This action star is "impossible" and a "nightmare", says the director
Director Anthony Hickox made a quarter of a career after working together.
Moving movies can be a high stress process, and temperatures can escape, but it's not allactor who is called by the people with whom they work afterwards. There are certainly those whose alleged bad behavior has earned them a reputation, including an emblematic action hero. In an interview with Dread Central, directorAnthony Hickox, which is best known for making horror films, openedAn actor with whom he worked Who was so difficult that he inspired Hickox to make a change in his career.
This actor was not only a problem for him either. Other people in the industry have complained about the lack of reported professionalism of this celebrity. Read the rest to find out who marked Hickox "a nightmare" and what happened on their shoot to make it feel that.
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Working with the actor embittered Hickox on the kind of action.
In an interview with The Horror Movie Site Dread Central in 1999, Hickox was asked why he had stopped making horror films, which were his signature. Hickox movies in this genre includeWax,,Hellraiser III: Hell we Earth, andSundown: the retirement vampire.
"It was not intentional; I like horror, it is my favorite type. I suppose that I was diverted in the kind of action at low budget. I had a big mortgage to pay and we offered me these films one after the other, and I love to shoot, so, "said Hickox.
At the time of the interview, Hickox was returning to horror, making the 2004 film,Knife's blade. He continued action films: "I must say that I like to blow up [explanive]! But it was starting to become a smuggling little spirit, especially the one I did with[Steven Seagal]; I just decided "I can't do this anymore [explanive]." »»
Seagal was a "nightmare" to work with.
Hickox continued to describe his work experience with Seagal on the filmOverwhelmed.
"It's a nightmare!" Said Hickox. "It is impossible; he does not present himself, he refuses to say any written line, it's just ridiculous. I sat down when I did it and I said:" I am a better director than that ", so I went back to what I like to do, who is to write and direct horror. "
The interviewer joked by saying that Seagal had to thank for Hickox's return to horror, and the director said: "Things are happening in a strange way, you would probably do a[Jean Claude Van Damme Imagine now if I hadn't done Seagal, so we thank Van Damme (Laughs). "(However, Van Damme has no reputation forbe easy to work with, That is.)
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Hickox blamed Seagal for the failure of the film.
In an interview with the shlock pit,Hickox spoke in more detail on what was wrong on the set ofOverwhelmed. He said the original script was "brilliant".
"It started life as a full horror and science fiction," he said. "I just thought it would not be great if you were stuck at the bottom of the ocean with extraterrestrials [explanive] on your submarine! ... And then Seagal came on board."
"We had planned everything and he was like" I don't think this film should be on a submarine. "Uh, but it's calledOverwhelmed And it's on a submarine! And then he was like: "But I want a big opera scene" - I mean, it's literally like that - "I want an opera scene". But, you are on a submarine! "Yeah, well, I decided that I don't like extraterrestrials and I don't like monsters, and I don't want to be in a monster film." And fundamentally, that is why it ended as he did. We had no idea what we were doing: no script, and all the control of the mind in the final film was composed last week before the shooting. It was really crazy. At this point, once again, I should have stopped, but I needed money. ""
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He is not the only colleague to talk about the actor.
Seagal has faced many complaints and allegations during his career, ranging frombe working with atSexual abuse complaint. (Seagal came out of an interview withBBC Newsnight In 2018, questioned about abuse complaints.)AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
When it comes to being difficult on the set, one of the most published instances wasSeagal accommodation timeSaturday Night Live In 1991. The actor was reportedly prohibited from the program thereafter and several actors talked about experience.Snl CreatorLorne Michaels Even commented Seagal during a future episode. When Nicolas Cage Hosted in 1992, the star said during his monologue that the public probably thought he was "the greatest stupid to the series". Michaels replied: "No, no. It would be Steven Seagal."