![]() ![]() It was typical of Wilder’s sweetness that he claimed Pryor’s lateness was limited to just 90 minutes – according to Pryor it could easily be more than half a day. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images With, Zero Mostel and Lee Meredith in The Producers, directed by Mel Brooks. He blessed every film we did with his magic & he blessed me with his friendship.” “I would say it had some minor importance, yes.”įor his part, Brooks put it like this: “Everything Gene did for me was angelic and supreme.” When news of Wilder’s death broke, Brooks, now 90, tweeted: “Gene Wilder – One of the truly great talents of our time. Wilder burst out laughing: “When God spoke to Moses the first time, would you ask him, ‘Was that significant in your life?’” he replied, still chortling. In a PBS documentary about Brooks, Wilder was asked if he thought his initial meeting with Brooks was significant. As a writer-director combination, they were as natural and well-matched as Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. Wilder’s work with Brooks produced arguably both of their best work: The Producers, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. Willy Wonka aside, Wilder will forever be best known for his long relationships with three of the best-loved American comedians to have emerged in the 1960s and 70s: Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor and Gilda Radner. However, it was in Wilder’s collaborations that the shrewdness and generosity of this famously kind man really shone through. ![]()
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