1 Pulp Fiction Actor Reprised Their Role 20 Years After Quentin Tarantino's Movie Released

Summary Tarantino's Pulp Fiction introduced "cleaner" Winston Wolfe a.k.a. The Wolf.

Harvey Keitel reprised his role as Winston Wolfe in insurance commercials separate from Tarantino's movie universe.

Keitel continued his successful acting career beyond Pulp Fiction, collaborating with Scorsese, Tarantino, and many more.

Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction introduced many memorable characters, and one of them returned 20 years later in a project unrelated to the universe of Tarantino’s movies. Tarantino’s career as a filmmaker began in 1992 with the crime movie Reservoir Dogs, and though it was a big success, Tarantino’s big break arrived two years later with Pulp Fiction. Pulp Fiction was a critical and commercial success, and it’s widely regarded as not just Tarantino’s best work, but also one of the greatest movies ever made, becoming part of pop culture.

Told in a non-linear style, Pulp Fiction is divided into segments that tell different stories that complement each other to tell a whole story. Pulp Fiction’s main characters are considered to be hitmen Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent Vega (John Travolta), and their boss’ wife Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman), and they meet some interesting characters along the way. Among them is Harvey Keitel’s Winston Wolfe, who only appears in one segment, and to everyone’s surprise, he returned 20 years later in a completely different project.

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Harvey Keitel Played Pulp Fiction's Winston Wolfe In A Series Of Insurance Commercials

The Wolf Returned In A Non-Tarantino Project

Wolfe gives Jules and Vincent instructions to get rid of the car and Marvin’s body, and once it’s all done, he simply leaves.

The segment “The Bonnie Situation” catches up with Jules and Vincent after killing Brett and his associates in his apartment. In the car, Vincent accidentally shoots Marvin, who also worked for their boss, and they ask Jules’ friend Jimmie (played by Quentin Tarantino) to help them hide the car, as its interior is covered in blood. To help them get rid of the car, Marsellus sends a cleaner named Winston Wolfe, simply known as “The Wolf”. Wolfe gives them instructions to get rid of the car and Marvin’s body, and once it’s all done, he simply leaves.

The commercials saw Keitel’s Wolfe helping UK clients with different issues that required insurance.

The Wolf isn’t seen again, and even though he’s one of Tarantino’s characters who can appear in both levels of his movie universe, Pulp Fiction remains his only appearance. However, Keitel reprised his role as Winston Wolfe in a series of commercials for the insurance company Direct Line, with Tarantino’s permission. The commercials saw Keitel’s Wolfe helping UK clients with different issues that required insurance – and, of course, there’s no blood and Wolfe is more calm in these than in Pulp Fiction.

These Direct Line ads even gave Wolfe an assistant named Billy, whose actions are “as sharp as his suit”. The Direct Line website set up a whole profile for Wolfe, listing the different situations he had dealt with while working for them, with a good dose of humor as well. The Wolfe didn’t return in the Tarantino universe, but he found a place in insurance commercials.

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After Pulp Fiction, Keitel’s career continued in a variety of movies, and he reunited with Tarantino in From Dusk till Dawn.

Harvey Keitel was already a renowned actor before he was cast in Pulp Fiction (and Reservoir Dogs, where he played Mr. White). Keitel is one of Martin Scorsese’s most notable collaborators, appearing in movies like Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, and The Last Temptation of Christ, and they reunited again years after Pulp Fiction. In 2019, Scorsese released The Irishman, where Keitel played Angelo Bruno, marking a long-awaited reunion with Scorsese and Robert De Niro. After Pulp Fiction, Keitel’s career continued in a variety of movies, and he reunited with Tarantino in From Dusk till Dawn, directed by Robert Rodriguez but written by and starring Tarantino.

Some of Keitel’s most notable projects since Pulp Fiction are Little Nicky (where he played Satan), Red Dragon, National Treasure, Be Cool, Little Fockers, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and Isle of Dogs. In 2009, Keitel returned to the Tarantino movie universe in an uncredited voice cameo in Inglourious Basterds as an allied commanding officer. At the time of writing, Harvey Keitel has three movies coming up – Hard Matter, The Wrecker, and Hellfire – and it’s to be seen if he will return in Quentin Tarantino’s final movie.