The ultimatum that launched Jack Nicholson’s career: “You’re fucking up my movie”
An era-defining ‘take it or leave it’ scenario.
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper’s Peruvian plane ride from hell: “An incredible assortment of freaks”
Oh, to be a fly on the wall during this flight.
The directors Dennis Hopper spent an entire day screaming at: “What the fuck can we do?”
Hopper saw red in truly spectacular fashion.
The one actor Jack Nicholson called his soulmate: “It was a very singular relationship”
It wasn’t Marlon Brando or Anjelica Huston.
When Dennis Hopper almost blew himself up with six sticks of dynamite: “This ain’t no joke boys”
It’s not even surprising.
Dennis Hopper’s one request of David Lynch for ‘Blue Velvet’: “I thought that was a tremendous contribution”
He was an expert in the area.
The role Dennis Hopper was forced into playing: “I just didn’t want to do the movie”
“I finally just break down and start crying.”
When Dennis Hopper was convinced a hitman wanted to kill him: “Obviously, I was crazy”
Hopper did the only sensible thing: he confronted the mob about it.
The Dennis Hopper movie that left Bob Dylan in tears: “I cried three times”
A surprising emotional response.
The movie that got Dennis Hopper so drunk he baffled science: “He should have been clinically dead”
Par for the course, really.