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Carl Weathers has died
- thomashabets2 3y agoSomeone I know dressed up as Drago (Dolph Lundgren), boxing shorts and gloves and all. He's blonde, too, so there's no mistaking who he was dressed as. He is, however, like 30cm shorter. Dolph is tall. So at the con he goes to Carl Weathers for a photo and autograph. Weathers immediately lights up, smiles, extends his arms, and exclaims "you've shrunk!!". Seems like a great guy. I'll try to find the photo. Edit: https://fnalbum-cf.habets.se/bucket/2k.webp/FC9D1104-62DA-472A-9D4E-7EC3E8C894B8.webp https://fnalbum-cf.habets.se/bucket/2k.webp/FC9D1104-62DA-47...
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- Sateeshm 3y agoIf you are on mobile, switch to desktop mode
- gilgoomesh 3y agoWhat a bummer. He was so charismatic in every role he played. RIP.
- washadjeffmad 3y agoWord has it when he passed away, he had a stew going.
- nullhole 3y agoI buy all my jokes at police auction.
- mariodiana 3y ago“There is no tomorrow! There is no tomorrow!”
- throwup238 3y agoWhoa, whoa, whoa. There’s still plenty of meat on that bone. Now you take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you’ve got a stew going. RIP Carl.
- toomuchtodo 3y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDOffqDsV5Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDOffqDsV5Q
- joshstrange 3y agoAnytime a show/movie/etc makes a joke about “How much do you have?”/“That’s exactly how much X costs!” I think back to his character.
- ddlutz 3y agoJust saw this episode yesterday! How unfortunate and unexpected his passing is.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoCame here for this quote, Carl was so funny in this part. RIP
- sharkweek 3y ago…I think I want my money back
- highwaylights 3y agoI heard when he was on Showtime with Ann Archer he never once touched his per diem
- danesparza 3y agoThis is how I prefer to remember him (on Arrested Development). I'm going to miss that man.
- alephnerd 3y ago"It's purely a social call. Just two adults getting a stew on"
- cushychicken 3y agoHe was also in Predator, and he famously reminded everyone of that on SNL once.
- sph 3y agoHis handshake with Arnold Schwarzenegger is the most iconic and wholesome ever put to camera. The macho version of "The Creation of Adam" if Michelangelo had been a bodybuilding.com forum user.
- nozzlegear 3y agoDillon! You son of a bitch! https://youtu.be/txuWGoZF3ew?si=ygVfLFiMyEKraMd6 https://youtu.be/txuWGoZF3ew?si=ygVfLFiMyEKraMd6
- irongeek 3y agoWhat's a matter, CIA got you pushing too many pencils.
- beebeepka 3y agoYou are a funny guy, irongeek, I like you. That's why I am going to kill you last.
- listenallyall 3y agoPretty sure that line is from Commando
- scandox 3y agoYeah and he lied.
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- originalvichy 3y agoThis guy both had the warmest smile and a scary frown! Gonna miss him and revisit Predator some day.
- dzonga 3y agoaka as Greef Karga in mando
- danesparza 3y agoDamnit. I forgot he was in that. (And played it so well!)
- drewcoo 3y agoAction Jackson!
- skyechurch 3y agoNot exactly a great piece of cinema, but a veru enjoyable one. Not exactly a parody of an action movie, but one that took itself only as seriously as necessary. Carl Weathers was great in everything he did, and being a football star/action hero type made his surprising sense of humor and egolessness that much more effective. He was the anti-Steven Seagal, in a way.
- pdonis 3y agoWhich has one of my favorite lines: "You broke that guy's arm!" "He had a spare."
- higgins 3y ago"There is no tomorrow..." RIP Carl
- ugh123 3y agoAlso played in the NFL for a few seasons. What a life
- code_runner 3y agoI was talking to a guy years and years back and my dad said to ask him about when he played in the NFL. Older guy. He lights up and says: “now this was back before anyone got paid anything to play football. We weren’t making anything but it was fun and we were allowed to hit real hard. I had a friend on the team who said ‘man I’m getting out of here… I’m gonna be an actor.’ Well, we’re all just a bunch meatheads but he was the only good looking guy… couple of years later I’m watching some boxing movie and there he is as Apollo Creed in Rocky”
- cf100clunk 3y agoHe spent 2 years in Vancouver as a linebacker with the B.C. Lions of the Canadian Football League while continuing his acting studies: https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/carl-weathers-dead-1.7103456 https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/carl-weathers-dead-1.7...
