In honor of the 2nd anniversary of the release of Bandit, the director, Allan Unger has released 30 minutes of deleted scenes from the Director’s Cut of the movie with two scenes featuring Nestor Carbonell as Detective John Snydes. The two scenes are as described below:
The second scene is a cut interaction between Carbonell’s Detective John Snydes as he visits Diamond Dave in the hopes of finding Gilbert, only to be stalled by Dave’s girlfriend as she tries to verify Snydes’ status as an officer.
The video then cuts into the movie’s final deleted scene, in which Robert successfully beats a polygraph test from Snydes after his arrest…
In addition, Unger wrote a letter reflecting on the making of the movie with praise for Nestor’s performance which was almost hampered by a torn achilles tendon during the first week of shooting.
I saw that Néstor Carbonell just won an Emmy, and let me tell you something — that guy tore his achilles tendon the first week of filming and literally should have walked away to get medical attention. Not only did he stay, but he grinded it out with us for a month on a walking boot and pulled off scenes that nobody in their right mind should have done. His doctor would have had a heart attack if he knew what he was doing. A brilliant actor but also a tenacious and incredibly determined human being.