Career
He also appeared in Def Jam"s How to Be a Player and has guest starred on television shows such as The Mod Squad and One on One. A classically trained actor, Julien began his career on the stage in New York" General’ s Office-Broadway circuit including Joseph Papp"s Shakespeare-In-The-Park. Moving westward to Hollywood, he landed co-starring roles with Jack Nicholson in Psychology-Out and Candice Bergen in Columbia"s box-office hit film Getting Straight.
While spending time in Rome, Italy, he wrote and directed a documentary called Trestevre, then wrote the screenplay for, and subsequently co-produced, Warner Brothers"s blaxplotation classic Cleopatra Jones, which starred actress Tamara Dobson in the title role as a narcotics agent who was as skilled in martial arts as she was with firearms.
Julien refused to participate in the sequel, Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold, which led to his being credited instead with the film"s story and script both being "based on characters created by Max Julien". Curren$y, the Hot Spitta, has a song called "Max Julien" on his 2012 Halloween mixtape, "Priest Andretti." Curren$y also mentions Max Julien in his song, "What"s What," off of his 2011 album Weekend at Burnie"son
About 30% of the world"s rappers have sampled his voice from "The Mack." Hundreds of them including Rhythm & Blues and Rock artists (ie, P Diddy, Snoop Dogg, Kid Rock) admittedly fashioned their images after Max"s character from the film. Director Quentin Tarantino even scripted a film, True Romance, that shows Julien in a clip while Christian Slater says "I know that film.
lieutenant"s "The Mack" starring Max Julien."
Julien appeared as "Goldie" in an episode of Universitas Pembangunan Nasional"s One on One.