- tomhoward 3y agoI didn't know much of him apart from his Arrested Development cameo, but my partner told me about this anecdote about him today and I think it's brilliant: Hurwitz recounted how, when he actually got in touch with Weathers, the actor immediately dismissed the exact type of joke Hurwitz and the writing staff were envisioning. And not only that, but it was actually Weathers himself who came up with the running bit for his character: "So I called Carl, and said, 'Hey, I don't know if you've seen the show but we wanna use you for it, and you'd be working with David Cross.' And he goes, 'Great, but let me ask you something. It's not going to be just a bunch of Rocky jokes is it?' I laughed, 'No! No! Give me a little credit, Carl. Of course not! It's a multidimensional character.' And he was like, 'Because I direct and I'm a funny guy and I don't wanna just do a bunch of Rocky jokes. Nobody wants that. Maybe I could be really cheap or something?' And I said, 'Whaaaat?' 'Maybe I could be really cheap?' 'Really? You'd like to do that?' 'Oh, absolutely, that's what I'm saying. I want to play someone funny, not just be a sight gag.' It was so much better. I went back to the writers room and said, 'You're not going to believe this. Carl Weathers wants to be incredibly cheap.' All credit to Carl on that." https://www.slashfilm.com/1508464/carl-weathers-idea-for-hilarious-arrested-development-performance/ https://www.slashfilm.com/1508464/carl-weathers-idea-for-hil...
- gitfan86 3y agoFor those that don't know he played himself in the show as an acting coach, but all of his advice was related to how to get multiple meals from the catering at filmings.
- phone8675309 3y agoLove to get a stew going
- ugh123 3y agoI can totally picture him and hear him saying this
- bagels 3y agoThanks for sharing this. I appreciate that part even more now knowing it was his character idea.
- sparrish 3y agoWe'll miss you, Chubbs. You've only just begun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkjXcRLNZHQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkjXcRLNZHQ
- sillywalk 3y agoHope he's in his 'Happy Place'.
- sangeeth96 3y agoFrom my childhood with Rocky/Predator to the present with Mandalorian—truly stood apart. Sucks that we lost another gem.
- RigelKentaurus 3y ago"Dillon! You son of a bitch!" "I grew up, why don't you?" Loved him in Predator! Watching the scene where he arm wrestles Arnold boosts a man's testosterone by 20%. The ultimate action movie for guys. RIP Carl.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>boosts a man's testosterone by 20% If you're looking for a testosterone boost, I can recommend you Dinesh's Maximizing Alphaness video[1]. Just don't show it to Gilfoyle. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An21fXqyqM0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An21fXqyqM0
- huytersd 3y agoWeirdly, I felt like it worked a little bit.
- kyting 3y agoAgreed and he performed very well in the movie, always pulled Arnold's leg but a crucial role in the team. Definitely a brilliant actor.
- danparsonson 3y agoI hope that in whatever afterlife he ended up, they don't have him pushing too many pencils.
- owlninja 3y agoHow can we forget him as Chubbs Peterson in Happy Gilmore as well? What an outstanding life lived. Admirably, he wasn't just some athlete trying to find a fallback gig if football didn't work out. He also attained a masters in theatre arts in college.
- ElCapitanMarkla 3y agoIt’s all in the hips… it’s all on the hips…
- JimDabell 3y ago> With that wise suggestion, Weathers skyrocketed into the pantheon of the best "actors playing a version of themselves" in 21st century TV history, up there with Larry David in "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and Adam West in "Family Guy." One that always gets overlooked is Ron Silver playing himself in Heat Vision and Jack. It’s an unaired pilot for a spoof of 80s “man on the run” series like the Incredible Hulk. It starred Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Ron Silver, Christine Taylor, and Vincent Schiavelli, made by Rob Schrab and Dan Harmon, directed by Ben Stiller. Ron Silver is an assassin working for (evil) NASA to hunt down the smartest man on Earth (Jack Black) and his talking motorbike (Owen Wilson). However Ron Silver plays himself – the assassin stars in Hollywood films as a part-time hobby (when he isn’t murdering people).
- jwiz 3y agoThat is such a perfect spoof.
- dumbfounder 3y agoWas it stupidly brilliant, or brilliantly stupid? I can’t decide. But I think it works best as a unaired pilot that just about no one has ever seen. Because I am sure no one believes you when you tell them this existed. Oh but how can we forget Being John Malkovich? Its all in the hips.
- hinkley 3y agoAnd the dream of Governor Weathers dies.
- ReptileMan 3y ago- You can't win this Dillon. - Maybe I can get even
- Simon_ORourke 3y agoI met him once when I was stuck in Baltimore trying to get a flight out before Thanksgiving in the late 90's. He was a proper gentleman, and a funny guy, cracking jokes with a couple of us kids who recognized him.
- smdyc1 3y agoMan that sucks. Rest in peace. I loved his character in The Mandalorian.
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- aerodog 3y agoit's all in the hips...
- harrylove 3y agoMy daily meditation: “Now when we fought you had the eye of the tiger, man—the edge—and now you’ve got to get it back, and the way to get it back is to go back to the beginning, you know what I mean?” RIP Carl.