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...than satisfactory--from an 11 year-old actor whose mother saw one of their posters, to a 43 year- old whose drama coach had heard about the project. In fact, they were even able to get Jonathan Katz from Comedy Central's Dr. Katz to do a voice-over cameo. Marx and Novak can only blame themselves for the glimpses of unprofessionalism in the cast. The actors would invariably "crack-up during the first few takes, especially during the killing part," says Marx. The two writers concede that the script may simply have been too funny...
...main work he does as an actor," says Billy Bob Thornton, whose Sling Blade was partly inspired by Boo Radley, and who plays a pivotal cameo in The Apostle. "He observes characters." Screenwriter Horton Foote (Mockingbird, Tender Mercies), who recommended that Duvall play Boo Radley, praises his "eye and ear for specifics of character. He has a feel for the Southern idiom, but he brings variations to it. For Tender Mercies he tape-recorded people, then studied the accent till he got it right...
Attorney General JANET RENO turned down cameo roles in both Ally McBeal and Dharma & Greg. Is she holding out for her own show? Something more like these...
Tarantino was just coming off directing and promoting Pulp Fiction, one of the most successful films of the decade. Grier was just coming off a cameo in Posse, a modestly successful black western. Grier gave Tarantino a look and said, "Please." Not "pleeeese," meaning, yes, give it to me, thank you very much. But "puhhhhlease," meaning there's not a snowball's chance this joker is actually gonna come through with a script...
...McKellan, who originated the role of Max 20 years ago in the stage premier of Bent that won him an Olivier, is luminous in a later cameo as Max's Uncle Freddie. Freddie is a "fluff" like Max, but he's one who has chosen to play it safe by repressing his desires. And, fortunately, several of the play's most powerfully written moments have translated well to film. Especially remarkable is a pivotal scene in Dachau in which Max and Horst, forbidden to touch and kept under the ever-vigilant eye of their guard, make love to each other...