![]() ![]() Also for you fellow fans I realize Bart Taylor was sponsored by Mongoose so Cru would never be cool with that! Here I am sporting the jersey while popping a sick wheely on my son’s Mongoose BMX bike. So I have always had a great appreciation for it. RAD is a movie that one of my best friends was obsessed with back in the ‘80s, and he got his mom to rent it for him all the time. He was an Olympic cross-country skier.Ĭlick here to read page 2 of the interview.This is definitely the most RAD Founder’s Pick that I’ve done to date. GRANT: And he doesn't get any recognition.īILL: True, he kind of got robbed, didn't he? He was actually a local, a Canadian. GRANT: If you'll notice, he was ahead of Cru in the first qualifier before he was taken out. I think Luke (Cru's best friend in Rad) was the unsung hero of the movie. GRANT: Not the right time to put the moves on a woman then! Here's the hard-hitting question. It was so frigid … Canada in the fall, it was frighteningly cold. GRANT: I heard that water was absolutely freezing up in Canada.īILL: Yeah, we had wet suits on underneath, but it didn't really help me because it gets wet. GRANT: So ass sliding couldn't have been that bad.īILL: Yeah, when you go ass sliding you want to make it with a girl like that. It's hard not to get a crush on someone like that when you're working with her. GRANT: So is Laurie Loughlin a good kisser?īILL: I had to remove her tongue from my throat a couple of times (laughter). GRANT: How old were you when you filmed Rad? I only realized afterwards that Francis Ford Coppola was related to her, otherwise I probably would have been nicer to her.īILL: And of course Jason Schwarzman was on the set at the time when he was only 10 years old. Adrienne, yeah! She actually produced the movie with her husband, Jack Schwarzman. GRANT: How was it working with Talia Shire, the wife of Rocky?īILL: She was great. But after working in Canada with all those talented riders I really gained an appreciation for it. I was familiar with the sport, but I wasn't an avid fan or anything. GRANT: Did you have any knowledge of BMX before Rad?īILL: Uh, not really. GRANT: That's a different type of riding.īILL: Yeah, I seem to get stuck with a lot of athletic roles.īILL: "And They're Off!" It was George Clooney's first movie. So Rad was about the third movie I did, and maybe the fifth or sixth acting job altogether.īILL: Um, the movie I did in Kentucky, I played a jockey in that. So, with the money I made from the film and my suitcases, I went out to L.A. That was when I was still living in Texas, and through that movie in Kentucky I wound up getting my Screen Actors Guild (SAG) card, and an agent out in L.A. The first movie I did was in Kentucky in 1982 about horse racing. ![]() What was your acting experience before Rad, other than Hillstreet Blues?īILL: Rad was the third movie I did. So I guess he saw something he liked on TV. Hal Needham, the director of the film, had seen that when he was ready to cast Rad, actually that day, so he called me in. GRANT: So, anyway, how did you land the role of Cru Jones?īILL: I actually landed that because of an episode of Hillstreet Blues I did. Someone gained the rights to produce CDs of it and I got it for $20. GRANT: I bought it off of my web site actually (Classified section). GRANT: (laughter) That wasn't easy to get you know.īILL: I believe it. It, but I've got the Rad soundtrack playing in the background. GRANT: Hey Bill, how's it going? I'm not sure if you can hear If you're over 18 and don't mind feelingĪ bit uncomfortable, check out These days Bill works mostly behind the cameraĪs a writer/producer and collaborates on a bunch of projects with his Was stoked to speak to the man behind the legend, and we hope that youĪll enjoy this interview. With Bill Allen, the actor who played Cru Jones in the cultĬlassic "Rad." As a "Rad" fanatical, Grant ![]() BMXtreme's Grant Hansen recently had the pleasure of chatting ![]()
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