Titanic actor Billy Zane has let loose about the wild night when scores of people on the set of the film were drugged without their knowledge.
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Titanic Star Exposes Shocking On-Set Drug Incident
Titanic actor Billy Zane has let loose about the wild night when scores of people on the set of the film were drugged without their knowledge.In 1996, during th...
In 1996, during the shoot of the Oscars-sweeping classic, a still unidentified culprit slipped PCP into the seafood chowder being served to the cast and crew.
At least 50 people including director and actor Bill Paxton wound up high on the hallucinogenic, which is also known as angel dust.
Many of them flocked to the hospital, while Cameron managed to ward off the drug's strongest effects by making himself vomit and Paxton decided to calm himself down with a case of beer after seeing the forbidding lines at the emergency room.
A mystery has hung in the air ever since about who laced the soup with PCP, and when the question was put to Zane, he said slyly: 'I can neither confirm nor deny.'
He clarified that he 'wasn't there,' as the scene being shot that evening took place during the 'modern day portion of the film' rather than the period sequences involving his character Caledon 'Cal' Hockley, on the Brotherly Love podcast.
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The Daily Mail has contacted Zane and Cameron's representatives for comment.
Titanic actor Billy Zane has let loose about the night scores of people on the set of the film were drugged; Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, pictured in the movie, were not among them
Zane's character Cal (left) is the wealthy fiancé of Kate Winslet's character Rose (right) and the rival of the true object of her affections, the penniless artist Jack played by Leonardo DiCaprio
Cal is the wealthy fiancé of Kate Winslet's character Rose and thus the rival of the true object of her affections, the penniless artist Jack played by Leonardo DiCaprio.
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The love triangle unfolds in 1912 aboard the Titanic and culminates with the jilted Cal chasing Rose and Jack around the sinking ship with a gun.
At least 50 people including director James Cameron and actor Bill Paxton (pictured in the film) ingested PCP that a still unidentified culprit slipped into the seafood chowder served on set
'You see some people are freaking out, some people are conga dancing, some people are euphoric,' the Aliens heartthrob remembered.
'I knew I was pretty stoned on something pretty bad,' he said, explaining that he and Cameron 'thought that there was a neurotoxin in the clams. We didn't know what it was. We thought maybe the clams had been left out in the sun or whatever.'
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Given the throngs of his colleagues waiting to be seen at the hospital, Paxton told Cameron he was opting for a more readily available form of treatment.
'But I figured, while they examine all these other 100 people, I said to Jim: "Jim, I'm not gonna hang out here. This is bedlam. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna wander" - 'cause it was only a few blocks from the set - "I'm gonna wander back down and just drink a case of beer." Which is what I did, and that seemed to help me.'
