HUGH DANCY - DANCY DESTROYED PASTOR'S ANTIQUE DURING FILMING

DANCY DESTROYED PASTOR'S ANTIQUE DURING FILMING

British actor HUGH DANCY lost his cool during a scene in his new movie ADAM - and trashed a pastor's home.
Writer/director Max Mayer used a friend's New York house as a location to keep costs down, but feared the the budget would spiral when his star put his foot through an antique cabinet in the middle of a violent scene.
Dancy, who plays a man with autism spectrum disorder Asperger's Syndrome in the film, says, "We had no budget in this movie and we were filming inside somebody's apartment, so there were props and I screamed and I threw them around.
"I was kind of roused and I put my foot through a piece of furniture - I slammed my foot through the front of a cabinet. I felt even though everybody was quiet because we were filming, an even greater hush descended on the room and it dawned on me that the furniture belonged to the person whose house we were using."
Mayer adds, "It was actually the pastor's apartment in the church on the Upper West Side (in Manhattan). That was awful because from my standpoint with our limited budget we were using somebody's house and I had pointed out to Hugh things that he could destroy and the things he couldn't, which included this antique cabinet, and he put his foot through it on the first take.
"I'm thinking, 'How much is that gonna cost? Can I cut a scene out tomorrow to make up for it?'
"The family was fantastic and we mended the cabinet, so, as far as I know, they weren't unhappy with us. They got some new colours on their walls."