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- Throughout his years on the Hollywood block, David O. Russell has grown increasingly notorious for his abusive behavior both on film sets to his actors and in public to his contemporaries. For starters, legend has it that at an indiscriminate Hollywood party, he put famous English director Christopher Nolan into a headlock.
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Mar 30, 2024 · Russell’s career has been marked by controversy from the outset. While filming his breakout war drama, Three Kings, he got into a physical altercation with the star of the film, George Clooney....
Oct 24, 2017 · Anyone with access to the internet can find profiles that detail the Silver Linings Playbook director’s on-set harassment, interviews in which stars recount his cruel tactics, and even videos of ...
- Amy Zimmerman
- Entertainment Reporter
Oct 7, 2022 · David O. Russell’s Amsterdam, a star-studded mystery-comedy set in the heady interwar years of the 1930s, starts with a tagline: “A lot of this actually happened.” It’s a nice trick—a way to...
May 12, 2023 · Throughout his years on the Hollywood block, David O. Russell has grown increasingly notorious for his abusive behavior both on film sets to his actors and in public to his contemporaries.
- Jonah Rice
- Entertainment Reporter
Jun 2, 2021 · Russell’s history of abusive behavior is being touted as an example of Hollywood hypocrisy. Despite the past few years of public conversations about abuse in the film industry, Russell is...
Oct 5, 2022 · Russell himself pushed the carnage of war to aesthetic extremes in 1999’s “Three Kings,” when he turned his camera into an X-ray and showed us — in squirm-inducing, viscera-rupturing detail...
Sep 15, 2023 · Despite the intrigue of the Amsterdam true story, the star-studded movie flopped, both at the box office and with critics. While there were a number of complaints leveled against David O. Russell's stories, one specific complaint was aimed at the heroic depiction of the character of Gil Dillenbeck.
