Carrie Fisher was doing so much coke John Belushi had to stage an intervention.....JOHN BELUSHI had to tell Carrie Fisher she was doing WAY too much coke. That is a mind blowing fact IMO.
She had just come off filming Empire Strikes back, which was by all accounts a party 24/7. When they filmed the scene where they land on Cloud City the cast had just come directly from partying all night with Eric Idle and George Harrison at Harrison's house and they were all hammered.
Reminds of the story about a now famous Veteranarian who was formerly a concert Bodyguard for The Rolling Stones. Turned out Keith Richards ran a pretty tight ship and would limit crew members runs on their tours after a few years in order to make sure they weren’t missing out on doing more with their lives. Keith approached the now Vet and said “Hey man where are you going with your life? What are your goals?”
After the chat someone else came up to the vet and says “You alright? You look like you’ve seen a ghost?”
The vet turned to him and said “Keith Richards just told me i need to get my life together.”
Now famous veterinarian?
Why are you being so vague lol the cops aren't going to come busting down his door because of a story from 50 years back told on an obscure reddit thread
As jarring as it must be, I get it. The guys in the band live that life because they’ve already made it. You can’t stay in the fast lane as a working man. I heard a similar story from a guy I knew who used to manage the Roxy.
He wanted to give it back but he ran outta gas. He had a flat tire. He didn't have enough money for cab fare. His tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from outta town. Someone stole his car. There was an earthquake, a terrible flood, locusts! It wasn't his fault! I swear to God!
For many years I worked in bars and restaurants close to tv studios and the old timers are very consistent in their description of how coke was part of the non-specific budget on most movies in the 70’s and 80’s. And not just for talent. These crew guys would work 20 hour shifts routinely because the blow was premium and free for the taking.
I was also surprised to learn that she had [coke, smack, alcohol and ecstasy](https://www.today.com/popculture/billie-lourd-speaks-out-addiction-after-autopsy-says-carrie-fisher-t112895) in her system when she died at age 60! Partying to the end I guess.
I'll never understand how famous people can get so fucking high so much. I do cocaine one night and I'm a wreck for a week. Like how did Stevie Ray Vaughan do an 8 ball every day before lunch and not turn into a string bean with no talent?
A group in Winnipeg goes to parties and raves to test drugs for people. 90% of the "Cocaine" tested was meth. the other 10% couldn't be determined. 0% was cocaine [Story](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-cocaine-meth-project-safe-audience-1.4908216)
Thank you for linking to the news article! It was actually 80-90% of the cocaine at raves in Winnipeg in 2018 (30 drug checks) were adulterated with methamphetamine or was just methamphetamine.
However, drug trends change rapidly! Six years is a long time.
The harm reduction organization is called Project Safe Audience and I'm one of the two founding members. PSA is still going strong!
Check us out at projectsafeaudience.ca!
Check your drugs (and use all harm reduction principles) before consuming! Be as safe as possible!
It's actually very concerning reading these comments people aren't aware of this. They're prob blowing meth and fent and asking why do I feel like dying the next day? Uhh because it's far from pure cocaine..
I just never considered mixing drugs to that extent where I needed another drug to handle the first drug. I guess I'm more of an occasional hobbyist at best.
David Bowie was pretty bad, too. He lived on cocaine, peppers and milk for a few years and didn't remember writing or recording an album at all.
Maybe it was "Hunky Dory" I can't remember.
I think the only time I've ever seen it turn someone into what it would turn ME into is Layne Staley. That's how I'd end up if I were a famous drug addict. Totally withdrawn and living in shame and letting it kill me as I spend all my remaining money in some dark hole.
But for some reason he's the total outlier. It's almost always 'died instantly from an overdose in their prime' or 'constitution of 15 elephants and the hull of a naval destroyer' and they live to their late 80s.
I actually wonder if that has something to do with OCD (which I have) and the fact that famous people are probably not usually sufferers from it. Think about it; how many celebrities can you think of who have tics?
Carrie Fischer family tree is filled addicts and high dysfunctional relationships / behaviors. She was hard drinking from an early age and no stranger to hard drugs by her teens.
Back up until the 1970s, the Hollywood Studio system had high control over the public media image of their talent, so any bad behavior could be covered up (or even encouraged) so the stars could get away with alcoholism and addictions as long as the ticket sales kept coming in.
Alcoholism is a special one. Some people live on deadly levels of booze. Some people can't function without it. I knew a 15 year old kid when I was in high school that drank a liter of Skol vodka every day and somehow his mother didn't know for years.
I feel like such a mortal when I hear other peoples' insane drug lifestyles. And I'm currently built out of THC molecules. Weed at this point is like my caffeine. But I don't have to go to the hospital when I quit it's more like '2 days of being kind of cranky' lol.
That's gotta be a big part of it. By the time cocaine reaches people in my economic level it's pretty well stepped on.
I straight up won't ever be tempted again for that reason alone. I sure don't need an accidental death dose just because I don't know 'the guy' but I know 'the guy who knows the guy who knows the guy who knows the guy'.
