Damion Lewin

Frank Miller and I have always loved telling the story how no one was allowed to improvise any dialogue on Sin City. (We wanted to have the movie be incredibly faithful to his graphic novel.) But we bent that rule every day Michael Madsen worked with us. Being a fantastic writer, he just kept bringing us one golden additional line after another, and he would make us laugh so much we’d relent and say to each other, “Well if we’re going to break the rule with someone, it might as well be Michael Madsen. He keeps coming up with such great lines!” The other rule we broke was by casting someone who didn’t look at all like the drawn character in the book. Michael was so larger than life, we just felt he would make a much better partner to Bruce Willis’ detective, I mean, what an ultimate cop team! And he was just an absolute joy to work with. I will miss you Michael, you truly are one of the greats.

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