Remember the 2004 Film 'I Heart Huckabees' ?

Morcheeba

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The cast included David Schwartzman, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Mark Wahlberg, Jude Law, Naomi Watts, Isabelle Huppert (etc.) and was directed by David O. Russell.

Apparently, Russell is a talented yet major prick director (even got into a fistfight with George Clooney, one of the calmest and most diplomatic actors) so Clooney swore he'd never work with him again.

Just yesterday someone added a clip of the huge feud between Russell and Lily Tomlin that a cameraman kept filming on the set of 'Huckabees'...



http://youtube.com/watch?v=djT-RD30L7o



Check it out, it's funny as hell :D
 
I remember seeing the name of that movie and feeling a pang of irrational irritation.
 
Wow.

The best part is him leaving and coming back again to yell at her and tell her to "act like a grown-up."
 
Morcheeba said:
The cast included David Schwartzman, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Mark Wahlberg, Jude Law, Naomi Watts, Isabelle Huppert (etc.) and was directed by David O. Russell.

Apparently, Russell is a talented yet major prick director (even got into a fistfight with George Clooney, one of the calmest and most diplomatic actors) so Clooney swore he'd never work with him again.

Just yesterday someone added a clip of the huge feud between Russell and Lily Tomlin that a cameraman kept filming on the set of 'Huckabees'...



http://youtube.com/watch?v=djT-RD30L7o



Check it out, it's funny as hell :D

I see someone was listening this morning...lol
 
Kain__Thornn said:
That looks like a Youtube of a Youtube...

You think? The person who added it said something about how someone had to add it again... maybe it was deleted before?
 
I'm going to assume that that cameraperson isn't going to work in Hollywood again.
 
catfish said:
I see someone was listening this morning...lol

There was a huge New York Times article about this Mr. Russell chap.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/19/m...58e26412bdf&ex=1253246400&partner=rssuserland

Excerpt:

July 31, 2003: Candid Camera

The production has moved from the dried-up swamp to the set of the detectives' office. It is hot and cramped, and the hour is getting late. To pass the time while a shot is set up, Mr. Russell treats the crew to a description of a baby passing through the birth canal.

And then Ms. Tomlin is berating Mr. Russell again.

This time, the director turns on her angrily, calling her the crudest word imaginable, in front of the actors and crew. He shrieks: "I wrote this role for you! I fought for you!" Mr. Russell ends his tirade by sweeping his arm across a nearby table cluttered with production paraphernalia. He storms off the set and back on again, continually shouting. Then he locks himself in his office, refusing to return. After an uncomfortable, set-wide pause, Ms. Tomlin goes in to apologize, and Mr. Russell returns to the shoot.

Unbeknownst to both of them, a member of the crew has videotaped his tirade. The recording makes its way around the Hollywood talent agencies. Asked about the incident later, Mr. Russell says: "Sure, I wish I hadn't done that. But Lily and I are fine." For her part, Ms. Tomlin admits that both she and Mr. Russell lost control. "It's not a practice on his part or my part," she says. "I'd rather have someone human and available and raw and open. Don't give me someone cold, or cut off, or someone who considers themselves dignified."
 
Yikes...just watching those makes me cringe...I bet it was very uncomfy to be there! Lily is definitely not channeling her Edith Anne character.
 
rosco rathbone said:
I remember seeing the name of that movie and feeling a pang of irrational irritation.

You weren't the only one.

The previews didn't change that sentiment for me, either.
 
Tatiana0706 said:
Yikes...just watching those makes me cringe...I bet it was very uncomfy to be there! Lily is definitely not channeling her Edith Anne character.

I never saw the film but it's on my list to rent! Did you like it?
 
these clips were the best part of the movie, shame they weren't in it.
 
rosco rathbone said:
I remember seeing the name of that movie and feeling a pang of irrational irritation.

add me to the list as well.
 
If you promise not to laugh I'll let you in on a secret ... I paid money to see that movie.
 
Damn, Lily and the director are both nuts.

However, that movie is one of my all-time favorites.
 
LOL....

Major prick alright.... but I have had one encounter with Lily Tomlin (many years ago) and she was just as unreasonable.
 
rosco rathbone said:
I remember seeing the name of that movie and feeling a pang of irrational irritation.

was it the use of the :heart: in the title, for one?
 