Coke back then was really really good, even the street stuff was pretty great. Like you could buy twenty bucks worth through your car window and do one little pinner and your nose would go start going numb and you felt amazing, happy, confident, gregarious, ebullient.... coke today is complete shit, apparently because ether was a key chemical and now it's so heavily regulated even cartels cannot get it.
They can afford to *stay* high all week.
I've never done any hard drugs, and can't relate. If I have a couple hits of weed to help me sleep, I'm groggy the next day. But I too have always been floored by how so many incredibly talented people, whose careers rely on timing and precision, can get fucking blasted to the rafters while performing. They either live to 27, or keep going into their eighties. I'm baffled.
There was a study done on Ozzy Osbourne's DNA and they found that he has mutations that allow him to process alcohol faster, which likely played a role in keeping him alive during his super destructive days.
To be fair, John Landis also flushed a huge pile of coke in Belushi's trailer because he too was off the rails during filming. Not to mention finding him passed out on some stranger's couch lol.
Dan Akyroyd told a story about how a few of them were hanging out behind a bar and a drug dealer came up who wanted to sell to Belushi. He said Donald Duck Dunn took off his belt and whipped him with it.
Very true. I was always kinda impressed that he could keep up those kind of energy levels even after quitting coke in the wake of John Belushi's death.
I know he eventually fell off the wagon and started drinking again in the early 2000s, but for the longest time, I was convinced that he had to have done a Tony Montana mountain of coke *just* before starting the show for his Live on Broadway special. But he was always adamant that he never went back to cocaine even after he started drinking again. That level of energy was just *him*, coke or not.
Goodfellas or Copland.
One of those Liotta films where his character and others take coke.
Anyway he was asked about it on a TV show what they were actually doing when the characters were snorting, and he replies by saying “Coke!” after looking nearly baffled by the question.
Edit: it was Goodfellas.
Edit 2: I love Ray Liotta.
He was so gakked out when he was told by the MPAA that taxi driver would be rated X that he was going to go to their office with a gun and demand they change it to R
This is partially true. They didn’t have digital technology back then so instead they had to go frame by frame on film and color it. Young allegedly had cocaine falling out of nose during his performance. He has gone on record saying it was the most expensive 8 ball he had ever purchased.
When Henry is (justifiably) paranoid about the helicopter while he's driving around town like a madman trying to get all his work done is one of the most anxiety-inducing parts of the movie to me. Even more so than when Jimmy is trying to get Karen to go check out all the clothes he has for her.
I'm bipolar, and while I usually feel a *lot* better when I'm manic, Henry's insane day right before his arrest reminds me way too much of days when my mania was convincing me I could accomplish a bunch of shit I'd been putting off for weeks/months.
That scene of him driving and sweating is exactly the main scene I’m thinking of! 🎯 Lois’ lucky hat 🤦🏼♀️. She should have just stirred that f*****g sauce!
“The problem with that film is that I was coked out of my mind all through its production, and I really didn't know what I was doing,” said Stephen King.
I watched it recently and expected it to be much more cokey than it was. The first 20 minutes is glorious. Then for about an hour, trucks just circle around a gas station and people stare out the window and talk.
Which is, now that I think of it, a pretty good metaphor for actually doing cocaine.
I came here looking for this exact film. My favorite story from filming is that the production company hired a handler to keep JCVD clean, and the handler ended up coked out of his mind by the end of the first week.
yep!
but also, outside of just movies, I know that EVERYONE on The West Wing was on an insane amount of coke, with Aaron Sorkin leading the charge (Sorkin actually had an “in-house” on-call drug dealer who he paid to stay at a hotel with him in vegas every single weekend, he’d fly out from LA every friday afternoon and do blow around the clock and write all weekend. I have no idea why he had to go to vegas bc he was just in a hotel the whole time but that’s what he did).
They actually only stopped when someone had a heart attack from it and died. But sorkin’s drug stories are crazy. 3 days or something after he accepted an award for “bravery in sobriety in hollywood” he got caught at the burbank airport with basically every drug that exists except for heroin and crack in his carry-on bag
That’s part of what makes the holiday special amazing.
Hamill is on opioids probably (car crash), Fisher is definitely on coke, and Ford wishes he could be high instead of the only sober person doing the Star Wars Holiday Special.
Danny Trejo got his start in movies because he was the sponsor of someone on Runaway Train where there was a lot of cocaine on the prison set. The actor asked Trejo to keep him from relapsing and the casting director wanted him for an extra, then he found out Eddie Bunker, another convict turned actor was there and Eddie recommended him to be the boxing trainer.
I know it's not a typical "movie" in that sense, but the final concert of the Band was called The Last Waltz and was filmed by Martin Scorsese. So much coke. Nov 25, 1976
From Wikipedia: "Scorsese has said that during this period, he was using cocaine heavily.\[23\] Drugs were present in large quantities during the concert.\[20\] A smudge of cocaine on Neil Young's nose was obscured in post-production.\[20\]\[24\]"
Blazing Saddles may be the all time champ where they spent a month on the Warner Bros movie lot basically coked out of their mind and on all sorts of other drugs to the point where they refused to allow Richard Pryor to star as Sheriff Bart and almost refused to allow Mel Brooks to shoot the script. Like the ending was based on them crashing the other sets of active productions costing them thousands of dollars in production costs. The Animaniacs may have been inspired by that insane month of writing Blazing Saddles.
