:13,505 --> 01:10:14,839 and take care of him 1662 01:10:14,881 --> 01:10:16,508 while he was making this picture. 1663 01:10:16,549 --> 01:10:18,093 About a week into the picture, 1664 01:10:18,134 --> 01:10:20,011 he looks over at me and I said, "What's wrong?" 1665 01:10:20,053 --> 01:10:22,013 He says, "I can't do it anymore. 1666 01:10:22,055 --> 01:10:24,349 My director is driving me crazy." 1667 01:10:24,391 --> 01:10:25,350 -He knew what he wanted. 1668 01:10:25,392 --> 01:10:26,518 It was his film. 1669 01:10:26,559 --> 01:10:28,061 He wanted it filmed a certain way. 1670 01:10:28,103 --> 01:10:29,729 He wanted everybody to do it his way. 1671 01:10:29,771 --> 01:10:32,065 -We drove into the compound 1672 01:10:32,107 --> 01:10:33,983 where the dressing rooms were and et cetera, 1673 01:10:34,025 --> 01:10:34,943 and he got out of the truck, 1674 01:10:34,984 --> 01:10:36,861 walked into the director's motor home, 1675 01:10:36,903 --> 01:10:37,987 and fired him. 1676 01:10:38,029 --> 01:10:39,614 -He was difficult, I'd say. 1677 01:10:39,656 --> 01:10:41,991 I wouldn't want to work for him. 1678 01:10:42,033 --> 01:10:43,576 -Like my dad was with everything else, 1679 01:10:43,618 --> 01:10:45,453 you know, 100%. 1680 01:10:45,495 --> 01:10:48,957 He lived out on the set with Barbara in the motor home. 1681 01:10:48,998 --> 01:10:51,042 -We had a house in Tucson, 1682 01:10:51,084 --> 01:10:53,086 a penthouse at, like, the Hilton. 1683 01:10:53,128 --> 01:10:54,671 We had all these beautiful places to stay, 1684 01:10:54,713 --> 01:10:56,506 but we stayed in the RV 1685 01:10:56,548 --> 01:10:59,092 and absolutely had the best time ever. 1686 01:10:59,134 --> 01:11:01,928 -All of a sudden, this limousine pulled up 1687 01:11:01,970 --> 01:11:03,972 and a guy in a suit got out, 1688 01:11:04,014 --> 01:11:06,599 walked over to talk to Steve for a couple minutes, 1689 01:11:06,641 --> 01:11:08,893 and got back in the car again and drove off, 1690 01:11:08,935 --> 01:11:11,021 and I said, "What's going on?" 1691 01:11:11,062 --> 01:11:13,106 He held up a check, 1692 01:11:13,148 --> 01:11:17,777 and that check was for a lot of money. 1693 01:11:26,411 --> 01:11:29,372 He always was concerned about his lungs, 1694 01:11:29,414 --> 01:11:31,750 and he would say, "What would happen 1695 01:11:31,791 --> 01:11:35,712 if your lungs were bad or you couldn't breathe?" 1696 01:11:35,754 --> 01:11:38,173 It was there in some little way, 1697 01:11:38,214 --> 01:11:41,843 you could see that he'd be protective about this or that, 1698 01:11:41,885 --> 01:11:42,761 and you just left it alone immediately. 1699 01:11:42,802 --> 01:11:44,054 You didn't get involved. 1700 01:11:44,095 --> 01:11:45,388 -I was working as a production assistant, 1701 01:11:45,430 --> 01:11:46,765 and we knew he was sick, 1702 01:11:46,806 --> 01:11:48,892 but I never thought, like everything else, 1703 01:11:48,933 --> 01:11:50,143 anything was going to happen to him. 1704 01:11:50,185 --> 01:11:52,062 He's bulletproof. 