10 Things We Learned From Oliver Stone On Joe Rogan Experience

In order to build a script which revealed the true state of Miami during the 80s for the now-legendary crime drama Scarface (1983) Stone needed to know both sides of the story.

So, as well as talking to various lawyers about certain drug dealers, the director chose to meet up with some of the actual guys involved and spent a night talking with them in Bimini. This island was 'another kind of world' and Stone recalled sitting there with these dangerously powerful people doing coke with his wife, who was his 'cover'.

The guys liked talking to the Hollywood screenwriter who wrote Midnight Express, yet things quickly became quite tense when Stone revealed the name of the defence lawyer who put him in touch with them. This person had actually been a prosecutor in the past, so two of the three men sat opposite Stone quickly became restless when his name was mentioned.

Stone instantly regretted his decision to drop this name - who had put one of the two men away at some stage - as the pair excused themselves to go to the bathroom, fearing they may return with weapons to take out a man who could be spying on them.

They didn't, but they did cut the meeting short. However, the director was paranoid all night as he was staying in the hotel they owned, so he knew they could come and get him whenever they felt like it.

He luckily got out of there as soon as he could in the morning, but the whole incident taught him that you can literally say one wrong word and find yourself dead when mixing with these men. Which is something he wanted to infuse into his Scarface script.