Those roles have included posh gigs in nineties classics like heat Heat, Nic Cage's action classic Con Air, and 1999's George Clooney-starring war flick Three Kings. Luckily, industry insiders soon caught up, and the big screen roles started coming in for the talented Williamson. They thought the director had discovered some weird-looking guy and put him in front of the camera." The industry didn't realize that I was wearing a lip device and that I was the same guy who had appeared in 11 TV series.
"I couldn't get a job after Forrest Gump. Oddly enough, per a USA Today interview ( as covered by E Online), Williamson claims said big break left him briefly scuffling to find work as casting agents didn't know it was him in the role.
And after spending the bulk of the eighties and early nineties on the sidelines of some of TV's hottest dramas ( Miami Vice and Hill Street Blues among them), Williamson's scene-stealing turn in Forrest Gump proved the breakout he'd been working towards. Sadly, his pal and would-be shrimping partner Bubba was not among the survivors.Īs sad as Bubba's Forrest Gump death was, fans of the film would likely add that his very presence in the film (brief as it was) brought every bit as much joy, and both of those facts are entirely due to the brilliant work of the actor who played him. It also found him playing the role of hero, and saving the lives of virtually every member of his platoon, after they suffered a brutal attack in the jungles of Vietnam. That agonizing death, of course, came during one of the most harrowing moments of the 1994's beloved, Oscar-winning drama Forrest Gump, and found the title character ( Tom Hanks in one of his most iconic performances) about as far away from his backwoods home of Greenbow, Alabama as you could get.
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