Director Quentin Tarantino appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast with Roger Avary, where the director and screenwriter revealed how a heroin-filled night inspired their film.
Their career highlights together include winning the screenplay award for the 1994 film Pulp Fiction. Tarantino went on to make more critically acclaimed films, winning the same award 20 years later for the 2012 Western film Django Unchained.
As for Avary, he continued to direct films, making his debut with the 1993 French drama Killing Zoe. He recalls the interesting story behind writing this piece, which seems to have been inspired by a real-life encounter.
According to the plot summary, the story revolves around two safecrackers (Eric Stoltz and Hugues Anglade) who attempt to rob a bank, and a sex worker named Zoe (Julie Delpy), who happens to work in a bank by trade. is. .
On The Joe Rogan Experience, Avary opened up about an interaction in Paris that led to a pretty crazy night.
(LR) Avary, Logan, and Tarantino during a podcast episode. YouTube/PowerfulJRE
“I was just traveling through Europe,” Avary said. “I was talking to Quentin about it and he said, ‘Oh, we should do a movie called ‘Roger Travels.'”
Tarantino interjected, saying, “I still think it should have been called that.”
Avary explained: “I was in Paris and I ran into this French guy I met in Los Angeles. He was like, ‘Oh, I’m going to show you the real Paris.’ So I went out with him. ‘And his friends…he drove me to Paris, and the next thing I knew he was doing heroin…he said, ‘ Now we’re doing heroin, grab my arm.” (And) I put my arm around him and I had never seen anything like that. ”
“All of a sudden it happened and his friends were like, ‘Oh, doing it through the nose doesn’t affect me anymore’ (laughs). And I wrote down these lines and was like, ‘This is I thought, ‘That’s great,”’ Avary added, laughing.
During the three-hour interview, Tarantino and Avary, who have been friends for nearly 40 years, also talked about where they first met.
Tarantino explained that he developed his love and knowledge of film while working at a video archive and rental store in the 1980s, and recalled humorous customer encounters at the local fire station.
“Our customer was the local fire department, so they rented a lot of different movies, but about four out of every five movies they rented were pornographic,” he said with a laugh.
This prompted Logan to ask if the two had ever worked together at a video store, to which Avary acknowledged and replied, “Yeah, that’s how we met. Manhattan Beach. “Video Archives of…Probably some time before 1984,” Tarantino was a customer before he was an employee.
Director Quentin Tarantino reveals the most stressful moment in his film
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