![]() ![]() I still remember very vividly some of the moments in the movie. What I remember most was after it opened, it caused such great excitement. It was exciting and wonderful when the film came out and we played in the New York Film Festival and screened it in Alice Tully Hall. It seemed like a real relationship, and I liked that. ![]() I had big brothers who I loved, but who came and went, and I was able to draw on that. In our scenes together, I felt the pleasure in my relationship with Jack and the uncertainty of when I’d see him again. That was very challenging and lots of fun to learn. In the scene in the studio where I’m playing the piano, I worked with a piano teacher so I could do a little bit of the piece. I had some interesting preparation to do to get ready. I never felt under his direction that he was trying to force things. On set, Bob was generous and interested in what I had to offer. I think you see that in how real and lived in everything feels. Because of the atmosphere that Bob created, there was a naturalness and a trust in the material and in each other. They were strong voices, but all of the passion and all of the strength went into the work. I never saw anything except harmony between Jack and Bob. “Easy Rider” had been a big moment for Jack and this came very quickly after that, but you have to remember that he was not a major star yet. It was so compatible and the way one wants to work, but that’s quite rare to keep the company together and on point in that way. Bob would sit at the head of the table and we’d discuss the day’s work and then he’d walk us through what we’d be doing the next day. We were close to Vancouver Island and we all stayed in the same motel. My memories of shooting “Five Easy Pieces” on location are among the happiest of my career. Smith spoke to Variety about Rafelson’s directing style and the reasons she thinks his work will endure. Lois Smith, a Tony-winning character actress who would later work with the filmmaker on his 1987 thriller “Black Widow,” played Partita Dupea, the sister of Bobby Dupea, in “Pieces,’ who helps set the plot in motion when she urges her brother to return to his childhood home to see their ailing father. ![]() Rafelson, who also directed “The King of Marvin Gardens” and helped create “The Monkees” television series, died on July 23 at the age of 89. Dupea’s rejection of his upbringing struck a cord with the counterculture and turned “Five Easy Pieces” into a critical and commercial sensation, making it a rare film that tapped into and reflected the zeitgeist. “When we sense the boy, tormented and insecure, trapped inside the adult man, Five Easy Pieces becomes a masterpiece of heartbreaking intensity,” reviewed Roger Ebert, who rated this four-star film to be his favorite of 1970 and went on to name it “one of the best American films.No movie better captures the maverick spirit of Bob Rafelson and the impact he had on the New Hollywood movement of the 1970s than “ Five Easy Pieces.” The film follows Jack Nicholson’s Bobby Dupea, a former piano prodigy who has turned his back on his privileged lifestyle to embrace the life of a blue collar drifter. Jack Nicholson as Bobby Dupea, aimless oil worker and classical piano prodigyīobby Dupea’s homecoming leads to an existential crisis in Five Easy Pieces, one of the many triumphant highlights of Jack Nicholson’s early filmography and the second of his 12 Academy Award-nominated roles. Jack Nicholson as Robert “Bobby” Dupea in Five Easy Pieces (1970) Vitals ![]()
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