‘I want to feel it.’ … Well, see, I didn’t know. “I fuckin’ thought I was gonna go to the moon if them things ever went off.
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I was squibbed up 26 times,” he recalled of his first big movie role. “They took me to special effects and had wires runnin’ up my ass, up my legs. Just before his demise, he utters one of the film’s most quotable lines - “Well, how’d you like to kiss my sister’s black cat’s ass?” In The Wild Bunch, Hopkins’ character, a volatile young member of the gang, terrorizes a group of hostages inside a bank before meeting a horrible end in a hail of bullets. This is great.’ Well, they didn’t tell me they were going to shoot in South Africa.” “Well, I got the script and said, ‘Sure, I’ll do this.
“Tarantino told me that he loved my work and that he had this part,” he said. If I told you how many times people have come up to Candy, Paul and me at these shows and told us that we’ve changed their lives, you wouldn’t believe it.”Īs his career evolved, the sandy-haired South Carolina native segued to the right side of the law, and executive producer Quentin Tarantino tapped him to portray a good guy in Dusk to Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999). It got people into cars doing that kind of stuff again. “ Graffiti got people out draggin’ and going up, and down streets cruisin’. “I go to car shows because American Graffiti is the national anthem of car shows,” Hopkins said in a 2012 interview with Shock Cinema magazine. The highlight of his role included coaxing Curt (Richard Dreyfuss) to attach a hook and chain to a police car so that when it gives chase, the back axle flies off.
His turn as Joe Young, the leader of The Pharaohs greaser gang in George Lucas’ American Graffiti (1973), solidified him as a top-notch screen villain. With his hair-trigger delivery, Hopkins was a favorite of Sam Peckinpah, who cast him in three features - as Clarence “Crazy” Lee in The Wild Bunch (1969), as a double-crossed bank robber in The Getaway (1972) and as a weapons expert in The Killer Elite (1975). Hopkins died at Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys after suffering a heart attack on May 9, his wife of 33 years, Sian, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Bo Hopkins, the wily actor with the wild-eyed gaze who came to fame portraying thieves and scoundrels in such films as The Wild Bunch, American Graffiti, Midnight Express and White Lightning, died Saturday morning.
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