Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland and Basil Rathbone in Captain Blood (Dir. Michael Curtiz, 1935)
“So one day, we were called together, and we started to rehearse, and then we had a lunch break. We went off to the commissary, and he walked with me to the commissary. I had never been in it before. I got a tray, and he went ahead, and he took his tray to a table, and I filled
my tray and I wanted to go and sit over there next to him, and I
thought, “No, he will think I am bold, and I can’t do that.” So I found
another place and sat there and ate my lunch in a solitary fashion. But
when I turned in my tray, he turned his in at the same time.So we walked back to the stage together, and when we got there, no one was there. We were the first, and we sat down on the ramp, which leads from the great open door of the stage to the street, and he asked me – he was 25 years of age when this happened, and I was still 18 – he said to me, “What do you want out of life?” and I thought, “What an
extraordinary question to be asked! Nobody has asked me that ever.” And
in fact, nobody ever did in the years that followed, and I said, “I
would like respect for difficult work well done.” And then I said,
“Well, what do you want out of life?” and he said, “I want success.”
And what he meant by that was fame and riches, both of which he
certainly did achieve, but when he said it, I thought, “But that’s not
enough,” and indeed, it proved in Errol’s life not to be enough.“ – Olivia de Havilland on Errol Flynn during rehearsal for Captain Blood
2 Minutes ago I saw the ad for the local production of Captain Blood which I just posted on my Facebook profile. Then I happened to go over to Tumblr and see this. it’s a pretty cool synchronicity and it has something to do with my angel, Kara.