1705 01:11:52,103 --> 01:11:53,271 -We thought it was desert fever, 1706 01:11:53,313 --> 01:11:54,564 something like that, 1707 01:11:54,606 --> 01:11:56,733 and when they went and did a chest x-ray, 1708 01:11:56,775 --> 01:12:00,779 the doctor in Santa Paula said, 1709 01:12:00,820 --> 01:12:02,739 "Go to the big hospital in Los Angeles," 1710 01:12:02,781 --> 01:12:06,117 and that's where they found out, 1711 01:12:06,159 --> 01:12:09,621 and that's where the doctors said... 1712 01:12:09,662 --> 01:12:12,540 -He went in for that exploratory surgery 1713 01:12:12,582 --> 01:12:14,709 at Cedars-Sinai, you know, 1714 01:12:14,751 --> 01:12:16,169 and I remember getting there that day, 1715 01:12:16,211 --> 01:12:17,545 and they said, "Hey, we got the tests back," 1716 01:12:17,587 --> 01:12:18,797 and my dad was like... 1717 01:12:18,838 --> 01:12:26,513 -A friend called and said, "You need to know that... ", 1718 01:12:26,554 --> 01:12:29,182 God, this is a bad story. 1719 01:12:29,224 --> 01:12:32,686 "That Steve has cancer." 1720 01:12:32,727 --> 01:12:34,020 "How do you know that?" 1721 01:12:34,062 --> 01:12:35,647 "Because somebody 1722 01:12:35,689 --> 01:12:38,858 in the examination room at the hospital 1723 01:12:38,900 --> 01:12:42,612 took that x-ray and leaked it to the trashy press." 1724 01:12:42,654 --> 01:12:45,407 -It gave a lot of people their first glimpse 1725 01:12:45,448 --> 01:12:50,078 into just how horrible tabloid journalism can be. 1726 01:12:50,120 --> 01:12:51,746 -I think this is the most immoral thing 1727 01:12:51,788 --> 01:12:52,706 that I've ever witnessed. 1728 01:12:52,747 --> 01:12:54,708 -The manner in which they got the story 1729 01:12:54,749 --> 01:12:56,042 was just horrible 1730 01:12:56,084 --> 01:12:58,503 and embarrassing to anybody who cares about journalism, 1731 01:12:58,545 --> 01:12:59,838 and certainly terrible 1732 01:12:59,879 --> 01:13:01,297 for anybody who cared about Steve McQueen. 1733 01:13:01,339 --> 01:13:02,841 -I'm not going there, 1734 01:13:02,882 --> 01:13:05,802 because it pisses me off to this day, 1735 01:13:05,844 --> 01:13:09,222 because I've still got a little anger management 1736 01:13:09,264 --> 01:13:12,642 with the doctors, 1737 01:13:12,684 --> 01:13:14,269 but there is no cure. 1738 01:13:14,310 --> 01:13:15,645 -50 years old, 1739 01:13:15,687 --> 01:13:18,648 it was way too early for this story to happen, 1740 01:13:18,690 --> 01:13:21,317 and yet he'd been exposed to asbestos, 1741 01:13:21,359 --> 01:13:23,361 which is, I gather, what was 1742 01:13:23,403 --> 01:13:25,280 the specific root of that cancer. 1743 01:13:25,321 --> 01:13:29,075 -He was in the Marines, and he was cleaning up the... 1744 01:13:29,117 --> 01:13:30,368 Of course, he went and chased some girl 1745 01:13:30,410 --> 01:13:32,370 and he got in trouble, 1746 01:13:32,412 --> 01:13:34,414 and they made him clean out the hulls of these ships, 1747 01:13:34,456 --> 01:13:36,583 and they had asbestos. 1748 01:13:36,624 --> 01:13:38,335 That's where he breathed in the asbestos, 1749 01:13:38,376 --> 01:13:40,879 and asbestos takes, mesothelioma takes 1750 01:13:40,920 --> 01:13:43,798 probably, usually 20-some years 1751 01:13:43,840 --> 01:13:45,008 to get into your body and get going. 1752 01:13:45,050 --> 01:13:47,344 -It was so sad for me, 1753 01:13:47,385 --> 01:13:50,055 because this good-looking, handsome man, 1754 01:13:50,096 --> 01:13:53,683 just so full of energy and so full of life 1755 01:13:53,725 --> 01:13:58,104 was suddenly, you know, really thin, emaciated. 1756 01:13:58,146 --> 01:14:00,315 This was something internal. 1757 01:14:00,357 --> 01:14:02,233 Something was eating him from the inside. 