With my father there was one baseball game one football game one fishing trip You got one of everything
Posted in General on 03. Oct, 2010
“With my father there was one baseball game, one football game, one fishing trip You got one of everything And that was all you got It was enough, though, and I adored him. And seeing as I show pretty much all of it in Kill Bill, it will become obvious that I can do it.” Carradine, born of Hollywood, has finally got to show his stuff.David Carradine is the eldest son of John Carradine, an actor who starred in The Grapes of Wrath and The Ten Commandments before becoming a first-call movie villain and an even more prolific B-movie actor than his son.Acting duties meant that father-son rituals were strictly rationed. And we can kick ass and look like we can kick ass.”But I have a range so I’m not limited to the kind of roles that Charles Bronson did Or Anthony Hopkins does. He has a lot of range but there are certain things he can’t do But I can And I can do him too A few years ago, Hopkins said he was going to quit Well fine, get out the way Anthony, I can do those parts. Those guys can’t do every movie, right?!”There will be room for me to show my stuff, I’m sure.
People even say I look a little like Clint.” He shifts his long, gaunt face and the fairy lights of the restaurant’s garden catch him just so And he does indeed look a little like Clint “But that’s just because I’m skinny and tall and old With a receding hairline. I just can’t read it.” Still, other Hollywood insiders who saw this early showing think he’s great. Which is what really matters.Carradine appreciates the risk Tarantino took in casting him. But the last man to doubt Carradine has what it takes to play in the big league is Carradine himself. “I always knew that all it would take was for the right director to put me in a movie.” That’s all he needed. And when that happened, what had been denied him would become clear.”The one thing about doing all those movies and all that television is I know what I’m doing And I can do what Sean Connery can do I can do what Clint can do. Or not.” And with an actor who once called himself possibly the greatest of his generation, you can be sure, by his personal reckoning anyway, the greats outweigh the not greats “But I think I’m too close to it.
Which is not too far off.” (For the record Carradine doesn’t have a lot to offer on the glacial blonde after his blood in Kill Bill: Volume 2 “Uma’s her own lady, you know. Our on-camera chemistry is quite remarkable but we talked hardly at all during filming. Put it this way, between shots she went and knitted and I’m certainly not knitting.”)Carradine has just seen the film for the first time the night before we meet in LA’s Four Seasons restaurant Untypically, he is unsure about his own performance “I’ve always known whether I’m great. “Well, I’m not saying he’s like me, he’s like Quentin thinks I am. He’s literate, he’s funny, he’s charming, he’s a badass,” Carradine says with his lisping, lizardy voice “And he’s a fool for blondes. There’s a whole monologue at the end of the movie that is pulled out of a conversation we had at a cigar lounge,” says Carradine proudly. And Carradine says Bill comes pretty close to the mercurial majesty of the real thing.
So there was a natural fit.”The pair would meet occasionally over the next six years with Tarantino – unbeknown to Carradine – using these meetings as extra material for the creation of the character who would be Bill. Tarantino finally completed the Kill Bill script and offered Carradine the role he had inspired; Bill’s character was further Carradinised during production.”We were always talking and he continued to write even when we were shooting and beyond. He was lying, but he’s certainly seen a bunch of them.” Not only was Tarantino Carradine’s biggest fan, he was also intrigued by Carradine the man. “He had read my autobiography, Endless Highway,” says Carradine, “and he was thinking of writing a character based on me.