Director Terrence Malick is famous for snipping actors out of his theatrical cuts.
For one, Adrien Brody reportedly showed up to the premiere of “The Thin Red Line” to find his role, which he thought was the lead, was significantly downsized.
Many others followed.
In the aftermath of Malick’s 2005 historical drama about the founding of Jamestown, Christopher Plummer was having none of it.
The late actor, who passed away this week at the age of 91, revealed in a 2012 roundtable with Newsweek that he went to the lengths of writing Malick a letter after his experience.“He is quite an extraordinary guy, and I love some of his movies very much, but the problem with Terry, which I soon found, is he needs a writer desperately, because he insists on doing everything,” Plummer told the group, which included Viola Davis, Charlize Theron, Tilda Swinton, and George Clooney.
“He insists on writing,
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