Ten Past Midnight

Came across something really interesting today...
People that know about director David O. Russell know that he has a reputation for going absolutely insane on the movie set, even going so far as to scream at the actors and crew and throw things around and sometimes even physically assaulting people (there was an infamous incident back in 1999 where he and George Clooney almost got into a fistfight).
Well, things were apparently no different on the set of his 2004 film I ♥ Huckabees, where Russell repeatedly freaked out on-set. This brief explanation gives you the gist of it, but the real reason I'm posting this up is because of what lies below: Two video clips of the actual on-set craziness... This is really rare, I tell ya... you hear stories about this sort of stuff happening, but you never get to see it. Well, here's some leaked on-set production video... enjoy it before somebody's lawyers get pissed and take it down:





You get the feeling from the clips that Lili Tomlin may be marginally insane, but it's hard to tell how far Russell has actually pushed her before we see her on-camera outbursts. On the other hand, she was in 3 Altman movies, and he was known for not putting up with any shit (i.e. with Warren Beatty in McCabe & Mrs. Miller), so I get the feeling that Russell had just pushed her over the edge... But in any case, she had already been in a Russell film, 1996's Flirting with Disaster, and if he was that nuts, why would you work with him again? Maybe he's just become insane fairly recently?...