1758 01:14:02,275 --> 01:14:03,818 Something has taken over his body. 1759 01:14:03,860 --> 01:14:05,945 -You know, when you're riding the bike 1760 01:14:05,987 --> 01:14:07,405 and the wind's in your hair 1761 01:14:07,447 --> 01:14:09,199 and you're going 60 miles an hour, 1762 01:14:09,240 --> 01:14:10,408 he's God, 1763 01:14:10,450 --> 01:14:12,410 but then I think he felt the vulnerability, 1764 01:14:12,452 --> 01:14:14,746 and I think that vulnerability 1765 01:14:14,788 --> 01:14:19,125 turned to some questioning about what it's all about. 1766 01:14:19,167 --> 01:14:22,962 -If he had a great fear, it was of dying young. 1767 01:14:23,004 --> 01:14:24,839 I went to see him. 1768 01:14:24,881 --> 01:14:28,677 I went up to his room, to his bedroom, 1769 01:14:28,718 --> 01:14:33,348 and the fan was whirring around, and there he was, you know, 1770 01:14:33,390 --> 01:14:36,142 and I stood above him for a while, 1771 01:14:36,184 --> 01:14:41,815 and then he opened his eye and he said, "Hi, honey." 1772 01:14:41,856 --> 01:14:43,942 I said, "Hi." 1773 01:14:43,983 --> 01:14:44,943 I said, "How are you feeling?" 1774 01:14:44,984 --> 01:14:46,444 He said, "Not good," 1775 01:14:46,486 --> 01:14:50,281 and he said, "I thought I'd never see you again," 1776 01:14:50,323 --> 01:14:55,203 and those were the last words we said to each other. 1777 01:14:55,245 --> 01:14:56,621 -He asked me about some painkillers 1778 01:14:56,663 --> 01:14:57,872 and I suggested 1779 01:14:57,914 --> 01:14:59,874 the one that you should be working with is morphine, 1780 01:14:59,916 --> 01:15:02,794 because he was obviously in a lot of pain, 1781 01:15:02,836 --> 01:15:05,797 and he asked me, he said, "What shall I do?" 1782 01:15:05,839 --> 01:15:07,966 and I said, "Steve, you have no choice. 1783 01:15:08,008 --> 01:15:09,884 You've got to go up to Mexico." 1784 01:15:09,926 --> 01:15:11,344 -He knew the doctors wrote him off 1785 01:15:11,386 --> 01:15:12,679 here in the United States. 1786 01:15:12,721 --> 01:15:14,139 That's why he went to Mexico. 1787 01:15:14,180 --> 01:15:15,598 He wasn't about to stop fighting. 1788 01:15:15,640 --> 01:15:20,061 -He fought like a son of a bitch to stay alive. 1789 01:15:20,103 --> 01:15:26,234 -And he fought so hard, and he didn't want to go. 1790 01:15:26,276 --> 01:15:29,696 He could not accept it, 1791 01:15:29,738 --> 01:15:34,534 and because he liked to win, he couldn't understand. 1792 01:15:34,576 --> 01:15:38,872 -He tried his hardest, and you know what? 1793 01:15:38,913 --> 01:15:41,916 Cancer sucks. 1794 01:15:41,958 --> 01:15:44,044 -It's an intensely private time, 1795 01:15:44,085 --> 01:15:45,879 and it had passed the time 1796 01:15:45,920 --> 01:15:47,881 when it was about who's married to him and who... 1797 01:15:47,922 --> 01:15:49,299 There was none of that. 1798 01:15:49,341 --> 01:15:50,884 It was just trying to think 1799 01:15:50,925 --> 01:15:55,430 about how he and his immediate, his new wife and his family, 1800 01:15:55,472 --> 01:16:00,935 Neile and Terry and Chad, could best be taken care of. 1801 01:16:00,977 --> 01:16:04,105 -We were down in Juarez, Mexico, 1802 01:16:04,147 --> 01:16:05,398 and this clinic, 1803 01:16:05,440 --> 01:16:06,983 they couldn't get our blood type down there in Mexico, 1804 01:16:07,025 --> 01:16:09,110 so they had me eating raw steaks 1805 01:16:09,152 --> 01:16:11,946 and they hit me twice a day for blood. 