Laurence Fishburne makes it Apocalypse now In 1979. However, during the shooting he faces another situation.

In his words he explained in Apple TV+’s new documentary Number one on the call sheet: black leading men in Hollywood That he couldn’t perform a scene well that disappointed his instructor, Francis Ford Coppola.

“There is a scene in Apocalypse now that was cut from the original film, and then it has been put back in Redux,” John Wick Star remembered. “I was 14, 15, no matter what, tried to make this scene and talked about sex and had no sexual experience. As if none.”

He continued that Francis “couldn’t figure out how to make me be more experienced than I am, but he kept asking me to do it again and again. I did something like 40 taking. It was really bad.”

“And I could tell that he was disappointed. So I really felt, really down, really closed down,” he added.

But the actress remembered his co-star Martin Sheen cheered him up after his on-set experience.

“I heard Martin whisper in my ear, he said,” Did anyone ever tell you that you were a really good actor? “” The 63-year-old said. “And I said, ‘No.’ He said, ‘You’re a really good actor.’ “

“That’s what’s # 1 on a call sheet is about to me,” Laurence concluded, referring to Martin.