Keith Hamilton Cobb discusses “Eyes Beyond Seeing”
Okay, so I’m standing around at a Christmas party back in ‘98 at an actor friend’s house out by the beach. I’m sure you’ve been to a party like this before. Everyone knows everyone, and nobody knows you. Anyway, a friendly face finally arrives at the corner of the room I’m occupying, an independent filmmaker who was also once a daytime guy, and we start to talk. Before too long, this filmmaker guy points across the room at a tall, thin young man who could have been Richard Gere’s younger twin brother. He says to me, “Is this dude stalkin’ you, or what?” He had been looking at us intently from across the room for a good five minutes. I said, “Me? I thought he was lookin’ at you.” Whatever, right?
We go back to talking and, eventually, this fellow makes his way across the room. He interrupts the conversation and introduces himself as Ivo (can’t vouch for the spelling) an actor from Argentina recently relocated to L.A. (I later learned that they call him the Argentine Richard Gere!) Ivo then asks me, in his best broken English, if I had been in a movie called Eyes Beyond Seeing in which my character claimed to be Jesus Christ. I told him yes, I had, in fact, made that very movie over a summer about five or six years prior.
I think it’s fair to say that Ivo, at this moment, went slightly nuts. He pumps my hand; he tells me, in the most animated and glowing terms: this is a WONDERFUL movie; the story of the love of a father for a son; a BEAUTIFUL story; such WONDERFUL work, we LOVE this movie, etc., etc. Ivo explained that he had seen the movie on Argentine television, and that he thought it was a big, important, American movie. (more…)
