High life | 26 May 2012

On board S/Y Bushido


My moment of glory came and went in a jiffy, actually a whole afternoon of filming on board without a single retake, temper tantrum or the expected fight between the star, Alec Baldwin, and yours truly. The name of the movie is Seduced and Abandoned, and it has nothing to do with the Italian golden oldie. It is an original non-fiction story — the great Greek thespian Taki plays himself — of seeking funds for a movie among the labyrinthine circus of the Cannes film festival. Alec and James Toback also play themselves, as does the producer Michael Mailer.

Now, as some of you may remember, I wrote about a totally different project, and how Alec and I would fight for real on the deck and both crash into the sea. This is what the producer had led me to believe, to such an extent, in fact, that the morning before the crew came on board Bushido I did my stretching and some shadow boxing for at least ten minutes in order to be ready.