( Laughs.) I try not to predict the effect that I’m going to have on audiences. Similar to a sixth man in basketball or a late-inning reliever in baseball, was there a specific point in your career when you first realized that you could elevate a movie in just a few scenes? You really make the most of your time in Greenland as you add a layer of emotion and humanity that can sometimes get lost in disaster-driven films. I’m sure that gives the film an extra bite. Now, anyone who sees this in real time is also in the middle of our own world crisis, the pandemic. When we made Greenland, I had never heard the word coronavirus. In a recent conversation with THR, Glenn also looks back at his famous seven-and-a-half page monologue on The Leftovers, how Denzel Washington talked him into doing Training Day and why he appreciated Daredevil’s Stick compared to most roles.ĭoes Greenland come to mind when you watch the news and see our own world in a perpetual state of crisis? Do they think we’re fucking morons? So you’re driving around, you’re wearing colors, as Sons of Anarchy, and you’re committing crimes? It doesn’t work and it doesn’t happen in the real world.’ So I was kind of let off the hook, socially, in whatever weird life I live outside of making movies.” “Once, when I was hanging out with those guys after the show came out, they said, ‘We’re so glad you didn’t do that show.’ And I said, ‘Why?’ And they said, ‘Nobody commits crimes wearing colors ever. So I have friends in an outlaw motorcycle club called Brother Speed,” Glenn explains. I ride motorcycles and all kinds of bikes. “This is going to sound like I’m bad-mouthing that show, but I don’t really mean it in that way. Oddly enough, after moving to Idaho in the late ‘70s, Glenn just so happened to strike up a friendship with an Idaho-based outlaw motorcycle club that informed him of another reason to appreciate how things turned out. But… anything that would’ve gotten in the way of The Leftovers would’ve been really bad because it was the single best acting experience I’ve ever had.”Īs an avid motorcycle rider, Glenn certainly fit the patriarchal role of Sons of Anarchy’s Clay Morrow, who also served as the president of the show’s eponymous outlaw motorcycle club. But you know what? It was really fun doing the pilot for Sons of Anarchy. It had things like top billing, always, irregardless of who the guests were. My contract was, I’m sure from their point of view, unworkable. “I was really disappointed when they shot the pilot and I got a call from Kurt Sutter saying, ‘They bought the pilot, Scott, but not you.’ And I knew why. Sons of Anarchy, what can I say about it?” Glenn ponders.
“I came out so far ahead at the end of the day. In retrospect, Glenn is all the more grateful for the role of “Senior” since a disappointing event several years earlier could’ve easily changed the trajectory that led him to The Leftovers. According to Glenn, The Leftovers co-creator Damon Lindelof captured his voice in a way that only Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts has via Killer Joe. In the acclaimed HBO series’ final season, Glenn considers his character’s showcase episode, “Crazy Whitefella Thinking,” to be “the answer to so many wishes and dreams,” and that’s saying something for an actor who’s also been a part of Apocalypse Now, The Right Stuff and Silverado. There needs to be a willingness to sacrifice where you’re put in hard times.”īesides Urban Cowboy and 1998’s off-Broadway rendition of Killer Joe, Glenn’s most cherished role is that of The Leftovers’ Kevin Garvey, Sr, a former police chief who may or may not be a prophet. But that one section of the film lets you know that the way you survive these things is with love, quite simply, and interpersonal love with family. You don’t see the sky on fire and stuff raining down on you. “In some ways, the pandemic is more insidious than Greeland’s threat because it’s invisible. And then there’s one place that the film slows down, so you can really see what gets us through something as huge as this,” Glenn tells The Hollywood Reporter. “When I read the script, I thought that it was well-written as a disaster film.
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