Kevin Smith Video Interview On His New Book, ‘Tough Sh*t,’ Mitt Romeny, Bruce Willis
by Kevin Smith, the director of the cult classic Clerks, has just released a hilarious new book, Tough Sh*t, Advice From a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good. Smith, known for his raunchy, sharp humor — and also for being too fat to fly on Southwest Airlines — is no stranger to self-expression, and the book looks back at key moments in Smith’s 41 years in the industry, leaving very few details to the imagination. (There are stories about him having sex with his wife, for instance.) Nonetheless, Tough Sh*t is valuable for Smith fans, as it shows how he was was able to turn his love of film into a career. Oh, and it’s also outrageously funny.
One of the highlights of the book is Smith’s bizarre encounter with Bruce Willis. Smith was excited to work with the high profile actor on the film Cop Out (Smith reportedly took an 86% pay cut), but Willis nonetheless lacked the same enthusiasm. “He wasn’t the dude we all thought he was gonna be,” confesses Smith in our exclusive video interview. The unfortunate relationship between the two reached its climax when Willis evidently asked Smith if Smith wanted to punch him. “He literally goes, ‘Do you just want to hit me? You want to take a swing at me?’ And I was like, ‘What? Is somebody shooting this? Is your ex-wife’s current husband [who was then Ashton Kutcher] shooting this for Punk’d? Because why would you say something like that? It was crazy,” Smith said.
Hear more of what Smith has to say, including his endorsement of Mitt Romney for the Republican bid, in our video interview.
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One of the few things right with America? Myopic, ignorant, ungrateful bastard. Pop culture geeks who think they know the real world are one of the things that plague us most, like this perpetual adolescent hack and others of his "ilk". Grow up or shut up. Stop poisoning the culture.
The thing is, how could ANYONE go anywhere thinking that Bruce Willis is an "all right kinda guy"? It's PLAINLY (and painfully) OBVIOUS the dude is a prima donna, spoiled in every way, thinks his crap doesn't stink and that he's better than everybody else. Oh, and GREEDY. So yeah, I have to say, f u c k Bruce Willis. AND the poster above me – @mutt. F u c k him too just for being a self-absorbed THINKS he knows it all kind of p r i c k. Yeah, that's him. F u c k him too.
Correction – since this site posts comments backwards — then my original post BELOW this one, should be "AND the poster BELOW ME" — @mutt.
Wow. Sounds like someone shit in mutt's cereal. Please explain your points instead of sounding like a class-A jerk-off.
What a great interview. I really enjoyed it. But the thing that I enjoyed most was hearing about Kevin Smith's missteps in trying to work with Bruce Willis. Ever heard the saying "No good deed goes unpunished"? I guess it applies here. It's hilarious. They all took pay cuts because they wanted to work with Bruce Willis and of course he didn't care. I like the Die Hard films myself as well and think Willis was the perfect guy for those films. And I can see how being interested in working with BW (again in KS's case) could drive them to do just what they did. They were thinking "It's going to be great! Bruce Willis! I don't care about money. " but then he turned out to be a total a-hole. Ha! Classic. And the story about almost getting into a fight was terribly interesting and funny. Finally, I think the reason why I enjoyed the story was that KS was describing the kind of a situation that ordinary folks face on occasion and it's nice to hear that even show biz folks face the same kind of challenges in interpersonal relationships. Thanks Kevin!!!
Fat People know everything.
Bruce Willis is used to directors who know what they're doing. Smith can't direct and hasn't been able to write since "Clerks." I can understand why Willis got frustrated.
Why has Kevin had these issues? Maybe he isn't so good to mesh with.