The actor Michael Madsen, known for his papers in “Reservoir Dogs” and “Kill Bill”, died at the age of 67.
Madsen’s death was confirmed on Thursday by his publicist, Liz Rodríguez, who told ABC News that Madsen was found that he did not respond on Thursday morning in his house in Malibu, California, and he believes he died of cardiac arrest.
“In the last two years, Michael Madsen has been doing incredible job with independent films, including the next films Resurrection Road, Concessions and Cookbook for Southern Housewives, and really waited for this next chapter of his life,” Rodriguez said in a statement also written by Madsen’s managers, Susan Ferris and Ron Smith. “Michael was also preparing to launch a new book called ‘Tears for My Father: Outlaw thoughts and poems’, currently edited.”
The actor Michael Madsen poses for a portrait during the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, on January 24, 2008 in Park City, Utah.
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The statement continued: “Michael Madsen was one of Hollywood’s most emblematic actors, which many will be surprised by many.”
Madsen had a decades in Hollywood that included papers in more than 300 films, including several that are still in production, according Your IMDB page.
Madsen’s sister, actress Virginia Madsen, went to Instagram on Thursday and shared A photo collage of his brother.
“I love you,” the publication subtitled.
Born on September 25, 1957, Michael Madsen’s first acting role was in the film directed by Edward T. McDougal of 1982 “Against All Hope”, in which he played the main role of a man who fights with alcoholism that resorts to a reverend in search of help.
He went on to get more roles on television and cinema, including the 1985 television series “Our Family Honor” and the film directed by Ridley Scott in 1991 “Thelma and Louise”, starred with Brad Pitt, Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis.
In 1992, Madsen starred in his first film directed by Quentin Tarantino, “Reservoir Dogs”, as Mr. Blonde/Vic. The film, which followed a jewelry robbery, went wrong, also starred Tim Roth and Harvey Keitel.
Madsen spoke with ABC News in 2017 at the Tribeca Film Festival for the 25th anniversary of “Reservoir Dogs” and said it was “very fortunate and very blessed” of being in the film.
“I had a great director and I had a great script,” he said. “I didn’t know what I was going to do. I was very young. It was one of my first photos. [Tarantino] Let me improve a lot. “
As for the famous dance scene that he delivered in the movie the song “Stuck in the Middle With You”, Madsen said that “he did it on the spot.”
“Honestly, I didn’t know what to do,” he said. “AND [Tarantino] He never rehearsed it because he intimidated me. Because I am not a dancer. And I started thinking about this Jimmy Cagney movie that I saw, about the university or something, and he does this little dance and came to mind just before I had to do it. And I didn’t know that I was going to work, but Quentin let me go out with his and thank God he let me do it. “
Michael Madsen thinks of ‘reservoir dogs’ 25 years later He lives from the red carpet for the 25th anniversary of ‘Reservoir Dogs’, the actor, Madsen remembers his experience with the movie.
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His role as Mr. Blonde was the first of many hard types of Sabio Cracking that he would play in Tarantino’s films: from Budd, also known as Sidewinder, in the three films of “Kill Bill”, to Sheriff Hackett in the show within the “Bounty Law” in “ONCE A TIME … in Hollywood,” A Joe Gage in “The Hateful Eight “.
Talking to The Hollywood Reporter in 2018, Madsen reflected In his career in Hollywood and the roles he has played, and called for fame a “two -edged sword.”
“There are many blessings but also many heavy things that come with her,” he said. “I think it has a lot to do with the characters I have interpreted. I think I have been more credible than it should have been. I think people really fear me and go:” Holy S —, there is that guy! “But I’m not that guy.
He added: “When I’m not making a movie, I’m at home, in pajamas, watching ‘The Rifleman’ on television, luckily with my 12 -year -old son, making me a cheese hamburger. I am sure I had my days that moved the chusma, but sooner or later you have to overcome that and move on.”
Madsen married three times, the first time with the actress of the “General Hospital” Georganne Lapiere from 1984 to 1988. Then he married actress Jeannine Bisignano in 1991. The two divorced in 1995 and shared two children, Christian and Max.
In 1996, Madsen married actress Deanna Madsen had three children with her: Calvin, Luke and Hudson Madsen.
Michael Madsen poses in Hollywood Life House, January 22, 2008 in Park City, Utah.
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In 2022, Madsen suffered a personal tragedy when Hudson, 26, died for suicide. Madsen said in a statement by then Los Angeles Times After the death of his son, he was trying to “make sense.”
“I am in shock when my son, with whom I just talked a few days ago, said I was happy: my last text message was’ I love you dad,” Madsen told the newspaper. “I didn’t see any sign of depression. It’s so tragic and sad. I’m just trying to make sense of everything and understand what happened.”
Two years after the death of Hudson Madsen, the actor requested the divorce of Deanna Madsen.
