How did this get made: The Island of Dr. Moreau

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When emerging indie director Richard Stanley heard he might be thrown off the project during pre-production, he employed the help of a British warlock called Skip to help him convince Marlon Brando to fight for him. Which he believes worked. Stanley kept his place at the helm…for a little while.

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The fired Stanley retreated into the rainforest to lick his wounds. Then he came across some of the film’s new extras, and convinced them to sneak him onset. There, he covertly played a bulldog man in several scenes, without the producers ever realizing.

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Hofschneider’s screentime was further cut down because Brando became obsessed with the world’s smallest man, Nelson De La Rosa. So he insisted the script be revised, and with some Hofschneider’s scenes being given to De La Rosa

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At 27, De La Rosa was susceptible to Brando’s contagious ego. He started acting up too, lashing out (physically) at Hofschneider, and using his sister to translate pick-up lines to the female extras who described him as “very sexual.”

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