A month after his demise at age 67, one in every of Michael Madsen‘s most prolific collaborators paid tribute to the late actor in Los Angeles.
On Friday, Quentin Tarantino hosted a personal memorial for Madsen on the filmmaker’s Vista Theatre, the place he recounted incomes Madsen’s respect on the set of their 1992 movie Reservoir Canines after firing co-star Lawrence Tierney within the first week.
“It was the final hour of the final day of the primary week of taking pictures. So, I had by no means directed a film earlier than,” Tarantino famous on stage in a video shared by TMZ. “And Lawrence Tierney was a f—ing nightmare. He was utterly insane. He was so loopy, and I’d by no means directed earlier than, so I’m coping with a loopy man Monday by means of Saturday.”
Recalling the incident that pressured his hand, Tarantino mentioned, “All the opposite actors and the crew can’t stand him. And rapidly, he yells at me, does one thing disrespectful.” Appearing out the rant, he continued, “And so, I fired him on the breakfast desk. The crew breaks into applause.”
“I assumed, I simply spent every week taking pictures this man. Now I simply fired him,” the author, director and co-star mentioned. “Stay Leisure is gonna fireplace me. That’s it for my profession. It was good whereas it lasted. However I needed to do it, I needed to get up for myself.”
Michael Madsen, Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Christopher Penn, Lawrence Tierney, Tim Roth and Steve Buscemi in ‘Reservoir Canines’ (1992) (Miramax Movies/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
However Tarantino had help from Madsen, who left a message on his answering machine that evening. “He mentioned, ‘Yea, Quentin, it’s Michael,” recalled Tarantino in his finest Madsen voice. “‘Simply calling to say that I actually revered what you probably did tonight. It was vital, and wanted to be performed. He was busting your balls and also you needed to do it. And I need you to know that I respect it, as a director, I respect it as a captain, and I respect it as a person. So, I’m in your facet, buddy. Thanks.’”
Madsen, who died of coronary heart failure on July 3, performed Vic Vega/Mr. Blonde in Tarantino’s directorial debut Reservoir Canines, which additionally starred the auteur as Mr. Brown and Tierney as crime boss Joe Cabot.
The heist movie marked Tarantino and Madsen’s first collaboration, earlier than working collectively on Kill Invoice: Vol 1 (2003), Kill Invoice: Vol 2 (2004), Sin Metropolis (2005), The Hateful Eight (2015) and As soon as Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019).
