Two-Lane Blacktop [SEP] cast member
Two-Lane Blacktop
Two-Lane Blacktop is a 1971 road movie directed by Monte Hellman and starring songwriter James Taylor, the Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson, Warren Oates, and Laurie Bird. "Blacktop" means an asphalt road.
"Esquire" magazine declared the film its movie of the year for 1971 and even published the entire screenplay in its April 1971 issue, but the film was not a commercial success. It has become a counterculture-era cult classic. Brock Yates is the organizer of the Cannonball
a professional skateboarder, breaking for a year to attend college at the University of Texas, Austin. McKay was also a cinephile and inspired by 70s-era existential movies like "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot","Cisco Pike", "Night Moves", "Some Came Running" and Charley Varrick. The films of Sam Peckinpah and particularly Monte Hellman's "Two-Lane Blacktop".
In 2003, McKay was cast in "Levelland," a film about coming of age in the flatlands of Texas. Several of its fictional characters