‘A producer said: “Great – but can he dance?” So we got him to move like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever’
The second I read the script, about a robot becoming self-aware after being struck by lightning, I put it down and said: “This is a hit.” It was a timeless story about an underdog, a friendship and being an outsider. It also had John Badham as director who had done Saturday Night Fever and War Games. He knew how to make a movie like this work. It felt like a piece that was going to be around a long time and I grabbed it with both hands.
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Originally posted in the guardian.
