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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: This A-List Movie Star Was Asked by Hi Director If He Was on Drugs While Delivering an Oscar-Winning Performance · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: She might assume when an actor is delivering what will
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  Speaker 2: eventually become an Oscar winning performance on set, what the
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  Speaker 2: director says to them is mostly praise and encouragement. But
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  Speaker 2: when Michael Douglas was making Wall Street, It's director Oliver
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  Speaker 2: Stone went in a different direction.
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  Speaker 3: I'll say Oliver literally asked Michael, are you on drugs?
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  Speaker 4: And you got to give credit to Michael for not
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  Speaker 4: taking it so personally that he walked off the movie.
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  Speaker 2: Michael recalled the story at the TCMT Film Festival. After
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  Speaker 2: about a week or two of shooting the legendary nineteen
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  Speaker 2: eighty seven drama, he felt pretty happy with his.
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  Speaker 3: Work until Oliver knocked on his trailer door and point
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  Speaker 3: blank asked him if he was taking drugs.
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  Speaker 4: And when Michael was confused and asked why, Oliver was
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  Speaker 4: blunt and he said, you look like you've never acted
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  Speaker 4: in your life.
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  Speaker 2: I mean really, Michael Douglas. Instead of freaking out, Michael
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  Speaker 2: decided to watch some of the footage and he concluded,
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  Speaker 2: I actually think I look pretty.
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  Speaker 3: Good, And eventually Oliver came around and agreed.
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  Speaker 2: So interesting here, Michael, now so glad It happened though,
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  Speaker 2: to put a chip on his shoulder and his Wall
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  Speaker 2: Street character Gordon geko Is. It made him channel that
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  Speaker 2: and dig deeper, and he got an Oscar for his troubles.
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