David Carradine was an excellent Bill in Quentin Tarantino’s two Kill Bill movies. The iconic star of Kung Fu got a well-deserved late-career revival after his performance as the understated, intelligent and lethal leader of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. But, in a new interview with the Reel Blend podcast, Tarantino has revealed that there were at least two other major actors under consideration for the part – and Carradine wasn’t even his first choice.
“I wrote [the character of] Bill for Warren Beatty and it ended up not working out. And then I cast David Carradine, and kind of rewrote it for David Carradine. Bruce [Willis] would have been my third choice… When I read the original version of Kill Bill, it kind of cracks me up now, because it’s the Warren Beatty version.”
Of course, either Warren Beatty or Bruce Willis would have made for a very different movie. One...
“I wrote [the character of] Bill for Warren Beatty and it ended up not working out. And then I cast David Carradine, and kind of rewrote it for David Carradine. Bruce [Willis] would have been my third choice… When I read the original version of Kill Bill, it kind of cracks me up now, because it’s the Warren Beatty version.”
Of course, either Warren Beatty or Bruce Willis would have made for a very different movie. One...
- 12/19/2019
- by David James
- We Got This Covered
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