TERRY GILLIAM - GILLIAM: 'DEL TORO WAS FRIGHTENING AND FRUSTRATING'

GILLIAM: 'DEL TORO WAS FRIGHTENING AND FRUSTRATING'

Moviemaker TERRY GILLIAM will think twice before working with BENICIO DEL TORO again - because the intense actor was such a distracting force on the set of FEAR + LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS.
The British director feared Del Toro was "out of control" for much of the odd 1998 movie.
He tells Rolling Stone magazine, "He gets pretty deep into his character, and sometimes I thought he was out of control. What I found out is he's frightening.
"He required a lot of handling, and, after a while, his need to be so intense wore a lot of us out. I think he felt he wasn't getting as much attention from me as he wanted, but, as far as I was concerned, I was giving him more than anybody else got. It was frustrating. Always."
But Gilliam refuses to knock the end result: "You've got this incredible performance."