The Chris Farley We Never Knew: He Was a Very Sweet Guy Before Midnight - Daily Beast
In an illuminating moment frozen in time in the biographical documentary I Am Chris Farley , a camera zeroes in on the late Saturday Night Live standout. The year is 1995. Chris Farley’s on the set of his first bona fide post- SNL comedy vehicle, the road trip buddy pic Tommy Boy. It will soon become Farley’s most beloved cult comedy—and, thanks to critical pans, the bane of his tortured movie star existence. Within two years, the beloved comedian known for barreling his hefty frame with childlike abandon every Saturday night across the stages of NBC’s Studio 8H as Matt Foley the motivational speaker, Bears superfan Todd O’Connor, and countless more... By the time Farley developed the health and addiction issues that would kill him seven years later, “there was some part of him that clearly trusted that if he was a little bit fucked up, it would be all right,” Michaels later muses. The first feature-length documentary to examine and exalt Farley’s tragic but bright life, I Am Chris Farley acknowledges the personal darkness that overtook the lovable performer as success hit and hounded him until his untimely death. His fall came swiftly and publicly, the gory details plastered across the media. Source: www.thedailybeast.com
