Blade Runner star Edward James Olmos says he advertizing-libbed the motion-picture show's nearly iconic line and was surprised Ridley Scott didn't end up cut it. Olmos starred in the cult classic 1982 sci-fi motion picture as Gaff, a fellow Blade Runner in the same department as Harrison Ford'south Rick Deckard. A mysterious and shadowy figure who pops in and out of the movie, Gaff uttersBlade Runner'southmost iconic line. In one of the motion picture's final scenes, he tells Deckard: "Besides bad she won't live. But, then once again, who does?"

It is considered one of the well-nigh profound lines from a sci-fi movie every bit it sums upBlade Runner'southward central themes of identity, existentialism, and what it means to be human in just a few words. Despite appearing on screen for merely a fraction of the running time, Olmos' Gaff is one of the best-remembered characters, partly due to that line, and the histrion even reprised the role in Denis Villeneuve'southward 2022 sequel,Bract Runner 2049, actualization in a single scene opposite Ryan Gosling's replicant K. Now, Olmos has revealed that his famous line didn't originally announced in the script.

Speaking toThe AV Lodge, Olmos reveals that he advertizement-libbed Gaff's iconic line. Calling it "wonderful," Olmos adds that he couldn't believe that manager Ridley Scott decided to keep his ad-lib in his terminal cutting of the movie. Olmos goes on to explain why he ad-libbed the line, revealing he was the "only i" who knew that Deckard was a replicant, and felt information technology was a subtle hint at the character's truthful nature. You can read his full comments beneath:

AV Gild: You lot also just have one of the all-time lines in a fantastic movie: "Information technology'southward too bad she won't live, only then over again, who does?"

Olmos: I wrote that. It was actually fun. I just couldn't believe when he left information technology in.

AV Club: Oh wow, I didn't know that!

Olmos: Yeah. It's a wonderful line. "It's also bad she won't alive, just and so once more, who does?" And "You've done a homo's task, sir." I retrieve that was i of the lines that they wrote. "Yous've done a man's job." And then I go walking away and I become, "Too bad she won't alive, but then once again, who does?" I knew that [Deckard] was a replicant. See, I'm the simply i that did at that moment in time. The very last moment that Deckard'southward on screen—they changed it when they got into editing, but they went back to the original. There are four or five dissimilar cuts, but if you lot go to [Ridley Scott's] final cut, at the terminate when Deckard'south leaving his business firm and Rachel goes into the elevator, he looks down and sees the origami unicorn. He realizes [Gaff] was there. Because that origami is something that I made; it was my signature. So he picks information technology up, looks at it, and it's a unicorn, which was his dream. So he knows that I know his dreams at that moment. Just no i ever pronounced information technology. And for many years, people said, "No, Deckard was not a replicant." People take argued near this and so much over the years. And Ridley finally came out and he said, "Yep. Deckard was a replicant." That's why Blade Runner 2049 was the enkindling.

For audiences, it's clear why Scott would accept wanted to proceed the line inBlade Runner, as it really is a succinct and poetic encapsulation of the movie'due south central themes. Conspicuously, though, equally a immature role player still virtually the get-go of his career, Olmos was worried that he might accept added in something that Scott wouldn't have wanted. At present, though, Olmos clearly appreciates the poetry of the line, and is proud plenty to take ownership of it equally i of the best quotes fromBlade Runner.

That line isn't all Olmos brought toBlade Runner, as he reportedly came up with a lot of Gaff's backstory, and helped invent the futuristic Los Angeles street language that he uses in the movie. But with this revelation, information technology could be argued that his greatest contribution to the picture was this ad-libbed line, as information technology helped Bract Runner accomplish its place as a sci-fi classic, 1 which audiences proceed returning to virtually 40 years subsequently it was first released to theaters.

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Source: AV Guild

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