James Cameron has made some of the biggest movies in Hollywood between The Terminator, Titanic and the Avatar trilogy, but everyone has to start somewhere. The filmmaker just shared a wild story about one of his early projects where he was apparently handed cocaine to give to the crew like it was no big deal.
In a recent conversation with Graham Bensinger, Cameron recalled one of his early jobs, working on 1980’s Battle Beyond The Stars. James Cameron was originally hired as a model maker for the science fiction flick, but when the original production designer was fired for not getting his work done in time, Cameron was promoted two weeks before filming was set to begin. The Terminator filmmaker recalled what the production managed told him on the first day of his new position:
