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 throughout 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 Warfare epic.
“So, it was Aug. 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, Capt. Benjamin L. Willard, will get drunk and suffers a breakdown in a lodge room. It has since been revealed that the breakdown wasn’t a part of Coppola’s script and that Sheen, now 84, was truly 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.”
“So we were filming in a building that was used for night court,” he recalled. “We carried him out that evening, and evening court docket was occurring downstairs. So we got here down the steps.
“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 keeping with the “Mighty Ducks” actor.
“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 sufficient 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 automotive.
“It was hilarious,” Estevez stated. “We acquired him within the automotive. We began driving — God is aware of the place, simply someplace away from the place we may get him calmed down, and he introduced to everybody within the automotive that he needed to pee.
“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 Might 1977 within the Philippines. It was not launched till 1979 on account of a number of manufacturing challenges, a lot of which had been chronicled in “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse.”
Moreover Emilio, Martin and Janet Sheen even have youngsters 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 along with his “Breakfast Club” co-stars for the primary time in 40 years.
It additionally got here after Estevez blasted the director of “St. Elmo’s Fire,” Joel Schumacher, as a “nightmare” and “bully.”