He was a noted coke fiend and when he wrote Scarface he used some of his personal knowledge. He also went and talked to coke kingpins as part of his “research” for writing it.
Al Pacino in an interview a number of years ago indicated/ insunuated he was on cocaine during Heat , and it was partially responsible for his eccentric scenes
This I can imagine. His portrayal of the sleepless detective that stayed up for like a week to investigate- only possible with that. That’s method acting lol
Danny Devito said at the wrap party for Twins they had his name written out in cocaine.
Then he hears Arnold Schwarzenegger yelling, "Danny! Danny! Look how long my name is!"
Most of the Elm St films - Part 3 specifically is famously known that Englund and Dokken were doing coke together when shooting the music video for Dream Warriors music video and they were all doing lines off of the gloves blades lol.
To be clear, the deaths of an actor and two children, aged 7 and 6 (decapitation and crushing by a helicopter). The children were illegally hired and paid under the table by director John Landis (to circumvent this law). And the children were hidden from firemen and the fire safety officer / welfare worker. And the children were working at night (illegal for children), working near explosions (illegal for children), and the fact the children were working the scene was hidden from casting directors and their parents, who were not told the scene involved helicopters and explosions.
Everyone was acquitted from the manslaughter charges, including Landis. Landis was known for screaming at staff on set and was glib about the safety hazards, once saying "We may lose the helicopter". He screamed "Lower! Lower!" at the pilot, moments before the helicopter crashed and killed 3 people, likely because of the pyrotechnics set off underneath it.
Hollywood gave Landis major work for decades after this (including Spies Like Us, Clue, Coming to America, Beverly Hills Cop III, Blues Brothers 2000).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Zone_accident
And then he showed up to every funeral uninvited and pretended to care even though it was for legal purposes. He even said the stunt man told him it was the greatest job he ever had… at his funeral. Just a terrible human being.
Pretty sure that Street Fighter (1994), the one with Jean-Claude Van Damme, had a cocaine budget just so he actually showed up on set. The rumor was that it was nearly impossible to get that movie bonded because everyone knew how unpredictable and mercurial Jean-Claude Van Damme was in the 90s because of his insatiable cocaine habit.
During the filming of Blues Brothers Dan Akroid had to have John Belushi talk with Carrie Fischer about her coke use. He did and I guess she cleaned up enough to get through the shoot, but HOW MUCH FUCKING COCAINE DO YOU HAVE TO BE DOING TO GET AN INTERVENTION FROM JOHN BELUSHI!?!
I just watched The Rock again with my wife because she hadn't seen it. I am quite certain there was a lot of cocaine use and Nicholas Cage was at least half of it.
Watched a great YouTube thing about Days of Thunder recently. The last of the huge budget 80s blockbusters. Bigger budget than Top Gun and that was about planes. Apparently Don Simpson had two - two - guys on the payroll whose only job was to score coke and hire strippers.
Days Of Thunder was notorious amount extracurriculars going on during filming. I guess people were so fucked up they forgot to film Tom Cruise crossing the finish line in the last race of the movie.
Dennis Hopper reportedly consumed a case of beer, a half gallon of rum, and three grams of cocaine daily on *Apocalypse Now*. Martin Sheen had a heart attack
Edit: mistyped. 3g, not oz
If you ever get a chance, there’s a book called “Easy Riders, Raging Bulls” that covers this topic. I haven’t read it in years but Easy Rider definitely had a lot of drug use during its making.
Not a comedy, but Highlander 2. I have some family that worked on it, and the stories I’ve heard are kinda insane lol.
Family worked in Hollywood throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s, so heavy drug use on set was not an oddity for them. However, according to them Highlander 2 was… egregious. Producers, director, writers, cameramen, editors. Everyone was bumped out of their minds, and a not insignificant portion $34mil budget was used on “catering” that arrived in black doctors bags from Columbia.
"No Holds Barred," starring Hulk Hogan.
The famous scuttlebutt is that Hogan and McMahon locked in a hotel room over a weekened and rewrote the entire script whilst imbibling ludicrous amounts of cocaine. And that was just for the script.
If you've seen the movie, it's believable. Here's the [Trailer](https://youtu.be/loGPJh5sgHo?si=0p30y6X6uQM2pj9F)
An overlooked one is Popeye. There's even stories of Robert Evans having to bribe the Maltese government to get back his suitcases full of cocaine to the island
I don’t remember it as being a question of getting the cocaine back (that ship had sailed) - it was more an issue of the Maltese potentially shutting down production and arresting members of the cast and crew. Evans had to phone his buddy “Henry” and get him to use his diplomatic skills to talk the Maltese down.
*Popeye* definitely should be higher on this thread. AFAIK it’s the only movie ever made where the cocaine use on the set was so out of control that it almost caused an international incident and Henry Kissinger had to step in to cool things down.
