The director reveals why Steven Seagal "was a neck pain" to work with
Andrew Davis says that the action star has changed between the law and the siege.
Add this filmmaker to the growing list of colleagues who talked about their negative experiences with Steven Seagal . In a new interview with Yahoo! in honor of the 30th anniversary of The fugitive , director Andrew Davis Look at the return of worker with the controversial star action on two films: the beginnings of Seagal in 1988 Above the law and 1992 Siege . According to the director, they had a good working relationship on Above the law , but when they gathered four years later, he found that the artist martial was "pain in the neck". Read the rest to see why Davis and Seagal clashed this time and to discover what some of the other collaborators in Seagal had to say about it.
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Davis made Seagal during his cinema debut.
Above the law , released in 1988, was the first feature film of Seagal. He played as a police officer who also happens to be an expert in Aikido. As Yahoo!, At the time, Seagal was a martial arts instructor at Hollywood. One of his students was the agent Michael Ovitz , who thought that his teacher could be a movie star.
"I had a meeting with Warner Bros., and they said:" We want you to meet this guy, Steven Seagal ", said Davis to Yahoo! "I said to myself:" Who is Steven Seagal? "" Davis then met the man himself. "[H] e said: 'I saw Silence Code And I want you to run my film. I went: "Well ... Can you act?" He recalls. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
After doing a screen test with Seagal, the studio decided to move forward with this new phase of its career. "" Above the law came out and Steven became a big star overnight, "said Davis." He was not like anyone else with this ponytail and the movements of the Aikido. It really launched it. ""
They gathered for another film.
Four years later, Seagal had established himself as a large action star. This is when Davis collaborated, this time Siege . In this one, Seagal plays an old Navy Seal, who must fight an invasion on a battleship.
Unlike their first team, Davis said that he had not liked to direct Seagal this time. "It was pain in the neck," said the 76 -year -old man. “He had become arrogant. Tommy Lee [Jones] is actually much more Siege What Steven Seagal! But everything worked: Siege has become the biggest film in Seagal, and it made me The fugitive . ""
Davis has worked again with Jones, also with Star Harrison Ford , on the 1993 The fugitive . The film, based on the television series of the 60s, was nominated for seven Oscars and won one: best support actor for Jones.
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Davis was more diplomatic about Seagal in a previous interview.
In 2013, Davis approached his collaborations in Seagal in An interview with compulsory . Asked to work with the actor for the second time, the director replied: "Well, [Warner Bros. Executive] Terry Semel I wanted us to recover together, yes. ""
The interviewer invited: "It looks like the second time was not a good experience?" To what Davis replied: "You will notice, he is only in the film 41 minutes. Tommy Lee is in the film longer than Steven. It was good. It was well. A good time on mobile and had a lot of fun making the film, and it was the film that made me The fugitive So it was worth it. ""
Another director called him "a nightmare".
Other co-stars and directors criticized Seagal for his attitude and behavior. Anthony Hickox , who made Seagal in the 2005 film Overwhelmed , is one of them.
"" It's a nightmare! "Hickox said to Dread Central." It is impossible; He does not present himself, he refuses to say any written line, it is 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 directly horror. ""
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He was also called "a tyrant".
Seagal is not very popular either with actors who worked with him. John Leguizamo , who played with Seagal in 1996 Executive decision ,, called him "washed" and an "intimate" And said Seagal had initiated a physical altercation with him. Brian Cox , Co-Star of Seagal in 1996 The LUEUR man wrote in his memoirs: "Steven Seagal is as ridiculous in the real life he appears on the screen."
Recently, Tom Arnold , who appeared with Seagal in 2001 Exit injuries , said he heard a common friend that Seagal believes that the actor is Paid in Badmouth the . Arnold, who had spoken positively about Seagal in the past, said Weekly entertainment In July, "I also know that the women he has done with things that are friends, who are in the business. I say to myself:" Okay, well, the explanative]. He now thinks that Seagal's actions go beyond being a "[explanive] on the set".
In addition to the affirmations of his distribution with him, Seagal faced allegations of sexual assault and harassment, to which Arnold was referring. When Seagal was Asked about affirmations during A 2018 interview with BBC Newsnight, He went.
