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New York Post
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Mandy Patinkin: How I bruised a rib filming 'Princess Bride'
Hello, his name is Inigo Montoya. Mandy Patinkin, who starred as the iconic Spanish fencer in the classic 1987 fairy tale swashbuckler 'The Princess Bride,' revealed that fans still recite his character's lines to him 'pretty much on a daily basis.' In the Rob Reiner-directed movie, Inigo is on a revenge quest to avenge his father, and famously repeats, 'Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die,' to 'the six fingered man' (Christopher Guest). Advertisement 'I pinch myself every time it happens,' Patinkin, 72, exclusively told the Post. 'I can't get over that I got to be that guy in that movie. How does that happen? I don't know how it happens!' 9 Mandy Patinkin in 'The Princess Bride.' Everett Collection ( 9 andy Patinkin performs onstage during the National Dance Institute (NDI) Annual Gala at The Ziegfeld Ballroom on April 30, 2018 in New York City. Getty Images for National Dance Institute Advertisement The 1987 comedy follows farm boy-turned-pirate Westley (Cary Elwes), who must rescue his true love, Butttercup (Robin Wright) from the evil Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon). Along the way, they make enemies-turned-allies with Inigo Montoya, and his friend Fezzik (Andre the Giant). The modern classic boasts a slew of fans, from the Pope to mobster John Gotti's crew. Patinkin has kept busy since the hit, recently debuting the pilot of his new show, 'Seasoned,' at the Tribeca Film Festival, which also stars his wife, actress Kathryn Grody. 9 Mandy Patinkin attends a ceremony honoring him with the 2,629th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 12, 2018 in Hollywood, California. Getty Images Advertisement Co-created by Ewen Wright and their real-life son, Gideon Grody-Patinkin, 'Seasoned' is currently looking for a distributor (it was originally set to air on Showtime, then got dropped amid reshuffling and the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike). The show follows Patinkin and Grody, 78, playing exaggerated versions of themselves as they have various comedic misadventures around New York. Patinkin's resume also includes 'Homeland,' Barbra Streisand's 'Yentl' and a Tony win for 'Evita.' But, his early career role as the revenge seeking Inigo Montoya remains one of his most iconic. 9 Mandy Patinkin and Cary Elwes in 'The Princess Bride.' 20th Century Fox Licensing/Merchandising / Everett Collection Advertisement 9 Mandy Patinkin with his wife Kathryn Grody in their video interview with the New York Post on June 11, 2025. Brian Zak/Page Six In fact, he's shocked that 'The Princess Bride' is talked about thirty years later. 'Absolutely not,' he said on if he thought it would be a hit. 'I knew it was fun.' So much so, that the Tony winner got hurt on set. 'The only injury I got was when Billy Crystal was doing 13th century period jokes, ten hours a day for three days straight,' he said, referring to the scene when Westley (Elwes) was 'mostly dead,' so Inigo and his friend Fezzik bring him to Miracle Max (Crystal) to perform a miracle and revive Westley. 9 Andre the Giant, Mandy Patinkin and Wallace Shawn in 'The Princess Bride' in 1987. 20th Century Fox Licensing/Merchandising / Everett Collection 9 Robin Wright, Andre the Giant, and Mandy Patinkin in 'The Princess Bride.' Everett Collection ( 'I bruised a rib holding in my laughter,' he recalled. 'I had to be off camera holding a straight face because [Billy] couldn't see, because he had cataract contacts.' Advertisement Patinkin and Grody, 78, were together at the time the film debuted. 'I remember sitting at the first screening [of 'The Princess Bride'], and man, he just went, 'This story works.' He couldn't get over that he was in a movie where the story worked,' she told the Post. 9 Carol Kane and Billy Crystal in 'The Princess Bride.' 20th Century Fox Licensing/Merchandising / Everett Collection 9 Mandy Patinkin, Andre the Giant, Cary Elwes, Carol Kane and Billy Crystal in 'The Princess Bride.' ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection Advertisement Patinkin even got emotional at the first screening. 'I'm a big crybaby, so I was starting to cry,' he said. '[Reiner had the cast watch a rough cut] where, music was rough, lines were going through edits and stuff like that.' 'I remember saying, 'I haven't even had time to dream of being in a movie like this.' I couldn't believe that it happened,' Patinkin said. 'And, you know, I've gotten more dreams than any human being deserves, in terms of being able to do their work.'
