Spoiler alert for anyone who hasn’t seen it. I remember my dad saying Norman Bates was the bad guy in the movie because we were on the universal back lot ride. Anyway when I watched the movie I was so confused about him being the bad guy…it was clearly his mom! When Vera Miles turns Normans mother around and sees she’s a skeleton and Norman Bates walks in dressed as his mom!! Wow. Goosebumps thinking about it.
At the time Psycho was made, Anthony Perkins was very much the popular teenage heart throb both in films as well as on records, which makes his willingness to take Hitchcock up on accepting what was at that time a very controversial and risky film role, a very courageous thing to do. To their credit, both he and Hitchcock created an entirely new genre of film with Psycho. A wonderful actor, who though a bonified movie star, never lost either his humanity or charm.
My own *Psycho* story: I was a teenager in the 1970's and babysitting the two children across the street from my house while the parents went to a dinner party. After I put the children to bed I saw that *Psycho* was going to air that night on the Late Show, so I turned it on and watched it, to kill time. The shower scene came on and suddenly I heard someone crying behind me. It was the little girl, who had gotten out of bed and tried to find me, and she had been watching the film without my knowledge. Apparently she was traumatized and the little girl's mother was very angry with me and never used me to babysit again. Morale: when babysitting never watch a horror film! It could mean the end of your pocket money from babysitting! 😊
One of my earliest memories is overhearing my baby sitter talking to my mom when I was six. She had just seen Psycho when it first came out and I was intrigued by her reaction. I didn't see it until about 8 years later, around the age of 14, when I became a Hitchcock fan and movie fan for life.
That's the movie that the chick wakes up in a bathtub, with her kidney out, right?!? I never saw it. I don't want to buy something on "prime" and have besos take it back too.
@@ashleelarsen5002 No, she is in a shower and suddenly is stabbed by Anthony dressed as his mother, whom he had also killed. Though you don't know for sure it's Anthony till later in the film because all you see is a hand stabbing her.
The scariest scene in psycho was the last scene where Norman, dressed as his Mother, was sitting still in a chair with a fly flying around him. That scene unnerved me.
The final scene was Norman Bates dressed as himself, not as his mother. The mother is heard in voice- over, beginning with "It's sad when a mother has to speak the words that condemn her own son..."
Its the second identical shot in the movie. When Marion is driving at night imagining what people will say about her she gets the exact same demented face and half smile as Norman at the end.
Very enjoyable interview. About 45 years ago when I was an usher in an Off-Broadway theater, I escorted Anthony Perkins to his seat. I was very nervous. LOL
Just listen to Perkins when he speaks...this is an absolute legend of "Old Hollywood" where actors and actresses HAD to be able to act and communicate WITHOUT script...sad that Tinseltown has degraded into what it now is
*Ya everything WOKE turns to crap and trust me this woke crap started way back there. It was just happening quietly behind the scenes until someone got cancelled from a show or something. The Trump era drew it out into the open.*
His work in the first Psycho was the best acting performance I've ever seen. If you think about it, you have to be able to watch that movie twice, thinking totally different things about what you're seeing it, and have it work both ways. The first time you have to think he's just a somewhat awkward supporting character who is no big deal, the second time you have to see that he is a homocidal psychopath who is concealing it. And they nailed it. Hitchcock, Perkins, the editors, whoever played a hand in it, it works perfectly both times.
Even if you don't realise he did it, he still cleaned up the murder scene, hid the body and the car (smiling as it sank) and then lied to the private detective, smiling again when alone. There's no 'innocent' version of Norman Bates.
@@DenkyManner He is innocent until you realize he's complicit in murder. The central gimmick of the movie is that at first you think it's a heist film about Marion stealing money.
Yes, one of the things that make the performance great is you see new things on almost every viewing.. Mannerisms, even the gait changes when the personality changes.. It’s definitely a riser on the all time list for those reasons.. Every time I watch the movie I’m more impressed..
