Get Me Two, Gary Busey -- Another Look Back on "Point Break"
“Celebrity Apprentice” star Gary Busey loves to improv – as evident from some of his most famous lines in “Point Break,” which he told Current are his own creation.
"I'm so hungry I could eat the ass end out of a dead rhino”? Improv.
“They vanish… like a virgin on prom night.” Improv.
“We were doing the scene in the FBI office,” Busey said, “and I had said it in rehearsal as a joke, and Keanu [Reeves] just came back at me with this Cheshire cat grin. There’s a bunch of lines I did like that, like adding 'squid brain,' but the improv I like the most in the movie is what Anthony Kiedis did, by shooting himself in the foot. That was a heck of an improv.”
Busey’s FBI agent Pappas had been pretending to search for his dog to gain entry to a house where some suspect surfers (including Kiedis) are hiding out. As the surfer gang realizes FBI agents are outside, they panic and start pulling out the guns, shooting at the agents, and in Kiedis' case, himself.
“Shooting that scene was never dull,” Busey said. “You never knew what it was going to come out like. There are a lot of great things in that scene. You’ve got the fight outside with the lawnmower, and the fight inside, with 10 or 11 people fighting at once. I loved the passion of it.”
The fight starts when Pappas shoves himself into a woman (played by Kimberly Martin) who had answered the door in her black thong, saying, “FBI, gorgeous!” He later has to shoot past her when she’s used as a body shield.
“That was fun,” Busey said. “I talked to her about it beforehand, so she knew I respected her. I asked, ‘Do you have brothers or sisters?’ ‘What did you want to be when you were 10?’ Those kinds of milestones help you know the way your world is, the way you see the world. And I made it up to her afterwards. How? I’ll leave that up to your imagination!”
Busey also loves the improv fight moves that happen when that scene is recreated on stage in “Point Break Live!” (where an audience member gets to play Johnny Utah). “They all have red water in their mouths so they can spit it out like blood,” he said. “And they got me in one of the performances. They gave me a gun so I could shoot everybody, and I went crazy! It was an amazing experience.”
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I will forever admire and respect Gary Busey for his powerful performance in the cinematic masterpiece "Hider In The House" co-starring the always sexy Mimi Rogers.
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