'It was complicated,' Harrison says of clashing with Brad on a film set
once shared the screen — and that they clashed on set. Back in 1997, however, Harrison, now 80, and Brad, now 59, costarred in director Alan J. Pakula's thriller. At the time, the fellow marquee idols from two different generations, both huge blockbusters in their own right, didn't see eye-to-eye and squabbled over so-called creative difference. Now, 26 years later, in"Brad developed the script.
Things came to a head with a subplot regarding Harrison's character. "Brad had this complicated character, and I wanted a complication on my side so that it wasn't just a good-and-evil battle," he says now."All the sudden we're shooting and we didn't have a script that Brad and I agreed on," the"Each of us had different ideas about it.
He later downplayed those comments. "Early in production … the script was a mess," he said. "We were right up to beginning filming, and we still didn't have a finished script. We worked it out. I like the finished film. I hope my comments won't do anything to harm it. We all worked so hard on it.
Even back then, he said, "I respect Harrison a lot. He's the man. He's Indiana Jones, a movie hero of mine. Harrison seems to care for common sense. I look up to him because of his integrity.''In 'The Devil's Own," Harrison plays an Irish-American cop in pursuit of Brad, an IRA soldier in search of black market missiles. , “[Harrison] is absolutely cool...Look, it was tough. It was the hardest film I’ve ever been on.
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