‘It really hurt my feelings’: 32 years after the film, the Oscar-winning star has yet to work with Spielberg.

Released 32 years ago (that’s how time flies…), Steven Spielberg’s Hook marked many people’s childhoods. However, this live-action Peter Pan sequel doesn’t exactly find favor with Spielberg himself, as he reminded us in 2016.

“I felt like a fish in water making a hook. I had no confidence in the script, except for the first act and the epilogue. I had no confidence in the body of the film. (…) I didn’t really know what I was doing and I tried to express my uncertainty by giving value to the production. “ He also trusted the Empire microphone.

“It was a difficult experience working together”

There is also another reason that made the experience of making the film particularly painful for the director. In a long interview on a famous TV show 60 minutes In 1992, Spielberg said that filming with Julia Roberts was very difficult… “It was a difficult experience working together”. A rather diplomatic way of saying that it was actually unmanageable behind the scenes…

At the time, the actress had just broken up with Kiefer Sutherland, and this event made her depressed. His behavior on the set while on medication was atrocious. Numerous mood swings, repeated absences (including a trip to Ireland to escape the press), criticism of the technical team and childish whims irritated everyone who worked with her, including the usually very quiet Steven Spielberg, who had to raise his voice to calm her down. below. The team also named an interpreter for Tinker Bell Tinkerbell (as opposed to her character name, Tinkerbell, in the original version), By pointing to hell, he put them in.

“It really hurts.”

The actor certainly heard about this cruise missile sent by Spielberg in this interview. He answered it in an interview a few years later Vanity FairIn February 1999. To say he was bitten is an understatement.

“I swear to God, nothing I read was true and it hurt me so much. Because not only did it make me feel bad, but it was a situation where people who knew the truth were talking about it dishonestly.” He was confused.

“I saw it , And my eyes popped out of my head. I couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t believe that this person I knew and trusted would actually hesitate to support me. It was a hard lesson.”

Whether they can make amends behind the scenes after this painful shared experience is anyone’s guess. The fact remains that they have not worked together again 32 years after Hook.