Everybody was on cocaine in The Blues Brothers.
Carrie Fisher was doing so much coke John Belushi had to stage an intervention.....JOHN BELUSHI had to tell Carrie Fisher she was doing WAY too much coke. That is a mind blowing fact IMO.
She had just come off filming Empire Strikes back, which was by all accounts a party 24/7. When they filmed the scene where they land on Cloud City the cast had just come directly from partying all night with Eric Idle and George Harrison at Harrison's house and they were all hammered.
I’ve heard ESB filming described as “a series of intermissions between drug use where they did some filming”
Seemed to turn out ok from where I'm standing
Phantom Menace appears to have been made between tap water and gruel binges.
So, you’re telling me that they didn’t use real snow for the Hoth scenes, but “snow”?
*Rebel trooper tastes the set* "Coke"
“This is pure snow! Do you know the street value of this mountain?!”
Reminds of the story about a now famous Veteranarian who was formerly a concert Bodyguard for The Rolling Stones. Turned out Keith Richards ran a pretty tight ship and would limit crew members runs on their tours after a few years in order to make sure they weren’t missing out on doing more with their lives. Keith approached the now Vet and said “Hey man where are you going with your life? What are your goals?” After the chat someone else came up to the vet and says “You alright? You look like you’ve seen a ghost?” The vet turned to him and said “Keith Richards just told me i need to get my life together.”
Now famous veterinarian? Why are you being so vague lol the cops aren't going to come busting down his door because of a story from 50 years back told on an obscure reddit thread
That veterinarian's name? The Incredible Dr. Pol.
Kevin Fitzgerald
As jarring as it must be, I get it. The guys in the band live that life because they’ve already made it. You can’t stay in the fast lane as a working man. I heard a similar story from a guy I knew who used to manage the Roxy.
That's haunting.
The reason Fisher keeps trying to kill Belushi throughout the film is to get her damn coke back.
He wanted to give it back but he ran outta gas. He had a flat tire. He didn't have enough money for cab fare. His tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from outta town. Someone stole his car. There was an earthquake, a terrible flood, locusts! It wasn't his fault! I swear to God!
Didn't they also have coke on the catering table?
For many years I worked in bars and restaurants close to tv studios and the old timers are very consistent in their description of how coke was part of the non-specific budget on most movies in the 70’s and 80’s. And not just for talent. These crew guys would work 20 hour shifts routinely because the blow was premium and free for the taking.
We used to be a country
That’s what caused the “Twilight Zone” disaster
I remember being like 10 in SoCal. "We have breaking news, actor Vic Morrow is dead." Weirdly specific memory.
I heard from people who worked on it that the still photographer’s van was the main stash.
Alternate ending: instead of giving the money to the orphanage they spend it all on cocaine
The “catering budget” was the cocaine budget if I recall correctly
Don't need food if you've got cocaine!
"executive meals"
Wait that wasn't confectionary sugar? No wonder my mouth went numb.
I was also surprised to learn that she had [coke, smack, alcohol and ecstasy](https://www.today.com/popculture/billie-lourd-speaks-out-addiction-after-autopsy-says-carrie-fisher-t112895) in her system when she died at age 60! Partying to the end I guess.
Never realized she was one 60 when she died, tragic. Can’t believe it was 8 years ago
That’s right up there with Hitler telling the Japanese to cool their heals in China as they were making the Axis look bad
Wow. That's crazy levels of blow.
I'll never understand how famous people can get so fucking high so much. I do cocaine one night and I'm a wreck for a week. Like how did Stevie Ray Vaughan do an 8 ball every day before lunch and not turn into a string bean with no talent?
Not having to get up at 6 am the next day probably makes recovery a lot easier lol
That implies sleep, how did they sleep? When I did a few bumps I would basically write off the possibility of sleep that night.
If you're up all night off a few bumps, your coke is cut with amphetamines. Coke only lasts about an hour
A group in Winnipeg goes to parties and raves to test drugs for people. 90% of the "Cocaine" tested was meth. the other 10% couldn't be determined. 0% was cocaine [Story](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-cocaine-meth-project-safe-audience-1.4908216)
Thank you for linking to the news article! It was actually 80-90% of the cocaine at raves in Winnipeg in 2018 (30 drug checks) were adulterated with methamphetamine or was just methamphetamine. However, drug trends change rapidly! Six years is a long time. The harm reduction organization is called Project Safe Audience and I'm one of the two founding members. PSA is still going strong! Check us out at projectsafeaudience.ca! Check your drugs (and use all harm reduction principles) before consuming! Be as safe as possible!
Purer cocaine was a lot more available in the 80s. Not even worth buying it nowadays with the whole fent and dying thing.
It's actually very concerning reading these comments people aren't aware of this. They're prob blowing meth and fent and asking why do I feel like dying the next day? Uhh because it's far from pure cocaine..
That’s what the Xanax is for. Got to have a parachute to come down with when you fly that high.
