July 24, 2025 • 7 mins
We talk about today's "La Bamba" anniversary, whether Chavez shows up in "Young Guns 3," and his latest film, "Et Tu."
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am not one of those hack radio hosts who
is going to welcome Lou Diamond Phillips onto the program
with La Bamba. So this is actually one of my
favorite scenes from that movie is the repetition of singing
this line over and over again by Richie Fallens played
(00:20):
in the film La Bamba by Lou Diamond Phillips, who
joins us now on eleven ten KFA b Lou, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Good morning, Scott, how are you? And you know what's
so funny that you first of all, that you played
that really tickles me that you know that you went
and left the center with kamm Let's go. But today
is literally the thirty eighth anniversary of when the film
premiere July twenty fourth, nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I want to ask you about so much, including this
new film A two, but let's spend a moment here
on LaBamba, because you brought that music and that story
to my generation. I mean, that was my parents' music, buddy, Holly,
Richie Fallons, big bopper, you brought that music and that
story to me. And of course clear like Iowa just
(01:05):
a few hours from us here in Omaha Council Bluffs,
and yeah, thirty eight years ago. Today is when Lebamba came.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Out absolutely crazy. And you know, I think you, like,
you know, like me and many many other people might
have been tangentially aware of Richie. You know, he was
a little bit of a footnote in Buddy Holly's story
because Buddy was such a big, big presence. It was
wonderful that we were able to bring Richie's story to
(01:33):
the forefront. I mean, I did not know he was
seventeen years old. I did not know that he came from,
you know, a farm worker family. And it's just today
it's still even as resonant as ever, you know, about
a young man from a marginalized community with the American
dream and you know, looking to take his place at
the table. And and that's why it still affects people today.
(01:56):
We literally had a screening of it a couple of
years ago at the Academy Museum and I donated that
green guitar that I kept for thirty seven years. You know,
but it still sells out. It's still you know, whenever
there's a special screening of it, you know, tons of
people show up.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
It's an important movie. It's a great story to tell,
and you were so wonderful in that role. It was
really the first time that most American audiences had a
chance to see you. Of course, since then, everything from
Stand and Deliver to Young Guns to one of my
friend Lucy Chapman's favorite shows, Long Long Meyer. She is
(02:31):
a huge Longmire fan. Go ahead, you in Long Longmire
Days in twenty fifteen, you weren't there.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I'm always working, but listen, it is a beautiful day
at the Red Podine, continue les soiree. Yes, you know
that Zon is from Omaha.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
He's from right down the street from our studio.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Oh my goodness. Yeah, so you know. Unfortunately, yes, Long
May Days is still going on. Craig Johnson is still
a very cool friend. But I have never been able
to make it out. I mean, thank goodness for me.
I work a lot, and so yeah, yeah, whenever the
Pocketbook calls there, I gotta go excellent.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Well, yeah, lou Diamond Phillips is a very busy man, Lucy.
And it was a couple of years ago you made
this film called A two, And there are a lot
of people who don't know how to classify this movie.
It's a drama, it's a comedy, it's a horror movie.
Tell me about this film.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
And you know what, that's exactly right. And that's exactly
the reason I did it, because it defies categorization. I
when I first read it, I thought, oh my gosh,
this is what a what a weird little hybrid film
this is. But it's just so clever and and and
and intelligent. I mean, the reason it's taken so long
to get to us is that it played film festivals
(03:49):
for the last couple of years. We took Best Picture
at a number of them. I took Best Actor at
the Los Angeles Film Festival. And it is it's a
it's a horror thriller, black comedy, and a bit of
a character study. I play a director, Brent, who has
mounted a regional production of Julius Caesar. And you know,
(04:11):
he's he's an elitist, he's a purist. He's very very
much an artist with a capital A and and he
demands a lot of his cast. But he's come to
suspect that the young leading man who's playing Brutus is
having an affair with his wife, and so that, in
true Sakespearean fashion, you know, the jealousy starts, and the
(04:31):
paranoia and the rage and the revenge, and yeah, it's
it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
You famously have portrayed the King of Siam and the
King and I on a lot of different forms, including Broadway.
So how much of your own stage experience was brought
into your role here as the director who is not
happy about this stage production a lot?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I mean, that's one of the things that really rang
true to me in Max sanis the writer director, or
in his wife and is his best friend who's a cinematographer.
