{"id":158980,"date":"2025-03-30T12:29:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T12:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/laurence-fishburne-reevals-which-actor-saved-his-career-after-a-disappointing-scene-with-francis-ford-coppola\/"},"modified":"2025-03-30T12:29:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T12:29:40","slug":"laurence-fishburne-reevals-which-actor-saved-his-career-after-a-disappointing-scene-with-francis-ford-coppola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/laurence-fishburne-reevals-which-actor-saved-his-career-after-a-disappointing-scene-with-francis-ford-coppola\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurence Fishburne Reevals Which Actor \u2018Saved\u2019 His Career After a \u2018Disappointing\u2019 Scene With Francis Ford Coppola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/laurence-fishburne\/\" title=\"Laurence Fishburne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Laurence Fishburne<\/strong><\/a> is recalling a particular moment while filming 1979\u2032s <em>Apocalypse Now<\/em>, directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/francis-ford-coppola\/\" title=\"Francis Ford Coppola\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Francis Ford Coppola<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/apple-tv-plus\/\" title=\"Apple Tv Plus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Apple TV+<\/strong><\/a> documentary <em>Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Men in Hollywood<\/em>, the 63-year-old actor revealed his lack of \u201csexual experience\u201d as a teen impacted a scene in the movie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a scene in<em> Apocalypse Now <\/em>that got cut from the original film, and then it\u2019s been put back in the redux,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2100596\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was 14, 15, whatever, trying to do this scene talking about sex and I had no sexual experience. Like, none,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say <strong>Francis<\/strong> \u201ccouldn\u2019t figure out how to get me to be any more experienced than I am, but he kept asking me to do it over and over again. I did something like 40 takes. It was really bad. And I could tell that he was disappointed. So I was feeling really, really down, really dejected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was when co-star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/martin-sheen\/\" title=\"Martin Sheen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Martin Sheen<\/strong><\/a> stepped in for some encouragement, which <strong>Laurence<\/strong> claimed \u201csaved my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard <strong>Martin <\/strong>whisper in my ear, he said, \u2018Did anyone ever tell you you were a really good actor?\u2019 And I said, \u2018No.\u2019 He said, \u2018You\u2019re a really good actor.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what being No. 1 on a call sheet is about for me,\u201d he went on to say.<\/p>\n<p><em>Apocalypse Now<\/em> won two Oscars, and followed a U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam who is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who has reportedly gone completely mad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laurence <\/strong>went on to work with Francis many times since, including <em>Rumble Fish<\/em>, <em>The Cotton Club<\/em>, <em>Gardens of Stone<\/em>, and most recently, <em>Megalopolis<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Number One on the Call Sheet \u2014 Official Trailer | Apple TV+\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XAyTlC9rHCE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/03\/30\/laurence-fishburne-reevals-which-actor-saved-his-career-after-a-disappointing-scene-with-francis-ford-coppola\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laurence Fishburne is recalling a particular moment while filming 1979\u2032s Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. In the new Apple TV+ documentary Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Men in Hollywood, the 63-year-old actor revealed his lack of \u201csexual experience\u201d as a teen impacted a scene in the movie. \u201cThere\u2019s a scene [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-158980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}