Christian Slater called a reporter a ‘salacious c**t’ after he was asked about if he regretted his past including an arrest for beating his girlfriend.
Slater – in London starring in Glengarry Glen Ross on West End – was finishing an interview with The Daily Beast’s Nico Hines when he made the sudden outburst.
‘What a salacious c**t this guy is!’ the actor said of the reporter when asked for clarification regarding comments that he doesn’t regret his past transgressions.
Christian Slater (left) – starring in Glengarry Glen Ross on West End – was finishing an interview with The Daily Beast’s Nico Hines (right) when he had the outburst
Following the remark, Slater’s PR representative rushed the actor away. The rep eventually sent an email to Hines to apologize.
Slater, a child star who rocked the 80s and 90s, has faced convictions for DUIs in 1989, fights with cops, an attempt at carrying a gun on a plane in 1995 and violence against his girlfriend in 1998. The latter forced the 48-year-old actor to participate in a domestic abuse program.
Hollywood’s ‘bad boy’ was also charged with third degree abuse following an accusation of assault but those were later dropped in 2005.
‘What a salacious c**t this guy is!’ the actor said of the reporter when asked for clarification regarding comments that he doesn’t regret his past transgressions (Slater pictured on October 31)
In the current climate where high-profile men in Hollywood and politics are being accused sexually harassing people, Hines wanted to see if the actor regretted any of his own brushes with law.
‘No, no. I regret nothing,’ he said to The Daily Beast.
‘I’ve always taken my work extremely seriously and I think you learn from experience and it’s a process. I started working at the age of nine, I have had an opportunity to grow up in this business, in front of everybody, so of course nobody gets through unscathed.
Hines asserted that it was ‘jarring’ to hear the actor speak in such a way given allegations against Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey, who costarred in the 1992 version of the film that saw Al Pacino play Slater’s Ricky Roma
‘It’s just how I grew up, so everybody has gotten an opportunity to see highs and lows and ups and downs—that’s part of life.’
Hines asserted that it was ‘jarring’ to hear the actor speak in such a way given allegations against Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey, who costarred in the 1992 version of the film that saw Al Pacino play Slater’s Ricky Roma.
It was then that Slater made his comment to which he would later explain: ‘the question of regret is hard for me to reckon with.
‘I do regret my words this morning.’
Slater plays Ricky Roma in In Glengarry Glen Ross, a top salesman in David Mamet’s real estate office who is surrounded by misogyny, power and a desire to be the best.
The character may be best known for when Al Pacino berates Kevin Spacey’s office manager character in the 1992 film.
And for Sam Yates who is directing the West End showing, the character and a lot of the work is eerily similar to that of Donald Trump.
‘I think a lot chimes with Trump,’ he said.
‘He learned his trade selling real estate in the ’80s, so in terms of how these guys use language to sell an idea, whether it’s a good one or a bad one, there’s a load of bluster; a lot of playing for time; there’s a lot of lying; there’s lot of bullshit basically.’
‘And manipulation, yeah,’ added Slater.
‘This is certainly a play that I can imagine Trump identifying with extraordinarily on many levels. These are all very Trumpian-type characters.’
The work will be playing in the West End until February 2018 at the time.