Quentin Tarantino is best known as a director and writer, but he also has some acting roles in his filmography, appearing in his own movies and others as well, and his weirdest role/cameo so far has been in the fantasy comedy Little Nicky. Quentin Tarantino’s career in the film industry began in 1992 with the crime movie Reservoir Dogs, which became a cult movie and a classic of independent cinema, while also giving critics and viewers a taste of his narrative and visual style, including his tendency to add a lot of violence and blood to each of his movies.
The critical success of Reservoir Dogs opened many doors for Tarantino in the film industry not only as a director and writer but also as an actor, as he had a small role in his own movie as Mr. Brown. Tarantino’s big break arrived two years later with another crime movie, Pulp Fiction, where he also had a minor role as Jimmy Dimmick, and since then, he has made cameo appearances in almost all his movies, but he has also appeared in movies outside of his movie universe in a variety of roles, the weirdest one being in the fantasy comedy Little Nicky.
Directed by Steven Brill, Little Nicky stars Adam Sandler as Nicky, Satan’s son who is sent to Earth to stop his brothers, Adrian and Cassius, from possessing religious and political leaders on Earth and taking over Earth, and as they froze the entrance to Hell, Satan started to disappear. Nicky isn’t the smartest or most skilled of Satan’s kids, and he got in trouble on Earth and met a variety of people, among those Deacon, played by Quentin Tarantino.
Quentin Tarantino's Little Nicky Cameo Is His Weirdest Movie Role
When Satan told his children that none of them were ready to take his place, Adrian and Cassius traveled to Earth to create a new Hell there. Once on Earth, Nicky met a possessed bulldog named Beefy, an actor named Todd, and a student named Valerie, with whom he fell in love. As Adrian and Cassius started to possess people all over New York City, Nicky came across them in the bodies of different people, but there was one that wasn’t possessed yet he had a lot to say about Nicky: Deacon, a blind man and religious fanatic telling people on the streets how much “the good Lord” loved them. Deacon easily sensed Nicky’s ties with the devil and ran away while shouting that the devil was among them before he fall down the stairs of the subway’s entrance.
Deacon appeared again, now wearing a neck brace, and once more shouted about Nicky’s evil before running face first into a pole. When Nicky and Valerie were flying above the city, Deacon sensed him again and insulted Valerie, so Nicky hit him with water from a fire hydrant. Deacon appeared once more when Nicky’s brothers started taking over Earth and he ran away with the crowd, without any more accidents – at least not on camera. Quentin Tarantino’s roles outside his own movies have been a bit of everything, but Deacon in Little Nicky is definitely the weirdest one not only because of the character itself but because nobody would actually expect to see Quentin Tarantino in an Adam Sandler comedy about Satan’s not-so-brilliant youngest son.