I did as much of it as I could, but my double is an Olympian, so he made me look good. I'm a lot more flexible now the first day, I went from shin touching to touching the floor. "I'm an un-athletic, Jewish boy we were doing 4 hours a day. "I got him in a room and grilled him And it really helped, and I could see the messages he conveyed."Īnd what about training for the gymnastics? That was another story Scott had no prior experience at all in the gym before reading the Peaceful Warrior script. His first instinct was get as close to the real Dan as possible. It's all guided by the outside mind, you can't control the dang thing you finally get the idea that it's a tool and it has limitations."īut it was Scott who got the opportunity to play Dan in this version. All those feelings are there - you're not really who you are. They handed me the book, but I thought it was too close to the 60's and we had already done that. "Years ago when the book came out, there were a lot of people who wanted to do it. The screenplay was never written and Nick never had that chance, but he did talk about possibly playing the lead role. Funny enough, Nick was up for the role of Dan 25 years ago when Dan first wrote the book. Because of his crazy ways, Dan starts to call him Socrates (played by Nick Nolte in the film).
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