Fallon had a shtick going called the "Celebrity Impression Wheel" for himself and his
Tonight Show guest to play. It was a simply concept to get Spacey to do some impressions: you spin a wheel and it lands on a subject and a celebrity. It was likely all rigged but whether it was or not the two clearly had a great deal of fun with it and the results were pretty darn funny.
Each subject was connected to Halloween (it was, after all, Halloween night). The Academy-Award winning (
The Usual Suspects,
American Beauty) Spacey got Johnny Carson first and the show was off to the races. He also got Christopher Walken and Bill Clinton and rescued Fallon, who struggled with Michael Caine. Actually, Fallon's Caine wasn't bad, it just wasn't near what Spacey's was. The highlight for Fallon was his impression of Dr. Phil.
The 55-year-old Spacey is letting his guard down as he ages. For years he was rarely in public and there was a reason for that. "The less you know about me," he told the London Evening Standard in a 1998
interview. "The easier it is to convince you that I am that character on screen. It allows an audience to come into a movie theatre and believe I am that person."
Upcoming film releases for the versatile actor include a second installment of the
comedy Horrible Bosses (predictably called
Horrible Bosses II) with Chris Pine and Jennifer Aniston.
