“I’m getting out of here”: after 68 years, this iconic actor left Kubrick’s last film!

Stanley Kubrick, who saw himself as Napoleon at the head of his armies during the production of the films, was known, among other things, for his absolute perfectionism. He is even obsessed. There is no shortage of anecdotes about these actors or actresses who broke up after dozens and dozens of filming.

The hapless Shelley Duvall on The Shining, who had to redo a scene no less than 127 times before it broke. Another famous sequence in the film, the one where Dick Halloran (Scatman Crothers) explains his telepathic clairvoyance to young Danny Torrance (Danny Lloyd) takes 148 shots. Ryan O’Neill, too, on the set of Barry Lyndon. In addition to this film, Kubrick commissioned composer Leonard Rosenman to score no less than 105, and according to him, “The second one was good.”

However, there is one person who ultimately can’t stand this very trying way of working: Harvey Keitel. Actor Gary Oldman also remembered this anecdote Seven years ago in the podcast : “Harvey Keitel played the part he would eventually play Sydney Pollack. I think after ’68, where Kubrick was opening the door, he said, “I’m out of here, you’re crazy!”

Years later, a person mentioned this story Filmed interview. If he concedes that Stanley Kubrick “He was a genius”He adds again: He did something that I objected to and I didn’t like it, I found it disrespectful and there was no question of me disrespecting Stanley Kubrick or anyone else. But I was.” Unfortunately, Keitel doesn’t specify what he didn’t like about the filmmaker.

“Couldn’t be a better Stanley!”

In 2005, Sidney Pollack, who played Keitel, It was this obsessive side that sparked in Kubrick. “I don’t think I’ve done more than 20 in my life, and if I get to 20, it’s a tragedy for me. If I’ve already done 5 or 6 takes, I start to get nervous. But 70, 80, 100 takes were completely normal for Kubrick. I’m not a professional actor. “