Director Oliver Stone admits lacing ‘up-tight’ dad’s drink with LSD to loosen him up
EXCLUSIVE: The Hollywood director admitted he got sick of his stockbroker dad’s close-minded views, so decided to take him on a trip he’d never forget
Hollywood rebel Oliver Stone has told how he finally got his up-tight father to unwind – by spiking his whisky with LSD.
The 73-year-old Platoon director said the mind-bending hippy drug made “tough guy” Louis begin dancing and even discussing sex fantasies.
Vietnam War veteran Stone said he pulled the stunt as he was fed up with stockbroker Louis’s close-minded views.
He said: “We were fighting about the war, fighting about everything.
“I just didn’t like his ideas and wanted to destroy his mindset. I gave him LSD one time.
“He didn’t know I’d given it to him but he knew he was on something. I slipped it in his Scotch. Quite a bit. He drank whisky every day of his life.”
Stone said that under the influence of acid Louis transformed: “He was great…he was swaying to the music and having sex fantasies.”
Stone, a reformed cocaine addict, recreated the stunt in his film Salvador when actor James Belushi slipped drugs into the drink of a TV presenter who breaks down laughing while delivering a war report.
Speaking on US comedian Joe Rogan’s podcast Stone said when he returned from Vietnam he was in mental turmoil: “I came back alienated and numb. I didn’t come back as a protestor but confused and fighting with my father.”
More than 58,000 US servicemen died in the conflict between communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
The brutal guerrilla conflict cost the lives of between one million and four million Vietnamese.
It began in 1955 with America becoming involved in 1965 in support of South Vietnam and ended in 1975 with America’s withdrawal.
Platoon, which is based on Stone’s personal experience of the war, is recognised as a war classic and won four Academy Awards including Best Director for Stone.
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Starring Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe and Tom Berenger it was released in 1986 and controversially featured American soldiers smoking marijuana.
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