6/4/2023 0 Comments Sling blade castThough everyone insisted Chenutt use a stunt double, Chesnutt refused. In the film’s pivotal scene where Doyle Hargraves loses it, he runs the Vic Chesnutt character into a closed door. As fans of the cult classic film can tell you, the character Terrence was played by real life songwriter Vic Chesnutt who was wheelchair bound, and passed away in 2009. In the film is a really bad back porch band, led by Yoakam. Music wasn’t a significant component to Sling Blade, but it did play a role. But talk to anyone here 25 years later after time has had the opportunity to poke holes in the performance, and people will still proclaim that Dwight Yoakam turned in a tour de force as the abusive boyfriend, and bad bandleader. It was the day that the Billy Bob Thornton-directed film Sling Blade debuted, with Thornton in the lead role as the intellectually disabled Karl Childers, and Dwight Yoakam playing his adversary, the volatile Doyle Hargraves.īilly Bob Thornton ended up being nominated for an Academy Award for the role, and winning for writing the screenplay for the film. He was exactly what 80’s country needed to shake things up-a neotraditionalist that young people could still find cool.īut it was 25 years ago today, on November 27th, 1996, when we first discovered that Dwight Yoakam was truly a multi purpose entertainer. We already knew that Dwight Yoakam was the King of Country Cool when he came out of Kentucky and landed in Southern California, shaking his hips like Elvis, and revitalizing the Bakersfield Sound like Buck.
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