LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Madsen, whose menacing characters in “Reservoir Dogs” and “Kill Bill” made him a standout in Quentin Tarantino’s movies, has died. He was 66.
Madsen was discovered unresponsive in his dwelling in Malibu, California, on Thursday morning and pronounced lifeless, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division Watch Commander Christopher Jauregui stated. He’s believed to have died of pure causes and authorities don’t suspect any foul play was concerned. Madsen’s supervisor Ron Smith stated cardiac arrest was the obvious trigger.
Madsen’s profession spanned greater than 300 credit stretching again to the early Eighties, many in low-budget movies. However his most memorable display second might have been the sadistic torture of a captured police officer — whereas dancing to Stealers Wheel’s “Stuck in the Middle with You” — as Mr. Blonde in 1992’s “Reservoir Dogs.”
He would turn out to be a Tarantino common, showing within the “Kill Bill” movies and “The Hateful Eight.”
“In the last two years Michael Madsen has been doing some incredible work with independent film including upcoming feature films ‘Resurrection Road,’ ‘Concessions and ’Cookbook for Southern Housewives,’ and was really looking forward to this next chapter in his life,” his managers Smith and Susan Ferris and publicist Liz Rodriguez said in a statement. They added that he “was one of Hollywood’s most iconic actors, who will be missed by many.”
Throughout a handprint ceremony on the TCL Chinese language Theatre in November 2020, Madsen mirrored on his first go to to Hollywood within the early Eighties.
“I got out and I walked around and I looked and I wondered if there were someday some way that that was going to be a part of me. And I didn’t know because I didn’t know what I was going to do at that point with myself,” he said. “I could have been a bricklayer. I could have been an architect. I could have been a garbage man. I could have been nothing. But I got lucky. I got lucky as an actor.”
