Kevin Smith Tells a GREAT Bruce Willis/Tracy Morgan Story

[@jkrfan7]

It's never a boring story when Kevin tells it

[@2sallads]

That Diner scene was shot in my neighborhood. I remember waking up late and my friend texted. "I think I just saw Kevin Smith.....wait....I just saw Bruce Willis." I was so upset to have missed this opportunity. Crazy to think they were going through this at that time.

[@Mrclish5000]

I love Kevin Smith, he is such an inspiration. I need to be creative in my life and he is the inspiration. Thank you

[@ngc-fo5te]

Get a better inspiration.

[@robzilla730]

I don't wanna start any blasphemous rumors but he hasn't made a good movie since the 90s. But that stuff was pure gold!

[@dillajoints433]

The praise for Tracy here is legit. I love Kevin smith and I hope he and Tracy Morgan get to work on something else together

[@brianbagnall3029]

I think I'm on Bruce's side on this one.

[@ngc-fo5te]

@@brianbagnall3029 Agreed.

[@CoreyScott]

@@brianbagnall3029 I mean, the fact that there were "sides" at all was kinda on Bruce. People are supposed to hear a Connie Chung reference and be like, "brilliant! How did he come up with that? Everybody else better stick to the script and let him concentrate, so we don't miss anymore gems like that one!" It shouldn't have been an argument. If anyone's allowed to go off-script, what's he upset about?

[@mattsheezy5469]

I could listen to Kevin talk about Bruce all day.

[@wonderboybates3718]

He'd be at my fantasy dinner table for sure, this guy loves telling a story.

[@justincoleman3805]

Yea. The never ending story.

[@cfroggy420]

Met Kevin smith in person and he signed my dogma dvd. He’s a great individual.

[@dannyd2275]

Kevin Smith is a man of the people

[@UnelectableAirwaves]

Bruce tried to Ad lib and got schooled then he realized he never should have pulled that pin

[@cleftturnip7774]

Bruce being terrified is just Kevin's interpretation of what Bruce was thinking.

[@fademusic1980]

@@cleftturnip7774 I mean I would be scared to go into an improv battle with Tracy fucking Morgan. Most of his lines in 30 rock are improvised and he is my favorite part of that show.

[@cleftturnip7774]

@@fademusic1980 yes but Kevin is making alot of assumptions.

[@JoeCnNd]

For Kevin to think about it and probably smoke a joint and have an aha moment as to why bruce willis pop culture quips are so old as to him becoming the pop culture and he stops knowing anything from that moment forward was pretty deep thinking.

[@justincoleman3805]

Not really. Or at all.

[@TheCreepypro]

I may not like his new movies but I love hearing this man and his stories

[@arthurcorassini]

Its funny cause in scream 3, the jay and silent bob cameo have them also mistaking Courtney Cox with Connie Chung Wonder if Bruce made a nod to it

[@drewlovelyhell4892]

I think if Kevin was a better director he would have put a stop to Bruce's ad-libbing right from the start. Controlling your actors is fundamental. Maybe a good ploy would be what they did on Mrs Doubtfire; get the take as written, then get a couple of ad-libbed takes (which were mostly unused) to let Robin get it out of his system.

[@Lugnal]

Sorry for the 6 month old response. Kevin went on record numerous times talking about how Bruce Willis was a nightmare to work with (Hell, everyone who worked with him would say the same thing). Bruce basically appointed himself as a backseat director during Die Hard 4 and for the majority of Cop Out, and as such, literally no one on set could 'control' him.

[@Truthhurtz4u]

@@Lugnal update, turns out Bruce might of been in the right in being the way he was with smith. smith just ended his career with the HE MAN series and the way treated his fans.

[@rkshow1]

Kevin Smith is the most accessible movie director

[@pondcasts]

Almost makes me want to see the film ...

[@TheVarietyVendor]

I can't take my off Robert trying to pay attention and humorously trying to keep a smile going.

[@mattlohr]

I have to wonder if, on some level, this was Tracy Morgan sort of digging at Bruce Willis for the dated nature of his ad-libs. “ You want moldy references? Man, I’ll give you some moldy references!”

[@trainspotter360]

I've heard all the stories about this movie but I think it's really funny. Tracy Morgan's great and I think Bruce Willis is funny in it too.

[@williamshaw9047]

Tracy Morgan is about the last guy I'd figure for a Dwight Frye fan.

