Overboard, his 1987 comedy co-starring longtime partner Goldie Hawn, is another. It’s not just the genre antiheroes with attitudes that Russell gets approached for. I don’t know why, but whatever it is, I’m drawn to them.” “Sometimes movies come out at the wrong time or are misunderstood, there are all these reasons. “I love that people come up to me more and more now and say, ‘I just saw Death Proof!’” Russell said. More recently there was Stuntman Mike, the muscle car-driving serial killer of Tarantino’s Death Proof, the movie that plucked Russell out of a run of feel-good studio hero roles and gave him a renewed badass raison d'être. His work with Carpenter in particular raised a generation of VHS-devouring action-sci-fi nuts who worship at the altar of Snake Plissken, Jack Burton, and R.J. Over the years Russell, 64, has seen his quirkier indie roles become celebrated cult classics in the hearts of his fans. Five years later he teamed up for the first time with a young filmmaker named John Carpenter on an Elvis biopic that nabbed him his first Emmy nomination and marked the start of a fruitful friendship. If it hadn’t ended his baseball career, the switch-hitting batting champ and former child actor might not have returned to show business. “Now I don’t know how I did it this time, but 40 years ago I did it playing professional baseball. “I found out I have severe calcific rotator cuff tendinitis with a partially torn rotator cuff,” said Russell, who fears he might have to have surgery next month.
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