![]() A fake rubber curb was then quickly created so that the harrowing teeth scrape could be filmed close up before the inevitable boot lands to the back of the neck. Dogs walk around and piss on this!’” Lyons recalled. “I was a bit sort of concerned about that. ![]() ![]() Nevertheless, in order for the shot to look real, the actor, Antonio David Lyons, playing the tortured curb chewer Lawrence, had to plant his teeth on the curb at one point. So the scene itself needed to be so brutal that it told you what you needed to know about him in a fairly economical way.” And studio executive, Mike De Luca, happens to agree: “It occurs fairly early in the movie, you haven’t really gotten to know Edward Norton’s character yet. “I’ve been approached by hundreds and hundreds of people since the movie came out and they all want to talk about this particular scene,” scriptwriter David McKenna told The Enthusiast. There was one scene, however, that jumped right off the page. In casting him I was really buying another writer.” And one advantage of having Edward was that we had a shared vision of how to improve the script. ![]() “I held some open casting calls but I couldn’t find anyone better than him. At the time Norton was Hollywood’s golden boy, although personally I didn’t think he had enough weight or presence,” he told the Guardian. “I went along with the studio’s idea to cast Edward Norton. Kaye went into the movie unhappy with the script and even found himself unhappy with the casting not long later. ![]()
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