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Cutting Room Floor Archives: 01/2025

Motown Records - General - Logo - Record Label

The X-rated Motown movie that went straight to the Oscars

A surprise hit.

Lily Hardman
Jan 28, 2025
Ron Howard at Cannes Film Festival, 2018

The Ron Howard movie buried by the studio: “I think it was shameful what they did”

A decision made above his pay grade.

Scott Campbell
Jan 28, 2025
Burt Reynolds - Deliverance - 1972

The one thing about acting that terrified Burt Reynolds: “He’s afraid he won’t be able to cut it”

He was right to be worried.

Scott Campbell
Jan 28, 2025
John Wayne - The Searchers - 1956

The legendary actor who labelled John Wayne a “real bastard”

“I’m glad I didn’t know you when you had two lungs.”

Thomas Coll
Jan 28, 2025
Sean Connery - Actor

The iconic Oscar-winning role Sean Connery turned down: “He thought it was disgusting”

He was almost offended by the offer.

Scott Campbell
Jan 28, 2025
Johnny Depp - 2023 - Cannes Film Festival

The director who thought Johnny Depp couldn’t act: “This isn’t the boy next door”

Not the start he would have wanted.

Jacob Simmons
Jan 28, 2025
Saving Private Ryan - 1998 - Steven Spielberg

The ‘Saving Private Ryan’ star who refused to let go of their character: “For the longest time”

They carried it with them everywhere.

Scott Campbell
Jan 28, 2025
Jack Nicholson - Terms of Endearment - 1983

Jack Nicholson’s bizarre obsession with bringing sex toys to set: “Don’t you fucking cut this thing out”

It’s weird that he kept doing it.

Scott Campbell
Jan 28, 2025
Trent Reznor - David Lynch - Split

David Lynch’s odd first meeting with Trent Reznor: “Two naked dudes come walking out of the fog”

Could the first meeting of these two have gone any other way?

Michael Gordon
Jan 28, 2025
Stanley Kubrick - Director - 1966

Trapped in a prison of his own making: when Stanley Kubrick’s perfectionism got the better of him

A cinematic genius.

Aimee Ferrier
Jan 28, 2025
Liam Neeson - Actor - 2024

How Liam Neeson became the patron saint of horse-drawn carriage drivers: “There’s a framed picture of him in every stable”

“I see these guys; I know these guys”.

Scott Campbell
Jan 28, 2025
Fish Tank - Andrea Arnold - 2009

Social realism: Britain’s most definitive cinematic genre

It has endured for decades.

Aimee Ferrier
Jan 28, 2025

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