Why did Tarantino never cast John Travolta after Pulp Fiction?


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I doubt it's anything personal, Tarantino writes a part for a specific actor. He needed Vincent Vega, and Travolta became him. The job was done. Tarantino’s loyalty isn't to the actor, it's to the character on the page - He doesn’t reuse actors just to reuse them. There must be a reason, a perfect fit.

He wanted Travolta for the Bill role in Kill Bill, but the studio pushed back. They wanted a bigger name at the time, so the part went to Carradine -- After that, the right role for a man like Travolta just didn't come up in the scripts he wrote. It is not about a falling out, it is about the story. The story comes first. Always.

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I think Tarantino's only earthly loyalty is to Uma Thurman's feet


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It’s because Tarantino casts the actor he wants for a specific role not a specific actor to play whatever role.

He wanted John to play Vincent Vega. He wanted to make a movie later on with him and Michael Madsen playing the character from Reservoir Dogs as the Vega Brothers but that never came to pass.

Make no mistake Tarantino likes John as an actor. That’s why he wanted him in the role of Vincent Vega but he didn’t feel he worked for the other roles he had in mind.

Yes there are actors that show up time and time again in his movies but they tend to be the ones he thinks of when writing the character not the other way around.

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Why didn't Quentin Tarantino recast John Travolta in any of his other films after Pulp Fiction, while he recasts many others, like Brad Pitt, Samual Jackson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kurt Russell and Uma Thurman to name a few?
Originally Answered: Why didn't Quentin Tarantino recast John Travolta in any of his other films after Pulp Fiction, while he recasts many others, like Brad Pitt, Samual Jackson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kurt Russell and Uma Thurman to name a few?

I'm going with, because he's not very good.

He's good with that one type of character and it seems like every time I see him in a movie he's playing the same part. I'm betting if I took clips from all his movies and put them into order by his age it would probably work as story line of a guy who changes his clothes a lot and dances.

That character from Pulp Fiction is just a sleazy older version of his character from the TV show Hello Kotter who spent to much time working the wall at some dive bar disco club.

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Why didn't Quentin Tarantino recast John Travolta in any of his other films after Pulp Fiction, while he recasts many others, like Brad Pitt, Samual Jackson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kurt Russell and Uma Thurman to name a few?
Originally Answered: Why didn't Quentin Tarantino recast John Travolta in any of his other films after Pulp Fiction, while he recasts many others, like Brad Pitt, Samual Jackson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kurt Russell and Uma Thurman to name a few?

My theory is that Travolta wouldn’t cut his price point (which skyrocketed after Pulp Fiction and Get Shorty), and Tarantino didn’t have the budgets to work around that. Either that or they didn’t get along during filming but somehow managed to keep it out of the public eye during promotion of the film.


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