“I put it in my palm and I said ‘Look, I’m going to cut my hand open and I’m going to have to go to the hospital, or you can let me go to the hospital to be with my wife.’” Kubrick let him go, but ordered him to “come back immediately after it’s done.” “I had a pocket knife with me,” Modine recalled in a 2013 interview. Then there was Kubrick, who could be obsessive to the point of cruel.ĭuring the filming, 26-year-old Modine had to convince the director to let him attend his son’s birth.
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Hartman (Ermey, a former drill instructor, personally wrote 150 pages of insults to prep for the role.) Lee Ermery, who played sadistic Gunner Sgt. He and fellow cast members had to shave their heads once a week and each day endure up to 10 hours of vitriol from actor R. To inhabit the role of young war correspondent Private Joker, Modine took hundreds of photographs on set and kept a meticulous journal throughout the grueling two-year shoot. Modine, currently a Venice resident, revisits that time through “Full Metal Diaries,” his LA Art Show exhibit featuring photographs and writings he created while shooting the film. On the set of Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 Vietnam War film “Full Metal Jacket,” actor Matthew Modine felt so lost at one point that he fell to his knees and prayed - “asked all the souls of soldiers who’d fought in wars for some guidance,” he tells The Argonaut. Matthew Modine gets fired up between scenes during shooting for Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket”