![]() Although he was acquitted of the double-murder charge, he was persona non grata - not only in Hollywood but virtually everywhere else. Naked Gun 33 1/3 was Simpson’s final film. By that point, he was on trial for the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. Of course, Simpson had bigger problems at the time. However, in 1995, Simpson received a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor for his role in Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult. Simpson was applauded for his performance in the first movie. It spawned two sequels and several imitators. ![]() The Naked Gun is considered one of the best comedies ever made. Something bad is always going to happen to him. Through the film – and rest of the series – Nordberg is Wile E. What follows is the most implausible and hilarious run of bad luck ever seen in movie history. He overhears a drug deal and rushes in to make an arrest. In an early scene, Nordberg stakes out Los Angeles Harbor. In the first Naked Gun film, Zucker wastes no time setting the stage for what would be a running joke in the movie. What was surprising was how genuinely funny Simpson was in the role. So it was not a surprise that he brought in Simpson to be Nordberg, the accident-prone detective and friend to lead character Frank Drebin. He’s responsible for the greatest athlete cameo of all time: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Airplane!. might as well have been called Nordberg.ĭavid Zucker liked putting athletes is his movies. Ultimately, for the generation who never saw Simpson the football star, O.J. He becomes overwhelmed with despair when he realizes (spoiler alert!) that he’s going to die. He mumbles to himself incoherently while desperately trying to find water. A disoriented, dehydrated Simpson stumbles into a dry riverbed. O.J.’s most memorable scene takes place in a desert. Hyams said of Simpson: “I didn’t think he would frighten Daniel Day-Lewis.” Still, Capricorn One turned into a big break for Simpson. His preference was to cast a veteran African-American actor, like Bernie Casey (John Slade in I’m Gonna Git You Sucka and U.N. IMO Robert Duvall would have been a better choice - he has often played the quintissential US Army colonel roles (Apocalypse Now) or USMC (The Great Santini).In O.J.: Made in America, writer/ director Peter Hyams said that Simpson was basically forced upon him. The only thing English about the character was the actor and the accent.Įven if Malcolm McDowell wasn't English himself, he was still the wrong actor for the part. Years later, in the movie/story's "present" he is working with an American law enforcement agency and US Army and Air Force personnel in an American city. ![]() ![]() What makes you so sure that he was supposed to be English? In the flashbacks, he was flying with an American pilot (Roy Scheider) in an American helicopter and he was wearing an American uniform. believe it or not, some Brits did serve in Viet Nam (on exchange), as did a whole bunch of Australians (which nearly everyone over here seems to forget). Malcolm McDowell wasn't supposed to be American at all, but English. Yeah, but Malcolm McDowell was absolutely wrong for that part - C'mon, I mean an Englishman playing an American Vietnam vet? Who's brilliant idea was that?
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