I just got back from talking to Gus Van Sant about his new film Last Days, which is loosely inspired by Kurt Cobain. In one scene a Yellow Pages directory sales guy (played by Thadeus A. Thomas) drops by the rock star's house and talks to not-very-alert musician (played by Michael Pitt) for several minutes about maximizing ad space. Apparently Thomas, a Yellow Pages man in real life, blundered into a costume fitting attended by Pitt, Van Sant and designer extraordinaire Ann Roth (Closer, The Village). "This was a warehouse near a flea market and he apparently thought it was a shop. He started picking things up and looking them over," Van Sant said. Van Sant told him to leave and Roth threw a fit, but Thomas was unfazed. Eventually Van Sant decided, "I've got to have this guy in the movie!" True story.
| :: posted by Jeffrey M. Anderson, 6/27/2005 | Comments (0) Links to this post |
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