An excerpt from a Reddit Q&A with Michael Ironside:
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — David Cronenberg
JohnQuincyPublic — 11 years ago(January 21, 2015 02:38 PM)
An excerpt from a Reddit Q&A with Michael Ironside:
Do you have any interesting stories, anecdotes or memories you'd like to share from your time working on Scanners with David Cronenberg?
I have a lot of 'em.
One in particular: David uses the same crew people and the same creative people, he has a small or extended family, creative family. SO a lot of people had been in th16d0e trenches with David before when we did Scanners. I was the newbie.
And David is a very straight, very middle class, average looking person with glasses and an inappropriate haircut and inappropriate shirt. And he came on set one day and said: "I had a dream last night."
And I said "What was it about?"
And I noticed people started to walk away until i was the only one standing there. And he said "I had a dream last night, and my POV was of the ground, and it was a sandy kind of ground, and then vomit started to land on the sandy ground, and it was quite a lot of vomit, and then this wind started to come up and cover the vomit in sand and dust, and the vomit kept coming, and coming"
He says "And then I felt safe, and satisfied, and relaxed again. And then another wind came, and when the sand had blown away, the vomit had formed into a shape of my naked body, laying on the ground."
He said "I found that very interesting."
I nodded and said "Yeah, that's really, really interesting."
Thankfully we were called to set and had to go shoot a scene. 3 days later, David was standing on set, and he said "I had a dream last night" and one of my costars said "Really, what did you dream?"
And I walked away with everybody else, and left that person standing there to hear.
And that's a true fvcking story.
I got news for em. Theres gonna be hell to pay. Cause I aint Daddys little boy no more
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The_Ubermensch — 11 years ago(March 07, 2015 07:25 PM)
That actually makes Michael Ironside sound like a giant111c asshle. I mean, what has he done? And he's talking about "inappropriate haircut and inappropriate shirt" as if there's some kind of dress code for directors.
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Howlin Wolf — 10 years ago(December 16, 2015 01:54 PM)
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I don't think that makes him sound like an beep at all; he decided he'd had his fill, but left somebody else to hear it The behaviour of an beep would be to interrupt Cronenberg whilst he was talking, but he did not do that As for the 'inappropriate dress' comment, I think it's just his way of getting across the perception that Cronenberg is a little out of step with most other people I don't think he actually views it as a transgression.
"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?!"
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