Q&A: 'Boarding Gate' star Michael Madsen
Michael Madsen
Photos by Matt Carr
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What about the distribution of Boarding Gate in the U.S.?
Well, I don't know about the U.S. for a movie like that. I am kind of sick of the U.S. and I am kind of fed up with all that Hollywood bullshit and that celebrity witch hunt. Alec Balwin calling his daughter a little pig. And Paris Hilton is going to jail. And Mini-Me is in rehab. Anna Nicole drops dead in a hotel. What the fuck is going on? David Hasselhoff is all drunk, eating a cheeseburger. His family gives the video to the news. If Alec was mad and he called his daughter a little pig, I am sure it probably really hurt her feelings, but if the media is going to attack him for doing that, then how much harm did they do to her by playing it over and over and over on the news. They did the same thing he did, but they made it worse. How can they claim to be caring about this child, when they fucked it up and made it worse? Okay, Paris go to jail. Play around in your little cot for a couple of weeks and then when it is over, you will get back in your Rolls Royce and you will go on. I am disgusted by all of it. I am so fucking sick of it. It makes me want to take my kids and move to Europe... There is a lot of bullshit and I don't want my children growing up with that stuff. I love my country. My God, I love my country. My father's brother was killed on the beach in World War II. My cousin was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam and he got bronze star and a purple heart and he saved a couple of guys. I love my country.
When you do Inglorious Bastards, you are going to be in Paris for a while. Is that maybe going to be an opportunity to bring your family over to Europe?
Well, that would certainly be my plan. Johnny Depp figured that out. I love Johnny by the way. We did Donnie Brasco together. He's a good cat.
Talking about shooting in Paris and Inglorious Bastards, is that what you are about to work on now?
I just finished Hellride for Quentin [Tarantino] on Wednesday, and then I had to go straight from the set to LAX. Hellride is a big giant motorcycle movie. I just saw Quentin at the Martinez [Hotel in Cannes]. He is looking well. But he is writing Inglorious Bastards. We haven't started shooting yet. He is still out promoting Death Proof.
Some of the other things that you have got coming up include Sin City 2.
They haven't shot it yet. I don't know if they ever will. I am not sure [about] the franchise. I think the Grindhouse thing didn't kind of work out...
...as well as they had hoped. Certainly not in the States.
I don't know what effect that is going to have on making Sin City 2. Sin City was Mickey [Rourke]'s film. Mickey is fucking incredible in that fucking movie. He is the movie. And I am happy for Mickey. Mickey is the real deal. Mickey is Mickey. And you can't fuck with that. And he did a tremendous job in that thing. The only reason I did it was because Robert Rodriguez said that if I took that little part I would get a bigger role in the sequel, that Bob would have more to do in the sequel. So I said: "Okay, fine." I am sitting on an apple box [in front of a green screen] and then when you see the movie, you're in a car. I don't understand it. I don't know how to do that. I don't get it.
Have you seen the script for Sin City 2 yet?
No. I talk to Frank Miller quite often. He came up to my house and we drank a lot of tequila. Frank is pretty funny. I haven't seen the script for Sin City 2. I don't know if they are gonna make it. I hope they do. And if and when they do, I will be in it.
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