Sad news just when I was to see Iron Maiden in Belfort, France. All the world was busted by the death of Diogo Jota , the footballer, at 28. And then I saw Michael Madsen died, at 67 (on July 3d 2025) !
Then next day I find out Julian McMahon died, he was56 and battling cancer...
I met Michel Madsen when he was shooting in Romania the infamous Uwe Boll bomb, BloodRayne in August 2004. He also shot here The Last Drop. I was at a day of shooting in Bragadiru palace, Madsen was bored to death and I should've taken him to Blues Cafe for a Jack but I got asked by my friend working on the picture Not to. Regretted still...
Of course I knew him from Reservoir Dogs and all the Tarantino fodder, he was the one who gave him most of his comebacks. He could've been a star leading man but his odd and wild habits pushed him to the B side of movies, he was in over 300 flicks. So much crappy stuff...With 5 children, it's hard to pay the bills, as he says. He was even in a James Bond movie, the crappiest Bond ever :(, Die Another Day, supporting CIA Falco !
(On the films he's proud of) Kill Bill, Species (1995), Free Willy (1993), Thelma & Louise (1991), Reservoir Dogs (1992) and Donnie Brasco (1997). Six, that's it. That's not a low number. I'm just hard to please. I've made some crap but you've got to pay the bills.
I guess that was before the Kill Bill's & The Hateful Eight. And he got a small cameo as the sherriff in TV's Bounty Law in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
The biggest mistake of his carrer was that he made Wyatt Earp. This made him lose the part of Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction !!! Wyatt Earp was a flop and it's a bad film, Travolta played Vega and it's still his best around.
He was a poet and an outlaw (by Hollywood standards), a maverick. Rest in peace, Michael...
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“We’re not mourning a public figure. We’re not mourning a myth — but flesh and blood and ferocious heart,” Madsen’s sister, Virginia Madsen, said. “Who stormed through life loud, brilliant, and half on fire. Who leaves us echoes—gruff, brilliant, unrepeatable—half legend, half lullaby.”
