Actor James Caan stormed off the set of Nailed, a politcal yuk fest, after a close encounter with a cookie!
Director David O. Russell (Three Kings) was shooting a scene where Caan’s character choked to death on a cookie. Russell asked the aging thesp to cough as he choked.
Caan, a Method actor, argued his character wouldn’t both cough and choke to death simultaneously. Russell said they shoot alternate takes but Caan mistrusted the director and walked off the picture.
Caan’s spokesman wouldn’t confirm nor deny the details but attributed the exit to “creative differences and the departure was amicable” — of course.
The director has a reputation for onset battles with stars. Russell came to blows with George Clooney on Three Kings and dueling linguistics with Lily Tomlin on I Heart Huckabees.
As for Caan, that’s the way the cookie and career crumbles. . .
