Manufacturing on a brand new biopic concerning the legendary soccer coach and broadcaster John Madden is underway. However the phrase on the road is that many of the drama is going on behind the digicam, and at the least one of many supporting actors has already walked off the venture.
In response to TMZ, at the least 5 members of the solid and crew of the movie, starring Nicolas Cage and Christian Bale, have made disturbing claims about director David O. Russell. They declare Russell used the N-word on the set whereas teaching a supporting actor on an unscripted monologue. The sources say listening to the slur was so upsetting that the unnamed actor and others walked off the set earlier than manufacturing wrapped for the day. The incident comes after that very same actor expressed being uncomfortable with a locker room scene that required full-frontal nudity.
Nevertheless, some unnamed sources representing Amazon Studios say all the drama is way ado about nothing, sustaining that they do not know what triggered the exodus from the set. They instructed TMZ that it was the actor’s thought to make use of the N-word within the first place and that Russell by no means used the slur himself.
The identical sources added that the nude scene had been mentioned prematurely and an intimacy coach was out there on set to assist the actor really feel extra comfy throughout filming. However when he refused to take part, they declare Russell instructed the actor he didn’t have to participate. They are saying “the door is open” for the actor to return again to the set.
Whereas all the particulars about what occurred on this set nonetheless aren’t clear, we all know that David O. Russell has had on-set points with actors previously. PageSix reported on a fist combat he had with actor George Clooney on the set of the 1999 warfare movie “Three Kings” after Clooney received fed up with the way in which Russell handled sure members of the solid and crew.
“5 months out of your life is quite a bit. And so it’s not similar to, ‘Oh, I’m going to go do a extremely good movie, like ‘Three Kings,’ and I’m going to have a depressing f*okay like David O. Russell making my life hell. Making each individual on the crew’s life hell.’ It’s not value it,” Clooney instructed GQ in a 2024 interview. “Not at this level in my life. Simply to have product.”