D’Onofrio remembered three hundred extras waiting while Kubrick fiddled with a camera on top of a crane. One extra lost patience and muttered, ‘Get off the crane.’ An assistant said, ‘You’ll never get a chance like this; you’re working with Stanley Kubrick, so watch it. No talking.’ Another long wait. Still Kubrick didn’t come down. ‘Get off the fucking crane,’ another extra yelled. This time Stanley descended. ‘Who fucking talked?’ he asked. A voice comes from the back: ‘I am Spartacus!’ Then another: ‘I am Spartacus!’ Kubrick guffawed along with the horde of extras.
Kubrick: An Odyssey, Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams (UK) (US)
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