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Michael Douglas wrote in new memoir One Helluva Ride that Sean Young had a “terrible relationship” with most of the people on the set of 1987’s Wall Street.
He wrote that Sheen taped a profane sign on Young’s back one day, and he removed it.
Young told a similar story in March 2021
Michael Douglas‘ Gordon Gekko might have been the antagonist in Wall Street, but the actor recalls that his costar Charlie Sheen held that title on set, at least when it came to Sean Young.
“Sean Young, who played my wife, had a terrible relationship with Charlie and pretty much everyone else besides me,” the Fatal Attraction star wrote in his new book, One Helluva Ride. “She caused a lot of problems on set, and many on the crew had an issue with her. It got so bad that at one point Charlie taped a sign on her back that read ‘Biggest c— in the world.'”
Douglas said Young, who also starred in 1982’s Blade Runnerand 1984’s Dune before the 1987 hit, didn’t notice the sign for a while.
“When I saw it, I pulled it off,” he wrote. “‘What was that?’ she asked. ‘Forget it.’ It would have ended there, except the guy who furnished all the art for the film had seen it and told her. She had every right to be furious.”
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Douglas also recounted that Young and director Oliver Stone butted heads while she was part of the cast.
“Sean continued to clash with Oliver until, at one point,” Douglas wrote, “they were shooting a scene at the horse stable and Oliver was so fed up he gave Sean’s only line in the scene to Daryl [Hannah]. ‘If I don’t have any lines in the scene,’ Sean said, ‘then what’s the point of me being here?” “You’re right,” Oliver said, and he fired her on the spot.”
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to reps for Young, Sheen, and Stone.
In 2021, Young recalled the sign herself to The Daily Beast.
“Michael tore it off without me knowing what it said,” she remembered. “I said, ‘What was that?’ and he said, ‘Forget it.’ Then the art dealer—the guy who brought in all the paintings that were on the wall—was there guarding the paintings, and he told me what Charlie had done. I spoke with Charlie the next day and said, ‘Your dad was a pro. Writing ‘cunt’ on a piece of tape and sticking it to my back? Not pro. It’s just stupid. What are you doing?'”
Young had good things to say about the War of the Roses star but not so much other people.
The finished film, which birthed Gekko’s famous philosophy that “greed is good,” came to be seen as a symbol of the decade. A sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, was released in 2010.
Stone again directed, while Sheen and Douglas reprised their roles. Young did not return.
Douglas’ book, One Helluva Ride, is available at bookstores.
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