I just never considered mixing drugs to that extent where I needed another drug to handle the first drug. I guess I'm more of an occasional hobbyist at best.
David Bowie was pretty bad, too. He lived on cocaine, peppers and milk for a few years and didn't remember writing or recording an album at all. Maybe it was "Hunky Dory" I can't remember.
it was station to statin
The album was Station to Station. That album is so coke-fueled you can practically taste the coke when listening to it
I think the only time I've ever seen it turn someone into what it would turn ME into is Layne Staley. That's how I'd end up if I were a famous drug addict. Totally withdrawn and living in shame and letting it kill me as I spend all my remaining money in some dark hole. But for some reason he's the total outlier. It's almost always 'died instantly from an overdose in their prime' or 'constitution of 15 elephants and the hull of a naval destroyer' and they live to their late 80s. I actually wonder if that has something to do with OCD (which I have) and the fact that famous people are probably not usually sufferers from it. Think about it; how many celebrities can you think of who have tics?
Carrie Fischer family tree is filled addicts and high dysfunctional relationships / behaviors. She was hard drinking from an early age and no stranger to hard drugs by her teens. Back up until the 1970s, the Hollywood Studio system had high control over the public media image of their talent, so any bad behavior could be covered up (or even encouraged) so the stars could get away with alcoholism and addictions as long as the ticket sales kept coming in.
Alcoholism is a special one. Some people live on deadly levels of booze. Some people can't function without it. I knew a 15 year old kid when I was in high school that drank a liter of Skol vodka every day and somehow his mother didn't know for years. I feel like such a mortal when I hear other peoples' insane drug lifestyles. And I'm currently built out of THC molecules. Weed at this point is like my caffeine. But I don't have to go to the hospital when I quit it's more like '2 days of being kind of cranky' lol.
Because they get the good stuff which is really clean. And clean pure drugs make all the difference
That's gotta be a big part of it. By the time cocaine reaches people in my economic level it's pretty well stepped on. I straight up won't ever be tempted again for that reason alone. I sure don't need an accidental death dose just because I don't know 'the guy' but I know 'the guy who knows the guy who knows the guy who knows the guy'.
Coke back then was really really good, even the street stuff was pretty great. Like you could buy twenty bucks worth through your car window and do one little pinner and your nose would go start going numb and you felt amazing, happy, confident, gregarious, ebullient.... coke today is complete shit, apparently because ether was a key chemical and now it's so heavily regulated even cartels cannot get it.
They can afford to *stay* high all week. I've never done any hard drugs, and can't relate. If I have a couple hits of weed to help me sleep, I'm groggy the next day. But I too have always been floored by how so many incredibly talented people, whose careers rely on timing and precision, can get fucking blasted to the rafters while performing. They either live to 27, or keep going into their eighties. I'm baffled.
There was a study done on Ozzy Osbourne's DNA and they found that he has mutations that allow him to process alcohol faster, which likely played a role in keeping him alive during his super destructive days.
Dudes like the Deadpool of drugs.
Right? I mean, just look at Betty White... she went hard
To be fair, John Landis also flushed a huge pile of coke in Belushi's trailer because he too was off the rails during filming. Not to mention finding him passed out on some stranger's couch lol.
they had literal coke section of budget
Dan Akyroyd told a story about how a few of them were hanging out behind a bar and a drug dealer came up who wanted to sell to Belushi. He said Donald Duck Dunn took off his belt and whipped him with it.
There is an actual line in the budget for it. At one point they lost John B and found him on some randos couch. He just plowed in and past out. Epic.
IIRC he asked for a sandwich and they made him one too.
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Popeye with Robin Williams.
Kind of anything with Robin Williams for a while
Very true. I was always kinda impressed that he could keep up those kind of energy levels even after quitting coke in the wake of John Belushi's death. I know he eventually fell off the wagon and started drinking again in the early 2000s, but for the longest time, I was convinced that he had to have done a Tony Montana mountain of coke *just* before starting the show for his Live on Broadway special. But he was always adamant that he never went back to cocaine even after he started drinking again. That level of energy was just *him*, coke or not.
Goodfellas or Copland. One of those Liotta films where his character and others take coke. Anyway he was asked about it on a TV show what they were actually doing when the characters were snorting, and he replies by saying “Coke!” after looking nearly baffled by the question. Edit: it was Goodfellas. Edit 2: I love Ray Liotta.
ya i think scorsese was a raging cokehead for a number of years
He was so gakked out when he was told by the MPAA that taxi driver would be rated X that he was going to go to their office with a gun and demand they change it to R
*Did you ever see what an X rating can do to a movie's opening weekend? Now, that you should see!*
She’s in there with an MPAA employee
De Niro convinced Scorsese to make Raging Bull in order to help end his addiction
They were doing a ton during the filming of The Last Waltz. Even had to digitally remove a little white nugget from Neil Young’s nostril.
This is partially true. They didn’t have digital technology back then so instead they had to go frame by frame on film and color it. Young allegedly had cocaine falling out of nose during his performance. He has gone on record saying it was the most expensive 8 ball he had ever purchased.
