Rumor has long had it that Quentin Tarantino’s first choice for the role of Vincent Vega in “Pulp Fiction” was Michael Madsen.
The two had worked together in “Reservoir Dogs,” which starred Madsen as Vic Vega (aka Mr.
Blonde) and put him front and center in the film’s iconic ear-severing torture scene set to Steelers Wheel’s “Stuck in the Middle With You.” In the upcoming Tarantino documentary “QT8: The First Eight,” Madsen confirms he was supposed to be Tarantino’s Vincent Vega until he had to turn down the now-famous role to star as Virgil Earp in Lawrence Kasdan’s 1994 Western “Wyatt Earp.”)“I was already committed to ‘Wyatt Earp,’” Madsen says in the documentary (via Entertainment Weekly).
“And now, here’s Quentin, wants me to do ‘Pulp Fiction.’ And they were both going at the same time.”Twenty-five years after “Pulp Fiction” premiered and won the
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