There's a pretty amusing chat with Bronson Pinchot of all people (Balki!) at The Onion's AV Club today and the man does not hold back. I found this part regarding working with Tom Cruise on Risky Business back in the day interesting:
"We didn’t know it was going to be a big hit. We thought Tom was the biggest bore on the face of the Earth. He had spent some formative time with Sean Penn—we were all very young at the time, Tom was 20, I was 23. Tom had picked up this knack of calling everyone by their character names, because that would probably make your performance better, and I don’t agree with that. I think that acting is acting, and the rest of the time, you should be you, but he called us all by our character names. He was tense and made constant, constant unrelated homophobic comments, like, “You want some ice cream, in case there are no gay people there?” I mean, his lingo was larded with the most… There was no basis for it. It was like, “It’s a nice day, I’m glad there are no gay people standing here.” Very, very strange."
I like the reference to "formative time with Sean Penn" there that's left unexplained, as if we all fundamentally understand that Sean Penn has been the main professor at Asshole School for decades now. Which I buy. (Asshole.) From there Pinchot goes on to call Denzel Washington "one of the most unpleasant human beings I’ve ever met in my life" (which I also buy, for the record), and describe what a "bitch" Bette Midler was to the director on the set of The First Wives Club. Yeah... I buy that one too. Good times!
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