Free Willy

Recently, Deadly Prey held an exhibition at the Selva Gallery in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Film fans rifled through bins filled with prints featuring Ghanian depictions of Free Willy with the orca eating Jesse alive and of the Warriors with a werewolf chasing the titular street gang back to Coney Island.

Tolu Oulabi, a film critic, bought a Ratatouille poster.

That Remy the Rat is depicting someone on it creates an expectedness that only draws me to it.

Yeah, I'll list off.

I mean, Quantum Leap, Roseanne, Hero with Dustin Hoffman, Free Willy, The Fugitive, Iron Will.

Fuck, man.

There's so many.

And regionally, he got his start at the Meadowbrook Theater in Michigan and then worked at the Guthrie, the Goodman, Yale Rep, Milwaukee Rep, and many others around the country.

He has been in over 250 feature films and over 60 different television shows, including Of Mice and Men, Free Willy, Bridesmaids, Two and a Half Men, The Mindy Project, The West Wing, and The Middle.

Having seen Richard in so many different things, it was really such a joy to speak with him, and I always love learning how much more is behind every actor.

With Richard, I had no idea the extent of his theater background, and he can run with the best of them.

Yeah.

The Ferris, the Ferris, the Ferris Bueller was, was, was like a, you know, working like, like a, uh, a nine to five job was, you know, was, you know, so you got kind of used, used to it.

And, um, and the thing was that there were, I mean, there were people like, uh, uh, free Willy.

I, uh, on free Willy, I met, uh, Michael Ironside and he was, he was one, one, I was a great mentor.

I mean, they're doing Wednesday stuff.

Free Willy.

Ooh, Samus.

See, things on their own are so cool.