Famed for playing loners, cranks and wayward angels, the Hollywood star is now a wolfish 90 \u2013 but he still jogs daily. As he takes his latest film to Edinburgh, we meet the man Hitchcock called \u2018the golden calf\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018Can you take another story?\u201d asks the veteran actor Bruce Dern towards the end of our talk, as though every tale is a drink and the landlord has called last orders. He doesn\u2019t want to keep me and knows we\u2019re running out of time. It\u2019s just that one memory sparks another and these tales won\u2019t tell themselves. He says that the next one is a doozy. \u201cIt\u2019s about Marilyn Monroe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Throw out all the questions and turn the clocks to the wall. One does not interview Dern so much as say hello, hit record and sit back. The man began his career acting alongside Montgomery Clift and Mary Astor and has collaborated with everyone from John Wayne to Tom Hanks, Hitchcock to Tarantino. He\u2019s the lawless survivor of American movies, blown in from the past, and talking 19 to the dozen. \u201cI\u2019m 90 fucking years old,\u201d he tells me. \u201cSo I\u2019m not going to be around to see all this AI shit or whatever. But I don\u2019t consider myself old. I still walk and jog every day.\u201d<\/p>\n
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