My Psycho story is that I was always scared of taking showers as a kid even though i’d never seen the movie, but I’d seen the shower scene a bunch of times, and this was the 90s so there were gorier scenes around. But truly, the editing on that scene is incredible. Had me scared without even having any context. And now i’m a big fan of that movie and Psycho 2.
@@WayDog001he is. E.T.'s Henry Thomas is the young Norman in flashbacks and Perkins plays the older Norman narrating his childhood to a phone-in radio show on people who commit matricide.
AND, his wife died one day shy of the 9th anniversary of his death. He died Sept. 12, 1992, and she died in a plane that hit the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. :( What are the odds? I felt so bad for their two sons.
Man, I enjoyed this. I really miss talk shows. Today we have late night shows full of bufoons who just want the quick laugh. Johnny, still the king of late night.
@@patrickdowling529 I saw an interview with Orson near the end of his life where he says that "Chimes At Midnight" was his "least flawed film" ...while I marvel over so many of his movies and performances, he thought of them as "flawed". Shocking.
Th omitted clip had to be the “No one ever does” line in the office. He had another great reaction on Letterman when they ran the bloody ice cubes bit 😂
I don't think many people can say this but, my name is Anthony Perkins. Yes, the same as this fine actor. So, as you might imagine going through life with a famous person's name would be fun and for me it was fun. Naturally, since Anthony Perkins was so well known for his performance in Psycho, comments I would hear from people were always associated with that movie. I guess your wife doesn't take many showers and so on. It always resulted in a good laugh.......Ever see "Fear Strikes Out".
Tony Perkins was such a gifted actor. Not without his personal challenges, and he was such a professional it’s hard to know how he felt about his career direction, but he really was a pro and took the work seriously. A huge shame he was taken from us so early, he could’ve carried on forever. Sorely missed, a good family man and a true icon of cinema. God bless you Tony.
@@samsmith4216 To long time Hitchcock fans- the Vera Miles character of Lila 'Crane in Psycho 2. is a disappoointment. She is made deliberately coarse, unlikeable- in order to satisfy fans of this later horror genre who like her grisly demise to satisfy their slasher movie appreciation. Her character in Hitchcock's original was someone the audience cared about - as the concerned sister investigating the disappearance of her sister. The director of the sequel , as well as the writer seemed to forget that, or didn't care, and were willing to pander to fans of the resulting slasher movies coming out by that time.
@@boborrahoodThat's a very short sighted view of it. In 'Psycho II', Lila has been eaten away by grief and resentment at losing her sister so horrifically and she naturally has vindictive feelings towards Norman Bates. Outraged at his release, she acts on those feelings in an attempt to get him incarcerated again. That is not a script writer or director 'pandering' to gore fans at all, rather a true characterisation and depiction of how the violent death of someone can affect their loved ones. Vera Miles herself said in the interviews that she loves the motivation of her character in 'Psycho II', adding: "If somebody had killed, so brutally, a member of my family and they were about to get out, I think I would feel just as angry..."
@@rnw2739 I do get that Lila Crane would have taken on a more vigilant, aggressive attitude after what happened to her own sister. But when I saw that in a theater when it came out in 1983, there were audible laughs and noisy reactions from some 18- 20's guys in the audience over Lila's grisly manner of killing. They got the excessive violence and gore they wanted. If you were fortunate enough to see the original Hitchcock version in a theater, you may remember there were no audible laughs about Marion Crane or even detective Arbogast.There were screams from some, though, especially when Lila turned back around to enter that fruit cellar with Mother. That was an example of Hitchcock's suspense working on the audience. As Hitchcock would say "There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it." Even the director of the sequel, Richard Franklin, had enough integrity to say "How can you top the original murder in the shower? A hatchet in a hot tub?"
I always adored Anthony Perkins and after seeing Psycho I never showered or bathed without a locked door and a giveaway. (Something that would fall and make noise if the door was unlocked from the outside☺️) Seriously 74 years old and still uneasy in the shower.😳
I was so traumatized from the original Psycho…that even now at age 74 I never want to shower alone in the house. Never watched the rest of the movies. No way!