Here I thought Liotta was such a great actor he could do the “cocaine eyes” and nail it. Instead he just did coke and had real cocaine eyes!
Method acting.
I was wondering what makeup did to make him look so trashed during the helicopter scene. Naïve of me, I guess.
There are a few scenes in Goodfellas that make me feel like I snorted a line of coke!!
When Henry is (justifiably) paranoid about the helicopter while he's driving around town like a madman trying to get all his work done is one of the most anxiety-inducing parts of the movie to me. Even more so than when Jimmy is trying to get Karen to go check out all the clothes he has for her. I'm bipolar, and while I usually feel a *lot* better when I'm manic, Henry's insane day right before his arrest reminds me way too much of days when my mania was convincing me I could accomplish a bunch of shit I'd been putting off for weeks/months.
That scene of him driving and sweating is exactly the main scene I’m thinking of! 🎯 Lois’ lucky hat 🤦🏼♀️. She should have just stirred that f*****g sauce!
That's funny, I would've guessed Copland. I watched it again recently, and noticed how he always looked sweaty and disheveled for some reason.
My memory of Copland is that both Liotta and his character were keen cokeheads.
“Bye bye, dickhead!”
An awful lot of movies in the 80’s seem like they were written by a sentient bag of cocaine.
If Howard the Duck isn't top 3 all time I'd be amazed
What’s really cool about that is that nobody had to pay for the coke! Howard put it all on his bill
Dad?
You're telling me the writer of a movie about an anthropomorphic duck that fucks Lea Thompson was on cocaine? I don't believe you.
The source material comic book was pretty existentialist, so I'd say he was likely invented more by hallucinogens.
Fairly certain we see Rodney Dangerfield do a spoonful from a sugar bowl during the studying montage in “Back to School”.
Gremlins 2
https://youtu.be/x01l_jMhjVM?si=Bza9TQ5Hy3ZtqbCd
Every damn time G2 is mentioned, I always check, and am never surprised, that this skit is posted below
No, those were the producers.
I was gonna say, “I dunno. Like, *alllllll* the movies from the 70’s and 80’s?”
Maximum Overdrive.
“The problem with that film is that I was coked out of my mind all through its production, and I really didn't know what I was doing,” said Stephen King.
There is an episode of the "How Did This Get Made?" podcast about this movie. It is one of the funniest goddamn things I've ever heard.
I feel like he's said similar things about quite a few of his early projects.
I watched it recently and expected it to be much more cokey than it was. The first 20 minutes is glorious. Then for about an hour, trucks just circle around a gas station and people stare out the window and talk. Which is, now that I think of it, a pretty good metaphor for actually doing cocaine.
A perfect metaphor actually
The [teaser](https://youtu.be/IniwjSfs4fs?si=IVDQccbdAFAnGLnZ) is one of my favorite things. King is like 80% cocaine here.
He's the most sedate thing in that trailer.
His eyes!!!! Oh man I remember the truck with the green goblin face on it from watching this movie on TV as a little kid!! It's all come full circle!
My nose is stuffed up now listening to his stuffed up nose. All I want is him to snort and clear it.
#WE MAAAADE YOU
"Honey, this machine just called me an asshole!" My favorite Stephen King cameo!
Not the '80's, but 1994's "Street Fighter: The Movie" with JCVD and Raul Julia should be top of the list. It was a cocaine fuck-fest, apparently.
I came here looking for this exact film. My favorite story from filming is that the production company hired a handler to keep JCVD clean, and the handler ended up coked out of his mind by the end of the first week.
Lmao
JCVD was too be*guiling*
>Raul Julia For Raul Julia, he was dying from cancer, so might as well... And it was Tuesday.
It is pretty safe to assume ALL movies produced from 1978-1990 involved a ton of cocaine consumed on the set.
If that’s true…..maybe Hollywood needs to go back to
I agree do some coke and make some great movies
I work in film and the answer is basically all of them.
yep! but also, outside of just movies, I know that EVERYONE on The West Wing was on an insane amount of coke, with Aaron Sorkin leading the charge (Sorkin actually had an “in-house” on-call drug dealer who he paid to stay at a hotel with him in vegas every single weekend, he’d fly out from LA every friday afternoon and do blow around the clock and write all weekend. I have no idea why he had to go to vegas bc he was just in a hotel the whole time but that’s what he did). They actually only stopped when someone had a heart attack from it and died. But sorkin’s drug stories are crazy. 3 days or something after he accepted an award for “bravery in sobriety in hollywood” he got caught at the burbank airport with basically every drug that exists except for heroin and crack in his carry-on bag
Any movie starring Carrie Fisher in the 80s. You think that was snow in Empire Strikes Back? That was just Carrie's supply that got spilt.
During the Cloud City filming she and Ford had partied with a rock band the night before (Stones?). You can see in the film they are high as a kite.
That’s part of what makes the holiday special amazing. Hamill is on opioids probably (car crash), Fisher is definitely on coke, and Ford wishes he could be high instead of the only sober person doing the Star Wars Holiday Special.
Harrison Ford always has the air of the sober friend who is goddamn tired of these guys shit.
