Mia pulp fiction movie#

It was creepy fun.”įor the pivotal shot of Travolta plunging the hypodermic needle into Thurman’s chest, Tarantino purchased a fake chest from a special-effects company, but ended up changing his mind. “I think he was a recovered addict who still chipped. “I had just done ‘Killing Zoe’, and I’d met with and filmed a young man doing heroin and talking me through the process,” Stoltz tells The Post.

Mia pulp fiction movie#

Eric Stoltz, who played drug dealer Lance, had already been through movie heroin school, courtesy of Tarantino. To give the drug content credibility, the director asked a friend to coach Thurman and Travolta on the specifics of shooting up and overdosing. Or if Tarantino had cast his first choice for Mia: Danish Amazon Brigitte Nielsen.

Quentin Tarantino’s classic “Pulp Fiction,” which just celebrated its 20th anniversary, contains one of the most squirm-inducing scenes in movies: when John Travolta, as Vincent Vega, revives Uma Thurman’s Mia Wallace from a heroin overdose by plunging a hypodermic needle into her chest.Īs Mia comes to, gasping for breath, a heavily pierced Rosanna Arquette - playing Jody, the wife of Travolta’s heroin dealer - looks on with sadistic glee, giving the scene its button with the line, “That was f–king trippy.”īut the scene could have ended quite differently - with a jaunty dance party, perhaps? - if Ellen DeGeneres had gotten Arquette’s role, which she read for.