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It\u2019s easy if you\u2019re not a big-name Hollywood actor to look over at those few fortunate enough to make movies for a living and tell them they should prioritise artistic integrity over personal gain. <\/p>\n
But sometimes stars like Steve Buscemi<\/a> are honest enough to say that they\u2019ll happily take on a script if it means putting a million in the bank.\u00a0<\/p>\n Not all of them will admit it, of course. Few are open enough to follow Michael Caine\u2019s lead when talking about the risible fourth Jaws movie<\/a>, saying he\u2019d never seen the film and had heard it was terrible, but that he had seen the house it built him. Buscemi\u2019s story is a similar one, and even more understandable when you think about the movie he\u2019d made just a year before the example we\u2019ll look at. <\/p>\n Buscemi had been at the acting game for a long time, but it was 1996\u2019s Coen brothers\u2019 black comedy Fargo which really put him on the map. He was one of the standouts in a superb cast, and it helped him land a role the following year in a proper Hollywood blockbuster, the chaotic plane-set prison breakout thriller Con Air alongside Nicolas Cage and John Malkovich. <\/p>\n On the back of Con Air, Fargo, and 1992\u2019s Reservoir Dogs, Buscemi had shown he was one of the best character actors in the industry, if not the best. So, when the opportunity came to follow Con Air up with a similarly sized popcorn film and a matching pay cheque, it was not something he had to think about for long. Armageddon was a Michael Bay-directed summing up of movies in the 1990s<\/a>: an established action hero, a young up-and-comer, a stirring string-laden soundtrack and a plot that required massive special effects to signify just how much peril the Earth was in.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI wanted a bigger house\u201d<\/p>\n Steve Buscemi<\/p>\n And that\u2019s exactly what you got. The story of a group of drillers hilariously signed up to become astronauts on a near-suicidal mission to break up a gigantic asteroid before it cripples life on Earth as we know it, Armageddon packed Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler and Owen Wilson into the cast, and tapped up Tyler\u2019s dad, Steven, to provide a chart-topping song to go with it in \u2018I Don\u2019t Want to Miss a Thing\u2019.<\/p>\n Buscemi, who said he took the film simply because \u201cI wanted a bigger house\u201d, played the role of Rockhound, one of those high-functioning science bods they put in films like that to hammer away at computer keyboards trying to access security systems while the hunky stars stand around asking, \u201chow long is this gonna take?\u201d and receiving an irritated reply in response: \u201cwe\u2019re in\u201d. <\/p>\n Critics weren\u2019t particularly impressed by the film on release<\/a>, but audiences went absolutely wild for it. The film brought in more than $500million at the box office and sent the Aerosmith-led soundtrack double platinum. It also didn\u2019t do Buscemi\u2019s career any harm at all, coming in the midst of what was probably his most commercially successful period, with both The Big Lebowski and Adam Sandler\u2019s hit comedy The Wedding Singer arriving in the same year. <\/p>\n Over the past few years, Buscemi has mostly focused on voiceover work, but he seems to have ramped up his productivity considerably in front of the camera, with roles in Taika Waititi\u2019s Klara and the Sun, the new Martin McDonagh comedy Wild Horse Nine, and the Netflix musical Don\u2019t Say Good Luck all arriving in 2026. <\/p>\n Next year seems to be shaping up in the same fashion for him, as he teams up with Sandler again for Grown Ups 3 and takes a part in Ryan Coogler\u2019s intriguing reboot of The X-Files<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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