In 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' (2000) Joel Coen says of the extras hired to play Klan members at the rally "we had hired a formation troupe of military guys who march, and a lot of those guys were black and said, ‘This is the freakiest thing!’”

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image showing In 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' (2000) Joel Coen says of the extras hired to play Klan members at the rally "we had hired a formation troupe of military guys who march, and a lot of those guys were black and said, ‘This is the freakiest thing!’”

penultimate_evil on May 14th, 2021 at 02:36 UTC »

Here's the Hollywood Reporter article that's the source of the quotation in the title. The Clooney anecdote in the same paragraph is also great.

floppyclock259 on May 14th, 2021 at 03:15 UTC »

Yeah I guess I never thought about how hard it would be to get a few dozen to play as klansmen for a movie

Barflyerdammit on May 14th, 2021 at 03:25 UTC »

It would be a lot creepier if none of them were black.