John Larroquetteknown for his starring role in Night Court, for which he received four consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards, announced that he had struck a deal to edit the prologue to the 1974 slasher flick The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in exchange for weed in an offer from to tell director of the film Tobe Hopper.

“Absolutely true,” Larroquette said parade. “He gave me some marijuana or a matchbox or whatever they called it back then. I went out [recording] Studio and patted him on the back and said, ‘Good luck to you!'”

Larroquette, who will star in NBC’s Night Court restart Premiered on Jan. 17, he said he and Hooper struck up a friendship when he worked as a bartender at a small Colorado resort in 1969.

A few years later, Larroquette moved to Los Angeles in hopes of pursuing an acting career, and the rest is history. “To hear that I was in town and asked for an hour of my time to narrate for this film that he was doing,” Larroquette said. “I said ‘Good!’ It was a favor.”

Produced for less than $140,000, the low-budget horror film tells the story of the masked, chainsaw-wielding Leatherface who terrorizes a group of outcasts. The film that turned out to be a classic eventually made millions with sequels, remakes, and even video games. At the time, it was banned in several countries. In response to complaints about the film’s gruesome violence, numerous theaters across the United States stopped showings.

Larroquette ends up getting paid… with money

After playing attorney Dan Fielding on NBC’s Night Court from 1984 to 1992, Larroquette continued to speak out on subsequent episodes of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Best of all, noted Parade, he got paid!

“In the 1970s you do something for free and in the ’90s you get some money,” Larroquette said. “It’s certainly the only merit that sits heavily on my resume.”

Fun fact: Larroquette has never seen one of the Texas chainsaws …