* It takes a big man to admit his mistakes…

December 17, 2008

And they don’t come much bigger than John Goodman.

“Babe Ruth (sic) is one of those things I wish I could go back and do over. It’s like being in that dream where you’re in the subway with no clothes on.”

Talking about his portrayal of the Yankee legend in The Babe (1992) in the January 2009 issue of Esquire.



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1 * BaseballinDC December 24, 2008 at 3:41 pm

Sorry – WHY does he say he regrets it?

2 * ronkaplan December 26, 2008 at 2:49 pm

The piece in the magazine do not say per se, but I would imagine it was either because he felt the script was hokey or his performance, in retrospect, could have been better.

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