Warren Beatty, Me and 'Kill Bill'

June, 06, 2009 3:55 pm | On #David Carradine, Kill Bill, Quentin Tarantino

Sunday, March 24

I can’t believe Quentin has time to take off on Oscar Sunday to meet with me. Well, yeah, I can believe it. The guy’s his own man (A Band Apart, remember?) and this is about casting the lead in his own movie, his great epic film.

So I put on some jeans, cowboy boots, a tank top with something about .3575 on it, and a big, heavy, black leather jacket from Kung Fu, The Legend Continues, climb into Annie’s huge, black GMC SUV with the Harley sticker on it, with Thunder, my Bernese mountain dog, in the back (he goes everywhere with me), and haul over to Quentin’s pad in the Hollywood Hills.

I’d been there before, to watch movies in his vintage movie theater, but had never been inside the house. He buzzes the gate open and I growl up the long driveway. It takes a while before Quentin opens the door. He’s in short...

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In 2002, Quentin Tarantino contacted David Carradine and asked him to be in his new film, “Kill Bill.” The director had been working on the film for a year, and had been wooing Warren Beatty for the title role. But close to the start of filming, the director fell out of love with his star, who he’d encouraged to model after Carradine in his ‘Kung Fu’ movies. Beatty made the mistake of suggesting that Tarantino ask Carradine to do the part. So he did. Carradine wrote an account of his experience on 'Kill Bill,' from which this is excerpted. The actor died in Thailand at age 72 in June 2009.

 

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