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28 Dec 15
2015 comes to a close and Tyrant O is chomping at the bit for another executive order: total & complete gun confiscation folks, no joke. David Knight breaks down how president obama is planning full gun confiscation in 2016 while the left arm ISIS to the teeth! David also praises actor, Kurt Russell for taking a stand against the gun grabbing control freak left.
‘Sure I believe in the right to bear arms, as guaranteed under the Second Amendment of the American constitution,’ explains 64-year-old Kurt Russell, Hollywood A-lister and long-term partner of Goldie Hawn.
He is not ranting or raving in his luxurious hotel suite in the West End of London. Far from it.
This dapper and urbane man is sitting one leg crossed over the other, dressed immaculately and smiling serenely.
‘This is what people need to understand,’ he continues when asked about gun reform after the most recent school shootings in the States and the terrorist attack in San Bernardino that left 14 dead and 22 injured.
‘Now is not a good time to lay down your weapons – how will you protect yourself?
‘I am a libertarian, a hardcore one, and of course I have guns. I shoot things with them. I hunt game.’
Lose the last three and they are words that could quite easily be escaping from beneath the unkempt but extravagant whiskers of his character John ‘The Hangman’ Ruth – a 19th-century bounty hunter handcuffed to his wretched female prize (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and trapped by a blizzard in a remote staging post with a rum collection of coves. It is the premise of the latest Quentin Tarantino epic, The Hateful Eight.
And it is an epic, running at over three hours long, with an overture, an intermission and chapter headings. Russell has already been tipped for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award.
It’s a Tarantino film, so there are scenes of dramatic and shocking violence and the use of weapons of various descriptions – all beautifully shot, of course, in every sense of the word.
The dialogue is whip-smart, the cast of Tarantino regulars (Samuel L Jackson, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth) on top form and, in spite of the inevitable bloodbath, the film is also very funny.
Despite a 91-day shoot on a set so cold you could see the actors’ breath, and the director’s reputation for perfectionism – such as month-long rehearsals – Russell says: ‘It was fantastic.’
He clearly isn’t phased working with either demanding directors in tough locations or on violent films.
In almost 100 outings on the big screen he’s appeared as gunslinger Wyatt Earp in Tombstone, a tough helicopter pilot in John Carpenter’s horror film The Thing (also filmed in gruelling sub-zero conditions), a futuristic soldier on a waste disposal planet in Soldier, and as a psychopathic stuntman in Tarantino’s Death Proof.
His many tough-guy film roles are a long way from his early days as a child star. He was signed by Walt Disney on a ten-year contract and made his (uncredited) film debut in the unremarkable Elvis Presley vehicle It Happened At The World’s Fair in 1963, where his role was to kick Elvis in the shin.
‘I probably did it too hard,’ he remembers. ‘But then I didn’t really know who he was.
‘I knew he was famous because there were hundreds of girls screaming, but he was a wonderful guy, really down to earth… and no, I don’t do Elvis at karaoke.’
Elvis would play a pivotal role in his life subsequently, but not before Russell decided to take up pro baseball (he played for a number of teams in the Texas League) alongside various TV and film projects in the Seventies – until a shoulder injury put a stop to his playing. MORE
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