One day after the unexpected death of actor Robert Carradine at 71-years-old,People magazine has shared a pivotal story about how the young actor first entered the film industry in the early 1970s.
As Carradine himself remembered it, he was first motivated to pursue a career in acting by his older brother David, the celebrated actor who starred in the TV show Kung Fu and Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.
At the time, the then-teenage Robert said he hadn't seriously considered a career in the film industry, wanting to instead focus on his passion for competitive car racing rather than venturing into the Carradines' famed family trade.
"I didn’t want to be an actor," Robert said. "I was 18. My whole life, at that point, was cars and wanting to race. When The Cowboys came along around 1972, Bruce Dern eventually played the part of Long Hair, but it was offered to my brother David."
A 1970s Western starring the larger-than-life John Wayne, The Cowboys also featured an ensemble cast of young actors who portrayed the titular cowboys in the film. While David ultimately passed on the project, he nevertheless convinced his younger brother Robert to at least audition for a part in the movie.
“David said, 'I don’t want to be the guy who shoots John Wayne in the back... but hey, there’s a bunch of kids in this movie. Why don’t you go meet those people? You got everything to gain,’ he said, ‘and nothing to lose,’" Robert recalled. "I thought about that. Everything to gain and nothing to lose."
“So I went; and I auditioned for [the part of] a kid named Slim who was scared to death in the scene. Luckily, Robert Carradine was also scared to death,” the late actor joked. “So, I nailed it; and that’s how I got in the movie. That’s how it started.”
As nervous as he might have been on the set of a John Wayne movie, the young Carradine nevertheless had enough confidence to suggest a last-minute change to his far older co-star in Wayne.
Unfortunately, Carradine's suggestion only earned the ire of the veteran actor, leading Wayne to verbally berate the young performer until he broke down in tears.
"We were shooting the scene where the cowboys start duking it out and I jump off the corral fence to save this kid," Carradine said. “John Wayne breaks us up and tells me to ‘… get back on that fence where you belong.’ And me, with my week’s worth of experience in motion pictures, I say, ‘Hold on a second, Mr. Wayne. I don’t think you should tell me to get back on the fence where I belong. I think you should just tell me to get back on the fence because I’m the head kid.' ”
"He reduced me to tears," Carradine continued. "That’s how bad he chewed me out."
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