Robin Williams' Popeye The movie head, Barry Diller, revealed the shocking truth about the filming of the film.
The 82 -year -old media magnate, who served as CEO of Paramount Pictures from 1974 to 1984, had a conversation with journalist Anderson Cooper, while promoting her autobiography, Who knewHe revealed that there was so much cocaine on Popeye's set “could not escape.”
“The films of films would be sent back to the Daily to process the movie. And we discovered that the movie cans were actually being used to send cocaine back and forth to the set. Everyone were drugged,” he confessed.
Diller added that the influence of the drug can be evident in the final scene of the film, saying: “Think about … registration speeds. If 33 rpm is the standard speed to play an LP in a record player, this is a film that runs at 78 rpm.”
It is also pertinent to mention that the famous comic, Robin Williams, who took his life in 2014 after a long battle against abuse and substance depression, was quite vocal about his struggles with cocaine addiction during the time Popeye He was being shot.
