Dern walked us through some of the best moments from his career in our latest installment of Role Recall (watch above).ĭern recalled the fateful day they shot John Wayne’s big death scene - and how the filmmakers conspired to make the killing feel authentic. Jackson’s vengeance-seeking bounty hunter. In the latter (which hits DVD and Blu-ray this week), Dern is at his dastardly best as a retired Confederate general about to receive some muthaf–kin’ comeuppance via Samuel L. The 79-year-old actor from Winnetka, Ill., though, has enjoyed quite a resurgence in recent years, with an Oscar-nominated performance in Alexander Payne’s indie drama Nebraska ( 2013) bookended by two Westerns from Quentin Tarantino, 2012’s Django Unchained and 2015’s The Hateful Eight. But he was onto something.ĭern became very well-known in his 30s and 40s thanks to roles in Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie and Sydney Pollack’s They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, and a sterling reputation as one of Hollywood’s go-to rogues - a rep highlighted by the fact that he became the first actor to kill the previously impenetrable Western hero John Wayne in 1972’s The Cowboys. Kazan - who instructed Dern at the Actor’s Studio and directed him in his film debut, Wild River (1960) - was wrong. Famed director Elia Kazan used to say that no one was going to know who Bruce Dern was until he was in his 60s.
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