Oliver Stone said that working with Richard Dreyfuss was "the worst experience" of his career

The director and the actor clashed on the 2008 W biopic.


During their career, Stone And Richard Dreyfuss They are both considered as frank and controversial characters, so it is not surprising that they clashed when they worked together. Dreyfuss played the former vice-president Dick Cheney In Stone's 2008 George W. Bush biopic W. And, apparently, he hated making the film so much that he felt the need to dissociate him openly while he was on a press tour to promote him. Stone spoke in response, saying that leading the Jaws Star was the "worst experience" of his career.

Read the rest to find out more about what happened W set and public war of the words that followed.

Read this then: Richard Dreyfuss says it is "crazy" that he "will never have the chance to play a black man".

Stone and Dreyfuss both shared controversial views.

The two participants in this quarrel had considerable success in Hollywood. Dreyfuss played in films of which Jaws ,, American graffiti ,, Holland's opus , And The goodbye girl , for which he won the Academy Prize for best actor. Stone is a double Oscar -winning director for Section And Born July 4 , who also managed Wall Street ,, Jfk , And Any Sunday .

Stone and Dreyfuss also both made controversial and offensive comments during their stay under the spotlight. Notably, Stone was a supporter of the Russian president Vladimir Poutine . He was also in hot water for comments on which he made Jewish "domination" of the media In 2010, for which he apologized. As for Dreyfuss, He recently made the headlines For having said it is "crazy" that he will never play a black man because Blackface is considered unacceptable.

Dreyfuss called Stone as a fascist.

Oliver Stone in Moscow in 2017
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Stone An appearance in 2008 on View ,, probably to interest the public W. , which was to hit theaters a week later. Instead of putting enthusiasm, he dragged the film and the filmmaker. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Asked how he liked to work with the Oscar -winning director, Dreyfuss said: "Imagine working for Sean Hannity "Conservative co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck said: "I would like it", so Dreyfuss added: "So you would like to work with Oliver."

Co-host Joy Behar stressed that the personality of television Hannity and Stone are "philosophically opposite". To this, Dreyfuss said, "You can be a fascist even when you're on the left."

He criticized the film.

"I think it's 6/8 of a great film," said Dreyfuss about W. on View . "I think the game is great, and I think that a large part of the writing is good. But I don't really know why Oliver did not happen with that."

He explained: "I think that a character is missing in the film. I think it's a very good image of Bush and shocking Bush ... because everyone expects that [Stone] is anti anti --Bush. " But, he added, "it leaves aside We , because we were all terrified by our own president. And this terror was our reality, and this character is not in the film, so that I wonder if the film will have historical legs or not. ""

When asked why he took the role, Dreyfuss said: "Money".

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Stone said that Dreyfuss’s staging was the "worst experience".

Oliver Stone in the Czech Republic in 2013
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Four years after Dreyfuss' See Interview and Liberation of W. ,, Stone criticized the actor in an interview The Hollywood Reporter .

"It was probably the worst experience I have ever had with an actor in my life," said Stone. THR report that he also said the Jaws Star did not remember his lines. "I brought him out and I read him the act of riot," continued Stone. "I said:" You will read these benchmark cards [Expletive], and if you do not read them, this scene is finished. "So, yes, I was a fascist."

Dreyfuss resumed.

Richard Dreyfuss at the premiere of
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In 2014, Dreyfuss spoke to Irish Times in regards to Its quarrel with stone play in the press.

"I do not want to deposit Oliver but, once he withdrew all the politics and was faced with a competition between father and son, there was no more history," he said About the film. "There are no historical legs. Oliver and I were in Loggerheads on this subject and we are still. He shouted that I was the worst actor he ever worked. I had brandished production and and so on." He added: "I told him that he had made a strategic error: the press junket has not yet come. I said exactly to the press what I told you."

When asked if Stone appreciated the round trips, Dreyfuss said that the director was upset to him for not having rented the film publicly. "Oh, no, no. He called my agent and said," He would better stop him because we plan an Oscar campaign "," he recalls. "And she said," What? For the worst actor you have ever worked with. "Ha ha!"

W. received mixed criticism. He was nominated for the Oscars.


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