You know, they're they're they're all really wonderful young artists
who are very ambitious, and uh, they they really epitomize
why I I still do independent film. Uh I just
I just did the Fire. You know, the fire is
(05:16):
very hot with him. And you know, being on stage,
I mean so much of it, So much of the
theater tropes are in this, but they're true, you know,
uh you know, the diva actors and and the ones
who don't know their lines and uh you know the
prop people and uh you know, in front of a
live audience and all and all of that stuff. And
it's uh, it was it was a real joy to
(05:36):
you know, kind of replicate that and and and to embody,
somebody who uh who takes you know that that passion
to the nth degree.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Look for a two in theaters and soon after streaming
services starting this weekend, starring Lou Diamond Phillips and Malcolm
McDowell is in this as well. Before we let you
go here, Lou, I know that that's probably not a
great chance of this, But is there any chance as
we're hearing Emilio Estevez talk about a Young Guns three,
(06:05):
is there any chance that Chavez is still with us
in some forms?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Oh? Yes, Young Guns three is happening. Emilio wrote it,
he will be directing it, and yeah, Chavez is going
to be back. And people go, how how well I
died off camera? So you know, it seems and they go,
but the Spirit Horse, I said, yes, nobody was on
the Spirit Horse's back. Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I love that Young Guns too. True or false? Young
Guns two is a better movie than Young Guns, I
would have to agree.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I prefer it. It's more of a big screen western.
The first one was a rock and roll Western, and
we never would have gotten the second one had we
not made the first one. But the second one has
much bigger, sort of classic western sensibility.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Love it. We ask all of our favorite guests on
this program to say a line for us that we
feel is the best thing to hear first thing in
the morning. Would you be so kind as to say,
good morning, honey, I made you pancakes for breakfast.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Good morning, honey, I made you pancakes for breakfast.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
If we had more time, I'd ask you to say
it like Antonio Banderas, but maybe next time.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
No, I can do it for you really quickly. Good morning, Darling,
I made you pancakes for breakfast.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I love your Antonio Banderas impression. Lou Diamond, Philip's been
a pleasure. Thank you so much for the lifetime of entertainment,
and we look forward to talking to you again.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Sounds great. Thank you,
I am not one of those hack radio hosts who
is going to welcome Lou Diamond Phillips onto the program
with La Bamba. So this is actually one of my
favorite scenes from that movie is the repetition of singing
this line over and over again by Richie Fallens played
(00:20):
in the film La Bamba by Lou Diamond Phillips, who
joins us now on eleven ten KFA b Lou, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Good morning, Scott, how are you? And you know what's
so funny that you first of all, that you played
that really tickles me that you know that you went
and left the center with kamm Let's go. But today
is literally the thirty eighth anniversary of when the film
premiere July twenty fourth, nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I want to ask you about so much, including this
new film A two, but let's spend a moment here
on LaBamba, because you brought that music and that story
to my generation. I mean, that was my parents' music, buddy, Holly,
Richie Fallons, big bopper, you brought that music and that
story to me. And of course clear like Iowa just
(01:05):
a few hours from us here in Omaha Council Bluffs,
and yeah, thirty eight years ago. Today is when Lebamba came.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Out absolutely crazy. And you know, I think you, like,
you know, like me and many many other people might
have been tangentially aware of Richie. You know, he was
a little bit of a footnote in Buddy Holly's story
because Buddy was such a big, big presence. It was
wonderful that we were able to bring Richie's story to
(01:33):
the forefront. I mean, I did not know he was
seventeen years old. I did not know that he came from,
you know, a farm worker family. And it's just today
it's still even as resonant as ever, you know, about
a young man from a marginalized community with the American
dream and you know, looking to take his place at
the table. And and that's why it still affects people today.
(01:56):
We literally had a screening of it a couple of
years ago at the Academy Museum and I donated that
green guitar that I kept for thirty seven years. You know,
but it still sells out. It's still you know, whenever
there's a special screening of it, you know, tons of
people show up.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
It's an important movie. It's a great story to tell,
and you were so wonderful in that role. It was
really the first time that most American audiences had a
chance to see you. Of course, since then, everything from
Stand and Deliver to Young Guns to one of my
friend Lucy Chapman's favorite shows, Long Long Meyer. She is
(02:31):
a huge Longmire fan. Go ahead, you in Long Longmire
Days in twenty fifteen, you weren't there.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I'm always working, but listen, it is a beautiful day
at the Red Podine, continue les soiree. Yes, you know
that Zon is from Omaha.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
He's from right down the street from our studio.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Oh my goodness. Yeah, so you know. Unfortunately, yes, Long
May Days is still going on. Craig Johnson is still
a very cool friend. But I have never been able
to make it out. I mean, thank goodness for me.
