Jason Pollock was an American painter who is known for his "drip technique" in which he splashed paint all over the canvas.

In 2000, actor Ed Harris was chosen to portray the artist in the biographical movie Pollock. For this role, Ed Harris actually learnt how to paint. He would regularly visit galleries and just stare at the original paintings. He built a studio at his home in Malibu and tried out the unique technique that made the artist so famous. The actor knew such details like what cigarettes the artist liked and switched to the unfiltered Camel ones to get nearer to the painter. Harris visited the Pollock-Krasner House in East Hampton, NY, and slept in Pollock's actual bed. To make an even more convincing character, Ed Harris gained weight to portray the painter in his final years before he died at age 44 in a single-car crash.