Here's A 'Christmas' Story About What An Ass Chevy Chase Allegedly Was To The Director

LOADINGERROR LOADINGDirector Chris Columbus said actor Chevy Chase was so disrespectful to him that he quit 1989’s “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” after he’d begun filming it.The world is rife with people having beef with the “difficult” Chase, but Columbus’ “Christmas” tale is over the top.Advertisement In an interview with Vanity Fair posted Tuesday, Columbus recalled first meeting Chase after second-unit shooting had already begun in Chicago.“Even given my situation at the time, where I desperately needed to make a film, I realized I couldn’t work with the guy,” Columbus said.“I was one of the many who couldn’t work with him.”It took two meetings with the former “Saturday Night Live” star to seal his decision.“He had to know I was directing the movie,” Columbus told the magazine.

“I talked about how I saw the movie, how I wanted to make the movie.He didn’t say anything.

I went through about a half hour of talking.He didn’t say a word.

And then he stops and he says — and this makes no sense to any human being on the planet, but I’m telling you.I probably have never told this story.

Forty minutes into the meeting, he says, ‘Wait a second.You’re the director?’ And I said, ‘Yeah … I’m directing the film.’ And he said to me the most surreal, bizarre thing.

I still haven’t been able to make any sense out of it.He said, ‘Oh, I thought you were a drummer.’”Advertisement Columbus said he tried to veer the weird exchange back to a discussion about the film, but after 30 seconds Chase declared, “I got to go.”(Readers noted that the drummer remark may have been a reference to jazz percussionist Chris Columbus) amid a possible hazing of the director by Chase.The second encounter resulted in about the same amount of communication, Columbus said.“I thought, ‘There’s no way I can make a movie with this guy.

First of all, he’s not engaged.He’s treating me like shit.

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