1806 01:16:11,988 --> 01:16:14,240 They were wheeling him to surgery, 1807 01:16:14,282 --> 01:16:17,160 and the last thing he said to me was, "You'll be all right, son," 1808 01:16:17,202 --> 01:16:18,870 but I didn't put it together, you know? 1809 01:16:18,912 --> 01:16:20,413 I didn't think, 1810 01:16:20,455 --> 01:16:22,082 but I think he knew he wasn't going to make it. 1811 01:16:22,123 --> 01:16:27,212 -The call came at about 3:00 in the morning, 1812 01:16:27,253 --> 01:16:31,216 and Terry said, "Mom, Dad just died." 1813 01:16:43,061 --> 01:16:46,022 -Every life's lesson, I got from him, you know? 1814 01:16:46,064 --> 01:16:47,649 Good, bad, or indifferent, 1815 01:16:47,691 --> 01:16:50,860 and even though, you know, he passed so young, at 50, 1816 01:16:50,902 --> 01:16:53,571 boy, he crammed everything in. 1817 01:16:53,613 --> 01:16:54,989 He crammed it all in. 1818 01:16:58,076 --> 01:17:00,537 -McQueen fought to live his life his way, 1819 01:17:00,578 --> 01:17:03,581 squaring off against anyone who slowed him down. 1820 01:17:03,623 --> 01:17:06,334 His roles mirrored his own life. 1821 01:17:06,376 --> 01:17:09,462 He was the King of Cool, the lone wolf. 1822 01:17:09,504 --> 01:17:12,632 Steve McQueen was an original. 1823 01:17:12,674 --> 01:17:14,509 -The characters that you've played on the screen 1824 01:17:14,551 --> 01:17:16,720 who have been loners, 1825 01:17:16,761 --> 01:17:21,057 they've been rebellious a little bit, moody... 1826 01:17:21,099 --> 01:17:23,143 Have you interjected your own personality 1827 01:17:23,184 --> 01:17:24,477 into these characters? 1828 01:17:24,519 --> 01:17:25,687 -Yeah. 1829 01:17:25,729 --> 01:17:26,730 -Yeah? -Yeah. 1830 01:17:26,771 --> 01:17:28,064 -You are a loner? -Yeah. 1831 01:17:28,106 --> 01:17:30,775 -Normally, you hear stories about grandparents 1832 01:17:30,817 --> 01:17:34,571 and you don't ever get to see them. 1833 01:17:34,612 --> 01:17:37,198 You don't... Maybe pictures. 1834 01:17:37,240 --> 01:17:39,325 I get to see my grandfather in movies. 1835 01:17:39,367 --> 01:17:43,663 I get to be inspired by him, and that's amazing. 1836 01:17:43,705 --> 01:17:46,750 -He definitely wouldn't have been a normal grandpa, 1837 01:17:46,791 --> 01:17:48,376 I can say that with certainty. 1838 01:17:48,418 --> 01:17:50,086 He would have been that guy 1839 01:17:50,128 --> 01:17:52,297 that obviously everyone wants to have around, 1840 01:17:52,339 --> 01:17:53,423 and probably that guy 1841 01:17:53,465 --> 01:17:56,092 still acting like he was a teenager, you know? 1842 01:17:56,134 --> 01:17:58,261 -I miss him, but I think of him every day, 1843 01:17:58,303 --> 01:18:01,389 just a passing glance, you know, 1844 01:18:01,431 --> 01:18:02,640 but there are times when I'll say, 1845 01:18:02,682 --> 01:18:06,436 "Oh, you would have loved this, Steve." 1846 01:18:06,478 --> 01:18:11,066 -I can't believe that he died at 50. 1847 01:18:11,107 --> 01:18:14,819 It never leaves me, never, ever, ever. 1848 01:18:14,861 --> 01:18:17,989 -We were meant to be together, I know that for a fact. 1849 01:18:18,031 --> 01:18:20,158 I mean, we worked. 1850 01:18:20,200 --> 01:18:23,244 We understood each other, and I've never had that since. 