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Bronson Pinchot: ‘Tom Cruise was homophobic, Denzel Washington was cruel, Bette Miller was a ‘B’
Who knew Balki Bartokomous could be so straight edged.
Actor Bronson Pinchot, who played the zany immigrant in TV’s “Perfect Strangers,” opens up about some of the biggest names in Hollywood during an interview posted on The Onion’s A.V. Club.
Pinchot made his film debut in “Risky Business” and actually has a very impressive acting resume. He liked many of the folks he has worked with, but not everyone.
Hooray!
Here are some low-lights from the lengthy piece.
On Tom Cruise in “Risky Business”
We thought Tom [Cruise] was the biggest bore on the face of the Earth….. He was tense and made constant, constant unrelated homophobic comments, like, “You want some ice cream, in case there are no gay people there?” I mean, his lingo was larded with the most… There was no basis for it. It was like, “It’s a nice day, I’m glad there are no gay people standing here.” Very, very strange. Years and years later when people started to torment him with that, I used to think “God, that’s really fitting, because he tormented a lot of people as a 20-year-old.” He made such a big deal about it. Same thing with Eddie Murphy—I remember somebody calling and saying, “You’ll never guess who was just caught with a transvestite!”
On Eddie Murphy in “Beverly Hills Cop 3”
Eddie was going through his period at the time of doing movies that were not hits, and he was very low-spirited, low-energy. I said to him, “All anyone ever wants to know when they meet me is what you’re like.” And he said, “I bet they don’t ask that anymore … When did Dr. Dolittle come out? I think his funk really did last until then. I don’t know what started the funk, but it lasted a chunk of time, and that was in the belly of the funk, and he was just really sad and low-energy and I basically did the scene without him there.On Bette Miller being a “b” to director Hugh Wilson of “The First Wives Club”
Yes, because Bette Midler was such a b—— to him. While he was directing, she would be rolling her eyes, pantomiming with her favorite actors, and she made it very difficult. And he was at his wit’s end. He was actually a very nice man, but she was very unkind to him on that movie. Am I not supposed to say these things?On Denzel Washington’s ambition
I think Denzel Washington has it—he’s one of the most unpleasant human beings I’ve ever met in my life, but he’s this mega-superstar.
On Denzel in “Courage Under Fire”
That was a low point, because Denzel Washington was behind the incredibly cowardly bull**** of “This is my character, not me.” He was really abusive to me and everybody on that movie, and his official explanation was that his character didn’t like me, but it was a dreadful experience. I spent my salary on time with my shrink just for helping me get through it, and what that led to was the very next big movie that I did.
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