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Carl Weathers has died

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I didn't know much of him apart from his Arrested Development cameo, but my partner told me about this anecdote about him today and I think it's brilliant:

Hurwitz recounted how, when he actually got in touch with Weathers, the actor immediately dismissed the exact type of joke Hurwitz and the writing staff were envisioning. And not only that, but it was actually Weathers himself who came up with the running bit for his character:

"So I called Carl, and said, 'Hey, I don't know if you've seen the show but we wanna use you for it, and you'd be working with David Cross.' And he goes, 'Great, but let me ask you something. It's not going to be just a bunch of Rocky jokes is it?' I laughed, 'No! No! Give me a little credit, Carl. Of course not! It's a multidimensional character.' And he was like, 'Because I direct and I'm a funny guy and I don't wanna just do a bunch of Rocky jokes. Nobody wants that. Maybe I could be really cheap or something?' And I said, 'Whaaaat?' 'Maybe I could be really cheap?' 'Really? You'd like to do that?' 'Oh, absolutely, that's what I'm saying. I want to play someone funny, not just be a sight gag.' It was so much better. I went back to the writers room and said, 'You're not going to believe this. Carl Weathers wants to be incredibly cheap.' All credit to Carl on that."

https://www.slashfilm.com/1508464/carl-weathers-idea-for-hil...

Thanks for sharing this. I appreciate that part even more now knowing it was his character idea.

Sounds like they really threw Carl a bone or two.

Throwing Carl a bone just meant another delicious episode in the stew of his career.

Nobody thought to say they didn’t want to do a bunch of Happy Days jokes.

I appreciated that Henry Winkler was a good sport about hopping over that shark

For those that don't know he played himself in the show as an acting coach, but all of his advice was related to how to get multiple meals from the catering at filmings.

Love to get a stew going

I can totally picture him and hear him saying this

Whoa, whoa, whoa. There’s still plenty of meat on that bone. Now you take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you’ve got a stew going.

RIP Carl.

Just saw this episode yesterday! How unfortunate and unexpected his passing is.

Came here for this quote, Carl was so funny in this part. RIP

…I think I want my money back

I heard when he was on Showtime with Ann Archer he never once touched his per diem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDOffqDsV5Q

This is how I prefer to remember him (on Arrested Development).

I'm going to miss that man.

"It's purely a social call. Just two adults getting a stew on"

I was a teen in the 1980s and that was a time of action films. I think I like Weathers' role in Arrested Development the best I liked the dry deadpan humour his character was so great.

Anytime a show/movie/etc makes a joke about “How much do you have?”/“That’s exactly how much X costs!” I think back to his character.

"Dillon! You son of a bitch!" "I grew up, why don't you?"

Loved him in Predator! Watching the scene where he arm wrestles Arnold boosts a man's testosterone by 20%. The ultimate action movie for guys.

RIP Carl.

I hope that in whatever afterlife he ended up, they don't have him pushing too many pencils.

>boosts a man's testosterone by 20%

If you're looking for a testosterone boost, I can recommend you Dinesh's Maximizing Alphaness video[1]. Just don't show it to Gilfoyle.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An21fXqyqM0

Weirdly, I felt like it worked a little bit.

Agreed and he performed very well in the movie, always pulled Arnold's leg but a crucial role in the team. Definitely a brilliant actor.

Someone I know dressed up as Drago (Dolph Lundgren), boxing shorts and gloves and all. He's blonde, too, so there's no mistaking who he was dressed as.

He is, however, like 30cm shorter. Dolph is tall.

So at the con he goes to Carl Weathers for a photo and autograph. Weathers immediately lights up, smiles, extends his arms, and exclaims "you've shrunk!!".

Seems like a great guy.

I'll try to find the photo.

Edit: https://fnalbum-cf.habets.se/bucket/2k.webp/FC9D1104-62DA-47...

How can we forget him as Chubbs Peterson in Happy Gilmore as well? What an outstanding life lived. Admirably, he wasn't just some athlete trying to find a fallback gig if football didn't work out. He also attained a masters in theatre arts in college.

It’s all in the hips… it’s all on the hips…

He was also in Predator, and he famously reminded everyone of that on SNL once.

