Hook Star Dante Basco Pays Tribute to Late Co-Star Robin Williams

He wrote, “I just wanted to say Happy Birthday to #RobinWilliams. This is a picture on the Sony lot during shooting when my brothers & cousin came to visit & we gave him a hat we made at Compton Indoor swap meet. We embroidered the name of our crew we created after watching #DeadPoetsSociety, it was the address of the garage we all lived in together growing up, ‘13607 1/2’. We wrote poems and raps and tried to live like they did in the movie & ‘suck the marrow out of life.’ He’ll never know how much he’s impacted my life… O captain, my captain… You are the Pan!”

In a past conversation with Comicbook.com, Basco described working with Robin Williams and Bob Hopkins.

“I mean they’re great, great guys, both guys were amazing and were amazing to me as a young actor. Working on Hook, it was one of those films that, that’s what people come to Hollywood to do,” Basco explained. “Really it’s a dream, a dream project for like, the reason why people get into cars and drive across country, or jump on a plane or a train or whatever, it’s to do a film like Hook working with Spielberg at the height of his prowess, one of the greatest director that ever lived. Working with Robin Williams, and Bob Hopkins, and Dustin Hoffman and you’re talking about “gods,” really, in our industry. You look at legends everyday. It was so impactful to me as a young artist. I’d come to spend my days off to watch these guys work, to be in the presence of greatness and really see what they’re doing and how they’re doing it. Really, really amazing.”

“I was a fan of Robin Williams since I was a very young kid cuz I love Mork and Mindy and watching films like The World According to Garp, you know, Dead Poets Society before I, which is still among my favorite films, before I got to work with Robin, and being on the set with him and really getting to interact with him and talk to him and such a loving guy,” the actor said. “Same thing with Bob Hopkins. The class I grew up in we watched some of his English films before he got to America and did [Who Framed] Roger Rabbit? and things like that, you know some amazing, amazing work and your just a kid trying to a sponge soaking it all up.”

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