Was it true that Lemmy was paid with a bottle of Jack Daniels?
Yeah, I believe that was true. He was filling in for Sinead O’Connor, as there was a clash of dates. Lemmy was so happy to have been given a Magnum that he drew it straight away – and it dropped to the bottom of the Thames. It’s deep thick mud down there – we sent the diver down to try and find it and he couldn’t! Still, compared to your experience on The Island of Dr Moreau and Dust Devil, Hardware must have been a relatively smooth shoot… Yeah, I didn’t really have any big arguments with the front of house as we’d always been on budget and always had a good safety record. Problems with a shoot always come from politics. On Dust Devil it came from the collapse of Palace, so suddenly the budget didn’t exist anymore and our equipment stopped showing up. And on Moreau, it was a takeover by New Line – it started off being an Ed Pressman production. Initially Bruce Willis and Marlon Brando were in it, then we lost Bruce Willis and Brando didn’t show up on day one – and New Line suddenly di
