Do You Remember This Huge Actors Cameo As Lubbock’s Buddy Holly?

Buddy Holly's legacy will continue through his music and his legacy in pop culture.

Of course, the movie "The Buddy Holly Story" from 1978 will forever be a favorite. Though the movie is pretty factually inaccurate according to Lubbock locals, it still makes for a pretty good Hollywood fable that is based on some true facts. The movie starred Gary Busey in an Oscar-nominated performance.

In the movie "La Bamba", Buddy Holly was actually played by rocker Marshall Crenshaw (known for the song "Someday, Someway) who actually headlined one of the Lubbock tributes to Buddy Holly. Let's also not forget Frankie Muniz from Malcolm In The Middle who played Buddy in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.

So let's get to it. Let's say you're Quentin Tarantino and you're making your masterpiece. You're going to jam-pack your movie with all the star power possible, and you are in fact going to re-launch John Travolta's career, who would you cast as "Buddy Holly"?

Well, actually the actor isn't playing "Buddy Holly". The actor is playing a waiter dressed as "Buddy Holly" in a place that features celebrity look-a-like waiters called "Jackrabbit Slim's". The actor who was cast for the role was none other than Steve Buscemi. Buscemi had previously played "Mr. Pink" in "Reservoir Dogs".

Buscemi is part of the famous $5 milkshake scene and for saying, "What about you, Peggy-Sue?". The scene actually goes by so quickly, you may not even remember it. I've included the whole scene below because you can get a real quick glimpse of "Buddy" near the beginning before Buscemi joins the dialogue at the end.