Oliver Stone talks about filming born killer It certainly has its challenges, and Robert Downey Jr. doesn’t make it any easier.
Thirty years after the 1994 crime romance was released, the Oscar-winning filmmaker looks back at the film for a recent oral history. Esquire. This included Downey’s improvisation in a scene in which his character dipped the front of his white shirt in fake blood and then pulled it through the zipper of his pants to simulate a bloody penis.
“Oh, come on — this is too much! You’re too much, Robert,” Stone recalled yelling at the actor. “You ruined my movie! Forget that stupid idea. …This isn’t some slapstick bullshit.
However, the director later changed his attitude and told Oppenheimer Star, “Wait, wait – wait. Let me look at that dick thing again.” Downey complied, and Stone added, “Pull it back half an inch. Okay. Let’s go.”
born killer It follows the characters played by Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis, lovers and psychopathic serial killers who become media sensations in their cross-country killing sprees. Downey plays trashy TV reporter Wayne Gale.
Filming on the 1994 film also took place while Downey was battling drug addiction. “The only time I’m awake is between action and editing,” iron man The star admits.
It’s not just Downey, however. Stone told the outlet that the production was “like a zoo, with the actors all going on different types of trips. I think Woody was the sane one. That’s saying a lot, because Harrelson was famous for smoking marijuana.
“I will say this, and Oliver assures me: I don’t want to say I’m the moral center of this movie, but I’m the one with the least amount of drugs! That’s never happened to me in my career or my life,” Harrison said added. “No one did more drugs than me, but in this case I was Mother Teresa.”
Aside from the craziness that ensued on set, which Downey also described as a “precisely executed three-ring circus ballet,” the actor still has high praise for the work Stone created with his piece. born killer: “Oliver Stone got something in this movie that’s still worth revisiting.”
Downey later added: “Oliver Stone is a director who, besides [Christopher] Nolan, and others, are the ultimate expression of social commentary through film. Oliver Stone never made a movie that didn’t say something. no way.