Sad how his ex-partner Tab Hunter kind of drifted off into obscurity while Anthony's star continued to rise, and the two men never really spoke again. I highly recommend the documentary Tab Hunter Confidential
It wasn't "sad". Tab Hunter was very content with his life. He had had enough of the Hollywood bs, loved his ranch and horses. Perkins said before he died “I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.” So, being a "star" wasn't all it was cracked up to be.
I watched Legally Blonde fur the 10th or 11th time again a few months ago ,I decided to look at the full cast ,omg I didn’t realize his son was in the movie ,I loved Psycho ,i heard that Janet Leigh was never able to shower after that movie .
It would have been nice if these talk shows could have talked about his playing piano and his talent to speak French in addition to all these movies. He was multi-talented.
"I think that we're all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and claw but only at the air, only at each other. And for all of it, we never budge an inch."
**Spoiler** Surprisingly, Perkins gets it wrong here about Psycho II. The Vera Miles character, Lila Loomis is not the k!ller. Neither is the Meg Tilly character Mary. It’s Mrs Spool. She clearly states it at the end of the film. Then Norman grabs the shovel as Perkins describes.
From 3:00 to 4:00 - spoiler alert for Psycho 2 - Tony Perkins spends a minute revealing everything about the Psycho 2 murders - the whole video is a spoiler for Psycho 1, of course - but the sequels are less well remembered nowadays, tho they're decent
" ... well over a generation ... " ... Wild that in 1981 in America, one in every 3 (!) first time births was to a girl 19 years old or younger. Wild ....
Watch his movie Five Miles To Midnight with Sophia Loren. I thought he was awfully good in that pretending to be dead to defraud the airline insurance company. He was a bit sinister in that too but without the knife. Sad he died so young.
Johnny says it's unbelievable it's been 26 years ago!! Now try "it's been 62 years ago"!!!....Perkins was such an eloquent, elegant artist and a charming queer gentleman, loved both men & women!!!
3:12 "... the Vera Miles character and her daughter..." Probably nothing in that statement, but it's interesting he mentions Vera and does not name Meg Tilly. Perkins did not like Tilly (for real) during the filming of Psycho II.
I agree, but the boy was a freak show in real life. In one of the movies I watched the extras where he was interviewed. He had the personality of a dark mortician. I wonder what happened to him.......
Well, apparently "Johnny Carson"' 's YT channel can't afford to get copyright approval to play a clip that they played on his own show 37 years ago! Now, I'll run look up that clip on ANOTHER YT video and see Normal interviewing this grifter.
I think he was referring to the plot that Vera Miles and Meg Tilly's characters were carrying out ...trying to drive him insane with voices and mysterious "Mother" notes. The actual murders on the other hand, were committed by Mrs. Spool, who in trying to defend Norman, carried them out.
My folks used to tell a great Psycho story: the morning after they had seen the film, my dad was in the bathroom, shaving. My mom, thinking she had a great prank to scare him with, grabbed a kitchen knife and came running into the bathroom. My dad, screaming, kicked her so hard in the stomach that she fell back on the floor outside the bedroom and puked. Last time she played a prank on him like that . . .
@@samsmith4216 Only “normal” people born to your liking as straight and cis are entitled to discuss who they are? Thankfully the overwhelming majority of Americans and ALL educated, decent, compassionate people abhor your thinly veiled bigotry. FYI, hatred and bigotry are NOT admirable human traits, “Sam Smith”.
He was a great actor - as was Anthony’s former partner, Tab Hunter, who died in 2018. It was truly awful that so many revered actors and entertainers had to hide who they were due to societal views at the time, which are now rightfully viewed with shame and disgust. May all these talented legendary men (Anthony, Tab and Johnny) who enriched the lives of millions of Americans for so many years Rest In Peace.
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Perkins' performance in "Psycho" is possibly the greatest acting job I've ever seen.
Right behind Kevin James in Paul Blart: Mall Cop.
@@humphreygruntwhistle3946 You must have very, very limited experience to make such a comparison. How old are you? Have you even seen "Psycho?"
