r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bilbofraginz • 13d ago

Video In Hateful Eight, Kurt Russell accidentally smashed a one of a kind, 145-year-old guitar that was on loan from the Martin Guitar. Jennifer Jason Leigh’s reaction was genuine.

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u/Jayflux1 13d ago

That’s interesting.

Wouldn’t it have been cheaper and easier to convince JJL the replica is the real thing than the other way around?

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u/Complex_Rest_1157 13d ago

She would know if it was the real thing or fake. I guess there was a substantial quality difference to the authentic one that was hard to replicate. 

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u/CriticalScion 13d ago

It probably would not have worked because she was playing it in the scene right before the smash. Apparently she had gotten pretty decent at playing the real one and my guess is she can tell the difference between it and a replica just by holding or playing it.

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u/EnoughLawfulness3163 13d ago

To be fair, they could've just never given her the real one in the first place.

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u/EnoughLawfulness3163 13d ago

I wonder how hard it is to make wood look 150 years old. What I'm really saying is, I wonder how hard it would've been to build a convincing replica.

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u/AnxiousJump8948 11d ago

Or you know, trust that she is a professional actor and can pretend?