Daryl
Hannah On Kill Bill
A
while back I read Quentin Tarantino’s two hundred page monster
script “Kill Bill.” My first reaction was this guy
is really crazy. He thinks he’s writing a book not making
a movie, the audacity. SIFYN—save it for your novel! I was
so involved in being pissed off that I kept reading. The more
I read, the more he had me. What a bastard, how can he get away
with writing all this shit in between, things like “the
most disgusting jar of Vaseline in the history of cinema.”
Has he seen every filmed jar of Vaseline? As a screenwriter you
get pretty damn fried, but then you start looking at the bigger
picture. He’s a well known director and writer, he’s
directing this script, and he can do whatever the hell he pleases.
You also acknowledge that he’s an awesome writer. All complaints
get thrown out the door, he’s got style, and let’s
face it, anyone who can keep me this entertained can have my bucks
at the box-office. I finished the script in two hours! Now I’m
dying to see the real deal. Last week I was able to get a bit
of info from Daryl Hannah as she did her press rounds for John
Sayles new movie “Casa de los Babys.” She was a tad
tight lipped at first, saying she would “talk about that
film in a few weeks,” but then she gave in and said this:
 How
did you get the part in Kill Bill? (Daryl plays the ruthless Elle
Driver. The type of character you’ll love to hate. Her eye
patch incident will have you gripping your seat.)
Daryl: Quentin
showed up in my dressing room in a theater in London. Flew all
the way there just to tell me he’d written something for
me.
Can you talk about
your training for Kill Bill?
Daryl: It was
actually really good for this film [Casa de los Babys] because
of all the training that I had been doing for Kill Bill kind of
paid off…I have an athletic disposition, not that I keep
it up, but I have that disposition, but it’s definitely
helpful because I learned all that stuff pretty fast and of course
loved it too. I would sit there and wait for the fight team to
be finished with everybody else and be, “Can I get back
on the wires?” [Different voice.] “Okay, one more
flip.” ‘Cause I just think it’s fun, you get
to fly. It was fun.
What do you think
about the film being cut into two volumes, two films?
Daryl: I think
that it is the only thing to do because this script was that big
[puts her fingers into a three inch position.] It was a phone
book, it was. It was the size of a telephone book and he added
stuff while we were shooting. It’s his Magnum Opus. It is.
It’s what he calls it. And it’s all the genres that
he is obsessed with, it’s Japanese anime, spaghetti western,
and kung-fu all combined into one.
How long did it take
you to read the script?
Daryl: As soon
as I got it I sat there and read it all at once.
Did you immediately
think you wanted to do it?
Daryl: Well,
I mean it’s the same thing with Quentin and John Sayles,
you just—you don’t even say [dramatic voice] “What’s
the part?” [Laughs] You just go, “Yeah, okay. Whatever,
and how much will I be paying to do this? How much will it cost
me?”
Have you seen the
film yet?
Daryl: No, I’ve
seen pieces of it.
 What
do you think it’s going to be like?
Daryl: Oh my
God. The parts that I’ve seen, it wasn’t the parts
that I’m in, but parts that I’ve seen of--from the
House of Blue Leaves, it’s just stunning, it’s just
amazing. It was really really really different from anything I’ve
ever seen before because the—Bob Richardson is the cameraman
and the camera work is just spectacular and it just floats through
this scene and every extra has his own story going on, but it’s
not—their own story adds to the whole story and the story
doesn’t stop for a fight scene. The story evolves through
the fight scenes and grows and changes to you know, it’s
hard to explain…its really striking.
Did Quentin give you
a lot of homework?
Daryl: Seventy-five
video tapes…and coming over to his house and watching double
features and having to go to work in the morning and having to
watch ‘Jackass.’ That was really bad ‘cause
he discovered ‘Jackass’ right in the middle of my
fight. The week we were shooting my fight scene, so then my fight
scene became “And today we’re going to throw snot
in your face! And then, now we’re going to smash a lamp
in your face, and now!! Flush your head down the toilet!”
[Fist in front of her] Johnny Knoxville!
If you have any questions, or comments, you can write me at jax@latinoreviw.com.
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