[@bluegizmo1983]

I loved Cop Out

[@JackDManheim]

It's true. Fritz got dealt a pretty rough... hand.

[@cleftturnip7774]

Bruce being terrified is just Kevin's interpretation of what Bruce was thinking.

[@emmasnow29]

Sounds very accurate though.

[@cleftturnip7774]

@@emmasnow29 what are you basing that on? Is it because you like kevin more than Bruce? If so that's not very scientific. Not to mention Kevin is pretty sensitive and gets butt hurt easily.

[@petermatthews3729]

Interesting story, makes sense why Bruce would be out of touch. This is why I don't want to have Bruce Willis on Brooklyn 99 no matter how much Andy Samberg says he wants a cameo from Bruce Willis. Doubt Bruce even knows about B99. The results would be more heartbreaking for Andy than they were for Kevin.

[@justincoleman3805]

That show sucks with or without Bruce Willis.

[@nikunjdixit1175]

@@justincoleman3805 Only in your dreams.

[@cheddarcheese7928]

I wish Kevin was on set for every movie ever made!.No one and I mean no one tells better Hollywood stores than K.S..

[@justincoleman3805]

Did you hear this story? What was interesting about it?

[@soioioioioioio34]

Strange how Kevin looks more like a cricket as he ages

[@Cole-nu8gh]

Die hard 4 was not bad at all.

[@JackDManheim]

MmHmm. How about Days of Thunder?

[@alecaquino4306]

@@JackDManheim Lol

[@Dagnabit888]

Taking him to the wall harry!

[@Weird_VHS]

It was too over-the-top, cartoonish action.

[@KingofCrusher]

I liked it too, when that one chick gets crushed in the elevator shaft by the truck and mcclaine just goes HA! always make laugh.

[@TheLubbiGunn]

A different set of brothers wrote Cop out, it wasn't the Coens.

[@TTillman3]

it was the *Cullen* brothers, which is what Kevin Smith said

[@TheLubbiGunn]

@@TTillman3 oh, i heard him say Coen

[@MrDagonOfTheDead]

Be safe!! They say Jericho has the Rona!!!

[@robk.6591]

Snoochie Boochies

[@HappyTeeth.]

Shocker . he's wearing a ballcap on backwards .

[@labenbrittenum6934]

KEVIN needs to stop talking about his bad experience on that movie before his claim to fame is the director who didn't get along with BRUCE WILLIS

[@REJEKT_DEAD]

Live Free or Die Hard really is the last good Willis movie.. he descended into action b movie monotony.

[@jalenjohnson1662]

Agreed. He still felt like McClane in that film.

[@nice3358]

I think you should watch Looper (2012) and Motherless Brooklyn (2019)

[@ryanmichaelangelofavale5863]

@@nice3358 live Free or die hard nerd

[@Ironwind1972]

I'd hate working with Smith too. All he talks about is himself, smoking pot, atheism and the liberal left.

[@robzilla730]

He's such a great storyteller but WHY can't he translate that to his movies??

[@Weird_VHS]

Kevin let Tracy adlib for 20 minutes straight, wasting everyone's filming time on something that would never have made the final cut. I'm not surprised Bruce lost respect for Kevin as a director.

[@cheddarcheese7928]

Johnny Stanworth I am not sticking up for Kev Smith here.But for someone to stick up for Bruce Willis?.Have u seen any of his craptastic work done in the last 10yrs?.Good lord!.His last Die Hard flick may legitimately be the worse movie I have ever seen

[@Warcodered01]

1. Kevin didn't say that he said did a 20 minute but to him and started to do it in the scene. It doesn't say Kevin let it go on for 20 minutes. 2.Through the power of editing they can cut out what they don't like.

[@petewillson205]

@@cheddarcheese7928 Bruce Willis is suffering the same fate of every action star, its aging and that a mid range action film will still pay him higher dollars because his name draw a crowd. I'm sure at this point just doing movies to do them, it's hard to know that this action movie using a version of his die hard character will be any better than the ladt

[@SPACEB0YZER0]

I think Kevin Smith is really overrated as a writer/director but man I love hearing his stories about behind the scenes with these movies.

[@justincoleman3805]

Jeez. Get to the point. Oh. He didn’t have one. Kevin Smith used to know that a story has a beginning, middle and end. Now he sounds like an out of touch grandpa beating the same topic into the ground.

[@cheddarcheese7928]

Justin Coleman is this Bruce Willis incognito?