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beat the hell” out of each other for l in their scenes and “not cheat” vie audiences. was the start of a brutal five-night austing and damaging all-action ot for just one brawl alone. et cameras caught Patrick grin ing the screen fight even after ding his pal “with a flying knee kick ching me right in the chest”.
When we first got into it, every crew mber jumped on top us and pulled apart ‘Come on guys, don’t kill each er. We’re trying to make a movie e’,” Marshall recalls.
Our arms, chest, sides, legs and ks were black with bruises. They ked he and I in ice. Then the director ed: ‘Can you do it again?’ – [and we d] ‘Oh hell. Yes’.” he new Road House movie’s miere will take place in Austin, as, after being chosen to open this r’s esteemed South By Southwest s festival. It will be streaming on azon Prime Video from March 21. Marshall is enthusiastic about the ting of Conor and Jake, who is no anger to action roles in the likes of uthpaw. But he reckons 2024 rules
will have prevented them from being as authentic as him and Patrick. “We’d continue all night long to where we were mentally and physically exhausted – that would never happen today in the new Road House,” he said. “Jake is a tough son of a buck and Conor is a hell of a fighter, but they would not be allowed to hurt and fight like we did.“
Marshall went on to roles in Walker, Texas Ranger, Babylon 5, The A-team, The Rock and dozens more and is now in upcoming biopic Reagan and comedy Delivery Fee,
He couldn’t make a cameo in Road House 2024, for good reason. “People ask if I am in it, they forget Jimmy got his throat ripped out,” he laughs.
Becoming close friends Marshall and wife Lindy regularly visited Patrick and
his wife Lisa Niemi at their home and shared regular calls for 20 years until his tragic passing from pancreatic cancer aged just 57 in 2009.
Marshall says: “He’d be working in India, but call me at 3am. For two hours we’d talk about everything you can imagine. It never mattered what time it was; we always made time for each other. We always ended every call ‘I love you brother’.”
Marshall keeps the last text message that Patrick left him, days before his passing, on his phone as a reminder of their brotherhood.
“I transfer it to every phone – I got his message two weeks before he died after I told him I was there if he needed anything,” he recalls. “He told me:
‘Partner those words mean a lot to me. Understand I am going to beat this sucker. I love you. Buddy.’
“When I heard he died it stopped the world cold.”
Marshall adds: “Road House was not made to win an Oscar, but we went to
a fight and a movie broke out. People always talk about that film, the fight and Patrick. I think about him every day.”
Marshall is starring in upcoming biopic Reagan and comedy Delivery Fee. Road House streams on Prime Video from Thursday, March 21.