By Roger Moore
ORLANDO, Fla. – It’s “kind of a nothing, a throw-away moment” in the middle of the new big-screen comedy “Last Vegas.” But for just a single short scene, director Jon Turteltaub stuffed five Oscar winners into a minivan, bickering, joshing around and glorying in each other’s presence.
“A LOT of giggling, that day,” Turteltaub says.
“That was my favorite day,” gushes Mary Steenburgen, 60, who won her Oscar for “Melvin and Howard.” “We just sat in there telling our best movie stories, talking about people we knew in common, first getting to New York, our first jobs. If you’re going to be thrown into a cab crammed with that many people, I can’t imagine four more delightful companions to share the experience with. Those men!”
“Those men” are Morgan Freeman (“Million Dollar Baby”), Kevin Kline (“A Fish Called Wanda”), Robert DeNiro (“The Godfather,” “Raging Bull”) and Michael Douglas (“Wall Street”). And yeah, they were having a good time.