![]() And whatever else I’ve done before or will do in show business, I don’t think I’ll ever have a cooler credit than that. I’ve never sent out Christmas cards with the Gimp or anything. I wish I had, but I’ve never figured out a way to monetize it or make it a thing. You played a hugely memorable character but likely still have anonymity. We bring out the Gimp after we bring out this clip of the Gimp’s big scene. In this lengthy interview, Hibbert, a onetime member of the Groundlings improv group who was married to Saturday Night Live’s Julia Sweeney circa Pulp Fiction and co-wrote her spinoff film, It’s Pat, discusses the three days he spent in the Gimp suit. To get answers to these and other burning Gimp-related questions, we looked around for the actor who played him and received a call from the mystery man himself, Steve Hibbert, just in time for the 20th anniversary of Quentin Tarantino’s masterpiece next Tuesday. Who is this masked man? Why is he helping these sadists? What on Earth was this guy thinking? In one of the strangest moments in Pulp Fiction, the two pawnshop rapists who have kidnapped boxer Butch Coolidge (played by Bruce Willis) and crime-lord Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) task a leather-clad bondage slave - “well, bring out the Gimp …” - with watching over Butch as they set about to violate Marsellus in a separate area of their basement dungeon that is also referred to, cryptically, as “Russell’s old room.” The Gimp didn’t make for much of a security guard, but the character certainly made an impression on Pulp Fiction fans, in part because of all the mystery surrounding him.
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