John Larroquette Admits He Was Paid in Weed To Do 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'
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John Larroquette recently revealed a particularly high point of his career. The star of the new Night Court reboot revealed that he was paid in marijuana for his role in the 1974 horror film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
According to an interview with Parade, Larroquette struck up a friendship with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s director, Tobe Hooper, while he was working as a bartender in Colorado. When Larroquette moved to Los Angeles a few years later, Hooper asked if he would narrate the opening sequence of a horror film he had just completed.
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Larroquette says in his interview with Parade that the rumors of his notably green payment are “totally true”. Of the experience, he said, “(Hooper) gave me some marijuana or a matchbox or whatever you called it in those days. I walked out of the [recording] studio and patted him on the back side and said, ‘Good luck to you!’”
The film, in which a chainsaw-wielding maniac known as Leatherface wreaks havoc on a group of outcasts in a small Texas town, went on to become a cult classic. While the movie is a paragon of the horror genre and has spawned several sequels, to which Larroquette has also lent his voice to, the actor confessed to Parade that he has never seen any installments of the franchise.
“I’m not a big horror movie fan,” he admitted.
This “dope” start to his time in Hollywood launched a storied and memorable career. Larroquette went on to win five Emmy awards for his turn as Assistant District Attorney Dan Fielding in the NBC comedy Night Court. The show followed the outrageous happenings of the night shift of the Manhattan Municipal court and ran for nine seasons from 1984 to 1992. He is reprising his role in the new Night Court reboot, which premiered on NBC on Tuesday, January 17, 2023.
This time, though, we are pretty sure he is receiving an actual paycheck.
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