Were Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick really drunk in The Days of Wine and Roses?

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Had to be. Otherwise - best performance of 'being drunk' ever.

Seriously - anyone know?

Any other movies where it came out later that actors were drunk / high on film?

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

dakota fanning in every movie ever

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

I know Richard E Grant wasnt really drunk in Withnail and I (hes not a drinker) but to get him in the drunk mindset the director made him get mega-smashed on a night out, so he'd have a memory of drunkenness.

Also, the scene where he drank lighter fluid they put vinegar in the bottle without telling him, so his shocked gasp and "you got any more??" reaction was real :D

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

"Once A Thief". Fairly crappy 1965 thriller with Alain Delon, Ann-Margret, Van Heflin. However the performance by John Davis Chandler as a Andy Warhol lookalike junkie with paedophile tendencies is so convincing he must have been on smack - nodding out, lips stuck together with drool and saliva... it's amazing!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

Top 5 Drunks on Film:

1. Ray Winstone (Nil By Mouth: in the kitchen at his mother-in-law's)

2. James Mason (A Star is Born: opening scene and at the Oscars)

3. Michael Caine (Educating Rita: pretty much all the way through)

4. Johnathon Price (The Rachel Papers: at the dinner party)

5. Richard E Grant (Withnail and I: in the cake shop)

Winstone is staggeringly accurate in his drunken-ness.

Worst Ever: Tom Cruise (A Few Good Men. Laughable.)

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

you forget peter o'toole and peter sellers in what's new pussycat ! "lefevre!"

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

... they both overact horribly tho

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

well, i didn't say it was best... or worst ever. but i really like this scene !

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

seven years pass...

Rock Hudson is driunk in Seconds

Andy Griffith is drunk in A Face in the Crowd

― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 August 2013 20:12 (twelve years ago)

are you drunk?

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 22 August 2013 20:24 (twelve years ago)

Best drunk scene ever:

http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/4eef900beab8ea307800001b-1200/in-one-scene-a-drunk-uncle-billy-yells-im-all-right-im-alllll-right-after-supposedly-clambering-into-some-garbage-cans-off-screen-but-actually-a-crew-member-had-dropped-a-giant-piece-of-equipment-and-the-actors-just-went-with-it.jpg

― Domo Arigato, Demi Lovato (Phil D.), Thursday, 22 August 2013 20:27 (twelve years ago)

five years pass...

Lemmon and Remick are both fine in this, though the TV play was also exceptional. One main problem is Remick still looks great when she's 'bottomed out.'

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 11:43 (six years ago)

Edwards also needed to omit the Mancini music in a few scenes.

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 11:44 (six years ago)

and Edwards said he and Lemmon were heavy drinkers at this time; both of them, and Remick too, apparently became sober afterward.

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 15:23 (six years ago)

four months pass...

NYC Remick mini-retro Xmas week

https://quadcinema.com/program/a-face-in-the-crowd-remembering-lee-remick/

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 December 2019 21:28 (six years ago)

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