Trying to get by

Posted by Mona -

He fractured his skull after being hit by a bus. A few years later, he was hit by a car. All this was before he was ever chopped up, cut down or ground up on a movie set. He has a temper. He valiantly defends the characters he plays.

I’m still trying to tell him why I love his acting. I find myself burbling about class consciousness and Buscemi being rooted in the blue-collar world of his own past. “Are you so good at playing them because of your own experiences?” I ask, embarrassingly.”Good at them?” he asks with disdain. “You still calling them losers?”

This is, by far, the best article I have read on the subject of Steve Buscemi. The journalist writes honestly about the actor’s past and present, mixing in personal details with an attitude that makes this famous celebrity read like the neighbor next door. You know, the one you’d borrow a lawn mower from but make damn sure to return it, because he’s just a little bit crazy?

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