Tim Blake Nelson Gives An "Eyes Wide Shut" Blind Item

[lovelylaura23]

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Tim Blake Nelson spilled some late 90s tea

I won’t say the actor’s name, because I don’t wanna embarrass him or her, but it’s such a funny story. I had a friend who went to do Eyes Wide Shut, and he/she was playing a nice role and did a couple of days. And Stanley Kubrick came and knocked on his/her door and took him/her down the hall and put

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[squirrels_oh_no]

I know Harvey Keitel has spoken about being fired from Eyes Wide Shut, but I think it was because he was being an ass / over Kubrick.

Jennifer Jason Leigh filmed scenes but couldn't make reshoots because of eXistenZ or something, but I don't think she was fired.

[genbu_no_miko24]

Lol I just wrote the same thing down below!

Stanley must've really not liked that person or something because I remember Sterling Hayden talking about how he really struggled in one scene for Dr.Strangelove and at one point he's doing 39 takes and he's only was getting worse. But Stanley gave him some encouraging words and was like if you don't get it now we'll come back in a few months and do it again. He later took a short break, came back and did the scene well.

So this is interesting lol.

ETA: I also remember reading an oral history of the movie and the actress who played Mandy talked about being physically unable to do a scene cause it was too close to real life in a way and she was fine cause she was in the final cut.

So damn I'm real curious about who this actor was!!

[genbu_no_miko24]

Harvey Keitel and Jennifer Jason Leigh?

Cause I know Harvey originally had the Sydney Pollack role of Victor Ziegler but they didn't get along and Harvey claims he quit because he felt Stanley disrespected him. Gary Oldman put his 2 cents in during an interview and said it was that Harvey left because Stanley kept making do a dozen takes which Stanley was famously known for doing.

Jennifer was more due to scheduling conflicts so Marie Richardson got the Marion Nathanson role instead.

Other than that I haven't really heard of people who had a role in that film but lost or left it.

That's my favorite Kubrick, so I love to find out tea or any tidbits about that movie.

[carolinalily]

I still think it’s Jennifer Jason Leigh. She and Tim Blake Nelson were on a New Yorker Festival panel with Salma Hayek and Matt Dillon in 2002 and I bet JJL and TBN bonded and she told him the story. No shade to her bc Stanley was a very particular director so if he said it was him I’d accept that or at least he was polite about it.

[donaestrangera]

he slips up at one point in the clip and says "her" then quickly corrects to "his/her" so probably jennifer jason leigh

the scheduling conflicts could have been a saving face excuse

[genbu_no_miko24]

It took me a few watches to get it but he did slip at 1:17! Good looking out because I totally missed it!

So it probably was Jennifer!

[loonyluna26]

What part of that was funny lol I'd feel so bad

[theladyflash]

I love Michael's podcast. He gets good stuff out of people lol

[sarahvma]

My very petty gripe is that it's too obvious that he's modelled his vocal/interview style on Howard Stern and it takes me out of it sometimes.

[theladyflash]

Oh really? I think Howard's trash so I don't ever listen to him.

[sarahvma]

Howard’s been on a genuinely interesting mental health odyssey for the last decade and a bit and has changed a lot… but I still don’t listen because I prefer podcasts anyway.

[senshi_forever]

I'm too lazy to Google but this guy was in O Brother Where art thou right????

[jumelles_mach6]

Yes!

[senshi_forever]

Ty!

[mary_pickforded]