#Mother at sixteen full movie movie#

He took his characterвЂ™s first name, and Bo Hopkins was born.ДЄfter just a few months in the city and another stint back home, Hopkins decided to try his luck in Hollywood and received a scholarship to an acting school at the Desilu-Cahuenga Studios and then a spot as an observer at the L.A. HopkinsвЂ™ Pioneer Playhouse experience led to an opportunity to perform in a play in New York, and he was in an off-Broadway production of Bus StopВ when the producers asked him to change his name. вЂњI didnвЂ™t even know what summer stock was.вЂќ вЂњI think there were 180 people trying out for summer stock,вЂќ he said. And thatвЂ™s when everybody who said I was gonna end up in prison said they always knew Billy was going to make something of himself.вЂќДЄfter the service, which included nine months in Korea, Hopkins returned to Greenville and landed a role in a production of The Teahouse of the August MoonВ in a local theater, then received a scholarship to KentuckyвЂ™s Pioneer Playhouse. вЂњLater, I went back home and took them to see The Wild BunchВ and my second movie, The Bridge at Remagen. вЂњI donвЂ™t know how my mother and grandmother put up with me,вЂќ Hopkins remembered. He was headed to reform school after a botched robbery when he enlisted in the U.S. Quite the handful growing up, Hopkins said he used to steal money from family members to treat his friends to the movies. He eventually met his birth mother and got to know his half-siblings. Hopkins was sent to live with his grandparents when his mom remarried the following year, then learned when he was 12 that he was adopted at nine months old. At age 39, his dad had a heart attack and died on the porch of his home in front of his wife and son. His father worked at a local mill while his mother stayed home with the children. Hopkins added to his criminal mystique as a moonshiner alongside Burt Reynolds in White LightningВ (1973) and as Tex, a mysterious man who seals Billy HayesвЂ™ (Brad Davis) fate, in Midnight ExpressВ (1978). Peckinpah gave Hopkins a more substantial role in The Killer EliteВ as a weapons expert recruited by James Caan to stop an assassination. Rudy, in turn, is shot by Doc ( Steve McQueen), who takes off with the stolen loot. In a short but impactful performance in The GetawayВ (1972), HopkinsвЂ™ Frank Jackson gets his private parts blown off by his partner Rudy (Al Lettieri) during another bank robbery. And like a damn fool, I didnвЂ™t wear a T-shirt.вЂќ

I wanted to feel it, experience it, just like we talked about at the Actors Studio. вЂI want to feel it.вЂ™ вЂ¦ Well, see, I didnвЂ™t know. вЂњI fuckinвЂ™ thought I was gonna go to the moon if them things ever went off.

#Mother at sixteen full movie movie#

I was squibbed up 26 times,вЂќ he recalled of his first big movie role. вЂњThey took me to special effects and had wires runninвЂ™ up my ass, up my legs. Just before his demise, he utters one of the filmвЂ™s most quotable lines - вЂњWell, howвЂ™d you like to kiss my sisterвЂ™s black catвЂ™s ass?вЂќ In The Wild Bunch, HopkinsвЂ™ character, a volatile young member of the gang, terrorizes a group of hostages inside a bank before meeting a horrible end in a hail of bullets. This is great.вЂ™ Well, they didnвЂ™t tell me they were going to shoot in South Africa.вЂќ вЂњWell, I got the script and said, вЂSure, IвЂ™ll do this. вЂњTarantino told me that he loved my work and that he had this part,вЂќ he said. If I told you how many times people have come up to Candy, Paul and me at these shows and told us that weвЂ™ve changed their lives, you wouldnвЂ™t believe it.вЂќДЄs his career evolved, the sandy-haired South Carolina native segued to the right side of the law, and executive producer Quentin Tarantino tapped him to portray a good guy in Dusk to Dawn 2: Texas Blood MoneyВ (1999). It got people into cars doing that kind of stuff again. вЂњ GraffitiВ got people out dragginвЂ™ and going up, and down streets cruisinвЂ™.

вЂњI go to car shows because American GraffitiВ is the national anthem of car shows,вЂќ Hopkins said in a 2012 interview with Shock CinemaВ magazine. Shelby Scott, Broadcaster and Former AFTRA President, Dies at 86