pulp Fiction Fans have long wondered about the story behind the film’s most mysterious and controversial character.
But in a 2020 interview, Quentin Tarantino, who just abandoned plans for his tenth – and final – film, shed light on the backstory of the “Gimp,” the mute character dressed only in leather shackles.
His brief appearance in the 1994 film, which celebrates its 30th anniversary, comes after Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) and Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) are captured by the owner and security guard of a pawn shop after their fight spills over into their workplace. The gimp turns out to be a prisoner being held in their basement.
In conversation with RichTarantino revealed his thoughts on the origins of the Gimp.
“It doesn’t quite play out that way in the movie, but when I wrote the movie, I thought the gimp was dead. Butch knocked him unconscious and when he was unconscious, he hanged himself. As far as the backstory goes, he was kind of a hitchhiker or someone they picked up seven years ago and trained to be the perfect victim.”
One person who will be curious about this detail is Steve Hibbert, the actor who played the Gimp.
In conversation with vulture Of his role in 2014, Hibbert said: “I looked over at (Quentin), he shrugged, gave me the thumbs up and that was it.”
The cast of pulp Fictionincluding John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman and Harvey Keitel, reunited on Thursday (April 18) for a celebration of the film’s anniversary.
Earlier this week Deadline reported that Tarantino will no longer publish The film criticwhich was to be his last film before retiring from the film industry.
The outlet claimed the director “simply changed his mind” and is “going back to the drawing board to figure out what the final film should look like.”
The director, whose last film was the Oscar-winning Once upon a time in Hollywoodtold GQ Australia that he believes he has “reached the end” of his experience in making “movies”.
However, he revealed what he plans to do with his career when the time comes: “I’m going to write film books and start writing plays, so I’m going to keep being creative. I just think I’ve put everything I can give into the cinema.”
