But it was just a character you didn't get to see that often, in a space movie that you never got a chance to see." "Of course, he ended up being sort of a bad guy. But that wasn't Benny," Johnson continues. Usually it's one or other, this buffoon or this flat-out villain. Wow, a fully realized character that he was. "But then I picked it up and said, 'Well, I gotta audition.' And I read it, and I just went, 'Wow.' I remember doing that and going, 'Oh my God,'" Johnson tells SYFY WIRE. And so I started reading Total Recall, got to my character Benny, and the character description said 'black jivester.' And I took the script, literally, and threw it across the room. "When I first got the script, I had just auditioned like the day before for a horrible like Black exploitation film it just flipped me out. But what about when he first read the script, before he even knew Verhoeven and Schwarzenegger were attached? In SYFY WIRE's Total Recall oral history, we already heard about how Johnson landed the part when Verhoeven's teenage daughters picked Johnson's screentest out of a pile of would-be Bennys. In honor of Total Recall's 30th anniversary, SYFY WIRE spoke to Johnson at length about his "first huge film" playing the "zooming" mutant-in-surprise, why he literally tossed the script across the room upon first reading Benny's description, how he made up one of the film's most memorable lines, and more.
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