Carl Weathers has died

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68188746

by zeristor • 2 years ago

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gilgoomesh• 2 years ago

What a bummer. He was so charismatic in every role he played. RIP.

washadjeffmad• 2 years ago

Word has it when he passed away, he had a stew going.

nullhole• 2 years ago

I buy all my jokes at police auction.

mariodiana• 2 years ago

“There is no tomorrow! There is no tomorrow!”

throwup238• 2 years ago

Whoa, whoa, whoa. There’s still plenty of meat on that bone. Now you take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you’ve got a stew going.

RIP Carl.

ddlutz• 2 years ago

Just saw this episode yesterday! How unfortunate and unexpected his passing is.

mensetmanusman• 2 years ago

Came here for this quote, Carl was so funny in this part. RIP

sharkweek• 2 years ago

…I think I want my money back

highwaylights• 2 years ago

I heard when he was on Showtime with Ann Archer he never once touched his per diem

toomuchtodo• 2 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDOffqDsV5Q

danesparza2• 2 years ago

This is how I prefer to remember him (on Arrested Development).

I'm going to miss that man.

alephnerd• 2 years ago

"It's purely a social call. Just two adults getting a stew on"

dghughes• 2 years ago

I was a teen in the 1980s and that was a time of action films. I think I like Weathers' role in Arrested Development the best I liked the dry deadpan humour his character was so great.

joshstrange2• 2 years ago

Anytime a show/movie/etc makes a joke about “How much do you have?”/“That’s exactly how much X costs!” I think back to his character.

cushychicken• 2 years ago

He was also in Predator, and he famously reminded everyone of that on SNL once.

sph• 2 years ago

His handshake with Arnold Schwarzenegger is the most iconic and wholesome ever put to camera. The macho version of "The Creation of Adam" if Michelangelo had been a bodybuilding.com forum user.

nozzlegear• 2 years ago

Dillon! You son of a bitch!

https://youtu.be/txuWGoZF3ew?si=ygVfLFiMyEKraMd6

coffeebeqn• 2 years ago

The purest frame of 80s action movies essence

silisili• 2 years ago

They still use the meme to this day, titled 'Epic Handshake.'

Now that's staying power...

mildly NSFW, obviously -

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/epic-handshake

jdougan• 2 years ago

Sadly, he never got that state governorship he was owed.

ncr100• 2 years ago

time to rewatch Predator

originalvichy• 2 years ago

This guy both had the warmest smile and a scary frown! Gonna miss him and revisit Predator some day.

dzonga• 2 years ago

aka as Greef Karga in mando

danesparza2• 2 years ago

Damnit. I forgot he was in that. (And played it so well!)

drewcoo• 2 years ago

Action Jackson!

pdonis• 2 years ago

Which has one of my favorite lines:

"You broke that guy's arm!"

"He had a spare."

skyechurch• 2 years ago

Not exactly a great piece of cinema, but a veru enjoyable one. Not exactly a parody of an action movie, but one that took itself only as seriously as necessary.

Carl Weathers was great in everything he did, and being a football star/action hero type made his surprising sense of humor and egolessness that much more effective. He was the anti-Steven Seagal, in a way.

higgins• 2 years ago

"There is no tomorrow..." RIP Carl

ugh1232• 2 years ago

Also played in the NFL for a few seasons. What a life

code_runner• 2 years ago

I was talking to a guy years and years back and my dad said to ask him about when he played in the NFL. Older guy. He lights up and says: “now this was back before anyone got paid anything to play football. We weren’t making anything but it was fun and we were allowed to hit real hard. I had a friend on the team who said ‘man I’m getting out of here… I’m gonna be an actor.’ Well, we’re all just a bunch meatheads but he was the only good looking guy… couple of years later I’m watching some boxing movie and there he is as Apollo Creed in Rocky”

cf100clunk• 2 years ago

He spent 2 years in Vancouver as a linebacker with the B.C. Lions of the Canadian Football League while continuing his acting studies:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/carl-weathers-dead-1.7...

tomhoward• 2 years ago

I didn't know much of him apart from his Arrested Development cameo, but my partner told me about this anecdote about him today and I think it's brilliant:

Hurwitz recounted how, when he actually got in touch with Weathers, the actor immediately dismissed the exact type of joke Hurwitz and the writing staff were envisioning. And not only that, but it was actually Weathers himself who came up with the running bit for his character:

"So I called Carl, and said, 'Hey, I don't know if you've seen the show but we wanna use you for it, and you'd be working with David Cross.' And he goes, 'Great, but let me ask you something. It's not going to be just a bunch of Rocky jokes is it?' I laughed, 'No! No! Give me a little credit, Carl. Of course not! It's a multidimensional character.' And he was like, 'Because I direct and I'm a funny guy and I don't wanna just do a bunch of Rocky jokes. Nobody wants that. Maybe I could be really cheap or something?' And I said, 'Whaaaat?' 'Maybe I could be really cheap?' 'Really? You'd like to do that?' 'Oh, absolutely, that's what I'm saying. I want to play someone funny, not just be a sight gag.' It was so much better. I went back to the writers room and said, 'You're not going to believe this. Carl Weathers wants to be incredibly cheap.' All credit to Carl on that."

