John "The Hangman" Ruth squinting in The Hateful Eight
The Big Picture Spontaneity and improvisation can do wonders for a film. By adding personal flourishes through dialogue and physicality, or going completely off-script in ways that surprise and enrich, actors who trust their instincts in the heat of the moment can often boost performances and narratives. Every once in a while, however, acting on those impulses can have unintended consequences.
The Hateful Eight R Release Date December 25, 2015 Director Quentin Tarantino Cast Demián Bichir , Michael Madsen , James Parks , Dana Michelle Gourrier , Lee Horsley , Gene Jones Runtime 182 minutes Kurt Russell Destroyed a 150-Year-Old Antique While Filming 'The Hateful Eight' When Jennifer Jason Leigh, as Daisy Domergue, sat down to sing and strum "Jim Jones at Botany Bay" in The Hateful Eight, she did so with an authentic Martin guitar that was made in the 1860s at...
Related 9 On-Set Accidents That Made It Into Finished Films As Bob Ross once said,"We don't have mistakes, we have happy accidents." "I thought we were going to trade out guitars," Leigh told Billboard. "And Kurt thought it was a dummy guitar. And I don't think Quentin knew that it was the vintage instrument, either." One can only imagine what went through Leigh's mind in the moments before and after Russell smashed the beloved guitar to pieces, as she appeared to try to interrupt at the last second and then looks worriedly off-camera once the damage had been done.
The Martin Museum No Longer Loans Guitars To Film Productions Close According to Jennifer Jason Leigh, representatives for the Martin Museum generously offered to provide The Hateful Eight with another guitar after their $40,000 piece of history was destroyed, but comments from the museum's director, Dick Boak, tell a different story. "We want to make sure that people know that the incident was very distressing to us," he said.
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