Yeah. This is how we do it in Bucharest, baby:

MonkeyFace Totem-Pole…Romanian style.

Because he always plays the serious-as-a-heart-attack heavy, nobody has any idea how hugely hilarious he is. The Jackals and I have been routinely doing the MonkeyFace for twenty years, so it is nothing if not second nature to me. My darling comrade and colleague was new to the concept, but he gave it his all, and for that, I adore him eternally.

The first time I met him was at the table read. He came into the room, smiled right at me and proceeded to sit in the chair right next to mine; because we are both huge belly laughers, we were peas and carrots right from the start. During the read, the most amazing thing happened — something that I’ve never experienced before or since: that famous voice of his is so incredibly sonorous, that whenever he read his lines aloud, even sitting two or three feet away from him, I could feel his words reverberate in my chest. So odd!

At any rate, one night during the shoot, we were all privileged enough to have been taken to eat at the finest restaurant in Bucharest. The fucking BELLY SCREAMING stories he told over dinner were legendary — even in hell. And when, after all the plates were cleared and the hooch was flowing liberally, that glorious son-of-a-bitch leaned across the table at me, held a single wizened finger in the air and, regarding a famously beautiful and toothy actress from the 70s, slurred in that infamous voice of his, “That bitch loses one tooth and she’s out of the business!”, we belly laughed so long and so hard…I swear to christ, I saw god.

He’s so goddamned ALL, you can’t even believe it, and I cannot wait to work with him again someday. He’s the real deal. He’s true blue.

He’s bonafide.

Me and Fancy Lancie get stacked on the set of Madhouse in Bucharest, Romania.