The great character actor chases monsters and myths in the latest iteration of the Kong story.
(You realize) something else is going on in this world.
Kong has been a part of Goodmans life for as long as he can remember.
I just thought about that today and went, Shit, man, Im getting up there.
They find him and much more.
Goodman agrees: He had first-hand knowledge of it from his Navy experience, he explains.
It just doesnt really matter what else happens as long as he proves that these things exist.
Its kind of an American myth, almost, he offers.
Films have in a way become our mythology.
And it doesnt get much bigger than King Kong.
Which reflects on this film because its part of a Vietnam experience.
Or like the one in 1976 that was about oil.
I thought it was a little too on the head, Goodman admits.
We did it in reshoots.
But I guess it got a laugh, which is why I dont write comedy.
The older I get the more I want to stay home, he says.
The travels starting to wear me down.
But then between Hawaii and Australia I went to Budapest for 10 days and wound up with pneumonia.
Its starting to wear on me.
But then, you know, I got Sam (Jackson) to look up to when were working.
Kong: Skull Islandopens in theaters on Friday (March 10).
