The Hateful Eight are coming, and you may not be ready for it. Crave sent Jami Philbrick to the press line for Quentin Tarantino’s latest western, his follow-up to the Oscar-winning Django Unchained, and cast members Michael Madsen and Bruce Dern are raving about it.
“There’s no way [a western] could ever be as good as this one,” Michael Madsen says about The Hateful Eight, and goes on to rave about working with Tarantino, whose knowledge of the genre is expansive. He says he feels “resurrected” by the film, which gave him “a brand new life” as an actor.
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“I want to say something right in the beginning,” Bruce Dern adds. “I’ve had two surprises in 58 years that knocked me off my feet. One was Will Forte and his performance in Nebraska, and the second one… I knew Michael Madsen’s work, but I didn’t know until I did [The Hateful Eight] that the man himself is a prince, and writes great poetry.”
Dern says he’s worked with six geniuses in his career: Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola, Elia Kazan, Dalton Trumbo, Alexander Payne and Quentin Tarantino, and he says that Tarantino’s attention to detail is second to none. He also goes on to describe how the director gets such consistently amazing performances from his actors, which gets us pretty excited for The Hateful Eight.
The Hateful Eight arrives in theaters on December 25 in limited release, and expands to theaters everywhere on January 8, 2016.
William Bibbiani is the editor of CraveOnline’s Film Channel and the host of The B-Movies Podcast. Follow him on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani.
