Jack Nicholson's character was demented, but was he that demented? One of the most dastardly villains in recent cinema memory is Jack Nicholson's Frank Costello from The Departed. He's not just a mob boss, he's a psychopath who walks around with a severed hand in a bag and tortures his victims before he has them killed. Nicholson is known for liking to take his own route on set, and really building a character from what's on the page into something he can own. On a recent episode of the “WTF” podcast with Marc Maron, Maron had Departed co-star Matt Damon on to chat about his career. Damon brought up a scene in the movie that Nicholson tried to rewrite to make it so twisted, it didn't make the final cut. Damon told Maron, “The scene was one-eighth of a page. It said, ‘Costello executes a man kneeling in the marsh.’ That’s all it said. Jack was so excited and said [to me], ‘Wait until you hear what I did.’ He goes, ‘Well, it was an eighth of a page,’ and he goes, ‘I’ve seen that before, so what I did is I made it a woman… and I put Ray [Winstone] in the scene with me.'” Damon goes on: Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 28 July, 2021