“He’s just a nice, nice guy,” says the actress, who appeared with Bruce Willis in “Pulp Fiction” in 1994 and in “No Half Measures” in 2000.

Rosanna Arquette looks back with affection at the “gentleman” Bruce Willis and his days before his fame.

“He’s just a sweet, nice guy,” the actress tells PEOPLE about her co-star in The full program (2000) and pulp Fiction (1994) before their appearance at the 15th TCM Classic Film Festival, which began with a 35mm screening of pulp Fiction in honor of its 30th anniversary.

Although she and Willis appeared in two films together, “I remember him more as the bartender (in New York City) that everyone went to, this cafe called Café Central, and that was the place to hang out,” recalls Arquette, 64.

“He was the bartender just before he Undeclared work,” she continues. “Everyone from De Niro to Scorsese (came). It was like it was the real experience.”

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When asked what Willis, now 69, was like as a bartender in the 1980s, the actress says: “He had this charm and charisma.”

“Then he got Undeclared workand that was it. He was a star,” she adds of Willis, who has since retired from acting.

Almost 10 years later, the two played the leading roles in director Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. She played Jody, the wife of drug dealer Lance (Eric Stoltz), and he was Butch Coolidge, a boxer who betrays gangster Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames).

In addition to Arquette and 62-year-old Stoltz, Willis also appeared on screen with frequent collaborator Samuel L. Jackson, as well as Uma Thurman, John Travolta and other major stars.

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Arquette says she believes pulp Fiction Even three decades later, the film still holds up for audiences because “the script is fantastic” and Tarantino (who won an Oscar for the screenplay) is “such a great writer.”

She also praises the performances of the “great cast,” which includes Willis, Stoltz, Travolta (70), Jackson (75), Thurman (53), Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer, many of whom have worked with the 61-year-old Tarantino multiple times over the years.

“At the time (of production) we were just in the thick of it, we were rehearsing, we were working with a great director, but we didn’t know what a huge success it would be. But it really was,” says Arquette.

Although she hasn’t had regular contact with Tarantino recently, the actress says she “would love to work with him again.”

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