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“Okay, so we were finishing the second week of filming, and there was a knock on my door. ‘Hey Mike, it’s Oliver. Can I come in?’” Douglas, 81, recalled at the TCM Classic Film Festival in New York City last week, according to“I say, ‘Yeah, come on in,'” Douglas continued.
“He comes in the trailer and sits down. He says to me, ‘You okay?’ I said, ‘Yeah, I’m okay.’ , ‘Are you doing drugs?’ I said, ‘No, I’m not doing drugs.’ And he said, ‘Because you look like you’ve never acted before in your life.'”Beloved rockstar's heartbreaking final social media post before his death as fans flood page with tributes“So I said, ‘Well, I don’t like to look at the dailies because I’m one of those guys that always sees what’s wrong or what’s not going to be in the film’… so I don’t pay attention to the dailies,” Douglas recalled telling Stone, 79. “So I said, ‘I guess I’d better take a look,’ and he said, ‘Yeah, you better.'” Douglas said he went into the editing room and analyzed two scenes, one of which was his limo scene with Charlie Sheen. “And I’m looking at them really hard, and critically, and they seemed pretty good,” he remembered. “So I keep saying, ‘I think it’s pretty good,’ and , ‘Yeah, it is, isn’t it.'”Stone’s advice, Douglas said, helped the actor tap into Gekko’s “nastiness,” “vengeance” and “meanness” for the performance. “He was willing for me to hate his guts for the rest of this movie to get that extra little push,” Douglas explained. The “Fatal Attraction” star also noted that Stone has helped “push” other actors to give “their best performance,” such as James Woods in “Salvador,” “His record of successes with actors is quite impressive,” Douglas said of the filmmaker. “So I’m deeply, deeply appreciative of the fact that it gave me part and the fact that he pushed me to another level.”Oliver Stone and Michael Douglas at the photocall for “Wall Street 2” during the 63rd Cannes International Film Festival.Douglas’ role in “Wall Street” won him the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1988. The success of the film led Douglas and Stone to reunite for a sequel, “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” which was released in 2010. Team USA ski star Lindsey Vonn airlifted after crashing in women's downhill at Milan Cortina OlympicsAuthorities conduct late-night search of Annie Guthrie’s home as hunt for Nancy Guthrie enters day seven Insiders rooting for Kim Kardashian’s romance with Lewis Hamilton after years of drama: ‘Let her be happy’
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