In Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, Jennifer Jason Leigh’s character Daisy Domergue is shocked when Kurt Russell grabs a guitar out of her hands and smashes it to pieces. It turns out that Leigh’s horrified reaction to the destroyed instrument was at least partially genuine, as that guitar was an 1860s antique, and Russell had no idea that he was smashing a museum piece.
“I thought we were going to trade out the guitars,” Leigh told Billboard. “You’re never going to cut a scene until Quentin says cut. And Kurt thought it must be a dummy guitar. I don’t think Quentin knew that it was the [vintage instrument], either. The scene was going exactly the way he wanted it to go, and he wanted to play one scene in the movie in real time without a cut, in one long take. Kurt felt terrible; he had no idea. When he found out, his eyes literally welled up. It ended up being great for the scene, but very sad for the guitar, and for my guitar teacher, and for me.”
HATEFUL 8 GUITAR ACCIDENT
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