April 30, 2001 - Robert Patrick - Regis and Kelly
Transcribed by Megan - xfroadrunners.com
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Regis: You may remember our
next guest for his performance
in "terminator II" judgement day.
Arnold schwarzenegger's nemesis.
Currently starring on "x-files,"
here's robert patrick.

[ Cheers and applause ]

Regis: Congratulations.

RP: Thank you.

Kelly: Now, you look dangerous.

Regis: Absolutely.

RP: Do i really?

Regis: The perfect guy for
"x-files."
You got that look about you.

RP: I look like an fbi agent.

Regis: Even more menacing
than that.

RP: Maybe i could be an alien or
something?
Is that what you're saying?

Kelly: Possibly.
We don't know.

Regis: Yeah.
Absolutely.
So, anyway, congratulations.

RP: Thank you regis.

Regis: Great show.
Plum role.

RP: An amazing experience.
We just wrapped last week, and
the growth they did with the
character is phenomenal.
It's actually one of the best
once i've ever done, and it fits
so nice into my life right now.

Regis: I bet everybody
remembers you working with schwarzenegger and "the terminator."

RP: That seems to be the big
thing.

Regis: That fight scene you
had there.

RP: Yeah.

[ Applause ]

RP: I had a heck of a time doing the
fight scene with arnold.
Remember in the movie i had this
large -- rod, and i was beating
arnold over the back, and he had
that prossthetic arm.
I was supposed to hit the
prosthetic.
I missed and hit his real arm.
He turned over and looked add me
ah, rob, that was my real arm.
He was such a pro.
Never flinched.
It was a great tape.
For the rest of the movie i sat
there waiting, what's the
retaliation going to be?

Regis: Right.

RP: How you doing, buddy?

Regis: He and arnold are
still close.
When we come back, we'll show
you a clip from the new guy in
"x-files."
Okay?

[commercial break]

Regis: Robert patrick from
"x-files" with us now.
A life-alters experience years
ago that you had got you
involved as an actor?

RP: I had done acting as a child.
Right after college, i really
was sort of wandering around.
I wasn't sure what i wanted to
do.
I was in a boating accident on
lake erie that happened very
fast, and i ended up having to
swim for about 3 1/2 hours to
get to the shore of cleveland,
and during that time while i was
swimming, of course, i was
telling myself, if i make it, if
i don't stop swimming, if i keep
swimming, i'll try to follow
through on some of the things i
thought i wanted to do.
Acting being one of them.
Two months later, i was in
hollywood.
It was a major kick in the side
of the head, we'll say.

Regis: Sometimes it takes
something like that to get you
kick started.

RP: For me it did.
I had a fear of actually trying
to fulfill this.

Regis: It happened.
I don't know if i could swim for
3 1/2 hours.
That's something.

RP: It really easy.

Regis: Let's look at a clip.
In this particular scene, agent
doggett is --

[Robert Patrick Looks Away]

RP: i'm sorry.

Regis: We'll take care of
that.
You look at us.

Kelly: We're professionals
here.

RP: Follow direction.
Okay.

Regis: He's not sure about
whether he's feeling guilty over
the death of his son.
He's not sure he did everything
possible to prevent the tragedy.
Take a look.

[Clip of Doggett and Reyes from Empedocles:]

Doggett: I got to believe i did
everything i could to save him.
To get him back safe.
To not let him down.
I got to believe that i did
everything humanly possible,
because if i can't believe that,
and these other possibilities
that you talk about, that mulder
talks about, that agent scully
talks about, if they're real, if
they're real, then --
that's something else i could
have done to save my son.

[end X-Files clip]

Regis: Good voice.
Huh?
Strong.
John doggett from "x-files."

Kelly: Robert patrick!
                      
Regis: Having a lot of fun
with robert patrick.
Don't forget, john doggett, the
new character on "x-files."

[ applause ]