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Kung Fu star`s career advice: Stalk a director
Cannes, France, May 17: ``Kung Fu`` star David Carradine has a great method for convincing directors to give him a part -- stalk them.
Cannes, France, May 17: ''Kung Fu'' star David Carradine
has a great method for convincing directors to give him a part --
stalk them.
Carradine, who plays the eponymous bill in Quentin Tarantino's ''Kill Bill'' revenge saga, said he met the cult director at a Film Festival in Toronto in 1996 and told him they were destined to work together.
''I actually was stalking him. A psychic had told me I was supposed to work with him,'' Carradine told a news conference at the Cannes Film Festival, where ''kill bill - volume two'' was screened out of competition yesterday.
The actor randomly called hotels until he located Tarantino.
''He came over to my hotel, I played the piano for him and I told him. I said this psychic said we're supposed to work together and we pretty much agreed that, yeah, we should,'' he said.
Carradine, 67, gained fame in the 1970s television series ''Kung Fu'' and has made more than 140 films since. But he also won a reputation for erratic behaviour and later revealed he had overcome an addiction to alcohol.
Tarantino has made a specialty of seeking out actors past their prime, most famously John Travolta, whose career was in the dumps when the former video store clerk approached him about starring in his 1994 film ''pulp fiction''.
Travolta went on to make blockbuster hits like ''face/off'' and ''Get Shorty''. Pam Grier was known as the star of 1970s ''Blaxploitation'' films until Tarantino gave her the title role in ''Jackie Brown''.
''Splash'' star Darryl Hannah, who plays hired assassin Elle driver in ''Kill Bill'', said her first meeting with Tarantino was equally bizarre.
''I was a little mortified at the time because once I left the room I realised that my skirt had been tucked into my tights. One of those bathroom accidents.''
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Carradine, who plays the eponymous bill in Quentin Tarantino's ''Kill Bill'' revenge saga, said he met the cult director at a Film Festival in Toronto in 1996 and told him they were destined to work together.
''I actually was stalking him. A psychic had told me I was supposed to work with him,'' Carradine told a news conference at the Cannes Film Festival, where ''kill bill - volume two'' was screened out of competition yesterday.
The actor randomly called hotels until he located Tarantino.
''He came over to my hotel, I played the piano for him and I told him. I said this psychic said we're supposed to work together and we pretty much agreed that, yeah, we should,'' he said.
Carradine, 67, gained fame in the 1970s television series ''Kung Fu'' and has made more than 140 films since. But he also won a reputation for erratic behaviour and later revealed he had overcome an addiction to alcohol.
Tarantino has made a specialty of seeking out actors past their prime, most famously John Travolta, whose career was in the dumps when the former video store clerk approached him about starring in his 1994 film ''pulp fiction''.
Travolta went on to make blockbuster hits like ''face/off'' and ''Get Shorty''. Pam Grier was known as the star of 1970s ''Blaxploitation'' films until Tarantino gave her the title role in ''Jackie Brown''.
''Splash'' star Darryl Hannah, who plays hired assassin Elle driver in ''Kill Bill'', said her first meeting with Tarantino was equally bizarre.
''I was a little mortified at the time because once I left the room I realised that my skirt had been tucked into my tights. One of those bathroom accidents.''
Bureau Report