Moviestore Collection Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo"There was no passive aggressiveness, which I hate, he was very direct in the fact that, ‘I don’t want you in this movie,’” he recalled, with a laugh. “So, when that’s your first job and you hear those words, it just wrecks you, man. It just wrecks you.”
," and recalled another behind-the-scenes experiences that made filming"miserable," including a"near-death experience" after a boating accident. "They thought he was too soft, he wasn’t muscular enough, so Freddie probably screen-tested four or five times," the director said."He got to the point where he was saying, ‘I’m done,' and I really had to plead with him to stick with it because I wanted him. I thought he was going to be great with it."