@@brandonflorida1092 Seriously? It was a joke. Come on, man.
I agree- his mannerisms, speech pattern etc. seem way ahead of the time in the film……marvelous
@@ataylor2112 To me, it seems perfect - way above average.
Even after sixty years, Psycho is still one of the best horror movies ever made. The shower scene is classic.
Yep. Made on a shoestring budget, too.
Spoiler alert for anyone who hasn’t seen it.
I remember my dad saying Norman Bates was the bad guy in the movie because we were on the universal back lot ride. Anyway when I watched the movie I was so confused about him being the bad guy…it was clearly his mom! When Vera Miles turns Normans mother around and sees she’s a skeleton and Norman Bates walks in dressed as his mom!! Wow. Goosebumps thinking about it.
Respectfully, I think it's absolute rubbish
@@josephambrose2852 Maybe you've been brainwashed by the cartoons you've been watching. That would explain a lot.
@@grokeffer6226 probably too sophisticated of an ending to understand. The therapist was tacked on for people like him 🤣
At the time Psycho was made, Anthony Perkins was very much the popular teenage heart throb both in films as well as on records, which makes his willingness to take Hitchcock up on accepting what was at that time a very controversial and risky film role, a very courageous thing to do. To their credit, both he and Hitchcock created an entirely new genre of film with Psycho. A wonderful actor, who though a bonified movie star, never lost either his humanity or charm.
The conversation between Norman and Detective Arbogast is wonderful. Not scary but tense and superbly acted.
So handsome. There will never be another like him.
HE IS!!!! Kimberly
My own *Psycho* story: I was a teenager in the 1970's and babysitting the two children across the street from my house while the parents went to a dinner party. After I put the children to bed I saw that *Psycho* was going to air that night on the Late Show, so I turned it on and watched it, to kill time. The shower scene came on and suddenly I heard someone crying behind me. It was the little girl, who had gotten out of bed and tried to find me, and she had been watching the film without my knowledge. Apparently she was traumatized and the little girl's mother was very angry with me and never used me to babysit again. Morale: when babysitting never watch a horror film! It could mean the end of your pocket money from babysitting! 😊
One of my earliest memories is overhearing my baby sitter talking to my mom when I was six. She had just seen Psycho when it first came out and I was intrigued by her reaction. I didn't see it until about 8 years later, around the age of 14, when I became a Hitchcock fan and movie fan for life.
Thanks for the bedtime story
That's the movie that the chick wakes up in a bathtub, with her kidney out, right?!?
I never saw it. I don't want to buy something on "prime" and have besos take it back too.
@@ashleelarsen5002 No, she is in a shower and suddenly is stabbed by Anthony dressed as his mother, whom he had also killed. Though you don't know for sure it's Anthony till later in the film because all you see is a hand stabbing her.
@@jillkjv3816 thanks for responding! Do you know the movie I am looking for? The bathtub girl, missing a kidney?
I wish Johnny had asked Perkins questions about working with Hitchcock and Orson Welles. He was one of a handful of actors who worked
with both
2022 still realizing I have a lot to learn about this amazing era
As iconic the shower scene is , his performance as Norman Bates is a piece of acting genius.
A real pleasure watching this. Down to earth, entertaining, informative without any attitude or senseless hype.
Anthony Perkins is a legend
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The scariest scene in psycho was the last scene where Norman, dressed as his Mother, was sitting still in a chair with a fly flying around him. That scene unnerved me.
The final scene was Norman Bates dressed as himself, not as his mother. The mother is heard in voice- over, beginning with "It's sad when a mother has to speak the words that condemn her own son..."
Its the second identical shot in the movie. When Marion is driving at night imagining what people will say about her she gets the exact same demented face and half smile as Norman at the end.
@@boborrahood I thought you were upset about film spoilers?
@@citrine65yes I am very upset about film spoilers please don’t spoil films again thank you sir
Loved his performance in Friendly Persuasion. He was also great as a fill in on What's My Line!
Anthony Perkins a true Hollywood legend!
