#1871 - Jon Peters

Jon Peters (0:12)

Alright, from Nolan, this is the first interview I've ever done except for Barbara Walters 30 years ago.

SPEAKER_2 (0:18)

Holy shit.

Jon Peters (0:19)

When the first question she asked me was, that was with Streisand at the time, she said, are you a hustler?

And I said, if you mean, do I hustle every fucking day of my life? Yes, I'm a hustler.

Joe Rogan (0:30)

What does that mean? Are you a hustler? What was she implying?

Jon Peters (0:32)

That I was using Barbara. That I was a hairdresser with the biggest star in the world.

Joe Rogan (0:39)

Isn't that crazy? She would never dare ask that question if you were a woman.

Jon Peters (0:43)

No.

Joe Rogan (0:44)

And you were with Roger Moore or whatever. Never?

Jon Peters (0:48)

She was angry.

Joe Rogan (0:52)

That's a wild question to ask someone. A person who's a hairdresser can't fall in love with some famous singer? That's not possible? Are they out of reach?

Jon Peters (1:05)

I think that the fact that I was making decisions for her or not making decisions, I was creating alternatives for her. And she was like, yeah, man. Star is Born was something that when I first read it, I called her and I said, I read this thing. She said, you schmuck, it's been made three times before. And she hung up the phone on me. That was 1976

And that's when I met Elvis.

Joe Rogan (1:28)

I went through your IMDB. Holy shit, have you produced a lot of movies?

Jon Peters (1:32)

Yeah, a lot of marijuana, man. A lot of getting fucked up, Jack.

Joe Rogan (1:38)

You made so many movies.

Jon Peters (1:39)

Yeah, over a hundred.

Joe Rogan (1:41)

That's incredible. That's incredible.

Jon Peters (1:43)

Yeah, because I always was a storyteller.

And as a kid, I didn't always tell the truth. But they were my stories. My life became my story. My stories became my life. The things that I'm doing today are things that I said I would do. I wanted to be... I was in love with Ali. I made Ali the life story of... I was in love with Presley. I wanted him to be in Star is Born. We flew up to Vegas and we met with him.

And he was so fat, he couldn't sit in a chair. He was about a hundred pounds overweight.

And he said, I got a problem, man. I got a problem. I said, what's your problem? He said, I'm having a fight with my girlfriend. And I said, what does that mean? He says, well, she's flying in my 747 for two hours. I haven't decided whether to let her land or not.

So yeah, so I've been lucky. I've been a really blessed lucky guy.

Joe Rogan (2:35)

Did you meet Elvis when he was doing karate?

Jon Peters (2:37)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:38)

So that was when he was Ed Parker's student?

Jon Peters (2:40)

No, no, no, no, no. I met him once when he was really fat.

And Colonel Parker called me and said, he wants to do the movie, but you can't be a part of it. So I called because I was a producer. I created it. I wrote it. There was my thing then. I was obsessed with this movie.

And the love story was me and Barbara. We copied it.

And Barbara said, fuck him. I said, fuck you. And so he didn't do it. And then later after the movie, Priscilla Presley called me and said to me, I got to tell you, he wanted to see it on opening day. And he did. And he cried that he didn't do it. Because I would have got to the other side of Elvis.

I would have got to the pain. I would have got to the feelings. I would have got past the other thing. It would have been gigantic. Because I saw that in him. I could feel the pain in him.

Joe Rogan (3:35)

So when you met him, it was towards the end then?

Jon Peters (3:39)

Yes, towards the end.

Joe Rogan (3:41)

Did you watch the film, the new one, the new Elvis movie?

Jon Peters (3:44)

Fantastic.

SPEAKER_4 (3:44)

It's amazing, right?

Jon Peters (3:46)

Yes, because they did it differently.

SPEAKER_4 (3:47)

Yeah, they did an amazing job.

Jon Peters (3:49)

They did a completely different take.

Joe Rogan (3:50)

It was amazing. Just the way it was edited and put together with all the things in between the scenes, it was incredible. It was so good.

That story is such a unique story because there had never been a person like him before that was that famous.