Casting The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly corner
Sergio Leone: “Okay, fellas, I got these great characters for my next movie. Clint, you’ll play the good guy.”
Clint Eastwood: “I’m in.”
Sergio Leone: “Lee, you’ll be the bad guy.”
Lee Van Cleef: “Sounds great.”
Sergio Leone: “And Eli, you’ll be the ugly one.”
Eli Wallach: “I—what?”
Sergio Leone: “You know, the ugly one. The big dipshit, the guy who constantly gets pushed down flights of stairs, and then he grovels back asking you to do it again like a servile little worm. The donkey-faced fat fuck that women spit on and children throw rotting cabbage at. Just a real dumb turd of a man who never gets invited to parties because his stories are terrible and he always smells like sour milk and gasoline—”