7. David O. Russell Has A Screaming Match With Lily Tomlin On I Heart Huckabees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SG43wa7Alo The director of The Fighter and Silver Linings Playbook is no stranger when it comes to on-set impropriety with his cast and crew. During the filming of Three Kings, for example, David O.Russell was known to frequently grope cast members, strip down to his underwear, dance around and roll on the floor (among many other alleged activities). As if that wasn't bad enough, the wild filmmaker even got into a fistfight with George Clooney after berating and kicking a young crew member on the ground. That may be the most violent outburst Russell's ever had, but it's certainly not the most damaging. On the set of his existential comedy I Heart Huckabees, Russell got into an argument that turned into a fully-fledged tirade with actor Lily Tomlin, who was getting sick of her director's constant changes. After a couple of hostile snipes at each other Russell started screaming at his cast member, bursting through the set doors and screaming that he was "trying to f***ing help" her. Well, everyone has their different methods. The outburst didn't do much to Tomlin's career but once the recorded video and audio got out into the world Russell's reputation was irreversibly altered, and it would be six years until he got another film - The Fighter - into theatres, hopefully with a somewhat more peaceful approach to his work.