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Holt McCallany Answers Every Question We Have About Fight Club
On working with the man he calls “Meat” (last name Loaf), the catharsis of terrorizing a priest, and his decades-old beef with Rosie O’Donnell.
McCallany exudes such certainty of self that once you notice the Mechanic cheering in the background of fight scenes, doing chores in the Narrator ( Edward Norton) and Durden’s dilapidated mansion, or threatening to “take” a police commissioner’s testicles with a knife, you’ll keep looking for him, wondering what those wild eyes and set jaw are getting up to. The Mechanic tightened McCallany’s relationship with Fincher (who had previously wanted him for a small role in Se7en), and his melancholy-yet-adamant delivery of the film’s iconic mantra — “His name was Robert Paulson” — indicated how fully he could inhabit heavies with a heart. I had run away to California with dreams of becoming a film actor, and my parents tracked me down and they sent me to Newbridge College, where my father had been a student 40 years earlier.
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