His handshake with Arnold Schwarzenegger is the most iconic and wholesome ever put to camera. The macho version of "The Creation of Adam" if Michelangelo had been a bodybuilding.com forum user.

Dillon! You son of a bitch!

https://youtu.be/txuWGoZF3ew?si=ygVfLFiMyEKraMd6

What's a matter, CIA got you pushing too many pencils.

You are a funny guy, irongeek, I like you. That's why I am going to kill you last.

Pretty sure that line is from Commando

Yeah and he lied.

The purest frame of 80s action movies essence

They still use the meme to this day, titled 'Epic Handshake.'

Now that's staying power...

mildly NSFW, obviously -

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/epic-handshake

Sadly, he never got that state governorship he was owed.

time to rewatch Predator

What a bummer. He was so charismatic in every role he played. RIP.

Word has it when he passed away, he had a stew going.

I buy all my jokes at police auction.

“There is no tomorrow! There is no tomorrow!”

From my childhood with Rocky/Predator to the present with Mandalorian—truly stood apart. Sucks that we lost another gem.

This guy both had the warmest smile and a scary frown! Gonna miss him and revisit Predator some day.

We'll miss you, Chubbs. You've only just begun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkjXcRLNZHQ

Hope he's in his 'Happy Place'.

> With that wise suggestion, Weathers skyrocketed into the pantheon of the best "actors playing a version of themselves" in 21st century TV history, up there with Larry David in "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and Adam West in "Family Guy."

One that always gets overlooked is Ron Silver playing himself in Heat Vision and Jack. It’s an unaired pilot for a spoof of 80s “man on the run” series like the Incredible Hulk. It starred Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Ron Silver, Christine Taylor, and Vincent Schiavelli, made by Rob Schrab and Dan Harmon, directed by Ben Stiller. Ron Silver is an assassin working for (evil) NASA to hunt down the smartest man on Earth (Jack Black) and his talking motorbike (Owen Wilson). However Ron Silver plays himself – the assassin stars in Hollywood films as a part-time hobby (when he isn’t murdering people).

That is such a perfect spoof.

Was it stupidly brilliant, or brilliantly stupid? I can’t decide. But I think it works best as a unaired pilot that just about no one has ever seen. Because I am sure no one believes you when you tell them this existed.

Oh but how can we forget Being John Malkovich?

Its all in the hips.

Also played in the NFL for a few seasons. What a life

I was talking to a guy years and years back and my dad said to ask him about when he played in the NFL. Older guy. He lights up and says: “now this was back before anyone got paid anything to play football. We weren’t making anything but it was fun and we were allowed to hit real hard. I had a friend on the team who said ‘man I’m getting out of here… I’m gonna be an actor.’ Well, we’re all just a bunch meatheads but he was the only good looking guy… couple of years later I’m watching some boxing movie and there he is as Apollo Creed in Rocky”

He spent 2 years in Vancouver as a linebacker with the B.C. Lions of the Canadian Football League while continuing his acting studies:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/carl-weathers-dead-1.7...

Action Jackson!

Which has one of my favorite lines:

"You broke that guy's arm!"

"He had a spare."

Not exactly a great piece of cinema, but a veru enjoyable one. Not exactly a parody of an action movie, but one that took itself only as seriously as necessary.

Carl Weathers was great in everything he did, and being a football star/action hero type made his surprising sense of humor and egolessness that much more effective. He was the anti-Steven Seagal, in a way.

I met him once when I was stuck in Baltimore trying to get a flight out before Thanksgiving in the late 90's. He was a proper gentleman, and a funny guy, cracking jokes with a couple of us kids who recognized him.

My daily meditation: “Now when we fought you had the eye of the tiger, man—the edge—and now you’ve got to get it back, and the way to get it back is to go back to the beginning, you know what I mean?”

RIP Carl.

And the dream of Governor Weathers dies.

aka as Greef Karga in mando

Damnit. I forgot he was in that. (And played it so well!)

"There is no tomorrow..." RIP Carl

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Man that sucks. Rest in peace. I loved his character in The Mandalorian.

- You can't win this Dillon.

- Maybe I can get even

it's all in the hips...

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