Christopher McDonald
Born: February 15, 1955 in New York City, New York, USA
[2011, on Requiem for a Dream (2000)] Yeah, that was a very interesting movie. Talk about great filmmakers, Darren Aronofsky is arguably in a league of his own. He’s terrific. It’s an insane movie. The first time I saw the movie, it was in Cannes with the whole group–we’d rented a house together–and it was the midnight screening. Everybody’s in tuxes, we go in, and it was an eight-minute standing ovation afterwards. I looked over at Darren . . . at one point in the film–he’s two seats away–and I’m going, “Are you kidding me?” He goes, “Oh, no, it gets better!” Or worse, however you look at it. It’s a dark movie with a very, very strong anti-drug message. It had more edits in it than any film before or after. They just went to town…
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