Jack Nicholson was actually raised filming a key scene in this classic film
"I smoked about 155 joints," he said later.
Jack Nicholson is a self -proclaimed master of the famous Acting method Technical, which leads to performers not only to assume a role, but to fully embody a character in thought, speech and act. "There is probably no one who understands that the method acts better academically than me, or uses it more in his work", The time winner of the Academy Prize Told Squire In 2007. In one of his first most famous performances, Nicholson exceeded the requests for the method. Read the continuation to find out which classic film scene for which the actor was really high and what he remembers.
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Easy Rider represented the counter-culture movement of the 1960s.
The 1969 drama Easy Rider follows two cultural rebels with motorcycle vehicle played by Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper (which also directed), which puts drugs on smuggling and uses the benefits to trigger a hedonistic road trip through the American southwest which is supplied as much by the pot and the LSD as by gasoline. Nicholson embodies George Hanson, a lawyer who spends a night with the duo in the drunk tank and is quickly convinced to follow them during their freewheeling, to the big detriment.
Given the subject of the film and the circumstances of its production, which took place outside the studio system and slammed in the middle of the counter-culture movement of the 1960s, it is not surprising that things become a little wild on the tray.
The drugs were not only fictitious.
"There were a lot of drugs on the set. There is no secret on this subject," said the director of photography László Kovács in An oral story film production. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"Everyone had their drugs of choice Easy Rider , "Fonda agrees. To hopper, it was alcohol." I smoked a little, but it was not my drug of choice to act, "he said." I was more a drinker at that time. I could control alcohol consumption. Smoking made me too paranoid. ""
And while Fonda said that some favored acid members, Nicholson smoked joints, just like his character George. Admittedly, Nicholson was not quite a neophyte that his fictitious counterpart, who only took on his first toke only reluctantly during the famous film fire scene.
"I smoked about 155 joints [During the shooting], "said the actor Time In 1970, discussing the filming of his favorite scene. "Keep everything in mind and play the scene, then become stoned - it was fantastic." He later admitted that the complaint "155" was " A little exaggerated . ""
"It was so incredible when we turned this campfire scene to what point Jack was in control. He was so stoned, but he was so great. He remembered each word," Kovács said.
The original cup of the film left the monologue of Nicholson aside.
George's stoned reflections on the extraterrestrials of the space were largely absent from the original three -hour cup of the film, assembled by Hopper. Fortunately, Hopper was sent to pack after 22 weeks in the publishing studio under the name of Fonda, Nicholson, publisher Henry Jaglom And others took the task of shaving the film at 96 minutes. Although a large part of the work was to edit a dozen motorcycle routes (the original cup was 20), they also ensured that all George's ramblings were added.
"He had been cut in such a way that Peter had nothing to [say], Jack had very little," said Jaglom The Hollywood Reporter In 2019 of the campfire scene . "It was Dennis was constantly talking. I said to [the producer] Bert [Schneider] , "Is there more equipment on Jack?" "The publisher called this" magnificent "sequence. He added:" It was the magic of the film as far as I am concerned. ""
The film transformed Nicholson into a major star.
Easy Rider Would launch a new era in Hollywood and win a prize for the best work and an appointment for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Festival. For his part, Nicholson won his first Oscar appointment for the role and was invited by producer Bert Schneider to make a film (1971 Drive, he said ) depending on its success. He was going to act soon in front Barbra Streisand in On a clear day, you can see forever Before playing in Five easy rooms and several decades of other notable roles in films, especially Flight above a cuckoo nest (his first Oscar victory), The brilliant ,, Chinese district , and Batman .
Jaglom said THR that the actor felt Easy Rider had had a deep impact on his life. "He said:" I don't know who I would have or what I would have done in this world if it was not for this strange event where I was hired to work for seven or eight weeks "", remembers the editor.
It would not be the last time that Nicholson has been engaged in the movies.
As well as an unrivaled filmography built through the decades following the release of Easy Rider , Nicholson has developed a reputation for wild holidays, feminization and more substances (would have been at one point with "an opposite cocaine pyramid, pointing the sky in a bowl of aid" in his house in Los Angeles, according to the book The great farewell : Chinatown and the last years of Hollywood ).
"I'm always I love becoming high , I would say, about four days a week. I think it's about average for an American, "Nicholson, 43, has made a nod to People In 1980, noting that he clearly did not care about "the drug atmosphere".
More than 40 years after his famous campfire scene, Nicholson presented himself to the Critics' Choice Awards 2003 resolutely non -sober. When he and Daniel Day-Lewis Tied in the best actor, the 65 -year -old man About Schmidt The actor went to the scene in a now famous demonstration of shameless intoxication.
"I generally do not receive it cooked when he is on television," He said on the podium , before calling his other candidate to the best actor Robin Williams On stage to "give the funniest acceptance speech", which the late actor did with pleasure.