Very enjoyable interview. About 45 years ago when I was an usher in an Off-Broadway theater, I escorted Anthony Perkins to his seat. I was very nervous. LOL
Anthony Perkins seemed like such a sweet guy--as though he would have been a good friend. Loved him in "Pretty Poison."
Just listen to Perkins when he speaks...this is an absolute legend of "Old Hollywood" where actors and actresses HAD to be able to act and communicate WITHOUT script...sad that Tinseltown has degraded into what it now is
Agreed! He was extremely talented and gifted. Superb!!
Couldn't agree with you more.
*Ya everything WOKE turns to crap and trust me this woke crap started way back there. It was just happening quietly behind the scenes until someone got cancelled from a show or something. The Trump era drew it out into the open.*
@@thetruthchannel349 what is *”woke crap”* ?????
@@rocroca7459 *Ask a dumb question...*
Absolutely loved Tony Perkins. He was a hard worker too. I've heard stories about him on set.
Stories like what?
God, I miss you Johnny. I was born in 73 and grew up watching you every night. You informed me so much.
Most actors at heart, just want to be remembered, Anthony Perkins is one that will be remembered for a long time to come.
Such a fantastic interview!
Thick yellow socks, runners & a sparkly tie is a truly psychotic combo 😂
It's just how you know it was the 80s😉
I love everything about it 🥳
It may have been the 80’s, but it was also a Perkins’ trademark characteristic for quirky/casual mixed with casual/cocktail attire.
His work in the first Psycho was the best acting performance I've ever seen. If you think about it, you have to be able to watch that movie twice, thinking totally different things about what you're seeing it, and have it work both ways. The first time you have to think he's just a somewhat awkward supporting character who is no big deal, the second time you have to see that he is a homocidal psychopath who is concealing it. And they nailed it. Hitchcock, Perkins, the editors, whoever played a hand in it, it works perfectly both times.
Everett01 Well said, as another longtime fan.
Even if you don't realise he did it, he still cleaned up the murder scene, hid the body and the car (smiling as it sank) and then lied to the private detective, smiling again when alone. There's no 'innocent' version of Norman Bates.
@@DenkyManner He is innocent until you realize he's complicit in murder. The central gimmick of the movie is that at first you think it's a heist film about Marion stealing money.
Yes, one of the things that make the performance great is you see new things on almost every viewing.. Mannerisms, even the gait changes when the personality changes..
It’s definitely a riser on the all time list for those reasons.. Every time I watch the movie I’m more impressed..
Psycho is definitely one of the best films ever made.
64 years later Psycho is still a classic
Legends may they all rest in peace
Sadly he only had 6 more years after this interview and even sadder was his wife died on 9/11.
My Psycho story is that I was always scared of taking showers as a kid even though i’d never seen the movie, but I’d seen the shower scene a bunch of times, and this was the 90s so there were gorier scenes around. But truly, the editing on that scene is incredible. Had me scared without even having any context. And now i’m a big fan of that movie and Psycho 2.
I just rewatched all 4 films - Perkins was a legend.
I don't think he is in the 4th movie
@@WayDog001he is. E.T.'s Henry Thomas is the young Norman in flashbacks and Perkins plays the older Norman narrating his childhood to a phone-in radio show on people who commit matricide.
That movie sold a lot of popcorn.
Some very classic lines in the movie.
Such a lovely man/actor..so sad he died the way he did :(
AND, his wife died one day shy of the 9th anniversary of his death. He died Sept. 12, 1992, and she died in a plane that hit the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. :( What are the odds? I felt so bad for their two sons.
Man, I enjoyed this. I really miss talk shows. Today we have late night shows full of bufoons who just want the quick laugh. Johnny, still the king of late night.
Johnny was the best!
I agree...these days "talk shows" are boring as hell...
I adore Anthony! My favorite film he starred in was, "The Trial" by Orson Welles. What a marvelous performance! ✨
Welles called it his best film. Surprising, since critics always rank “Citizen Kane” as his finest movie.
