Steve Buscemi Connects His Two Quentin Tarantino Roles

Steve Buscemi says his characters in Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction are the same man, backing a longtime fan theory that Mr. Pink survived a diamond heist and ended up serving customers at Jack Rabbit Slim’s. The actor addressed the connection during an interview with Jake Hamilton of Jake’s Takes while promoting Wild Horse Nine alongside co-star Parker Posey. Hamilton asked whether the robber and the Buddy Holly-impersonating waiter were one person. “I mean, of course, Mr. Pink ending up as a waiter. Yeah, that’s the ultimate irony of his life, having to hide out and work as a Buddy Holly waiter.” Buscemi played Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs, his first major collaboration with writer-director Quentin Tarantino. The film follows a group of robbers after a diamond heist goes wrong. Mr. Pink is the only apparent survivor, escaping with the stolen diamonds. Two years later, Buscemi appeared in 1994’s Pulp Fiction as the waiter at Jack Rabbit Slim’s. His brief appearance gave fans another role to connect to Mr. Pink’s uncertain future after the robbery. Buscemi’s comments offer his answer to that theory. They weren’t presented as a new statement from Tarantino, who has confirmed another ...