Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans

486 00:34:43,414 --> 00:34:44,608 Yeah. 487 00:34:44,715 --> 00:34:48,082 This was my home for three months, man. 488 00:34:48,186 --> 00:34:51,781 The people my dad or Solar rented it from, 489 00:34:51,856 --> 00:34:54,051 they lived on that floor, there. 490 00:34:54,158 --> 00:34:57,127 And they had a nutty daughter, if I remember. 491 00:34:57,195 --> 00:35:00,494 We pulled in here, and she was chasing a chicken around. 492 00:35:00,565 --> 00:35:02,556 And she had a fucking ax in her hand. 493 00:35:02,667 --> 00:35:04,601 And she grabbed it and cut its fucking 494 00:35:04,669 --> 00:35:06,830 head off, right in front of us. 495 00:35:06,904 --> 00:35:09,372 It was the first time I ever saw a chicken running 496 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:12,238 around with no head right here. 497 00:35:12,343 --> 00:35:14,334 I'd come from Brentwood. 498 00:35:18,583 --> 00:35:21,609 NEILE ADAMS: I didn't want to go to Le Mans. 499 00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:25,246 However, because Chad had been doing badly in school, 500 00:35:25,356 --> 00:35:26,983 I said, OK. 501 00:35:27,058 --> 00:35:30,391 If you improve your grades, we'll go. 502 00:35:30,461 --> 00:35:33,225 And he did, so I had to go. 503 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:40,996 I used to wait right out here to see dad's Porsche coming up. 504 00:35:44,108 --> 00:35:45,234 ANNOUNCER: The fact that you're here 505 00:35:45,309 --> 00:35:47,004 with the likes of Hertz and-- 506 00:35:47,111 --> 00:35:50,706 Would you like some gum? 507 00:35:50,781 --> 00:35:52,612 Thank you. 508 00:35:52,717 --> 00:35:58,212 When the flower children came along, everything changed. 509 00:35:58,289 --> 00:36:00,655 Everything changed. 510 00:36:00,758 --> 00:36:03,784 He was almost 40. 511 00:36:03,895 --> 00:36:06,762 There was suddenly free sex, and free love, and free 512 00:36:06,831 --> 00:36:08,458 this, and free everything. 513 00:36:08,566 --> 00:36:10,090 He said to me one day. 514 00:36:10,168 --> 00:36:12,966 He said, I have to work so hard for love in this house. 515 00:36:13,070 --> 00:36:15,197 He said, I can get it for free out there. 516 00:36:19,010 --> 00:36:21,843 His conquest of women behind his wife's 517 00:36:21,946 --> 00:36:25,609 back probably averaged about a dozen women a week. 518 00:36:25,683 --> 00:36:28,550 It was a little less than two a day. 519 00:36:28,653 --> 00:36:30,678 They wanted to say, I had sex with Steve McQueen. 520 00:36:40,798 --> 00:36:45,735 He loved cars, liquor, women, and he was interesting, 521 00:36:45,803 --> 00:36:47,168 and cool, and dangerous. 522 00:36:47,271 --> 00:36:48,761 See, they liked the danger in him. 523 00:36:51,642 --> 00:36:53,473 Whatever Steve's activities might 524 00:36:53,544 --> 00:36:57,537 have been when he had a break in the afternoon, so to speak. 525 00:37:01,052 --> 00:37:02,542 His trailer was never empty. 526 00:37:18,669 --> 00:37:21,604 I had came from the Royal Dramatic School in Stockholm, 527 00:37:21,672 --> 00:37:23,503 and I was there for the job. 528 00:37:26,344 --> 00:37:27,936 Only if you'd like it better. 529 00:37:31,983 --> 00:37:33,814 He had something hidden. 530 00:37:33,884 --> 00:37:39,550 Maybe that also made him attractive on the screen. 531 00:37:39,657 --> 00:37:46,460 And as a woman, that's something that I want to get to know. 532 00:37:46,530 --> 00:37:48,828 I don't know who cast her. 533 00:37:48,899 --> 00:37:52,699 Think Steve had an eye for her. 534 00:37:52,770 --> 00:37:53,702 She appealed to him. 535 00:37:53,771 --> 00:37:54,897 She was an attractive lady. 536 00:37:58,075 --> 00:38:04,014 My respect for him was not as big as his for me. 537 00:38:04,081 --> 00:38:07,414 We shared this thing about the accident. 538 00:38:19,263 --> 00:38:22,755 I had worked for Steve about two years, 539 00:38:22,867 --> 00:38:25,995 almost, before we did "Le Mans." 540 00:38:26,070 --> 00:38:28,937 I was involved more with the car racing 541 00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,838 and other personal matters. 542 00:38:35,479 --> 00:38:37,310 I had dinner together with Steve, 543 00:38:37,415 --> 00:38:42,284 and the count and the countess from whom he rented this castle 544 00:38:42,386 --> 00:38:45,014 in which he was living. 545 00:38:45,089 --> 00:38:45,748 He would drive me home. 546 00:38:48,959 --> 00:38:51,894 It was like 12:00, 1 o'clock in the morning. 547 00:38:51,962 --> 00:38:54,294 And Steve comes into my room and says, come on. 548 00:38:54,398 --> 00:38:55,763 We've got to go. 549 00:38:55,833 --> 00:38:57,095 Where are we going? Why don't we go tomorrow? 550 00:38:57,168 --> 00:38:57,862 I'm tired. 551 00:38:57,968 --> 00:38:59,094 I haven't slept. 552 00:38:59,170 --> 00:39:01,764 He told me to screw myself and said, 553 00:39:01,839 --> 00:39:02,