New York Post
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Mandy Patinkin, Kathryn Grody reveal secret to marriage: 'Not easy'
These two Hollywood legends are seasoned. Mandy Patinkin and his wife, Kathryn Grody, put their relationship onscreen while playing versions of themselves in their new TV series, 'Seasoned.' The idea for the show originated when 'The Princess Bride' star, 72, and Grody, 78, became unlikely Tiktok stars during the 2020 COVID pandemic. 'During the pandemic when everybody was terrified, including us, it surprised us that what was being captured could offer any kind of comfort to people,' Grody said, referring to how their videos went viral. The couple currently has over 2 million TikTok followers. 8 Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody attending the Tony Awards party at the Hilton Hotel in New York, June 8th 1980. Getty Images 8 Mandy Patinkin with his wife Kathryn Grody at their Video interview with the New York Post on June 11, 2025. Brian Zak/Page Six 8 Mandy Patinkin in 'The Princess Bride' in 1987. Everett Collection ( 'So that felt like a service that was helping other people and helping us get through it. And we found a lot of joy and pleasure in it, and led to working in the 2020 election, which felt even more significant,' Grody, a writer and Broadway star, added. 'The pleasure of working together did make us say 'yes' to anything.' Co-created by Ewen Wright and their real-life son, Gideon Grody-Patinkin, 'Seasoned' premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 11, and is currently looking for a buyer (it was originally set to air on Showtime, then got dropped amid reshuffling). The show follows Patinkin and Grody playing exaggerated versions of themselves (a la 'Curb Your Enthusiasm') as they have various comedic misadventures – such as not being able to get a table in a New York City restaurant, even when Patinkin name drops his past roles to the oblivious hostess. 8 Mandy Patinkin (center), Kathryn Grody and their son during 'Snow White' Anniversary Premiere at Radio City Music Hall in New York City in 1987. Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images 8 Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody in 'Seasoned.' Showtime The 'Homeland' star and Grody have been married for over four decades, since 1980. They met doing a play called 'Split' at the Ensemble Studio Theater in NYC in 1978. 'I wouldn't ask her out until the play was over, because I got burned once, with somebody I was working with. When the play was over, we went out for the first brunch on Sunday at the Black Sheep Tavern at Greenwich and Washington Street on the corner,' Patinkin recalled to The Post. The 'Yentl' star walked in carrying flowers that he'd bought on his way over. 8 Mandy Patinkin with his wife Kathryn Grody and 'Seaoned' co-creators Ewen Wright and Gideon Grody-Patinkin. Brian Zak/Page Six 'I handed them to her and I said, 'I'm going to marry you.' And she said, 'You don't know what you're talking about. You're an actor, and a baby and you're gonna get hurt.'' Their son Gideon told The Post that he attributes their relationship success to 'having time apart' and having interests and work that give them 'space from each other.' Grody agreed that it helped that the couple was in 'different realms.' 'I did not have any interest particularly in television or movies,' she said. 'I think it helped that we really weren't at all competitive. I was very lucky, because I had a husband who enabled me to do an Off-Broadway play and be with my kids.' 8 Mandy Patinkin (L) and Kathryn Grody attend the 66th Annual Tony Awards at the Beacon Theatre on June 10, 2012 in New York City. FilmMagic 8 Mandy Patinkin as Saul Berenson and Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison in a 2014 episode of 'Homeland.' David Bloomer/SHOWTIME Patinkin revealed what he thinks is the secret to their relationship's longevity, too. 'I believe that when you meet someone, however old you are, whoever it is that you meet, look for that feeling that you can't explain, that you have no words for. Because the s–t will hit the fan down the road. And you will never forget that feeling when you're alone, quiet, and calming down from your fury. And that feeling will be the glue of your foreverness.' The Emmy-winning actor added about his wife, 'That's what we have. I'd never met anyone like her. And I knew it. And we've made it through a lot, and we're going to have a lot more to make it through. It's thrilling to me – that I have her to get through it with. Because it's not easy sometimes.'
