Christmas Vacation cast had to wear cards with Chevy Chase’s dialogue because he couldn’t remember his lines

https://ew.com/christmas-vacation-cast-wore-cards-with-chevy-chase-dialogue-11799258

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  1. > “Chevy’s a comedian, he’s live. That’s how he stays alive,” she said. “So we all wore these placards around our necks with the lines so that he could just act, instead of going, ‘What do I say now?'”

    > Quaid added, “Yeah, we were all wearing the dialogue.”

  2. It’s a great movie and he’s hilarious on it, but that’s a shitty thing to do. It’s just reeks of “I’m the star, I don’t have to learn my lines, everyone else can accommodate me.”

    Just a jerk move.

    Edited to add: he was paid millions of dollars. He can learn his line like a professional.

    Also edited to add: he’s a jerk:
    https://ew.com/tv/chevy-chase-responds-snl-community-costars/

    > In March 2018, former Community costar Donald Glover opened up via a profile in the New Yorker about how Chase tried to disrupt his scenes by making racial and insensitive jokes between takes to throw him off.

    But sure, let’s give him the benefit of the doubt and pretend it was just literally impossible to learn his lines, and not one of many well known examples of him being difficult.

  3. The headline makes it sound like it was for the whole movie, but it was actually just one scene. The “cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit” scene.

  4. He was gonna stick his lines to the shitter, but it was full.

  5. Isn’t that the core job of an actor, remember their lines? Lol

  7. Chevy Chase has dementia. His wife talked about it on Spade’s / Carvey’s podcast after he tanked an interview with them, failing for coherence. So while this may be another log for the “Chevy Chase is hard to work with and an asshole” fire, this also slightly feels like taking shots at someone with symptoms…

  8. Clickbait title. It was for one scene’s super long line

  9. Knowing what the lines were, this is actually understandable

  10. If it’s good enough for any POTUS it’s good enough for an actor 🤷‍♂️

    What’s the big deal?

  11. Knowing how much of an asshole this guy was and probably still is doesn’t stop me from celebrating all of the vacation movies.

    Even the Ed Helms one.

    After all that’s how I learned what a rim job was.

  12. I heard about this years ago. He’s always talked about how that scene was shot. What’s up with these Chevy hit pieces recently? Last week it was “Anthony Michael Hall accuses of him of bullying” that was completely out of context. There have been plenty of legitimate indictments of Chevy’s behavior in the past, so what is the point of smearing him now?

  13. Like this is news.
    There’s a lot of actors and actresses that can’t remember their lines🙄

    People stand off camera with cue cards.

  14. So Chevy used cue cards worn on other actors just like Marlon Brando in The Godfather? Obviously the technique works!

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