He'd flown in town just to see the play and was leaving the next morning. "I was doing a play in London and he just showed up backstage one night after the play. I think he gave me that on videotape." When Tarantino first approached Hannah, she was a bit surprised. And then I saw ones that were specific to my character and certain influences that were drawn from them, like Twisted Nerve, an obscure English thriller the whistling song comes from, Swedish porn film for my patch. I saw Japanese anime, I saw kung fu films, I saw Fistful of Dollars, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, all the spaghetti Westerns as well. And he also showed double features at his house all the time, but I saw all of it. There were so many movies it was unbelievable. I got 75 tapes and boxes and boxes moving truck coming with more. "I asked him for some research films, because I didn't really know that much about a lot of genres he was coming from. At the Kill Bill junket, she expands on this. "It was hard for the physical stuff because I had to retrain, because once I had learned all the skills I had to retrain with the patch because it definitely throws off your center of gravity and your depth perception." In our previous interview with Hannah, she had mentioned the overwhelming amount of research material Quentin had tossed her way. We asked Hannah if this would be explained in the second volume: "I don't want to tell you about our surprises, but it will make you hate me a lot more." Fighting with one eye also has to be a pretty interesting experience. More of the gargantuan – there's a trashing everything, it's horrible." Uma Thurman & Daryl Hannah in Kill Bill: Volume 1ĭriver has only one eye, which is not explained in Volume 1. So there's a lot more dialogue, and the fighting is the antithesis of the Snow Garden fight: it's not beautiful, Raise the Red Lantern kind of choreographed ballet it's a messy, gruesome, gross brawl, two cats in a bag. Our movie ( Volume 2) is a spaghetti Western with kung fu, anime and samurai overtones. I can do it all but in terms of what style my fight is, Quentin says that the first movie is like a samurai and kung fu movie and Japanese anime movie, with spaghetti western overtones. And then we trained with Sonny Chiba doing all the Samurai sword stuff. "We trained for several months here and then one month in China and we trained with Master Yuen Woo-Ping: kung fu, wirework stuff. He wrote things that weren't even supposed to be in the movie just to have ideas of what happens between me and Bill, so there's tons of material for me to work on." Hannah promises we will get to see her kick some kazoo in the next part. He knew exactly where she came from, who she was. "Quentin really had that all worked out, so I didn't have to make up anything myself. We get a whiff of her evil, and there appears to be plenty to come in Volume 2. You're going to hate her so much in the second one, because she does horrible things." Driver is one of the characters we know the least of in Volume 1. But my character is just bad all the way through, there's nothing to like about her. "All the other deadly vipers have some empathetic quality: O-Ren Ishii has this horrible past, Vivica's character just wants to be a mom, The Bride has been abused. "It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likable about her other than she's so bad," Hannah laughs. Hannah is enjoying playing the bad girl for once. Like our previous interview, Hannah is a bit shy and meek at first. We talked to her at the Kill Bill press day at the Four Seasons last week. When we are first introduced to Miss Driver, she simply could not be more badass: Walking down the halls of a hospital corridor wearing a nurse's uniform with the stitching drawn on, Hannah whistles the theme to the film Twisted Nerve. Quentin Tarantino saw something, and he was right. Trying to picture Daryl Hannah as a villain, much less as the Bernard Hermann-whistling, one-eyed epitome of evil she plays in Kill Bill, would be next to impossible for the mere movie-going mortal.
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