Working with John Wayne, James Stewart, Anne Bancroft, and John Ford! Exclusive with Irene Tsu

I remember that Bomb Threat, Rob. Made me mad as Hell at all them Hippies around me in High School too. My friends and I were totally against the Hippy Movement of BS Peace. 👍👍 10👑🤠🇺🇸

Very nice to hear Ms. Tsu talk about her experiences. Green Berets is a very good film because decades later it continues to be present in spite of the liberal dems who are anything but democratic. John Wayne continues to remain in the DNA of the United States and I hope that certain puppets and manipulators will be swept away as soon as possible.

What a nice lady. I’ve always had such a crush on her. 😁 I’m sure practically every guy did.

Another great interview Rob. This wonderful lady has had a long and varied career spanning over 6 decades. BTW it appears you have picked up some trolls who instead of appreciating the interview prefer to talk about the politics of a war from 60 years ago😉.

How interesting! Irene Tsu was in some really great movies! Flower Drum Song is one of my all-time favorites! The Green Berets had a stellar cast, including the great Jack Soo, who was also marvelous in Flower Drum Song.

My son is too young to have experienced the horror of that war, but is a big fan of WWII films in all of their formats. He saw this film recently and asked me if it was a government-sponsored propaganda tool. That's just how transparent and out of touch the film was and is. Not exactly a shining moment in the career of John Wayne. Your excellent interview reminded me that I haven't seen "7 Women" in far too long, at least, Rob. That's next on my list!

Such a timeless classic of a movie.

What a beauty!

Beautiful 🥰

Irene was in demand in the 60s. A very good actress.

Part of the Dukes awakening

Out of all of Duke's movies.......this one was always at the bottom of my list,......it never really clicked with me,.....😢.

Beautiful Irene had a wonderful guest starring role on the Laredo (1965~1967) western TV series episode "The Bitter Yen of General Ti."

John Wayne, promoting war, part of the military industrial complex, a real demonic person, could never really act ! A great party of the demonic deep state, did their bidding! Why do you think this bum had the opportunity to do over 150 films! You people better wake up to these Monster's! Yes it's all true! He's in hell where he belongs!

A CIA, asset, 100 percent!

Saw her in Hot Potato with Jim Kelly.

The movie made 32 and cost 7 made lots of money great the movie cost a lot money to make

Irene sounds like a real sweetheart. She holds her beauty well. Thanks, Rob.

"The Green Berets" attracts a lot of heat (as well as pretty much universally bad reviews) to this day for its unrealistic depiction of what became (but wasn't quite as much so then in 1968) a very unpopular war. And its heavy handed cloaked in patriotism anti communist message.
But it made money.
Hey, it was John Wayne fer goshsake, and while a lotta folks back then may have had a problem forgiving LBJ for the war, I think most of us find it easy to forgive the Duke past and present for just about anything.

Yes, a propaganda film, but a lot of those were made during WW2 as well (with Wayne famously appearing in quite a few of those, too), also unrealistic most of them, and similarly transparent in their message. Which was to support the war effort and buy bonds (message on screen after the closing credits)... and do your duty and enlist if you're able bodied, male aged 18-35 (You might even find an enlistment NCO of wunna the service branches waiting for you in the lobby in fact), or get a job in a defense plant.


Right to the present day we continue to see propaganda in films, television, and product commercials all the time, that even while selling their sponsor's toothpaste and deodorant, also subtly or not promote political agendas, schools of thought, what is and what's not socially acceptable, to promote beliefs or reject ways of thinking.
Like it or not we're exposed to it every day of our lives, and for me the trick is to reccognize what you're seeing in the case of film and tv as entertainment, and if you find any agenda driven stuff contained therein so irksome it spoils that aspect of it, then simply don't watch.
A lotta people hated "The Green Berets" but a lotta people liked it too, my guess even plenty who didn't care for its message either, but could get past that and view it the same way they would a Western, say. Where I doubt any of us who admired "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" for example, or "Fort Apache" were ever influenced by those films' jingoism to any real extent or were seriously inspired to go running out West to shoot Indians.

Another wonderful interview. Irene seemed to be in everything during the sixties and seventies. Thanks.

