Days before I sat down for my conversation with John Lithgow, and purely by coincidence, I watched “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension” for the first time in decades. The movie passed its 40th anniversary in August and is mainly noteworthy for the number of superb actors you may have forgotten were in it – Lithgow included.
Mentioning this to the co-star of “The Old Man” made him break into a radiant smile. He hadn’t thought about that title for a long time either, he admitted. “It was hilarious. We didn’t know what we were doing,” he said.