@@patrickdowling529 I saw an interview with Orson near the end of his life where he says that "Chimes At Midnight" was his "least flawed film" ...while I marvel over so many of his movies and performances, he thought of them as "flawed". Shocking.
Anthony Perkins 👑
I would highly recommend Anthony Perkins in Pretty Poison (1968)
What a legend
He was so damned gorgeous and sexy....so incredible to see him here...such a tragedy we lost him at only 60
What a Great interview 🍿
Awesome film!
Anthony exudes charisma
He definitely has an energy and is refreshingly articulate.
And a very gay vibe, too.
And, with charm power through the ROOF!
Incredibly charismatic!❤️
Th omitted clip had to be the “No one ever does” line in the office. He had another great reaction on Letterman when they ran the bloody ice cubes bit 😂
I don't think many people can say this but, my name is Anthony Perkins. Yes, the same as this fine actor. So, as you might imagine going through life with a famous person's name would be fun and for me it was fun. Naturally, since Anthony Perkins was so well known for his performance in Psycho, comments I would hear from people were always associated with that movie. I guess your wife doesn't take many showers and so on. It always resulted in a good laugh.......Ever see "Fear Strikes Out".
"Fear Strikes Out" was also a very well acted film about baseball player, Jim Piersall.
GREAT INTERVIEW!!!
*Dear God, how I miss Johnny very much...* 🤗
Some how in the age of Freddy K, Jason, Michael Myers. Pinhead, Jigsaw etc Norman Bates was one of the original horror franchises.
Tony Perkins was such a gifted actor. Not without his personal challenges, and he was such a professional it’s hard to know how he felt about his career direction, but he really was a pro and took the work seriously. A huge shame he was taken from us so early, he could’ve carried on forever. Sorely missed, a good family man and a true icon of cinema. God bless you Tony.
just realize "NorMAN BATEs" is a bit "Patrick BATEMAN"
Great actor for sure. And sadly his wife died years later in 9/11 plane attack.
How horrible! I never knew that.
i thought he was gay?
@@Dion_Mustard He was, but caught up in a "conversion" attempt by a soon-to-be famous psychologist, he got married and had a couple of kids.
@@Dion_Mustard he was married 20 years until he died.
@@cc1k435 his son looks just like him. Handsome young man .
Anthony Perkins has an interesting story. And I actually like Psycho 2 more than the original! 😱😆
Psycho 2 is well known as one of the best sequels ever made.
@@samsmith4216 To long time Hitchcock fans- the Vera Miles character of Lila 'Crane in Psycho 2. is a disappoointment. She is made deliberately coarse, unlikeable- in order to satisfy fans of this later horror genre who like her grisly demise to satisfy their slasher movie appreciation. Her character in Hitchcock's original was someone the audience cared about - as the concerned sister investigating the disappearance of her sister. The director of the sequel , as well as the writer seemed to forget that, or didn't care, and were willing to pander to fans of the resulting slasher movies coming out by that time.
@@boborrahoodThat's a very short sighted view of it. In 'Psycho II', Lila has been eaten away by grief and resentment at losing her sister so horrifically and she naturally has vindictive feelings towards Norman Bates.
Outraged at his release, she acts on those feelings in an attempt to get him incarcerated again. That is not a script writer or director 'pandering' to gore fans at all, rather a true characterisation and depiction of how the violent death of someone can affect their loved ones.
Vera Miles herself said in the interviews that she loves the motivation of her character in 'Psycho II', adding:
"If somebody had killed, so brutally, a member of my family and they were about to get out, I think I would feel just as angry..."
@@rnw2739 I do get that Lila Crane would have taken on a more vigilant, aggressive attitude after what happened to her own sister. But when I saw that in a theater when it came out in 1983, there were audible laughs and noisy reactions from some 18- 20's guys in the audience over Lila's grisly manner of killing. They got the excessive violence and gore they wanted. If you were fortunate enough to see the original Hitchcock version in a theater, you may remember there were no audible laughs about Marion Crane or even detective Arbogast.There were screams from some, though, especially when Lila turned back around to enter that fruit cellar with Mother. That was an example of Hitchcock's suspense working on the audience. As Hitchcock would say "There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it." Even the director of the sequel, Richard Franklin, had enough integrity to say "How can you top the original murder in the shower? A hatchet in a hot tub?"