Irene Tsu is as gorgeous as ever and so truthfully insightful regarding her early career, plus experiences filming what remains among my favourite John Wayne movies 🙂 Thankyou Rob 🙂

Still a beautiful woman

Thank you

Beautiful lady. Enjoyed her in the ladies from lonesome. Wonderful interview rob.

As Bill Tompkins ( google him ) said “ Everything we have been taught and told all our lives was a lie .” And he didn’t say all most everything or a lot , he said EVERYTHING & he meant exactly what he said .

THE GREEN BERET was one of my favorite war stories. It was an Oasis in a sea of CRAP! The Protests, the killings of JFK, RFK, MLK! JOHN WAYNE & THE BEATLES made it all BEARABLE. Nice lady, Good interview Rob!

Another excellent interview! Such a talented woman, and so wonderful of her to share her experience of the golden cinema! 😊🌺

A much maligned film of the era. Lot's of cheesiness but still fun. Best part was at the beginning when Aldo Ray and Ray St Jacques explain to the stupid reporters why the war needed to be fought. Funny how they were so hard up for Asian actors they hired every body ... except Viets. George Takei (Japanese American), Jack Soo (Korean American), Irene Tsu assuming she's Chinese American)...

People forget that movies like this were propaganda films.

The movie gets mostly positive reviews on Amazon. It was based on the best-selling book and the song "Ballad of the Green Berets" must have helped the movie. It gets a full orchestration by Miklos Rosza for the title.

She's still gorgeous!

I remember seeing that movie in a theater when it came out .... all I remember now is that it wasn't what I expected ... I think I wanted more "War" and less plot line ..

Ms. Tsu looks pretty good to be 78 years old . How many co stars of both John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart are still with us ?

She seemed nervous here, but very good interview , Rob 👍👍👍👍

Still beautiful.

I always found the green berets an entertaining war movie as a JW fan I’m fairly biased anyway, but in fairness he made a movie , LBJ made a war .

I had the privilege of working with these two great actors, a wonderful experience now lm 82 and near the end, l can’t disclose my identity

John Wayne…elite warrior in movies…draft dodger in real life.

She has always been so beautiful, I hope she has had a good life and her beauty hasn't gotten her into bad relationships. High quality problems I guess...

Nowhere near his best movie but it's entertaining and I think the left made a mountain out of a molehill with this movie. Nowhere near as preachy or heavy handed as many lefty movies or shows coming out now.

Great interview! I remember this movie and the Barry Sadler tune of the same name that perhaps inspired the movie. It was also the time of the My Lai Massacre and the horror stories that came from it. The country was pretty divided between the "hawks" and the "doves." I waited to see the movie when it played at a drive-in to avoid any nut cases who wanted to protest. When I think of what we are going through now and where we have been, history just seems to repeat and the culture war wages on.

It's fascinating how folks politicise the movie still. Reality is he made a 'war' movie. We all had to pick up the pieces of that war. I guess they have their Country back. It's easy to cast stones nowadays. Lots of people had an ending and a forced restart whether they wanted it or not , All of those involved are enhancing their Culture, or cursed to be involved. Not a worthy postscript to a well opinionated choice for him. It doesn't go away with a 'history' lecture. Folks don't care about the 'script'. It's a long line of no winners.

That was absolutely awesome Rob Word, so awesome, what a great blessing to still have her on this earth and so sharp and able to appear and talk about her on screen experiences with Duke and other greats, so awesome, thank you everyone that helped produce and put this together for our ever lasting enjoyment.

I trained at Ft. Benning (Infantry Officer Basic Course) in 1971 and we trained on some of the sets. I remember the pagoda set. That is also where I I first saw the movie. That was kind of fun seeing the jump towers, classroom buildings etc in the movie. At the end of my career I was stationed again at at Ft Benning when the filmed “We Were Soldiers “. Kind of a full circle

She was beautiful in The Green Berets and she is still beautiful!

Wow, beautiful lady. Thank you for your interviews Mr Word. It brings back memories of movies I miss.

It probably wasn't tea that Ford was drinking.

Thanks so much for this engaging interview with Ms. Tsu.

Ahh yes John Wayne the pretend soldier. Dodged WWII so that he could grow his fame while others like James Stewart and Charles Bronson did their part. Wayne made millions while millions lost their lives.