Of his many memorable performances, Sam Rockwell is outwardly nonetheless getting paid for one which by no means occurred.
The Oscar winner lately recalled when he, Michael Imperioli and Kevin Corrigan “drove in a van to New Jersey to audition for one line in Lean on Me” early of their careers, in addition to how he nonetheless will get paid regardless of not showing within the 1989 movie.
“After which I bought it,” stated Rockwell on the Completely satisfied Unhappy Confused podcast. “After which, they by no means bought to my scene, in order that they needed to let me go as a result of they didn’t wish to pay me for every week. So, they gotta pay you for a day participant or pay you for every week. So, they let me go. They didn’t hearth me, they only type of let me go as a result of they have been like, ‘We are able to’t pay him every week for one line.’ After which Michael bought it.
Rockwell added, “And I nonetheless get residual checks for that, although I’m not in it.”
Credited within the movie as ‘George’, Imperioli’s line was finally lower as effectively, however his “first expertise on a film” nonetheless made an impression after working with director John G. Avildsen on the biographical drama.
“He was very impatient,” Rockwell’s fellow White Lotus alum Imperioli instructed The New Yorker final 12 months. “He was not very good, to be trustworthy. I feel he was overwhelmed as a result of there have been, like, a thousand high-school youngsters on this. He made me audition within the cafeteria in the course of the lunch break with, like, lots of of youngsters. It was horrible. I had one line.”
Written by Michael Schiffer, Lean On Me stars Morgan Freeman as Joe Clark, an inner-city highschool principal in Paterson, New Jersey, tasked with turning across the college’s check scores to maintain it from being positioned into receivership of the state authorities.
