Segura Interviewing Tarantino
Added 2022-11-23 00:56:33 +0000 UTCI'm a big Tom Segura fan, and I thought this was surprisingly a great interview, even if it's out of Tom's wheelhouse. Enjoyed hearing this little tidbit on casting Pulp fiction.
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this was a great ep, are you excited for the next YMH Live??
Jared Angcanan
2022-11-23 19:11:24 +0000 UTCSeen this one too. It's a good podcast - some new info from Tarantino. Interesting how he deals with his casting choices - especially committing to his choices and trying to persuade others to look into other roles.
Tom Rufer
2022-11-23 15:53:32 +0000 UTCHuh. I always thought that Mickey Rourke was the actor that Tarantino wrote the part of Butch for. Matt Dillon?! That would’ve been…different. He was still pretty young back then, in his late 20s compared to Willis and Rourke who were on the right and wrong side of 40 respectively, so Butch would’ve been redefined as a callow lunkhead kid rather than the struggling, been-around-the-block veteran he was in the movie. I’m not sure that would’ve been my preference. It would’ve taken away a certain subtle quality of worn, middle-aged desperation to Butch as embodied by Willis (and would’ve been, maybe even more so, by Rourke). Scamming money off the fight wasn’t just about spiting Marcellus. He was a boxer going nowhere in his career, so getting a hold of that money was the only way he could get out and start a new life for himself (probably not a good idea to piss off a powerful gangster in doing so, but Butch was’t conceived as being the sharpest tool in the shed). With Dillon in the role, I don’t think we would’ve been so much on his side as he navigates the dangers of going back for his watch. We would’ve more readily dismissed him as some stupid kid who got in way over his head.
Bennett Oliver
2022-11-23 02:04:49 +0000 UTC
