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Episode 1445 - Ben Kingsley

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

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Never Take No for an Answer

My tribal function is a storyteller. That is my round peg into my round hole, tribally. Have you always thought that way? When I was four years old, I was taken to the cinema to watch a most beautiful film called Never Take No for an Answer. It was directed by Havlok Ellis. The story is of a little Italian boy clearly orphaned after the Allied bombing of Italy. And his companion and his soul possession and his love is his donkey, Violetta. He's like the little LORD MAYOR of the village. His donkey becomes fatal ill. He asks the local priest if he can take the donkey into the chapel of St Francis of Ass

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