Stephen Hibbert, who played the Gimp in 'Pulp Fiction,' has died at age 68.
, which reported he died of a heart attack on Monday in Denver. “His life was full of love and dedication to the arts and his family. He will be dearly missed by many.” Hibbert had described himself as “semi-retired” in recent years, though he made appearances at fan conventions.
, though the actor never said a word. In the film, when mobster Marsellus Wallace sees Bruce Willis’ boxer character Butch crossing the street — after Butch defied Wallace’s orders to throw a match — Wallace chases Butch into a pawnshop. There, the owner, Maynard, takes the upper hand, pulling a shotgun on the pair and leading them to the basement, where he binds and gags them and proceeds to rape them with his friend Zed. “Well, bring out the gimp,” Zed, a rentacop, says. “I think the Gimp’s sleeping,” Maynard replies. “Well, I guess you’ll just have to go wake him up now, won’t you?” Wallace and Butch look confused and scared as Maynard retrieves the Gimp from a sub-basement. As Zed taps his fingers on the Gimp’s mask, and chooses which of the intruders he wants to violate first, the Gimp says nothing, and they take Wallace into another room. Maynard enlists the Gimp to “keep an eye” on Butch, and the Gimp just giggles as they listen to what’s going on in the other room. Eventually, Butch breaks free and knocks out the Gimp, effectively hanging him since he’d been strung up.in 2024. “Quentin really liked that idea. The Gimp had been a prisoner there for a while. So he liked being in that situation, there was a Stockholm syndrome thing happening for the Gimp.”in 2019. “It doesn’t quite play this way in the movie, but in my mind when I wrote it, the Gimp’s dead,” the filmmaker and screenwriter said. “Butch knocked him out and then when he passed out he hung himself. In terms of backstory, he was like a hitchhiker or somebody that they picked up seven years ago, and they trained him so he’s the perfect victim.” “When a setup was taking a long time, reminded everyone there was a guy— me — stuffed in head-to-toe leather gear, and it was pretty hot there on the set,” Hibbert told. “I thought it was a tad grim, but all of those amazing actors had already been cast and I knew Quentin would stage it perfectly. Besides, I was hidden under all of that leather and studs, so if it was truly horrifying — and some would argue it is — I could stay anonymous.”actress Julia Sweeney, who also started out in the Groundlings and was married to Hibbert. Sweeney had asked Tarantino to rewrite the script for the movie adaptation ofskit about an androgynous person, and in turn agreed to play the character Raquel, heir to Monster Joe’s Truck and Tow, in“I heard a funny thing from Jon Lovitz, who knew Stephen Hibbert, the guy who played the Gimp, from the Groundlings,” Tarantino said in thefor the first time and is like, ‘What the fuck is this?; And he stays in the theater as the credit crawl is going on and sees Stephen’s name. He said out loud, ‘WHAT? I know the Gimp?!'”Willie Colón, Pioneering Salsa Icon, Dead at 75interview. “I’ll have you know I had on a little fat suit under all that leather gear,” he said. “And I lost nearly 15 pounds over that four-day shoot. Who needs the gym when you have that kind of regimen?”reports that he also worked as a segment producer for MTV and VH1’s awards shows and did “punch-up assignments” forHarry Styles Is Up for Anything on 'Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.'He was married to Sweeney from 1989 to 1994, per IMDb, and later to Alicia Agos, from 1996 to 2009. He is survived by his ex-wives and children.he was happy with his legacy as the Gimp. “I think it’s one of the greatest films of all time,” he said. “I saw it again recently, and I had forgotten how funny it was, and what a great time capsule it is of Los Angeles in the early Nineties.”Netflix, After Walking Away From Warner Bros. Deal, Will 'Move Forward' With '$2.8 Billion in Our Pocket That We Didn't Have a Few Weeks Ago,' CFO Says‘The Miniature Wife’ Trailer: Elizabeth Banks Is Shrunk to Doll Size in Peacock Dramedy With Matthew Macfadyen
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