Los Angeles Times
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody hope their ‘out of the box' comedy gets new life at Tribeca
When Mandy Patinkin was first handed a list of potential storylines for the television comedy 'Seasoned,' in which he co-stars with wife Kathryn Grody, he was a little taken aback. ''This is completely out of the box,'' he remembers thinking. ''This is the most original thing I think maybe I've ever seen. I don't think I can do this.'' But then his son, Gideon Grody-Patinkin, one of the co-writers on the project, had a way to convince him he was up to the task. On a video call with Grody, Grody-Patinkin, and director Ewen Wright, Patinkin explains that Grody-Patinkin reminded him that he's always playing intense, dark roles like his Emmy-nominated stint on 'Homeland.' ''You always say you want a break from it,'' Patinkin recalls his offspring saying. ''This is just you. Just be you. Just show up. Come to work. It should be very freeing.' Well, from the mouths of babes, he was a trillion percent right.' And it's true: Speaking with Grody and Patinkin on Zoom is not that dissimilar from watching them in the pilot of 'Seasoned,' which premieres Sunday at the Tribeca Festival. In the episode, Grody and Patinkin play lightly fictionalized versions of themselves scouring New York for a place to eat dinner on their anniversary after they miss their reservation because Kathryn spent too long chatting with friends after a play. That leads to Mandy having a breakdown over a falafel truck driving away. On our call, Patinkin clasps his arm around Grody, showering her with affection and telling her he adores her as she bursts out laughing. They casually bicker and lightly razz one another. ('Give me anything but rice and vegetables,' he jokes about their nightly dinners.) It's a dynamic that was also on display in the viral videos they starred in, after encouragement from Grody-Patinkin, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Wright, a friend of Grody-Patinkin, joined their team when they began to direct their efforts to get out the vote for Joe Biden during the 2020 election. Almost immediately, networks came sniffing, wondering if they could put the Grody and Patinkin show on a bigger platform. Grody-Patinkin says they turned down multiple reality offers, but when Patinkin was approached about whether he had anything he wanted to make, he realized he wanted to continue working with Wright. Wright, meanwhile, wanted to keep it all in the family. 'Obviously working with Mandy in any capacity would be thrilling and exciting and fruitful,' Wright says. 'But the secret sauce, to just cut you down a little bit Mandy, is adding Kathryn.' Grody-Patinkin and Wright, who serve as writers, came up with a list of over 50 potential episodes. They shot the pilot in July 2022 and Showtime, Patinkin's former 'Homeland' base, picked up the series for a six-episode season. They submitted scripts just before the 2023 writers' strike hit. Once production resumed, the cable channel dropped the project. 'Showtime was amazingly gracious about letting us know, like, do not take this as a creative slight,' Wright says. 'This was purely a business decision in the middle of a crazy moment in the industry.' But none of the foursome wanted to let 'Seasoned' go. Tribeca is a chance for it to get a new life. Grody remains optimistic. 'It's an expression that sounds better in Spanish — my older son says I overuse it — and it's not always true, but 'there's nothing so bad that good can't come from it,'' she says, noticing a bit of exasperation hit Grody-Patinkin's face. 'I just don't know how that phrase enters nine out of 10 of our family conversations,' Grody-Patinkin says. Patinkin adds, 'Learn it in Spanish by now.' In part, they are looking to recreate the rush they got from making the pilot, which Patinkin describes as 'frigging thrilling.' The septuagenarian actors shot for five days straight from about 4 p.m. to 6 a.m. 'I know it's hard to believe looking at us, but we're not 30 years old,' Patinkin says. Grody interrupts, 'But we're not 100 either,' to which Patinkin adds, 'No, but we're not 30. And we really were thrilled at our ability to stay awake, to keep focused and to not kill each other.' Grody is more used to live theater than television or film, but she got a kick out of the crew laughing at footage of her running around wearing a camera that captures a close-up of her face. 'I don't care if I look like some other species, it made them laugh,' she says. 'That was really fun.' On social media, Grody and Patinkin are still posting videos that range from the silly (drawing on each other's faces) to the serious (speaking out for causes including Gaza aid and the climate). That mix of goofiness and genuine advocacy is part of the reason Grody is so passionate about having the rest of 'Seasoned' made. 'It blows apart assumptions about behavior, about relationships of people our age,' she says. 'I would hope it would be encouraging for young people to not be so frightened about getting to be older in this fakakta culture that is so youth-obsessed and so frightened about the privilege of getting older.' Wright acknowledges that the show he and Grody-Patinkin wrote is that way because of who Grody and Patinkin are. 'You know my joke is I didn't expect my muses to be a Jewish couple in their 70s,' he says. 'And that's because of everything they're expressing about how they approach life. It's in who they are.' But while the characters of Mandy and Kathryn aren't that different from Patinkin and Grody themselves, the scenarios are not entirely taken from real life. One script has them going to a sexy party, and, for what it's worth, Patinkin has never pulled out an Inigo Montoya impression to try to get a table at a restaurant. He has, however, used his star power to try to get Wright and his young son into a sold-out Disneyland. At first it didn't work, but eventually an employee recognized him. 'We got in and we had a great time,' Wright says.