https://www.slashfilm.com/1508464/carl-weathers-idea-for-hil...

bagels• 2 years ago

Thanks for sharing this. I appreciate that part even more now knowing it was his character idea.

jahsome• 2 years ago

Sounds like they really threw Carl a bone or two.

onionisafruit• 2 years ago

Nobody thought to say they didn’t want to do a bunch of Happy Days jokes.

aaronbrethorst• 2 years ago

I appreciated that Henry Winkler was a good sport about hopping over that shark

gitfan86• 2 years ago

For those that don't know he played himself in the show as an acting coach, but all of his advice was related to how to get multiple meals from the catering at filmings.

phone8675309• 2 years ago

Love to get a stew going

ugh1232• 2 years ago

I can totally picture him and hear him saying this

sparrish• 2 years ago

We'll miss you, Chubbs. You've only just begun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkjXcRLNZHQ

sillywalk• 2 years ago

Hope he's in his 'Happy Place'.

sangeeth96• 2 years ago

From my childhood with Rocky/Predator to the present with Mandalorian—truly stood apart. Sucks that we lost another gem.

RigelKentaurus• 2 years ago

"Dillon! You son of a bitch!" "I grew up, why don't you?"

Loved him in Predator! Watching the scene where he arm wrestles Arnold boosts a man's testosterone by 20%. The ultimate action movie for guys.

RIP Carl.

danparsonson• 2 years ago

I hope that in whatever afterlife he ended up, they don't have him pushing too many pencils.

FirmwareBurner• 2 years ago

boosts a man's testosterone by 20%

If you're looking for a testosterone boost, I can recommend you Dinesh's Maximizing Alphaness video[1]. Just don't show it to Gilfoyle.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An21fXqyqM0

huytersd• 2 years ago

Weirdly, I felt like it worked a little bit.

kyting• 2 years ago

Agreed and he performed very well in the movie, always pulled Arnold's leg but a crucial role in the team. Definitely a brilliant actor.

owlninja• 2 years ago

How can we forget him as Chubbs Peterson in Happy Gilmore as well? What an outstanding life lived. Admirably, he wasn't just some athlete trying to find a fallback gig if football didn't work out. He also attained a masters in theatre arts in college.

ElCapitanMarkla• 2 years ago

It’s all in the hips… it’s all on the hips…

JimDabell• 2 years ago

With that wise suggestion, Weathers skyrocketed into the pantheon of the best "actors playing a version of themselves" in 21st century TV history, up there with Larry David in "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and Adam West in "Family Guy."

One that always gets overlooked is Ron Silver playing himself in Heat Vision and Jack. It’s an unaired pilot for a spoof of 80s “man on the run” series like the Incredible Hulk. It starred Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Ron Silver, Christine Taylor, and Vincent Schiavelli, made by Rob Schrab and Dan Harmon, directed by Ben Stiller. Ron Silver is an assassin working for (evil) NASA to hunt down the smartest man on Earth (Jack Black) and his talking motorbike (Owen Wilson). However Ron Silver plays himself – the assassin stars in Hollywood films as a part-time hobby (when he isn’t murdering people).

jwiz• 2 years ago

That is such a perfect spoof.

dumbfounder• 2 years ago

Was it stupidly brilliant, or brilliantly stupid? I can’t decide. But I think it works best as a unaired pilot that just about no one has ever seen. Because I am sure no one believes you when you tell them this existed.

Oh but how can we forget Being John Malkovich?

Its all in the hips.

hinkley• 2 years ago

And the dream of Governor Weathers dies.

ReptileMan• 2 years ago

- You can't win this Dillon.

- Maybe I can get even

Simon_ORourke• 2 years ago

I met him once when I was stuck in Baltimore trying to get a flight out before Thanksgiving in the late 90's. He was a proper gentleman, and a funny guy, cracking jokes with a couple of us kids who recognized him.

smdyc1• 2 years ago

Man that sucks. Rest in peace. I loved his character in The Mandalorian.

aerodog• 2 years ago

it's all in the hips...

harrylove• 2 years ago

My daily meditation: “Now when we fought you had the eye of the tiger, man—the edge—and now you’ve got to get it back, and the way to get it back is to go back to the beginning, you know what I mean?”

RIP Carl.

thomashabets2• 2 years ago

Someone I know dressed up as Drago (Dolph Lundgren), boxing shorts and gloves and all. He's blonde, too, so there's no mistaking who he was dressed as.

He is, however, like 30cm shorter. Dolph is tall.

So at the con he goes to Carl Weathers for a photo and autograph. Weathers immediately lights up, smiles, extends his arms, and exclaims "you've shrunk!!".

Seems like a great guy.

I'll try to find the photo.

Edit: https://fnalbum-cf.habets.se/bucket/2k.webp/FC9D1104-62DA-47...

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