Addicted to Opium?
I read somewhere that some of the cast became addicted to Opium during filming. Has anyone else heard of that? Just curious.
shareWell, John Cazale naturally looked a little strung out, had played a drug addict quite convincingly in Dog Day Afternoon and was dying of cancer during the filming of Deer Hunter. He was definitely ill and I believe he was taking painkillers. All of that probably adds up to a rumor of somebody in the cast getting hooked on the poppy.
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"John Cazale naturally looked a little strung out, had played a drug addict quite convincingly in Dog Day Afternoon".
Cazale did not play a drug addict in DDA - in fact, his character actually lectures some of the hostages about polluting their bodies with cigarettes and other substances (prompting a humorous reply by one of the women: "So you rob banks, but keep your body clean, huh?")
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Thanks for the correction. Drugs weren't even mentioned in DDA, except tobacco.