Emilio Estévez has shared some stories behind the time scene of his famous father filming “Apocalypse Now” 49 years ago.
The “Breakfast Club” star, 62, opened on the infamous “collapse” of his father Martin Sheen on the set of Francis Ford Coppola’s movie Duration The Thorsday episode “Happy sad confused“Podcast.
“In the documentary ‘Hearts of Darkness’, they collapsed the time and portrayed their breakdown, more or less, towards the end of the schedule, when in fact it was early during the time when my father was celebrating his birthday in August Vietnamed explained explained explained explained explained explained
“Then, it was August 3, and we had come,” he continued. “He had Goths there in July, so he has this collapse on the set because he was celebrating his birthday and was drinking.”
In “Apocalypse Now”, Sheen’s character, Captain Benjamin L. Willard, gets drunk and suffers a collapse in a hotel room. Since then, Leg revealed that the breakdown was not part of the script of Copola and that Sheen, now 84, was really innovated at that time.
“Francis made him isolated in his room, and I was there. I saw what happened,” Estévez continued. “And I was there, they took it out, and he was ramping, furious and shouting.”
“So we were filming in a building that was used for the night court,” he recalled more. “We run that night, and the night court was passing down. So we got the stairs.”
“I will see my drunk dad before,” Estévez admitted. “Not at this level and certainly not publicly.”
The situation only intensified from there, according to the “Mighty Ducks” actor.
“He demanded to enter the courtroom, says” if I don’t go there, “and he’s shouting at my mother,” I need to go to that court. Estévez recalled. “And Francis said” Martin, Martin, no. Come on, Martin. “
If that was not enough emotion, the star of St. Elmo’s fire “revealed that his father later” ran naked in the jungle “after Estévez and his mother, Janet, cornered the drunk brightness in his car.
“It was very funny,” said Estévez. “We put it in the car. We started driving, God knows where, somewhere where we could calm him, and announced everyone in the car that had to urinate.”
“So we stopped the side of the road, came out and ran naked in the jungle and moved on,” he continued. “My mother chases him … we take him back in the car. At least” I have to urinate again. “My mom says:” Martin, you have one one too many times in the urine. “
“Apocalypse Now” was filmed between March 1976 and May 1977 in the Philippines. It was not launched until 1979 due to several production challenges, many of which were chronic in the 1991 documentary “Hearts of Darkness: A Cinemaker’s Apocalypse”.
In addition to Emilio Estévez, Martin and Janet Sheen also share children Renée Estévez, 58, Charlie Sheen, 59, and Ramon Estévez, 61.
The story of the Brat package member about his father on the set of “Apocalypse Now” arrived only a few days later He met with his co -star of the “Breakfast Club” For the first time in 40 years last weekend.
It also came after Estévez He explained to the director of “St. Elmo’s Fire”, Joel Schumacher, As a “nightmare” and “thug.”
