John Candy spent a wild night with Jack Nicholson filming the classic scenes for Splash, according to the film’s producers.
Oscar-winning producer Brian Grazer appeared on “The Rich Eisen Show” to talk about his new sports documentary series, “The Dynasty: Is it true that you were hungover during the scene?” he was asked directly. ”
“Yes, he actually stayed with Jack Nicholson until about 4 or 5 in the morning and then went straight to work,” Glazer said.
“John Candy had a lot of patience, I mean really, a lot of patience,” he added.
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According to producer Brian Grazer, John Candy arrived on the set of Splash hungover after a long night with Jack Nicholchon. (Getty Images)
“Splash” was directed by Glazer’s frequent collaborator Ron Howard and premiered in 1984, starring Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, Eugene Levy and Candy. Hanks’ character, Allen, is secretly in love with Madison (Hannah), a woman who is a mermaid, and Candy plays Hanks’ on-screen brother.
Glaser said that Candy was “the most famous of them all” at the time, and that he only agreed to play the role if he was able to meet Glaser and see “if there was chemistry.” .
“We went to a Mexican restaurant across the street from Warner Bros., and he had a little rum and 17 bottles of Coke,” he recalled. “He would drink drink after drink and just get good and have fun, but he was never sloppy. He just kept drinking.”
Glazer recalled a lunch he had with Candy before co-starring in Splash, saying the comedian drank “17 small rums and cokes” but “never got sloppy.” (Getty Images)
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“I think he went too far that night with Nicholson,” he added. “So he literally ran into the ball and the ball hit him in the head.”
In the scene Glaser mentioned, Candy and Hanks are playing racquetball while discussing a mysterious woman (Hannah, who happens to be a mermaid) that Hanks’ character recently met. Candy’s character, drinking beer in the scene, struggles to keep up and ends up taking a racquetball in the face, knocking her to the ground.
Despite being hungover, Candy filmed the racquetball scene in Splash and had little trouble getting hit in the face by the ball. (Patti Gower/Toronto Star via Getty Images)
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Eisen asks if the blow to the face is real, and Glazer admits it is.
“That was real. I knew I had to hit it in two shots, but I didn’t have to, because the moment he hit that ball, it hit him in the head and he I couldn’t get out of there.” Glazer said, adding, “I was lucky it didn’t hit me in the eye!”
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Candy went on to film classic comedies such as Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Uncle Buck, but died of a heart attack in his sleep in 1994 at the age of 43.