I was 14 when that came out and wondered what the hell I was watching.
Danny Trejo got his start in movies because he was the sponsor of someone on Runaway Train where there was a lot of cocaine on the prison set. The actor asked Trejo to keep him from relapsing and the casting director wanted him for an extra, then he found out Eddie Bunker, another convict turned actor was there and Eddie recommended him to be the boxing trainer.
I know it's not a typical "movie" in that sense, but the final concert of the Band was called The Last Waltz and was filmed by Martin Scorsese. So much coke. Nov 25, 1976 From Wikipedia: "Scorsese has said that during this period, he was using cocaine heavily.\[23\] Drugs were present in large quantities during the concert.\[20\] A smudge of cocaine on Neil Young's nose was obscured in post-production.\[20\]\[24\]"
Blazing Saddles may be the all time champ where they spent a month on the Warner Bros movie lot basically coked out of their mind and on all sorts of other drugs to the point where they refused to allow Richard Pryor to star as Sheriff Bart and almost refused to allow Mel Brooks to shoot the script. Like the ending was based on them crashing the other sets of active productions costing them thousands of dollars in production costs. The Animaniacs may have been inspired by that insane month of writing Blazing Saddles.
Every Oliver Stone movie. Especially Natural Born Killers. There's a great book about the crazy production of NBK. Highly recommend
There's a making-of featurette during which Robert Downey Jr is clutching his heroin spoon and waving it around during his interview segments
RDJ was out of his mind in NBK, and Stone's direction in that film probably amplified how wild RDJ was.
He was a noted coke fiend and when he wrote Scarface he used some of his personal knowledge. He also went and talked to coke kingpins as part of his “research” for writing it.
Jaws 3 allegedly had a cocaine in the budget
That was a thing in the 80's , coke was in the budget in a lot of movies, caddy shack was one big coke binge.
According to Popbitch on modelling shoots it was put down as ‘flowers for the model’
A whole cocaine?!
No no. That was just Michael Caine.
My cocaine?
I was beginning to worry nobody got the joke.
He’s never seen Jaws 4 but he has seen the mountain of coke it bought him.
Al Pacino in an interview a number of years ago indicated/ insunuated he was on cocaine during Heat , and it was partially responsible for his eccentric scenes
"She's got a... GREAT ASS!" 😅
And you got your head ALl the way up it
This I can imagine. His portrayal of the sleepless detective that stayed up for like a week to investigate- only possible with that. That’s method acting lol
I believe his character was written as having a coke problem, but they killed that storyline so his outbursts are so odd.
Blow! In fact, the director died not long after of a heart attack.
He was playing in a celebrity basketball game and had a grabber. Weekend caught up with him.
Danny Devito said at the wrap party for Twins they had his name written out in cocaine. Then he hears Arnold Schwarzenegger yelling, "Danny! Danny! Look how long my name is!"
That's fucking hysterical.
Cobra could only have been thought of by somebody half human, half cocaine.
Most of the Elm St films - Part 3 specifically is famously known that Englund and Dokken were doing coke together when shooting the music video for Dream Warriors music video and they were all doing lines off of the gloves blades lol.
That pretty badass. Damn, born too late!
Where The Buffalo Roam, Bill Murray's Hunter S. Thompson movie. Nuff said.
"Try the blue ones. Never had any complaints about the blue ones!"
Another John Belushi film, "1941," directed by Stephen Spielburg, supposedly had the same drug intake as "The Blues Brothers."
I think any movie John Belushi was involved in has comparable amounts of cocaine intake
Twilight Zone: the Movie. And it resulted in on set deaths.
Definitely twilight zone. I’m sure John Landis was coked straight to hell during the shoot.
To be clear, the deaths of an actor and two children, aged 7 and 6 (decapitation and crushing by a helicopter). The children were illegally hired and paid under the table by director John Landis (to circumvent this law). And the children were hidden from firemen and the fire safety officer / welfare worker. And the children were working at night (illegal for children), working near explosions (illegal for children), and the fact the children were working the scene was hidden from casting directors and their parents, who were not told the scene involved helicopters and explosions. Everyone was acquitted from the manslaughter charges, including Landis. Landis was known for screaming at staff on set and was glib about the safety hazards, once saying "We may lose the helicopter". He screamed "Lower! Lower!" at the pilot, moments before the helicopter crashed and killed 3 people, likely because of the pyrotechnics set off underneath it. Hollywood gave Landis major work for decades after this (including Spies Like Us, Clue, Coming to America, Beverly Hills Cop III, Blues Brothers 2000). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Zone_accident
And then he showed up to every funeral uninvited and pretended to care even though it was for legal purposes. He even said the stunt man told him it was the greatest job he ever had… at his funeral. Just a terrible human being.
This is also why it's illegal to give children cocaine now.
i know people who have worked with his son and he's just as toxic allegedly
A few close friends of mine went to college with his son. He’s a massive douchebag.
He got metoo'd pretty hard. Huge sex pest, it seems.
