“Reservoir Dogs” focuses on One of the most chaotic film burglary From all time – the one who quickly descends into an equally chaotic dead end which leaves practically all the people involved riddled with bullets. Therefore, it is not surprising to learn that things were just as wild behind the scenes of the film.

Mr. Blonde, played by fire, the great Michael Madsen (who unfortunately died on July 3, 2025), flies the feature film by Quentin Tarantino who directed the beginnings with His infamous torture routine Located on the smooth song “stuck in the middle with you.” However, even the colorful personality of the character pales in relation to the reputation of the most problematic actor in distribution: Lawrence Tierney.

Tierney had a long story of gangster game in classic Hollywood images like “Dillinger” and off screen, he did his best to be up to this hard image. He was a notorious drinker with a reputation to start bar fights wherever he went. In fact, he was even stabbed during one of these altercations In 1973. Thus, when Tarantino threw the veteran into the role of the boss of the Mafia Joe Cabot in “Reservoir Dogs”, the producers of the film gave him a strict rule so as never, never let Tierney drink during the production. Unfortunately, it ultimately ends up a fateful confrontation with Madsen.

Madsen, still the breakfast of rules, took pleasure in displaying the rule established by the producers of the film, and he and the co-star Tim Roth therefore took advantage of the first opportunity they could take Tierney to have a drink to the famous Hollywood Steakhouse known as Musso and Frank’s. Tierney quickly became “really busy”, as Madsen said once Cinema after cinemaAnd started walking outside on Hollywood Boulevard and dropping his pants in the middle of the street.

As if it was not eventful enough, Tierney started to harass Madsen to give him 20 dollars. When Madsen refused his request, Tierney persisted until he was so rolled up, he took a “wild wild swing” in Madsen. As the latter recalled:

“I fell back, and I missed a few centimeters. I felt the breeze. May God bless him, he died now, but he was completely a character.”

Madsen was not the only one to compete with Tierney during production. Quentin Tarantino called him A “full madman” when he was on the set, and he returned their first week of filming extremely difficult. At the very end of this week, Tarantino dismissed her and “the whole crew broke out in applause”.

Far from feeling independent, Tarantino feared that it was the death of death to his career before he even finished the first week of filming on his first film. Fortunately, One of the most responsible members of his casting, Harvey Keitelwas able to appease the producers of the film that everything was under control, and the rest is the history of cinema.