The popular character actor reflects on his career highlights.
15), in which he plays an aged mortician.
The actor explains that his makeup was originally “a lot more grotesque than ended up.
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There were gloves where I had big long fingers at one point.
My makeup was a lot more involved.
But they did great work.
Most of the effects [in the film] were practical, which you hardly see anymore.
They were very serious about spending all the money in the right places.
“I think Ryan did a great job.”
Brown himself has done grand work in a jaw-droppingly diverse array of films and TV shows.
Below, the actor talks about some of his career highlights.
CLANCY BROWN:I think they had tried to get Arnold Schwarzenegger for the role.
He had said no because he had just doneTerminator.
He said, “I just played a bad guy, I dont want to do that again.”
Russell Mulcahy, the director, was a big music video director and so he was in that scene.
I thought the script was terrific.
Greg Widen (co-writer) had developed a wonderful world.
They’d have been a lot better off than what they ended up doing.
It was a neat little story.
And you cant beat having a sword fight with Sean Connery.
How can you say no to that?
CB:Shawshankwas one of those scripts.
I was no exception.
I auditioned for it and I didnt actually audition very well.
The casting director was this little woman who was dressed very nicely in a flowery blouse.
I had to lean down and scream at her and I found it very difficult to do that.
I just didnt want to perpetrate that violence on somebody.
And so, I blew the audition.
Im sure there wereotherreasons.
The spin that Verhoeven put on it just made it kind of genius, I thought.
CB:Mr. Krabs!
Yeah, that was a complete lark.
It was a crazy little cartoon that they were putting together for Nickelodeon back in the day.
It put my kid through college, so I cant complain.
CB:Paul and I go way back.
His very first film was a film I was in in Seattle calledPast Midnight.
It was his first gig, so we have this kind of odd history together.
“Billionsis a fun show.
Its completely nonsense, but its kind of a fun little exercise.
The Mortuary Collection (2020)
Spindell’s film costars Jacob Elordi from HBO’sEuphoria, among others.
CB:My manager sent the script to me.
He said, “Theres no money in this, but see if you like it.”
So, I read it, and I was completely captivated by the format, and by the character.
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