John Larroquette was paid in weed for “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”

It's a rumor that has been circulating for a long time on the Web: John Larroquette would have been paid in weed to lend his voice to the prologue of

released in 1974. And it's true!

“Tobe Hooper (the director) gave me marijuana, the equivalent of a pouch, I don't know what they said at the time.

I walked out of the recording studio, patted him on the shoulder, and said, “Good luck to you!”

“, remembered the actor that you have undoubtedly seen in series like Dallas, Chuck or more recently Flynn Carson and the New Adventurers, during an interview granted to

.

A plan not so smoky as that

When John Larroquette met Tobe Hooper in the summer of 1969, he was a bartender in Colorado and didn't really know what he was going to do with his life.

A few years later, he left to try his luck in Hollywood and there he met his filmmaker friend again.

“Tobe had heard I was in town and he asked me for an hour of my time to do the narration for this movie and I did.

It was a favor,” he continued.

And as everyone knows, this low-budget film was a real hit and remains one of the great classics of horror cinema, to the point of having experienced a myriad of remakes over the decades.

Remakes for which John Larroquette each time lent his voice, but in exchange for a real salary this time!

"You do something in the 70s and it makes you some money in the 90s," the 75-year-old actor concluded.

“It's definitely one of the jobs that has the biggest effect on my CV.

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