Does David Spade qualify as a “journeyman actor”? I wouldn’t think so, except… how is it that he’s been able to work consistently and profitably for decades? It’s weird, right? Anyway, Spade has been around Hollywood for a long time and he’s pretty much smoked weed with everybody. He has a new interview in Details. He reflects back on his friendship with the late Chris Farley, but the most interesting story is about how Jack Nicholson “stole” his then-girlfriend, Lara Flynn Boyle, right in front of him.
David Spade has had it rough when it comes to women. In a candid interview in the September issue of Details, Spade says Jack Nicholson boldly stole his then-girlfriend Lara Flynn Boyle from under his nose.
“Nicholson asked Lara Flynn Boyle out in front of me, while we were all smoking a doob somewhere,” Spade said. “She got mad because I didn’t stick up for her. I said, ‘I’ve been in this town long enough to know when I’m outranked. You’re either gonna go out with him or you’re not.’ She goes, ‘No way. He’s worse than Trump!’”
Things took an interesting twist when, according to Spade, Boyle and Nicholson were involved in a car crash and she “crawled out of the sunroof and yelled, ‘I have a boyfriend! I can’t be here!’”
Spade, 51, said he got a call from the National Enquirer about the snafu. “That’s how I found out,” he revealed. “She and I didn’t talk too much after that.”
In another tidbit from the off-the-cuff interview, Spade says he often gets dragged through the mud in the Twitterverse, and people have said they wished he’d died instead of fellow funnyman Chris Farley, who overdosed in 1997.
“People still give me s–t about him: ‘I wish you had died instead of Chris Farley.’ That’s on Twitter almost every day.”
Spade says he’s OK with the negativity and criticism. “… I don’t like the assumption that I think I was in the same league as Chris,” he said. “I was not. He was his own superstar.”
I’m old enough to remember when Jack Nicholson and Lara Flynn Boyle were a thing. They even went to awards shows together and she was really smug about it. It’s interesting to have this story about Jack and Lara’s not-so-meet-cute. For the life of me, I cannot remember David Spade and Lara Flynn Boyle as a couple though, although I can totally picture Lara, David and Jack smoking a joint together. So, take it back to 2000-2002: David Spade vs. Jack Nicholson, who would you rather?
Photos courtesy of Details, Getty, WENN.
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