Kyoto , Japan , 1957 . The actor was in town to scud scenes from the movieSayonara ; the writer was there at the behest of theNew Yorkerto interview him . Capote portray Brando , now staring down the tenacious middle stretch of his career , as an incessant , if sleepyheaded , talker , someone who could drone on on with an almost enviable self trust . Wrote Capote , who had met Brando years before during his asterisk - make turn as Stanley Kowalski inA Streetcar Named Desire , " Now he looked at people with assurance , and with what can only be called a pitying expression , as though he dwelt in spheres of enlightenment where they , to his regret , did not . “
Brando opened up for Capote like a tap , recite the writer about his inability to love , his complicated human relationship with his mother , who , he said , " broke apart like a slice of porcelain,“ how he wanted a family , and how the last eight or nine twelvemonth of his life had been a " mess . “ Among other things , Brando claim never to have register a novel in his entire lifespan , that his sound was being tap , that James Dean imitate him until Brando recommended Dean find an " analyst,“ and that his fervour about anything lasted no longer than seven moment .
" The secret to the artwork of interview , and it is an art,“ Capote said subsequently , " is to let the other soul think he ’s interviewing you . You tell him about yourself and lento spin your World Wide Web so that he tell you everything . That ’s how I trapped Marlon . “
But who have intercourse ? Brando was , after all , a master actor and Capote , while seductive in his power to weave stories from people , might not have recognized the cipher that confront him . “The little asshole pass half the night tell me all his problems . I figure the least I could do was tell him a few of mine,“ the actor said later .
As Brando walked Capote to the threshold in the wee hours of the break of the day after the audience , he call after the writer , " And listen ! Do n’t pay too much attention to what I say . I do n’t always find the same fashion . “
record the intact interviewhere . Tomorrow : F. Scott Fitzgerald satisfy the New York Post .
