My mom called up last night and she said 'Oh my God. He had two purple hearts in World War II and a presidential citation for bravery and so on. He was a war hero, but he never talked about it. Woods' character is not exactly a war hero. On the case is a hardboiled military investigator played by John Travolta , and the two actors' verbal fencing is one of the film's main pleasures.
Some kid goes out, makes ten million dollars a picture, and they think they know about acting.
It's just astounding the lack of discipline, but it's a generation raised by a bunch of feminists. We did a reading together of a Terrence MacNally play. John was like a kid then and had a strange voice and those weird eyes. He said I think it's because we made a tacit assumption to cooperate. A lot of times actors tend to be very competitive with each other.