To be fair, Bogart was not a well man at the time. The script wasn't finished at the time and so Billy Wilder supposedly enlisted Audrey's help by pretending to be sick or intentionally messing up the takes to buy time to complete the script.
Also, he felt alienated from an otherwise close-knit cast and he was gypped out of working with the one person who could've helped make the experience more pleasant (he wanted Lauren Bacall as Sabrina). This could've have been pleasant for a man who was already having his share of problems before production began.
If I was Bogart, I would probably have been very irritated as well. To his credit though, he did admit he was wrong about his behaviour and apologized for it. Too bad people, including William Holden, just can't seem to let it go.
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