Michael Douglas Says ‘Wall Street’ Director Asked ‘Are You Doing Drugs?’ Because ‘You Look Like You’ve Never Acted Before in Your Life.’ Then Douglas Won the Oscar

Michael Douglas revealed at the recent TCM Classic Film Festival in New York City that director Oliver Stone originally disliked his acting in 1987’s “Wall Street” so much that he asked Douglas if he was taking drugs during production.

“Okay, so we were finishing the second week of filming, and there was a knock on my door. ‘Hey Mike, it’s s Oliver. Can I come in?’” Douglas remembered (via EW). “I say, ‘Yeah, come on in.’ He comes in the trailer and sits down. He says to me, ‘You okay?’ I said, ‘Yeah, I’m okay.’ [He says], ‘Are you doing drugs?’ I said, ‘No, I’m not doing drugs.’ And he said, ‘Because you look like you’ve never acted before in your life.’”

Douglas informed Stone that he wasn’t watching the film’s dailies to check on his performance “because I’m one of those guys…