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21 Mar, 2014

Talk is Jericho interview

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Roth appears on Talk is Jericho to discuss horror, his own film career and meeting John Travolta.

John Travolta put up with more of my questions than you could believe. I brought up Carrie and Blowout. I didn’t bring up Boy in the Plastic Bubble but he totally would have went with it. He was so cool and funny.

7 Aug, 2009

Esquire interview

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Roth talks about his role as Sergeant Donny Donowitz in the movie Inglourious Basterds:

The Basterds kind of keep him in reserve, so that when they’re interrogating the Germans, they’re like, You’d better tell us where so-and-so is hiding, or we’re bringing out the Bear Jew. The idea’s that when you hear the Bear Jew, you think it’s going to be some 300-pound, huge 6-foot-7 muscle guy, and Quentin said he wants people to go, ‘That’s the Bear Jew? Eli?