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DeVito's Revenge: Left Douglas Hanging!
29 Jul
Summary
- Danny DeVito pranked Michael Douglas by leaving him on a chandelier.
- The prank was payback for difficult filming conditions on a previous movie.
- Douglas and DeVito have a decades-long friendship and creative partnership.
Actor Michael Douglas shared an amusing anecdote about director Danny DeVito's unique sense of humor and a prank enacted during the filming of the 1989 dark comedy "The War of the Roses." The incident occurred during a scene requiring Douglas and co-star Kathleen Turner to be suspended high above the set on a chandelier.
Instead of continuing the scene, DeVito, seeking a form of playful retribution, announced it was lunchtime, leaving the actors hanging for an extended period. Douglas recounted that DeVito later revealed this was payback for the difficult conditions he endured during the filming of their earlier film, "Romancing the Stone."
Douglas and DeVito share a deep, decades-long friendship that began in the 1960s. Their professional collaborations extend beyond "The War of the Roses," including "Romancing the Stone" and "The Jewel of the Nile," and later films like "Solitary Man." This history underscores DeVito's 'wiggy' sense of humor, which finds comedy in absurd situations and tests boundaries.
