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In an interview Emilio Estevez talks about his troubled early relationship with his father Martin Sheen (who wasn’t just America’s most beloved president on TV; during the bad years I think many preferred to think of him as THE president of the United States), his brother Charlie Sheen, and a formative experience: the famously crazy filming of Apocalypse Now in the Philippines. Read the article in the Telegraph.

Estevez watched his family unravelling as the shoot dragged on. After 12 months, Sheen reached breaking point, and suffered a minor heart attack, though he was able to resume filming a few weeks later. Estevez was left to his own devices.

‘My father and mother, neither of them cared if Larry Fishburne [Sheen’s teenage co-star] and I jumped in a jitney and went to Manila for the weekend. President Marcos was in power, martial law was in effect, and you were shot on sight if you were seen on the street after 1am. What were they thinking?’ He says he recently asked his parents that very question. Their reply was, ‘We had four of you. If we had to lose one, we would. We were just trying to survive. . .

Charlie Sheen went on to star in another Vietnam war movie shot in the Philippines: Platoon.