Eldergays did you know Christopher Reeve trashed Marlon Brando?

That took balls.

Brando went insane in '57. He didn't care anymore.

Just watched and interview recently, can't remember with who, where another actor who had worked with Marlon talked about how he had no love for acting and thought it was a silly profession. I think he actually loved acting but felt stupid about it because he didn't think of it as being serious or noble.

It probably didn’t get any traction because there was no social media around back then to make his comments trend. But damn, that was pretty fucking honest and straightforward.

At least Brando could actually act.

[quote] At least Brando could actually act.

When?

In which movie?

All of them

He’s absolutely right.

Christopher Reeve couldn't act his way out of a paper bag.

R6- In this

By this stage of the game, Marlon Brando was reading from cue cards, etc. and "phoning his performance in" as Christopher said. He didn't care anymore and was just coasting along on his past glorious acting reputation.

He was going insane for a L O N G time.

Even John Frankenheimer couldn't contain Brando's bad behaviour

I caught part of a Dick Cavett Show and Joanne Woodward was rather dismissive of Brando.

Brando only cared about the money after a certain point. He did movies for the $$$.

Not just cue cards, but ear pieces with someone off-camera reading him his lines.

Article somewhere describing the fiasco that was Dr. Moreau - Kilmer was also a nightmare on that one.

But Brando publicly humiliated the director, I think, every chance he could, at one point doing the scenes in his boxers so they’d be forced to tighten the frame - or something like that.

A petulant, resentful brat, almost chastising an audience for daring to like his performance.

I often got the same vibe from Jerry Lewis.

Can you imagine the nightmare that it was having him, Johnny Depp and Faye Dunaway in the same movie?

[quote] A petulant, resentful brat, almost chastising an audience

Sir Carol Reed the original director of Mutiny on the Bounty used the same words to describe Brando's behaviour back in 1960.

Brando said he wanted to play the English hero as an effeminate prissy fop. The English director (seen in the second picture) disagreed with this idea and so was sacked.

Damnnn, Chris. Well, what can you say. Whether you agree or not, that was an honest answer.

Two beautiful men who wound up pathetic ruins.

Brando notoriously drove director Lewis Milestone and MGM insane with his diva behavior during Mutiny. Maybe Brando being indifferent worked better for everyone involved in one of his films.

Trevor Howard on working with Brando on "Mutiny": "The man is unprofessional and absolutely ridiculous." Not only did Brando improvise his lines in scenes with Howard, making it impossible for his co-star to pick up his cues, but he even started putting cotton in his ears so he couldn't hear Howard's lines. Brando later wrote a long letter to Howard apologizing for his behavior during filming, and Howard was largely responsible for helping the American star win a libel action against a British newspaper concerning the film. Howard also agreed to appear with Brando again in "Morituri "(1965)

Lewis Milestone (born Leib Milstein) was 65 year old hasbeen who Brando knew he could control.

BTW; the first picture at R17 shows Brando looking cute admiring some shirtless person.

The second picture shows Brando telling the distinguished director Sir Carol Reed what to do before he sacked him.

The third picture shows the mutiny, and the fourth picture shows Brando looking like an effeminate prissy fop.

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Interesting story, R21. They also worked together again on "Superman."

The story that deserves to be made into a film is the one of Brando, Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson making a cross country trip together by car as they escaped NY for LA following 9/11. Now imagine being a store employee in the middle of the country and seeing those three stop by for provisions. Together.

"Marlon and Elizabeth ate all MY provisions again!"

R25 it was

r25 I think your idea is better for the stage than for film.

I wonder if Brando's real personality was really more of an effeminate prissy fop, is there a great leap from that to petulant and spoiled? He just needed the masculine front to stay employable and please his own self image?

[quote] effeminate prissy fop

I could see moments of that in that Napoleon movie and in that ludicrous scene with Max on the bike.

But he was deranged throughout the 60s and couldn't appear in regular movies.

Brando was always a brat. Using everyone around him as sex toys in his youth to a totally self-absorbed ass that only got worse and more careless with age. Great to see Christpoher Reeve speak so honestly. You rarely see that in anyone, let alone so publicly. I have new respect for him.

Chris Reeve was only saying the quiet parts out loud. Everyone in the industry knew this about Brando. He’d been doing it for two decades leading up to Superman. He was reading his lines off props for The Godfather and they gave him another Oscar for it.

R10 in The Godfather Brando had fewer lines than Arnold as The Terminator, fewer scenes than Diane Keaton and was mostly sitting throughout. A triumph of hair, make-up and publicity he demonstrated what a wad of tissue in the mouth could do for a performer. Any number of actors could have done it as well. In a nearly 3-hour movie it was a supporting role and perhaps the shortest screen time in the Best Actor category except for Anthny Hopkins.

Did Christopher Reeve have any scenes with Brando? I don't think so. Brando played Jor-El who sends his infant son to earth right before the destruction of planet Krypton

r29 is that Ben Affleck on the back of that bike?

r32 in the upcoming limited series on the making of the Godfather called The Offer there is a scene where the producer Al Ruddy and Coppola are trying to convince the big money guys to let them hire Brando to play Don Corleone. Apparently Brando invited them all to his home and he transformed into the Don with a bit of make up right before their eyes. Brando is played by the guys from Grey Anatomy, Justin Chambers. I've asked people who were on set that day how Chambers did as Brando, according to them he did an amazing job.

By 1970 or so Brando was more interested in more important things than acting.

And what did Reeve really accomplish after that tacky interview?

R36 more important things than acting like extracting the most amount of capital for the least amount of work i.e. Superman and Apocalypse Now.

In hindsight Brando should’ve died after The Godfather. Would’ve been better for his legacy.

Well he’s totally right...on the one hand commend him for his honesty, but on the other hand I tend to think that any celebrity who has the chutzpah to say that on a national talk show probably has a huge ego and is a pompous asshole in real life. Unless you “let it all out” well past your peak of fame when you have nothing to lose.