The first movie that made Jeff Goldblum cry
Jeff Goldblum vividly remembers the first time he ever saw a movie that tugged on his heartstrings to such an extent the tears started flowing.
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Film Ā» Cutting Room Floor
Sat 18 January 2025 0:30, UK
One of cinemaās most widely beloved eccentrics, Jeff Goldblum, has reached a point in his career where it seems like heāll never be required to play anyone or anything other than Jeff Goldblum again.
While he seems happy to cash in on his status as an idiosyncratic icon, there are audience members out there who canāt remember a time when his number one calling card was that he was a good actor. These days, if Goldblumās name appears in an ensemble, thereās a 99% chance everyone knows what theyāre going to get.
Thereās nothing wrong with that, and history is littered with thespians who did nothing but play themselves in perpetuity, but younger generations might get a shock if they stumble across David Cronenbergās The Fly and expect Goldlum to approach the role of Seth Brundle with the wacky uncle shtick heās been relying on for the last two decades.
Deep Cover, Adam Resurrected, The Big Chill, Silverado, The Tall Guy, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers are just some of the films where the star dials down his usual antics and puts his habit of āJeffing it upā to the side in favour of character and performance, and heās uniformly great in all of them.
Knowing that he prefers to use a hundred words when ten will do, the assumption would be that Goldblum reflecting on the first movie to reduce him to a sobbing emotional wreck would fly off on several tangents and ultimately settle on a completely unexpected title nobody would imagine being capable of causing floods of tears.
Mercifully, that wasnāt the case. However, he did use the rumours that heād fallen off a cliff and been declared dead as the jumping-off point. āIt was trippy,ā he said of everyone assuming his clogs had been popped in New Zealand before invoking a 1962 comedy starring Gene Kelly. āRemember that movie, Gigot?ā
Jackie Gleason stars as a mute janitor who struggles to find a place in society, and after becoming transfixed by the power of religion he starts frequenting local funerals, crying every time. Itās a famous tear-jerker, and one that Goldblum was unable to resist.
āIt was the first movie I ever remember getting weepy at,ā he explained to Movieline. āGetting moved by. Of course, heās a poor soul, a town misfit who the town thinks has died. And he hasnāt, and he peeks behind a tree at his own funeral when they decide how much they care for him. And he starts weeping. I was in the theatre. I was, I donāt know, eight, and I found myself getting unexpectedly weepy.ā
Heās far from the only one to be left a blubbering wreck by Gigot, and he remembers the film so vividly it became seared into his brain as a formative memory of the power of cinema.
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