Ham Murabi said:
If you promise not to laugh I'll let you in on a secret ... I paid money to see that movie.
I feel your pain, man. I paid to take a date to see The Way We Were. I'd rather sit through a Plan Nine From Outer Space marathon than ever see that piece of shit again.
 
sweet soft kiss said:
LOL....

Major prick alright.... but I have had one encounter with Lily Tomlin (many years ago) and she was just as unreasonable.

Curious, I am, SSK!

She seems to be quite an emotional broad, that's for sure. I remember those bitchy eyes she'd squint together in '9 to 5' - but I liked her best in an Altman film... ensemble cast... I want to say 'The Player' but it was probably 'Short Cuts'.

Either way, I bet she's never ever been referred to as boring.
 
There's nothing worse than working on projects with prick directors. Luckily, I've never experienced anything this bad. I usually walk off a job if the environment on the set becomes intolerable. It's not as if I can't get another job somewhere else. It all pays the same. Some people in the industry just take themselves too seriously.


Morcheeba said:
Apparently, Russell is a talented yet major prick director (even got into a fistfight with George Clooney, one of the calmest and most diplomatic actors) so Clooney swore he'd never work with him again.

I didn't know about this. Looked it up and found the story...



PLAYBOY: What made you want to do that movie?

CLOONEY: David Russell wrote as good a script as I've ever read. I fought to get it. He wanted a lot of other actors before me. They went to Mel and to Nic Cage. I wanted to work on this movie. David is in many ways a genius, though I learned that he's not a genius when it comes to people skills.

PLAYBOY: Did you learn about that the hard way?

CLOONEY: I did. He yelled and screamed at people all day, from day one.

PLAYBOY: Did he yell at you?

CLOONEY: At me often --- and at someone daily. He'd throw off his headset and scream, "Today the sound department flicked me!" For me, it came to a head a couple of times. Once, he went after a camera-car driver who I knew from high school. I had nothing to do with his getting his job, but David began yelling and screaming at him and embarrassing him in front of everybody. I told him, "You can yell and scream and even fire him, but what you can't do is humiliate him in front of people. Not on my set, if I have any say about it." Another time he screamed at the script supervisor and made her cry. I wrote him a letter and said, "Look, I don't know why you do this. You've written a brilliant script, and I think you're a good director. Let's not have a set like this. I don't like it and I don't work well like this." I'm not one of those actors who likes things in disarray. He read the letter and we started all over again. But later, we were three weeks behind schedule, which puts some pressure on you, and he was in a bad mood. These army kids, who were working as extras, were supposed to tackle us. There were three helicopters in the air and 300 extras on the set. It was a tense time, and a little dangerous, too. David wanted one of the extras to grab me and throw me down. This kid was a little nervous about it, and David walked up to him and grabbed him. He pushed him onto the ground. He kicked him and screamed, "Do you want to be in this *beep* movie? Then throw him to the *beep* ground!" The second assistant director came up and said, "You don't do that, David. You want them to do something, you tell me." David grabbed his walkie-talkie and threw it on the ground. He screamed, "Shut the *beep* up! *beep* you," and the AD goes, *beep* you! I quit." He walked off.

It was a dangerous time. I'd sent him this letter. I was trying to make things work, so I went over and put my arm around him. I said, "David, it's a big day. But you can't shove, push or humiliate people who aren't allowed to defend themselves." He turned on me and said, "Why don't you just worry about your *beep* act? You're being a dick. You want to hit me? You want to hit me? Come on, pussy, hit me." I'm looking at him like he's out of his mind. Then he started banging me on the head with his head. He goes, "Hit me, you pussy. Hit me." Then he got me by the throat and I went nuts. Waldo, my buddy, one of the boys, grabbed me by the waist to get me to let go of him. I had him by the throat. I was going to kill him. Kill him. Finally, he apologized, but I walked away. By then the Warner Bros. guys were freaking out. David sort of pouted through the rest of the shoot and we finished the movie, but it was truly, without exception, the worst experience of my life.

PLAYBOY: Did you resolve things? Would you ever work with him again?

CLOONEY: Life's too short.
 
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