Meet Dwier Brown, whose six minutes of screen time with Kevin Costner became the role of a lifetime.
He auditioned for Risky Business. Guy named Tom Cruise got it. He tried out for Thelma & Louise. Dude named Brad Pitt aced him out.
Thirty years ago, an actor from the Ohio farmland named Dwier Brown was living and dying in L.A, literally, getting small parts in movies, TV and stage work, where his specialty was: dead guy. He’d been shot to death six times, lynched, knifed. In the TV drama The Thornbirds, he’d been run over by a wild boar.