Matthew Modine’s Full Metal Vision Quest

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Vision Quest turned 40 this year, and Matthew Modine joins to talk about the movie that changed his life, and the course of his acting career. He talks about playing Louden Swain, the impact that Madonna & “Crazy For You” had on the film’s success, and influence the movie had on UFC’s Dana White. He also shares some great stories from Full Metal Jacket, including beating out Val Kilmer for the role of James T. “Joker” David, the best direction he got from Stanley Kubrick, and helping his friend Vincent D’Onofrio land the role of “Pyle.” Matthew talks doing his own stunts on Cutthroat Island, having giant cockroaches dumped on his face multiple times during the filming of Pacific Heights, and being recognized as “Papa” from Stranger Things in a tiny, remote Italian town. Purchase tickets to the Vision Quest special screening Sunday, March 9th in Spokane, WA. https://foxtheaterspokane.org/event/vision-quest/ Purchase tickets to the Vision Quest special screening Thursday, March 13th in New York, NY. https://www.paristheaternyc.com/film/vision-quest-romance STAY CONNECTED: TikTok: @ChrisJericho Instagram: @talkisjericho @chrisjerichofozzy X: @TalkIsJericho @IAmJericho YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChrisJerichoFozzy Website: https://www.webisjericho.com/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Talk is Jericho, baby.
0:05.0	Talk is Jericho.
0:07.0	Talk is Jericho, Mama, talk is me.
0:13.0	Here we are with Matthew Modin.
0:15.0	And we have met before, if you remember, probably about 25 years ago at the Super Skate in Madison Square Garden,
0:24.7	the Christopher Reeve Super Skate, the hockey game. Yeah, I took a bad fall that day. Did you?
0:29.9	Yeah, I didn't have the trainer. He said, you know what your problem is, Modin? Your skates are not
0:35.5	tight enough. So he took that hook that they used to pull
0:39.0	the laces tighter. And I couldn't feel my feet when I went out on the ice. And I didn't, I didn't
0:45.2	have my, my hat strapped on. I just couldn't negotiate those tight skates, the way, the way he'd
0:51.7	tighten them up. Right. And I fell over backwards on the back of my head.
0:56.7	I definitely should have gone into concussion protocol.
1:00.7	I mean, I just, I feel like I still have a flat spot on the back of my head from Madison
1:06.0	Square Garden Ice.
1:07.5	How did you get involved in that game in the first place?
1:09.8	Did you used to play hockey in school or
1:11.5	something? I never played hockey. I wasn't a skater. No, I played basketball and soccer and football
1:18.1	and ran track and field and did the pole vault. No, I was not a skater. They didn't have skating
1:24.3	remarkably in Utah. Oh, wow. Only recently. skating remarkably in Utah.
1:27.9	Oh, wow.
1:28.8	Only recently.
1:29.5	Yeah, in Utah.
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