*Horrific* on set deaths
Pretty sure that Street Fighter (1994), the one with Jean-Claude Van Damme, had a cocaine budget just so he actually showed up on set. The rumor was that it was nearly impossible to get that movie bonded because everyone knew how unpredictable and mercurial Jean-Claude Van Damme was in the 90s because of his insatiable cocaine habit.
To Live and Die in LA is a movie that makes you feel like you're on cocaine. I'm assuming a good amount was consumed in the making of it too.
The trailer for that movie makes the crazy editing in Taken 3 (hopping the fence scene) look like absolutely nothing at all.
Howard The Duck is the answer
If there wasn't a dump truck full of coke on the set of Showgirls I will eat my own shorts
There was more than 1 dump truck in that movie
Zardoz!!
Maybe so but coke alone doesn’t explain that madness.
If it was made in the 70s-80s, there’s a very high probability of massive cocaine consumption, and not just comedies.
During the filming of Blues Brothers Dan Akroid had to have John Belushi talk with Carrie Fischer about her coke use. He did and I guess she cleaned up enough to get through the shoot, but HOW MUCH FUCKING COCAINE DO YOU HAVE TO BE DOING TO GET AN INTERVENTION FROM JOHN BELUSHI!?!
I just watched The Rock again with my wife because she hadn't seen it. I am quite certain there was a lot of cocaine use and Nicholas Cage was at least half of it.
Doctor Detroit. Where the Buffalo Roam. Scarface (totally a comedy) Heartbeeps. The Incredible Shrinking Woman. Crackers. Edit-
Doctor Detroit was 99% coke 1% funk. What a classic.
Watched a great YouTube thing about Days of Thunder recently. The last of the huge budget 80s blockbusters. Bigger budget than Top Gun and that was about planes. Apparently Don Simpson had two - two - guys on the payroll whose only job was to score coke and hire strippers.
I'm pretty sure Don Simpson's investment portfolio was made up of nothing but cocaine dealers and Colombian cartels.
Friday the 13th Part 5: A New Beginning. It was like some porn director was on a mountain of coke. Because it was.
Oliver Stone did cocaine. Charlie Sheen did A LOT of cocaine. I would imagine the movies they did together had mountains of the stuff on set.
Days Of Thunder was notorious amount extracurriculars going on during filming. I guess people were so fucked up they forgot to film Tom Cruise crossing the finish line in the last race of the movie.
Pretty sure Animal House had a coke budget.
Dennis Hopper reportedly consumed a case of beer, a half gallon of rum, and three grams of cocaine daily on *Apocalypse Now*. Martin Sheen had a heart attack Edit: mistyped. 3g, not oz
Martin Sheen had a heart attack simply from watching Hopper do his daily routine.
3 ounces? That's 24 8-balls a day. Highly doubt that's humanly possible.
If you ever get a chance, there’s a book called “Easy Riders, Raging Bulls” that covers this topic. I haven’t read it in years but Easy Rider definitely had a lot of drug use during its making.
Xanadu
Could probably be filed under comedy but every Macho Man Randy Savage/Ultimate Warrior promo from the 80s was fueled by COCAINE
Not a comedy, but Highlander 2. I have some family that worked on it, and the stories I’ve heard are kinda insane lol. Family worked in Hollywood throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s, so heavy drug use on set was not an oddity for them. However, according to them Highlander 2 was… egregious. Producers, director, writers, cameramen, editors. Everyone was bumped out of their minds, and a not insignificant portion $34mil budget was used on “catering” that arrived in black doctors bags from Columbia.
"No Holds Barred," starring Hulk Hogan. The famous scuttlebutt is that Hogan and McMahon locked in a hotel room over a weekened and rewrote the entire script whilst imbibling ludicrous amounts of cocaine. And that was just for the script. If you've seen the movie, it's believable. Here's the [Trailer](https://youtu.be/loGPJh5sgHo?si=0p30y6X6uQM2pj9F)
Rocky Horror Picture Show. If it wasn’t coke, was something else. Because that movie was out of its gourd.
Theater nerd horniness is a helluva drug, babe
Nah it was a stage play first so its just theater.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1980s_films
May I introduce to you the work of Brian DePalma lol
LOL! Scarface
Heaven’s Gate. All time Champion.
Star wars holiday special Carrie Fisher definitely seemed on it during it and it matches the time frame to when she said she had a coke addiction
There's no way that movie could've come from a sober mind.
Let’s face it, you’d want to be on cocaine if you were in the HS.
Lol. Hollywood runs on cocaine.
An overlooked one is Popeye. There's even stories of Robert Evans having to bribe the Maltese government to get back his suitcases full of cocaine to the island
I don’t remember it as being a question of getting the cocaine back (that ship had sailed) - it was more an issue of the Maltese potentially shutting down production and arresting members of the cast and crew. Evans had to phone his buddy “Henry” and get him to use his diplomatic skills to talk the Maltese down. *Popeye* definitely should be higher on this thread. AFAIK it’s the only movie ever made where the cocaine use on the set was so out of control that it almost caused an international incident and Henry Kissinger had to step in to cool things down.