1851 01:18:23,286 --> 01:18:26,122 He should be here. 1852 01:18:26,164 --> 01:18:27,957 -We didn't toss a lot of footballs around, 1853 01:18:27,999 --> 01:18:29,084 me and Dad, 1854 01:18:29,125 --> 01:18:32,087 but it was, you know, way more... 1855 01:18:32,128 --> 01:18:34,422 -A man becomes what he dreams. 1856 01:18:34,464 --> 01:18:39,219 That's what makes us love him, that he did push the envelope, 1857 01:18:39,260 --> 01:18:43,932 constantly, in love, in life, and right to the end, in dying. 1858 01:18:43,973 --> 01:18:45,517 -But with the passing of Steve McQueen, 1859 01:18:45,558 --> 01:18:46,893 the world has lost 1860 01:18:46,935 --> 01:18:51,940 one of the top two or three great film actors of our age, 1861 01:18:51,981 --> 01:18:53,858 maybe the best. 1862 01:18:53,900 --> 01:18:56,236 I loved him a lot. 1863 01:18:56,277 --> 01:18:57,987 -I think of all the actors I've worked with, 1864 01:18:58,029 --> 01:19:01,366 I was closer to him 1865 01:19:01,408 --> 01:19:04,119 because I think I understood him, 1866 01:19:04,160 --> 01:19:05,870 and I think he needed that. 1867 01:19:05,912 --> 01:19:07,497 He needed someone. 1868 01:19:07,539 --> 01:19:08,540 I miss him. 1869 01:19:08,581 --> 01:19:09,624 -I would have loved 1870 01:19:09,666 --> 01:19:10,542 to have watched the man grow old. 1871 01:19:10,583 --> 01:19:11,626 We missed out 1872 01:19:11,668 --> 01:19:13,670 on a bunch of really phenomenal performances 1873 01:19:13,712 --> 01:19:17,298 from a guy who matured in front of the camera 1874 01:19:17,340 --> 01:19:20,427 and behind the wheel and on the bike, 1875 01:19:20,468 --> 01:19:21,970 and, you know, because there'd be a time 1876 01:19:22,012 --> 01:19:24,055 when maybe it'd stop being about that. 1877 01:19:24,097 --> 01:19:26,558 -He was that good at 50. 1878 01:19:26,599 --> 01:19:29,352 Imagine what 60 and 70 might have brought us. 1879 01:19:29,394 --> 01:19:31,354 He might have been the oldest guy to win Le Mans. 1880 01:19:31,396 --> 01:19:33,064 Who knows? 1881 01:19:35,400 --> 01:19:37,944 -He has the magical alchemy, 1882 01:19:37,986 --> 01:19:43,950 and that is what makes him... 1883 01:19:43,992 --> 01:19:47,871 a legend and an iconic figure. 1884 01:19:47,912 --> 01:19:49,289 -We haven't lost Steve McQueen 1885 01:19:49,330 --> 01:19:53,001 because he's there, indelible, in all these movies, 1886 01:19:53,043 --> 01:19:55,920 all these films that sit on a shelf 1887 01:19:55,962 --> 01:19:59,257 as a beautiful tableau of a man's life. 1888 01:19:59,299 --> 01:20:02,052 It still works today, and it still burns brightly. 1889 01:20:02,093 --> 01:20:04,137 It still jumps off the screen at you. 1890 01:20:04,179 --> 01:20:08,058 [♪♪♪] 1891 01:20:08,099 --> 01:20:11,019 -You know, sometimes I wish I had, like, 1892 01:20:11,061 --> 01:20:12,437 I could give you a pair of glasses 1893 01:20:12,479 --> 01:20:14,147 and you could see what I've seen, you know? 1894 01:20:14,189 --> 01:20:19,027 It's been a long, good ride. 1895 01:20:19,069 --> 01:20:23,114 And let's face it, my dad was it. 1896 01:20:23,156 --> 01:20:25,575 -To all the people who see me in the movies, 1897 01:20:25,617 --> 01:20:28,703 and to all the people who read about me, 1898 01:20:28,745 --> 01:20:30,497 I am what I am, 1899 01:20:30,538 --> 01:20:32,457 and if you like me, I'm glad. 1900 01:20:32,499 --> 01:20:34,709 Steve McQueen. 1901 01:20:36,836 --> 01:20:40,090 [♪♪♪]