“I’ve tried to promote this a few instances,” William H. Macy mentioned on Wednesday’s episode of the Movies To Be Buried With podcast, hosted by Ted Lasso Emmy-winner Brett Goldstein. “I wanna do a factor the place, you’re taking three episodes to have you ever fall in love with one of many main characters after which shoot him.”
The catch: the character doesn’t die.
“However don’t write him off the present. And each week, you may see what a bullet does to a human physique. You’ll be able to see the way it wrecks his marriage. You’ll be able to see how he will get infections. You’ll be able to see how he has to study to stroll once more or use his fingers once more. You’ll be able to see the deep, darkish depressions,” Macy mentioned. “Let’s inform the reality about it, as a result of I swear to God, you kill one individual, there’s nothing extra dramatic than that.”
Macy mentioned he considers most motion pictures too violent.
“You kill 18 folks, it’s simply porn,” he mentioned. “The one factor you are able to do to make that extra dramatic is kill 18 extra.”
Macy was requested concerning the worst film he’s ever seen.
“Oh, boy. I not often get by them,” he mentioned. “I feel on the finish of the day, one factor any story needs to be is true. It’s received to be true to the human expertise. And I feel the take a look at is if you happen to put it on the market and a few million folks see it, that almost all of them acknowledge the difficulty and it strikes them.”
He declared that too many movies as of late are damaging the world.
“What offends me is movies that aren’t true. And I suppose the obvious instance — and I can see the desire to reside simply fade from folks once I get on this kick — however I feel Hollywood is doing loads of harm to the world with our portrayal of violence. It’s not true, and it’s not a very good place to be mendacity in relation to our portrayal of violence.”
He mentioned it’s “price me loads of work.”