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October 08, 2006
Why you don't trust a grab-asstic piece of amphibian shit: Ermey disinters Kubrick
Because they're gonna say crazy, crazy things years after you're dead: Promoting his role as "a sexually perverted homicidal maniac" in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, R. Lee Ermey confides in Radar Online's Jebediah Reed that Stanley Kubrick was a miserable weakling: "Stanley called me up all the time. He'd call at three o'clock
in the morning and say, "Oh, it's 10 o'clock over here."... "Yeah, well, it's three o-fucking-clock in the morning here, Stanley. Oh well." He called me about two weeks before he died... We had a long conversation about Eyes Wide Shut. He told me it was a piece of shit and that he was disgusted with it and that the critics were going to have him for lunch. He said Cruise and Kidman had their way with him—exactly the words he used. He was kind of a shy little timid guy. He wasn't real forceful. That's why he didn't appreciate working with big, high-powered actors. They would have their way with him, he would lose control, and his movie would turn to shit."
Posted by Ray Pride at October 8, 2006 05:16 PM