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