Thank you very much for this wonderful upload.
Genio total Anthony Perkins no hay otro igual!!!!
I always adored Anthony Perkins and after seeing Psycho I never showered or bathed without a locked door and a giveaway. (Something that would fall and make noise if the door was unlocked from the outside☺️) Seriously 74 years old and still uneasy in the shower.😳
That tie, Doc Severson must've had a Garage Sale.
I still can not take a shower if no one else is home. Scared the HELL outta me
Psycho paved the way for the horror genre!
love his tie
I was so traumatized from the original Psycho…that even now at age 74 I never want to shower alone in the house. Never watched the rest of the movies. No way!
I have to agree. For about 20 years if I was in the shower and thought of the scene I HAD to stop and get out. Like Jaws and the ocean.
❤what a lovely and handsome man he was ❤
Sad how his ex-partner Tab Hunter kind of drifted off into obscurity while Anthony's star continued to rise, and the two men never really spoke again. I highly recommend the documentary Tab Hunter Confidential
It wasn't "sad". Tab Hunter was very content with his life. He had had enough of the Hollywood bs, loved his ranch and horses. Perkins said before he died “I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.” So, being a "star" wasn't all it was cracked up to be.
I watched Legally Blonde fur the 10th or 11th time again a few months ago ,I decided to look at the full cast ,omg I didn’t realize his son was in the movie ,I loved Psycho ,i heard that Janet Leigh was never able to shower after that movie .
It would have been nice if these talk shows could have talked about his playing piano and his talent to speak French in addition to all these movies. He was multi-talented.
That shiny tie 😀💙👍🏻
I need it. Still have my skinny ties from when I was in high school in the late '80s, but never had anything like that.
Liberace :p
It was the '80s, the shiny decade!
Wonderful, modest performer!
Sad AP gone 30yrs and his wife over 20yrs rip both
He was a good actor in other things too.
I think he made the best Inspector Javert in a film version of Les Miserables that I have ever seen. Chilling, yet sympathetic too, in a very odd way.
@@jillkjv3816 I'll have to check out that version!
@@christineleblond7777 Great. It may be hard to find, though, it was from 1978. I was a teenager then and watched it when it aired on TV.
"I think that we're all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and claw but only at the air, only at each other. And for all of it, we never budge an inch."
" that does not seem possible that it was 26 years ago "
now it's 64 years ago and it's still revered !
He was married to Berry Berenson ... the sister of Marisa Berenson who was in Caberet with Liza Minnelli ...
Miss him and Johnny and Ed
What movie did Johny say at 5.09?
Diabolique, 1955. French movie that inspired Hitchcock to make Psycho.
All Hitchcock films are amazing. ZERO POINT ZERO CGI..
**Spoiler**
Surprisingly, Perkins gets it wrong here about Psycho II. The Vera Miles character, Lila Loomis is not the k!ller. Neither is the Meg Tilly character Mary. It’s Mrs Spool. She clearly states it at the end of the film. Then Norman grabs the shovel as Perkins describes.
I noticed that, too.
From 3:00 to 4:00 - spoiler alert for Psycho 2 - Tony Perkins spends a minute revealing everything about the Psycho 2 murders - the whole video is a spoiler for Psycho 1, of course - but the sequels are less well remembered nowadays, tho they're decent
Part 4 is almost completely forgotten especially
Good stuff. Rest in peace fellas.
Nobody ever mentions this franchise. They only praise Hitchcock's Psycho for some reason. It's a fun watch despite having certain favorites.
No idea there were psycho sequels
" ... well over a generation ... " ... Wild that in 1981 in America, one in every 3 (!) first time births was to a girl 19 years old or younger. Wild ....
Amazing how the audience starts clapping at 5:48 when they don't show the clip.
I liked Perkins in Disney's "The Black Hole" also.
Can u post more videos a day
Why did i think Anthony Perkins was British !
