Earlier than starring in “Full Metallic Jacket” collectively, Modine and D’Onofrio have been truly very pleasant. In reality, it was Modine who acquired D’Onofrio an audition for the film.
“Vince and I had met at an audition a few years earlier than ‘Full Metallic Jacket,'” Modine recalled in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. When Kubrick informed his lead actor that he was in quest of somebody to play Pyle, Modine beneficial D’Onofrio. He credit D’Onofrio himself with truly touchdown the position, although: “All I did was open the door, and it was clearly Vince who needed to stroll by way of the door and persuade Stanley Kubrick that he was the appropriate actor to play the half.”
The stress between Modine and D’Onofrio first arose from their contrasting performing types. “He was learning with any individual from Lee Strasberg’s faculty, and I used to be learning with Stella Adler,” Modine defined. “Stella mentioned that actors ought to work from their creativeness, and Lee Strasberg mentioned that you must work a special manner … a type of theater of realism.”
As soon as the 2 actors acquired on set, their various artistic approaches prompted a rift between them. Modine discovered D’Onofrio’s technique completely disconcerting. “He simply acquired weirder and weirder as he went into the world his character was coming into into,” the actor mentioned. In the meantime, D’Onofrio appeared to suppose that Modine wasn’t as dedicated as he was, and chastised him for goofing round with extras between takes.
“I requested him: ‘What are you gonna do if I do not cease joking round?” And Vince goes, ‘Nicely, I am gonna kick your a**,'” Modine recounted, per The Impartial. “That was the top of our friendship for the remainder of the shoot.”
