Not many people can say they’ve worked with Spielberg, Scorsese,
and Coppolla and neither can Robert Bear. He knew from a young age
that if he couldn’t work with the biggest directors in Hollywood
then he’d have to find an up and coming independent director who he
could bully around. In came Andy Wiest. Robert and Andy met on set.
Little did they know it was the beginning of a long and beautiful
relationship. Several projects later, it would be Robert who tricked
three other actors from LA to join Andy’s scheme, Pizza, Pesos, and
Pistoleros. Andy possessed an amazing skill to create fascinating films for a next to nothing budget, but that skill couldn’t save him from one fact. . .he was smaller than Robert and Robert needed someone to pick on. And so it was. Andy would tell Robert, “Maybe this time try it with your lines memorized,” and Robert would tell him, “Shut your pie hole and change the oil in my truck”! It would only take Andy ten minutes and Robert’s truck would run like a dream. Robert’s destiny was revealed. He was to become an actor and treat everyone else around him like trash. Since then it has been an honor for Robert to be an egotistical actor, pushin’ around people who don’t belong on his planet. What an honor... no.. no.. no.. the honor’s all mine.