I’m just going to ram him.'"
Even Shaft can’t stop this grandma from getting her revenge.
(Fortunately, Margolin’s family intervened before the real Thelma lost any money).
Richard Roundtree and June Squibb in ‘Thelma’.Courtesy of Sundance Institute; photo by David Bolen
“It’s a mini version of a car chase, if you will.
Once she got on that scooter, she was like, ‘I want to do this.'”
“There’s a reason she was right for the part,” he says with a laugh.
“This was a fairly new one and they said, ‘Just tap his scooter.
Don’t take a stab at do too much, we’ll fix it’,” Squibb explained.
“But I decided, oh, what the hell?
So I powwed into him like that and they were all, “Oh!
[Laughs] But they got it.
They got the shot of me hitting the scooter and then I just zoomed right off.”
“I thought that was a mistake on the day,” Margolin recalls now.
But according to her, this was all part of the plan.”
Just like Thelma, Margolin says Squibb “had her own secret plans that day.”
Find out ifshe gets her revenge whenThelmaspeeds into theaters on June 21.
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