I work a lot, and so yeah, yeah, whenever the
Pocketbook calls there, I gotta go excellent.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Well, yeah, lou Diamond Phillips is a very busy man, Lucy.
And it was a couple of years ago you made
this film called A two, And there are a lot
of people who don't know how to classify this movie.
It's a drama, it's a comedy, it's a horror movie.
Tell me about this film.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
And you know what, that's exactly right. And that's exactly
the reason I did it, because it defies categorization. I
when I first read it, I thought, oh my gosh,
this is what a what a weird little hybrid film
this is. But it's just so clever and and and
and intelligent. I mean, the reason it's taken so long
to get to us is that it played film festivals
(03:49):
for the last couple of years. We took Best Picture
at a number of them. I took Best Actor at
the Los Angeles Film Festival. And it is it's a
it's a horror thriller, black comedy, and a bit of
a character study. I play a director, Brent, who has
mounted a regional production of Julius Caesar. And you know,
(04:11):
he's he's an elitist, he's a purist. He's very very
much an artist with a capital A and and he
demands a lot of his cast. But he's come to
suspect that the young leading man who's playing Brutus is
having an affair with his wife, and so that, in
true Sakespearean fashion, you know, the jealousy starts, and the
(04:31):
paranoia and the rage and the revenge, and yeah, it's
it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
You famously have portrayed the King of Siam and the
King and I on a lot of different forms, including Broadway.
So how much of your own stage experience was brought
into your role here as the director who is not
happy about this stage production a lot?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I mean, that's one of the things that really rang
true to me in Max sanis the writer director, or
in his wife and is his best friend who's a cinematographer.
You know, they're they're they're all really wonderful young artists
who are very ambitious, and uh, they they really epitomize
why I I still do independent film. Uh I just
I just did the Fire. You know, the fire is
(05:16):
very hot with him. And you know, being on stage,
I mean so much of it, So much of the
theater tropes are in this, but they're true, you know,
uh you know, the diva actors and and the ones
who don't know their lines and uh you know the
prop people and uh you know, in front of a
live audience and all and all of that stuff. And
it's uh, it was it was a real joy to
(05:36):
you know, kind of replicate that and and and to embody,
somebody who uh who takes you know that that passion
to the nth degree.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Look for a two in theaters and soon after streaming
services starting this weekend, starring Lou Diamond Phillips and Malcolm
McDowell is in this as well. Before we let you
go here, Lou, I know that that's probably not a
great chance of this, But is there any chance as
we're hearing Emilio Estevez talk about a Young Guns three,
(06:05):
is there any chance that Chavez is still with us
in some forms?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Oh? Yes, Young Guns three is happening. Emilio wrote it,
he will be directing it, and yeah, Chavez is going
to be back. And people go, how how well I
died off camera? So you know, it seems and they go,
but the Spirit Horse, I said, yes, nobody was on
the Spirit Horse's back. Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I love that Young Guns too. True or false? Young
Guns two is a better movie than Young Guns, I
would have to agree.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I prefer it. It's more of a big screen western.
The first one was a rock and roll Western, and
we never would have gotten the second one had we
not made the first one. But the second one has
much bigger, sort of classic western sensibility.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Love it. We ask all of our favorite guests on
this program to say a line for us that we
feel is the best thing to hear first thing in
the morning. Would you be so kind as to say,
good morning, honey, I made you pancakes for breakfast.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Good morning, honey, I made you pancakes for breakfast.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
If we had more time, I'd ask you to say
it like Antonio Banderas, but maybe next time.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
No, I can do it for you really quickly. Good morning, Darling,
I made you pancakes for breakfast.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I love your Antonio Banderas impression. Lou Diamond, Philip's been
a pleasure. Thank you so much for the lifetime of entertainment,
and we look forward to talking to you again.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Sounds great. Thank you,
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