Because he was classy. ;)
Confused him with Anthony Hopkins perhaps.
Because he speaks English very well
Was that Mr. Ed McMahon that shook his hand...
Watch his movie Five Miles To Midnight with Sophia Loren. I thought he was awfully good in that pretending to be dead to defraud the airline insurance company. He was a bit sinister in that too but without the knife. Sad he died so young.
Johnny says it's unbelievable it's been 26 years ago!! Now try "it's been 62 years ago"!!!....Perkins was such an eloquent, elegant artist and a charming queer gentleman, loved both men & women!!!
3:12 "... the Vera Miles character and her daughter..." Probably nothing in that statement, but it's interesting he mentions Vera and does not name Meg Tilly. Perkins did not like Tilly (for real) during the filming of Psycho II.
The scariest movie I’ve ever seen was the Ring. What a freak show frightening experience that was.
I agree, but the boy was a freak show in real life. In one of the movies I watched the extras where he was interviewed. He had the personality of a dark mortician. I wonder what happened to him.......
Anthony perkins was a handsome man sexy. ❤❤❤❤
Perkins and Charles Bronson made a great mystery film. Unsual pairing but it worked. Bronson liked perkins a great deal.
Talk show hosts were way better back then
Well, apparently "Johnny Carson"' 's YT channel can't afford to get copyright approval to play a clip that they played on his own show 37 years ago! Now, I'll run look up that clip on ANOTHER YT video and see Normal interviewing this grifter.
Anthony is wrong here about who the killer in Psycho 2.
So sad that his widow died on 9/11/2001 on the first plane that crashed into one of the towers in New York.
I can see why Tab Hunter wanted to be his lover......
After watching this interview,
I’m now convinced that he did kill all these people.
Great actor.
What year was this
6/24/86.
Interesting that Perkins said the crimes in Psycho 2 were committed by Vera Miles and Meg Tilly, which isn’t the case.
He also said his alleged real mother, Miss Spool, that he hit in the head with a shovel for killing the girl he was falling in love with.
I think he was referring to the plot that Vera Miles and Meg Tilly's characters were carrying out ...trying to drive him insane with voices and mysterious "Mother" notes. The actual murders on the other hand, were committed by Mrs. Spool, who in trying to defend Norman, carried them out.
I caught that as well. In Part 2, the murderer is Mrs. Spool. Mary and her mother didn't kill anyone.
Yes indeed!
HE USED TO BE TAB TANNER's LOVER !!
Who
My folks used to tell a great Psycho story: the morning after they had seen the film, my dad was in the bathroom, shaving. My mom, thinking she had a great prank to scare him with, grabbed a kitchen knife and came running into the bathroom. My dad, screaming, kicked her so hard in the stomach that she fell back on the floor outside the bedroom and puked. Last time she played a prank on him like that . . .
Gosh! A well-intended prank gone-wrong.
I sure do hope Mom was OK -- w. no permanent after effects?
Tony Perkins was also considered for either Sonny or Michael Corleone in “The Godfather”
You’re kinda right. He auditioned for Sonny and Tom
@@jilliank6379 I’d heard that too. I knew he’d auditioned for a few roles in the film but he never got them.
Way too gay. Not a chance. Ever see Tin Star? Too gay.
I think AP came out as gay eventually. Great actor.
who cares
@@samsmith4216 He did
@@ThePrissy11 who cares?
@@samsmith4216 Only “normal” people born to your liking as straight and cis are entitled to discuss who they are? Thankfully the overwhelming majority of Americans and ALL educated, decent, compassionate people abhor your thinly veiled bigotry. FYI, hatred and bigotry are NOT admirable human traits, “Sam Smith”.
He was a great actor - as was Anthony’s former partner, Tab Hunter, who died in 2018. It was truly awful that so many revered actors and entertainers had to hide who they were due to societal views at the time, which are now rightfully viewed with shame and disgust.
May all these talented legendary men (Anthony, Tab and Johnny) who enriched the lives of millions of Americans for so many years Rest In Peace.