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Uma Thurman's Car Crash on set of "Kill Bill"

eric3579 says...

From NYT article https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/opinion/sunday/this-is-why-uma-thurman-is-angry.html?referer=https://t.co/3KI4YYryAt?amp=1

In the famous scene where she’s driving the blue convertible to kill Bill — the same one she put on Instagram on Thanksgiving — she was asked to do the driving herself.

But she had been led to believe by a teamster, she says, that the car, which had been reconfigured from a stick shift to an automatic, might not be working that well.

She says she insisted that she didn’t feel comfortable operating the car and would prefer a stunt person to do it. Producers say they do not recall her objecting.

“Quentin came in my trailer and didn’t like to hear no, like any director,” she says. “He was furious because I’d cost them a lot of time. But I was scared. He said: ‘I promise you the car is fine. It’s a straight piece of road.’” He persuaded her to do it, and instructed: “ ‘Hit 40 miles per hour or your hair won’t blow the right way and I’ll make you do it again.’ But that was a deathbox that I was in. The seat wasn’t screwed down properly. It was a sand road and it was not a straight road.” (Tarantino did not respond to requests for comment.)

Thurman then shows me the footage that she says has taken her 15 years to get. “Solving my own Nancy Drew mystery,” she says.

It’s from the point of view of a camera mounted to the back of the Karmann Ghia. It’s frightening to watch Thurman wrestle with the car, as it drifts off the road and smashes into a palm tree, her contorted torso heaving helplessly until crew members appear in the frame to pull her out of the wreckage. Tarantino leans in and Thurman flashes a relieved smile when she realizes that she can briefly stand.

Uma Thurman said she didn't want to drive this car. She said she had been warned that there were issues with it. She felt she had to do it anyway. It took her some 15 years to get footage of the crash. (Note: There is no audio.)
“The steering wheel was at my belly and my legs were jammed under me,” she says. “I felt this searing pain and thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m never going to walk again,’” she says. “When I came back from the hospital in a neck brace with my knees damaged and a large massive egg on my head and a concussion, I wanted to see the car and I was very upset. Quentin and I had an enormous fight, and I accused him of trying to kill me. And he was very angry at that, I guess understandably, because he didn’t feel he had tried to kill me.”

Even though their marriage was spiraling apart, Hawke immediately left the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky to fly to his wife’s side.

“I approached Quentin in very serious terms and told him that he had let Uma down as a director and as a friend,” he told me. He said he told Tarantino, “Hey, man, she is a great actress, not a stunt driver, and you know that.” Hawke added that the director “was very upset with himself and asked for my forgiveness.”

Two weeks after the crash, after trying to see the car and footage of the incident, she had her lawyer send a letter to Miramax, summarizing the event and reserving the right to sue.

Miramax offered to show her the footage if she signed a document “releasing them of any consequences of my future pain and suffering,” she says. She didn’t.

Ghost in the Shell VFX Behind-the-Scenes

lucky760 says...

I agree.

I have felt very strongly since I first saw Kill Bill that it would've been much better with Badass Lucy Liu as the lead instead of Lanky-Awkward-and-Ugly Uma Thurman.

kir_mokum said:

i don't think western audiences actual want a western lead, i think studios are locked in outdated mentalities of what an IP needs to be successful.

Uma Thurman and John Travolta after taking laxatives

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Kill Bill Vol 1 - Crazy 88's Entrance

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Ryjkyj says...

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Poop.

In reply to this comment by Ryjkyj:
1. Lying is without a doubt my greatest skill.

2. I stopped doing homework after seventh grade, though somehow managed to stay in the school system until my senior year.

