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Stop Asking Road House’s Arturo Castro to Introduce You to Conor McGregor
“Like, I’m not going to make an introduction — unless it’s for a fee!”
Not only was the original an early favorite from his childhood but almost two decades ago, his screen debut came thanks to Road House big bad Ben Gazzara, the decorated actor who faces off with Patrick Swayze in the 1989 action classic. Director Doug Liman’s Road House update focuses on Jake Gyllenhaal’s character, Dalton, a former UFC fighter brought to the Florida Keys to protect a beachfront bar from a gang of bikers in the employ of a shady local businessman (Billy Magnussen; think a younger, douchier version of Gazzara’s Brad Wesley). When the chance came to audition for Road House, I remember when we had the meeting over Zoom, I kept looking behind him and it was swaying, and I’m like, “Doug, are you on a boat?” And he’s like, “Oh yeah, I’m in the ocean right now.” So I was like, “Listen, my guy, you had me freezing my ass off in Montreal; now you got to take me to the nice warm weather of the Dominican Republic.”
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