The film marked his first collaboration with both sort of.
I said, Ill do your movie if youre in my music video.
We did a swap, the actor recalls.
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He did it, and he had a great time.
(He had already agreed to do our film.
I dont think it was, like, a trade, Van Sant says.
It [was] hard.
I dont like acting.)
And Gus embodies that wholly.
I was like, I should be dancing, Hill says.
And Gus was like, Oh, thats great, we can do that.
That was a given.
Disco and short shorts notwithstanding, Donnie was just a 70s rock kind of dude, Hill says.
Danny Glicker and I had a term called Donnies level 10 Marrakech.
Hes rockin a level 10 Marrakech aesthetic all the time.
Over martial arts and many hours spent together, the actors became very close.
I just love him.
I think the world of him, Hill says.
That kind of bond ought to get them pretty far.
