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Tom Selleck Back in Saddle Again

Aired January 16, 2003 - 06:51   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Tom Selleck is back in the saddle again and you can see him mount up starting tomorrow night in our sister network. That would be TNT, the Turner Network Television. Selleck stars in "Monte Walsh: The Last Cowboy" and he joins us now live from New York.
Good morning.

TOM SELLECK, "MONTE WALSH": How you doing, Carol?

COSTELLO: I'm doing just fine.

How about you?

SELLECK: I'm good.

COSTELLO: Good.

Tell us about the movie.

SELLECK: The movie is actually my current favorite movie. Actually, I'm very proud of it. It's about a cowboy at the turn of the 20th century when the life is starting to disappear. And he has a great love story. It's got Isabella Rossellini in it and that's always been kind of a dream of mine, to work with her, and it was very fun and it was just a total piece...

COSTELLO: And she's your love interest in the movie, as well?

SELLECK: I think it's a good movie for not just the guys, but the women seem to like this movie a lot.

COSTELLO: Yes, women seem to like those love stories, don't they?

SELLECK: Yes, they do. Go figure.

COSTELLO: Go figure. I don't know why.

SELLECK: Yes.

COSTELLO: It's also the 100th anniversary of the western. It's hard to believe they've been around for that long or movies have been around for that long.

SELLECK: Yes. Well, the first movie, I'm pretty sure, it was 1903 and it was "The Great Train Robbery." So what that makes us, being early January, is kind of the first western of the second century of film. So I guess there's a lot of pressure on that. But all of us are really proud of this movie. TNT really stepped up. It had a very big budget. It, the director of "Lonesome Dove" did this movie, Simon Windsor (ph), and he did a fine job. And it is, I think it's in that ball park. I'd never compare anything to that great a western, but we would strive to do that.

COSTELLO: Yes. You know, westerns seem to come into popularity and then they go. Are we on the upswing again?

SELLECK: Well, yes, I think what happens is people forget how to make good ones. Audiences will always go see a good western. They don't want to see bad ones. And when people say what's wrong with the western, I just kind of quote them the ratings of my last TNT movie, which was a (UNINTELLIGIBLE) piece called "Crossfire Trails." And it was the highest rated movie made for cable or even theatrical movie in the history of cable TV.

COSTELLO: Wow.

SELLECK: So...

COSTELLO: That's awesome. Hey, before...

SELLECK: ... people want to see them.

COSTELLO: Before you have to go, Tom, we're going to turn our attention to the news of the day, if you don't mind, because you're here on CNN. I wondered what you thought about actors going into Baghdad, like Sean Penn meeting with Tariq Aziz? Do you think that's the proper thing to do?

SELLECK: No. But I don't want to beat up on Sean Penn. Look, the odds are you go into a totalitarian country like that, no matter how well intentioned you are, and you're going to get, you're going to be duped. You're going to get -- and unfortunately I think that's what happened.

COSTELLO: So you're not planning to go to Baghdad yourself?

SELLECK: No. I might go visit the troops, though.

COSTELLO: Oh, I'm sure they'd appreciate that.

Tom Selleck, many thanks to you for joining DAYBREAK this morning.

SELLECK: You bet.

COSTELLO: It's always wonderful to see Tom Selleck.

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Aired January 16, 2003 - 06:51   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Tom Selleck is back in the saddle again and you can see him mount up starting tomorrow night in our sister network. That would be TNT, the Turner Network Television. Selleck stars in "Monte Walsh: The Last Cowboy" and he joins us now live from New York.
Good morning.

TOM SELLECK, "MONTE WALSH": How you doing, Carol?

COSTELLO: I'm doing just fine.

How about you?

SELLECK: I'm good.

COSTELLO: Good.

Tell us about the movie.

SELLECK: The movie is actually my current favorite movie. Actually, I'm very proud of it. It's about a cowboy at the turn of the 20th century when the life is starting to disappear. And he has a great love story. It's got Isabella Rossellini in it and that's always been kind of a dream of mine, to work with her, and it was very fun and it was just a total piece...

COSTELLO: And she's your love interest in the movie, as well?

SELLECK: I think it's a good movie for not just the guys, but the women seem to like this movie a lot.

COSTELLO: Yes, women seem to like those love stories, don't they?

SELLECK: Yes, they do. Go figure.

COSTELLO: Go figure. I don't know why.

SELLECK: Yes.

COSTELLO: It's also the 100th anniversary of the western. It's hard to believe they've been around for that long or movies have been around for that long.

SELLECK: Yes. Well, the first movie, I'm pretty sure, it was 1903 and it was "The Great Train Robbery." So what that makes us, being early January, is kind of the first western of the second century of film. So I guess there's a lot of pressure on that. But all of us are really proud of this movie. TNT really stepped up. It had a very big budget. It, the director of "Lonesome Dove" did this movie, Simon Windsor (ph), and he did a fine job. And it is, I think it's in that ball park. I'd never compare anything to that great a western, but we would strive to do that.

COSTELLO: Yes. You know, westerns seem to come into popularity and then they go. Are we on the upswing again?

SELLECK: Well, yes, I think what happens is people forget how to make good ones. Audiences will always go see a good western. They don't want to see bad ones. And when people say what's wrong with the western, I just kind of quote them the ratings of my last TNT movie, which was a (UNINTELLIGIBLE) piece called "Crossfire Trails." And it was the highest rated movie made for cable or even theatrical movie in the history of cable TV.

COSTELLO: Wow.

SELLECK: So...

COSTELLO: That's awesome. Hey, before...

SELLECK: ... people want to see them.

COSTELLO: Before you have to go, Tom, we're going to turn our attention to the news of the day, if you don't mind, because you're here on CNN. I wondered what you thought about actors going into Baghdad, like Sean Penn meeting with Tariq Aziz? Do you think that's the proper thing to do?

SELLECK: No. But I don't want to beat up on Sean Penn. Look, the odds are you go into a totalitarian country like that, no matter how well intentioned you are, and you're going to get, you're going to be duped. You're going to get -- and unfortunately I think that's what happened.

COSTELLO: So you're not planning to go to Baghdad yourself?

SELLECK: No. I might go visit the troops, though.

COSTELLO: Oh, I'm sure they'd appreciate that.

Tom Selleck, many thanks to you for joining DAYBREAK this morning.

SELLECK: You bet.

COSTELLO: It's always wonderful to see Tom Selleck.

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