Emilio Estevez on dad Martin Sheens drunk, naked…
Emilio Estevez has shared some behind-the-scenes tales from his well-known father’s time filming “Apocalypse Now” 49 years in the past.
The “Breakfast Club” star, 62, opened up about his dad Martin Sheen’s notorious “meltdown” on the set of the Francis Ford Coppola movie during Thursday’s episode of the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast.
“In the documentary ‘Hearts of Darkness,’ they collapsed time and portrayed his breakdown, sort of, toward the end of the schedule, when in fact it was early in the schedule when my dad was celebrating his birthday in August,” Estevez defined, referencing the 1991 documentary in regards to the Vietnam War epic.
Emilio Estevez has shared some behind-the-scenes tales from his dad Martin Sheen’s time filming “Apocalypse Now.” WireImage
Martin Sheen within the 1979 Vietnam War movie “Apocalypse Now.”
“So, it was August 3, and we had come,” he continued. “I had gotten there in July, so he has this meltdown on set because he was celebrating his birthday and he was drinking.”
In “Apocalypse Now,” Sheen’s character, Captain Benjamin L. Willard, will get drunk and suffers a breakdown in a lodge room. It has since been revealed that the breakdown wasn’t half of Coppola’s script and that Sheen, now 84, was really intoxicated on the time.
“Francis had him isolated in his room, and I was there. I watched it happen,” Estevez continued. “And I was there when they carted him out, and he was ranting and raging and screaming.”
Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez attend the premiere of “The Way” on October 5, 2011, in New York City. FilmMagic
“So we were filming in a building that was used for night court,” he recalled additional. “We carried him out that night, and night court was happening downstairs. So we came down the stairs.”
“I’d seen my dad drunk before,” Estevez admitted. “Not on this level and certainly not this publicly.”
The scenario solely escalated from there, in accordance with the “Mighty Ducks” actor.
Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez after the twelfth annual Critics’ Choice Awards in Santa Monica in 2007. AP
“He demanded to go into the courtroom because he says, ‘If I don’t go in there’ – and he’s screaming at my mom – ‘I need to go into that courtroom because if I don’t go in there, some poor son of a bitch is gonna go to jail for masturbating in front of a pig,’” Estevez remembered. “And Francis was like, ‘Martin, Martin, no. Come on, Martin.’”
If that wasn’t enough pleasure, the “St. Elmo’s Fire” star revealed that his father later “ran naked into the jungle” after Estevez and his mom, Janet, corralled the drunk Sheen into their car.
“It was hilarious,” Estevez stated. “We got him in the car. We started driving – God knows where, just somewhere away from where we could get him calmed down, and he announced to everyone in the car that he had to pee.”
Martin Sheen as Captain Ben Willard in “Apocalypse Now.”
“So we pull over the side of the road, and he got out and he ran naked into the jungle and kept going,” he continued. “My mom chases him down… We got him back in the car. Ten minutes later, ‘I have to pee again.’ My mom says, ‘Martin, you have cried wolf one too many times. We’re in the piss. You could piss all over yourself.’”
“Apocalypse Now” was filmed between March 1976 and May 1977 within the Philippines. It was not launched till 1979 as a result of a number of manufacturing challenges, many of which had been chronicled within the 1991 documentary “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse.”
Martin Sheen with two of his well-known kids, Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez. Ron Galella Collection through Getty Images
Besides Emilio Estevez, Martin and Janet Sheen additionally share kids Renée Estevez, 58, Charlie Sheen, 59, and Ramon Estevez, 61.
The Brat Pack member’s story about his father on the set of “Apocalypse Now” got here simply days after he reunited together with his “Breakfast Club” co-stars for the primary time in 40 years final weekend.
It additionally got here after Estevez blasted the director of “St. Elmo’s Fire,” Joel Schumacher, as a “nightmare” and “bully.”
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