Steve Buscemi thinks Pulp Fiction is secretly a sequel to this film

Steve Buscemi will all the time be lauded for his function as Mr. Pink in Quentin Tarantino‘s Reservoir Canine. The long-lasting character was a one-off within the ‘90s film, however again in 2021, the actor instructed that Mr. Pink’s story didn’t really finish with the thriller film. Throughout an look on The Late Late Present with James Corden, the drama film actor theorized that Mr. Pink may need additionally been related to his function in Pulp Fiction — and to be truthful, he really has a degree.
“I don’t know if anybody else thinks about this, however as a result of my character of Mr. Pink in Reservoir Canine was such a cheapskate, and he didn’t wish to tip, I believed it was poetic justice that my subsequent movie with Quentin, I play a waiter,” he defined. “I even wish to assume that perhaps Mr. Pink obtained away someway in Reservoir Canine and he’s hiding out because the Buddy Holly waiter. And he in all probability will get tipped terribly. That’s his destiny.”
With each movies being directed by Tarantino, it’s the form of mind-bending plot twist we positively wouldn’t put previous him. This connection would additionally actually make Pulp Fiction, among the finest films of all time, even higher. So, allow us to be delulu about this with Steve, okay?!
Through the years, Tarantino and Buscemi have cast a robust working relationship — however in a previous interview with Bomb, the director admitted that when he first got here throughout Busciemi, he wasn’t even positive he was an actor.
“I first grew to become conscious of Steve Buscemi’s work because the younger man residing with AIDS within the late Invoice Sherwood’s Parting Glances. The reminiscence of this too-cool-for-school New York underground rodent, sitting on his lover’s lap, silently saying, ‘I like you,’ as his hand comes up snatching the unsaid phrase out of the air, has stayed in my coronary heart to today,” Tarantino defined.
“Nevertheless, as a lot as I loved his work, I didn’t anticipate to ever see him once more. Actors in these underground films aren’t usually heard of once more. I wasn’t even positive Steve Buscemi was an actor. His performing was so actual. However in the actual world, Buscemi was a former fireman, and is a present husband, father, and most positively, an actor.”
Tarantino’s new film, The Film Critic, is presently slated for a 2024 launch. For extra on the upcoming movie, make sure to take a look at our information breaking down The Film Critic launch date, plot, solid, and extra.
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