Brando as Colonel Kurtz

When Marlon Brando arrived on the set of "Apocalypse Now" he shocked everybody because he was enormous, somewhere around 300 pounds.  The director, Francis Ford Coppola, had a lot of difficulty with this situation, as he had envisioned Kurtz as lean and hungry.  Worse yet, Brando hadn't learned his lines or done any preparation whatsoever for the role.  The production was shut down for a week while Coppola read Brando the script out loud, with about nine-hundred members of the cast and crew sitting by idly.