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...love-triangle movie Threesome. A jack-of-all-genres, Stephen has played a rider with the Pony Express on TV's Young Riders, an unwitting biosphere resident in the comedy Bio-Dome, and now a crimesolving New York City cop. In his new movie One Tough Cop, Stephen portrays Bo Dietl, a former NYPD officer who apprehended the men who viciously assaulted a New York City nun in 1981. Attired in slick black clothes and with even slicker hair, Stephen looked like a tough cop as he talked about his newest movie, and being one of the stars...
...What attracted you to the role of Bo Dietl in One Tough...
...were just fictionally telling a story about someone who really existed and [his] true-to-life experiences, everything you see in the movie happened, just names and places and sequences and realities, literally, have been altered. By no means would I want to try to do an imitation of Bo Dietl for the movie. So I was able to create for myself a lot of the character based on my vision. I spent a lot of time with Bo and talked to him about his life, about his methods and about his philosophies, and then incorporated what I wanted...
...real Bo Dietl had to approve you for the role of himself. What do you think convinced him that you were the right choice...
...threatened him! No, I'm kidding. Actually, I'm not. I went up to Bo and I said, "Look, you know, I'm the guy to play this part and if you don't see that you're an idiot." That's literally what I said to him. I thought it might be kind of interesting to challenge him in that way, just to see how he'd react, and if I didn't get the part I guess that wasn't a good idea. But I think that Bo kind of saw a lot of himself in that remark...