3. I'm a pack-a-day smoker.

4. My favorite food is Burgerville double cheeseburgers.

5. I have been to Australia.

6. I once rolled an ounce of weed into a single joint.

7. I have no wisdom teeth. They'll never grow in.

8. I used to be allergic to dairy products but grew out of it. (thank fucking god)

9. I've never been in a fight, though I started taking martial arts at 5 years old.

10. I read Anne Rice's "Sleeping Beauty" trilogy in one night.

11. I've broken almost every bone in both of my arms, up to and including both collar bones.

12. Whiskey is the only thing that makes me black-out.

13. I've always had a major fear of zombie's.

14. I won the Clark County Sheriff's poster contest when I was 6. Don't play with matches.

15. I've lived in Washington, Oregon, Texas and New York City.

16. I voted for Nader in 2000.

17. I carpeted Jean-Claude Van Damme's sister in law's living room.

18 The only celebrities I've seen in New York are Uma Thurman and Peter Dinklage.

19. George Carlin is my one and only hero.

20. I had a ticket to the last Greatful Dead show that Jerry Garcia played but I didn't go and never saw them live.

21. I own the entire "Elfquest" collection.

22. I love the rain.

23. I once peed shoulder-to-shoulder with Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, Arun Gandhi.

24. I DESPISE the word poop. It makes me sick just to type it. Why can't we just call it shit?

25. I could've put some really embarassing shit on this list.

25 Random things about me... (Blog Entry by youdiejoe)

Ryjkyj says...

1. Lying is without a doubt my greatest skill.

2. I stopped doing homework after seventh grade, though somehow managed to stay in the school system until my senior year.

3. I'm a pack-a-day smoker.

4. My favorite food is Burgerville double cheeseburgers.

5. I have been to Australia.

6. I once rolled an ounce of weed into a single joint.

7. I have no wisdom teeth. They'll never grow in.

8. I used to be allergic to dairy products but grew out of it. (thank fucking god)

9. I've never been in a fight, though I started taking martial arts at 5 years old.

10. I read Anne Rice's "Sleeping Beauty" trilogy in one night.

11. I've broken almost every bone in both of my arms, up to and including both collar bones.

12. Whiskey is the only thing that makes me black-out.

13. I've always had a major fear of zombie's.

14. I won the Clark County Sheriff's poster contest when I was 6. Don't play with matches.

15. I've lived in Washington, Oregon, Texas and New York City.

16. I voted for Nader in 2000.

17. I carpeted Jean-Claude Van Damme's sister in law's living room.

18 The only celebrities I've seen in New York are Uma Thurman and Peter Dinklage.

19. George Carlin is my one and only hero.

20. I had a ticket to the last Greatful Dead show that Jerry Garcia played but I didn't go and never saw them live.

21. I own the entire "Elfquest" collection.

22. I love the rain.

23. I once peed shoulder-to-shoulder with Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, Arun Gandhi.

24. I DESPISE the word poop. It makes me sick just to type it. Why can't we just call it shit?

25. I could've put some really embarassing shit on this list.

Kill Bill - The Bride vs. O-Ren Ishii

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Women in Film

pigeon says...

In order - Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Gloria Swanson, Marlene Dietrich, Norma Shearer, Ruth Chatterton, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Vivien Leigh, Greer Garson, Hedy Lamarr, Rita Hayworth, Gene Tierney, Olivia de Havilland, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers, Loretta Young, Deborah Kerr, Judy Garland, Anne Baxter, Lauren Bacall, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Audrey Hepburn, Joanne Woodward, Shirley MacLaine, Natalie Wood, Angie Dickinson, Janet Leigh, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Ann-Margret, Julie Andrews, Raquel Welch, Tuesday Weld, Jane Fonda, Julie Christie, Faye Dunaway, Catherine Deneuve, Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Isabella Rossellini, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sigourney Weaver, Kathleen Turner, Holly Hunter, Jodie Foster, Melanie Griffith, Sharon Stone, Meg Ryan, Demi Moore, Julia Roberts, Uma Thurman, Sandra Bullock, Julianne Moore, Diane Lane, Nicole Kidman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, Reese Witherspoon, Gwyneth Paltrow

Firing a Bullet at the Blade of a Samurai Sword - Guess what happens next (2:15 min)

Firing a Bullet at the Blade of a Samurai Sword - Guess what happens next (2:15 min)

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