But I must say the Johnny Rocco in our play is very different from the movie. You’ve certainly played a number of parts he might’ve played. Was Robinson someone you grew up watching and admiring? They’re both beautiful parts and emotionally I’m attracted to both, but age-wise I’m more suited for Johnny Rocco at this point. When I heard about this, I thought immediately about the Bogart connection. We got together for two days and went through the play and the screenplay individually and came with our ideas, then created this hybrid with some new ideas that are not in the play or in the movie. So we began, and Matt Shakman introduced me to Jeffrey Hatcher, who has been a blessing. So when someone’s embracing something so quickly, you’ve got to go like, “Okay, so I guess it’s on me now.” I’ve always thought it could be an interesting to adapt the movie Key Largo back to the stage.” They just looked at me without missing a beat and said, “You would do that here?” And I said, “Yeah.” They said, “Okay, we’ll get you a dramaturg to work with and you guys create a new adaptation.” The thing is, I’ve had a blessed creative life, but if I were to tell you the amount of times I’ve gotten “no” in my life, either looking for parts or trying to pitch an idea or finance a film, we wouldn’t have enough time for the interview. And Gil Cates and Matt Shakman said, “You should come do a play here.” And I said, “Yeah, that’d be great. I was performing at the Geffen with my band, which I do a couple of times a year-I have a 13-piece traditional Cuban orchestra, we do classical Cuban music. I always thought, Wouldn’t it be great to either remake the movie in contemporary terms or take it back to the stage? It could be a very entertaining piece of theatre. I knew that Key Largo was based on Maxwell Anderson play. So this is an area that that stimulates me. I’ve written a screenplay about Hemingway and about the creation of The Old Man and the Sea. To Have and Have Not also, and all of Hemingway’s novels that dealt with the sea although Hemingway was not involved in Key Largo, that’s the spirit of it. So when you see a film that deals with a bit with that, then you have sort of a subconscious attraction to it. All these themes are things that appeal to me. I’ve always been attracted to the sea and I fish I have a boat. ![]() It was a place that I always been enamored with-just the overall mood of South Florida and the Florida Keys and the Bahamas has been a place where I’ve sort of always found solace. I grew up in Miami Beach after my family and I left Cuba, two and a half years after the revolution, and I would frequent the Keys growing up. ROB WEINERT-KENDT: Why bring Key Largo, which started as a play but is best known as a film, back to the stage?ĪNDY GARCIA: I’ve always been a fan of the film. If you don’t think of Garcia as a stage actor, you’re not wrong-it’s been a good while since he’s trod the boards, though that long absence has not been, as I learned in a recent interview, for lack of interest. Film star Andy Garcia’s newest role is onstage at L.A.’s Geffen Playhouse in his own adaptation (with playwright Jeffrey Hatcher) of the gangster drama Key Largo, originally a 1939 play by Maxwell Anderson, later an iconic 1948 Humphrey Bogart film directed by John Huston.
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