William H. Macy Has A Big Pitch That Shows How Violence Plays Out

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“I’ve tried to sell this a couple of times,” William H. Macy said on Wednesday’s episode of the Films To Be Buried With podcast, hosted by Ted Lasso Emmy-winner Brett Goldstein. “I wanna do a thing where, you take three episodes to have you fall in love with one of the major characters and then shoot him.” The catch: the character doesn’t die. “But don’t write him off the show.

And every week, you can see what a bullet does to a human body. You can see how it wrecks his marriage. You can see how he gets infections.

You can see how he has to learn to walk again or use his hands again. You can see the deep, dark depressions,” Macy said. “Let’s tell the truth about it, because I swear to God, you kill one person, there’s nothing more dramatic than that.” Macy said he considers most movies too violent. “You kill 18 people, it’s just porn,” he said. “The only thing you can do to make that more dramatic is kill 18 more.” Macy was asked about the worst movie he’s ever seen. “Oh, boy.

I rarely get through them,” he said. “I think at the end of the day, one thing any story has to be is true. It’s got to be true to the human experience.