Ray Liotta played many roles throughout his career before his death last year at age 67, but there’s one even he’s surprised he didn’t take on. In a newly released interview with Deadline, completed in 2019 around the time he appeared in "Marriage Story," Liotta revealed he turned down a meeting with Tim Burton for a role in 1989’s "Batman." "I’ve been able to hang on to keep doing these movies because it’s been hard for me in my head to go, ‘Now let me be the bad guy in a comic book movie,'" Liotta said of his later career roles. When asked why he never appeared in a superhero movie, he replied, "Because I was an idiot." He said after his breakout role in "Something Wild" with Melanie Griffith and Jeff Daniels, "my agent called me up and said, ‘Tim Burton would like to meet you.
Tim Burton Pays Tribute To Paul Reubens Who “Helped Me At The Beginning Of My Career”; “I’ll Never Forget”
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Tim Burton will never forget Paul Reubens. Burton has shared a tribute to Reubens, who starred in and co-wrote Burton’s feature directorial debut Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, following Reuben’s death Sunday following a years-long battle with cancer at age 70.
“Shocked and saddened,” Burton wrote in a post on Instagram alongside a photo of the two on the set of Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. “I’ll never forget how Paul helped me at the beginning of my career. It would not have happened without his support. He was a great artist. I’ll miss him.”
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure also spawned the character name Reubens would forever be known – Pee-wee Herman. The film character was a quirky man who dressed in his trademark gray suit, red bow tie and white loafers, and in the film went on an adventure as he hunted down his stolen bike.
Reubens appeared in three of Burton’s films. In addition to Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, Reubens voiced Lock in The Nightmare Before Christmas, for which Burton wrote the story and co-produced. He also appeared as the father of Danny DeVito’s Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin character in 1992’s Batman Returns.
In a 2016 interview in Collider, Reubens praised Burton when asked why he selected Burton to direct Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.
I think it was the wallpaper in Frankenweenie, in the second shot of the movie. From the first minute of his film, I could tell that he was somebody who was very interested in style,” Reubens said. “He brought style to something, and a lot of young directors aren’t there yet. A lot of people who have directed for long careers still don’t have much style. So, I could tell that he had a style, and that he understood production design and art direction. There was a lot of stuff about that first
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died Monday at age 70, fans around the world mourned the death of an artist.But they were even more devastated by the passing of their dear old friend, Pee-wee Herman.That bowtied ‘80s fixture was too goofy to be true, but also remarkably real to us because of the actor’s intense commitment to his zany character. And that’s exactly how Reubens, the man who created and performed as Pee-wee, wanted it.“I thought Pee-wee Herman worked better if [they] didn’t know that I was an actor,” he said in a 2004 interview with Dateline NBC.
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has died at age 70 after a private battle with cancer.“Last night we said farewell to Paul Reubens, an iconic American actor, comedian, writer and producer whose beloved character Pee-wee Herman delighted generations of children and adults with his positivity, whimsy and belief in the importance of kindness,” a statement on his official Instagram account read.While well known for that iconic role, he’s also remembered for several sex scandals, including his infamous 1991 arrest for indecent exposure at a Florida porn house, as well as allegations in a child pornography case. According to the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office, in 1991, detectives went to the XXX South Trail Cinema to observe the audience for a triple bill of “Catalina Five-O,” “Tiger Shark, Nurse Nancy” and “Turn Up the Heat.” The officers hauled in three men — including Reubens — on charges of violating Florida State Statute 800.03 (Exposure of Sexual Organs) in the dark theater.
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