‘Tulsa King’ Star Neal McDonough Quit Acting After ‘Ravenous’ … Until Steven Spielberg Called

Neal McDonough, Aug 2002.
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Released 26 years ago, the pioneer-cannibal horror movie Ravenous has since become a cult classic. But at the time, the film — which starred Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle and Neal McDonough among others as part of an ensemble cast putting a supernatural spin on the Donner Party story — was a box office bomb, earning back only one-sixth of its $12 million budget. And as McDonough, who is now starring in the third season of the Paramount+ series Tulsa King, told ReMIND in an exclusive interview, the shock of the film’s failure was enough to send him back to his family business in Cape Cod … until Steven Spielberg started calling.