Heston + Harris
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Cartwheeling — 16 years ago(April 18, 2009 04:28 PM)
Where did you hear this? Sounds like Heston was being professional while Harris was being a jerk.
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DarthBill — 16 years ago(April 19, 2009 05:35 PM)
There are quotes on the IMDB pages of both Heston & Harris that reveal their opinions of each other, which is what sparked my initial post to see what other information there was on the subject.
Richard Harris describing Charlton Heston - "Heston's the only man who could drop out of a cubic moon, he's so square. The trouble with him is he doesn't think he's a hired actor, like the rest of us. He thinks he's the entire production. He used to sit there in the mornings and clock us with a stopwatch."
Charlton Heston describing Richard Harris - "Richard is very much the professional Irishman. I found him a somewhat erratic personality and an occasional pain in the posterior. But we certainly never feuded." -
Cartwheeling — 16 years ago(April 20, 2009 03:14 AM)
Well, the movie got made and kept its director a lot thanks to Chuck who gave up his salary and convinced the studio-heads to keep Peckinpah as the director. The production suffered a lot with the budget and time, so it's only natural that the professional that Heston was, did what he did. If Richard was more of a professional I don't think he'd say those things about Heston.
Thanks for the quotes.
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OswaldshotKennedy — 16 years ago(May 16, 2009 06:34 AM)
It wasn't just Irish actors, like Harris and O'Toole, who liked to booze in those days. Welshman Richard Burton and Englishman Oliver Reed were notorious for it also.
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Hancock_the_Superb — 16 years ago(October 08, 2009 01:15 PM)
Senta Berger was telling a few stories about Heston and Harris's relationship on the DVD documentary, including something about their trying to get bigger boots so one could be taller than the other (correct me if I'm mis-remembering the quote).
Interesting quotes posted elsewhere in this thread. I think Heston, in his later autobiography, was more complimentary towards Harris than the quote mentioned further up the thread, though I don't recall his exact words. Harris was a notoriously "difficult" actor to work with so it wouldn't surprise me, though most of the other Dundee actors couldn't say enough good things about Heston. See R.G. Armstrong and L.Q. Jones' comments on the docu in particular - some members of the supporting cast were going to walk off the film if Peckinpah was fired, but that probably wasn't going to affect the studio's decision - Slim Pickens and Dub Taylor could be replaced if need be. Then Heston got wind of this and offered to relinquish
his
salary, and it was a whole new ball game.
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rcocean3 — 15 years ago(April 25, 2010 10:10 AM)
Welles called Heston "Hollywood's only boy scout". Heston showed up on time with lines memorized and was upset that Harris would turn up late, and sometimes not turn up at all.
In his book "An Actor's Life" - he states Harris was ill and new to horses and Westerns which accounted for some of the strain. Heston also states he was a little impatient and less understanding than he should have been. -
garp-26 — 13 years ago(January 28, 2013 08:37 AM)
Heston's main problem seemed to be with Peckinpah himself. He accused the volatile director of drinking heavily during the shoot, leaving Heston having to direct several scenes in Peckinpah's absence. He also threatened to assault Peckinpah with a prop sabre if he continued to be abusive towards the cast and crew.
Heston had admitted he once described Harris as a "something of a beep up" but tempered it with conceding he himself was acting like a "hard nosed son of a b***h".
The examples above I gleaned from various biographies on all three personalities.
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