BEING A TEAM MEMBER –
July 25, 2023 – “The 51-year-old soon learned that the driver who picked him up was not taking him to his hotel but directly to set to begin shooting. Lee said he didn’t even know what he was shooting, and his “face just split open” and he “became drenched with sweat.”
“I remember going [to set] being so high and drunk, and when I was reading the paper, the script, I couldn’t even understand what the f— it was even saying,” he recalled. “And it was the most difficult scene too. I had to cross a street with [Sarah Jessica Parker] in the middle of New York.”
The actors had to keep waiting for green traffic lights to shoot the scene, then crossing back after to reset, further complicating the dialogue that he had to initiate for the scene.
“I couldn’t say the first line,” he said. “It was a nightmare. I remember saying to myself … I remember going, ‘This is never going to happen again.’ I had to get sober. This is insane.”
