Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson interview (1995)

Producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer on their new film, 'Crimson Tide.' They also discuss how to be successful as producers and how they made their great movies, Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop, Flashdance and Bad Boys.
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[@hogi_dogi]

Thank you Nick for finding this

[@AdamHammel]

I just rode in on a dusty, crusty horse from the town of cum. Ever been?

[@kinnertubbyson]

Cum town filled with gays and Greeks

[@Th3M0rn1ng5h0w]

Hell yea hahahahahahahahahah

[@defundantifa6172]

Anyone know any good betting websites?

[@itsacorporatething]

Who’s nick?

[@PanikGrafik]

Im happy my dear personal friend Nick found this for me

[@Blady99]

Gonna pop some blue chews and enjoy this interview

[@alexbaum2204]

No slow release testosterone pouch embedded into your ass cheek?

[@myfaveyoutube]

I'm on that super 🍃

[@slyder35]

@@myfaveyoutube are you a south east asian poacher?

[@tacticaldachshund2734]

I'm gonna bet on it at BetDSI

[@owlpelletstew]

14:06. The thing is, Don Simpson was such a professional, in literally every aspect. Look at how calmly and casually he answers the question, while also being on a level nobody here could possibly fathom. Literally had perfect control of his physical condition. Nobody else swipes their nose with such grace and elegance.

[@wesbrinsfield9770]

Even on the booger sugar

[@reddeadwarlock]

Thanks Nick for bringing me here!

[@Studeb]

Don and Jerry looked like a mob boss and his head lawyer.

[@popularunderground786]

Studeb You ‘re not wrong anyway!😂

[@handlethis78]

Three years later, this is still a perfect comment. It's so true. Especially with Don's slicked back hair.

[@jacobhyattproductionsvgcp6627]

Then, I'm missed Don Simpson in the Last Film of Producer called "The Rock"

[@robmckrobmck5567]

Haha. Brando and Duvall. Wait. Pacino and Penn.

[@zimecka72]

Every time Don speaks Jerry looks at him as if he is analyzing what he is saying. As if questioning "Don't fuck up"

[@chustaproductions]

I agree totally.

[@trenttalley924]

Don is very well spoken given his reputation and what has been said/written about him.

[@Will21st]

highly intelligent guy, obviously.

[@ElVaquero19]

he just LOVES making movies!

[@blason56]

I mean, he seems pretty coked up

[@johnbennie317]

Meh. Im betting with Draftings.

[@SuperEggsNBacon]

In High Concept he’s mentioned as obviously being an intellectual being the creative force behind the movies he produced, and Bruckheimer handled the administrative stuff

[@BS-bl2ut]

“We love making pictures” RIP the last genius of Hollywood

[@filippocorti6760]

Shame he was so flawed.

[@Kylefassbinderful]

lol genius? ummm okay

[@blason56]

Genius < Cocaine

[@mummyjohn]

I feel you, an inimitable, often inscrutable brilliance

[@Katyfrenam860]

One year before Don’s departure. Both incredibly talented guys, very passionate about movies and quality

[@AlbertV90]

Don and Jerry are those types of movie producers are so damn passionate about making movies. I'm sure there are producers out there that love movies but Don and Jerry were a rare breed. Btw Hackman and Washington were 100% perfect and amazing in their roles. I couldn't see anyone else playing those characters. I had no idea Quentin Tarantino was an uncredited writer on the movie. Good idea from the late Tony Scott to bring him on

[@Aladrian2207]

These two have definitely become my favorite producers, although I feel sorry for the death of Don Simpson, how sad.

[@StephanieJ777]

I literally listened to this Bc Jerry’s voice is super calming.

[@filippocorti6760]

I wish I had a father figure or uncle like one of these two men back in the day.

[@gravvin845]

bad boys is the reason we go to movies crimson tide is the reason we make movies

[@NagasakiBladers]

At this time he was literally told by doctors that his heart could stop at any time - mostly likely either during eating, waking up, or going to the toilet - as it turned out it was going to the toilet, where he died taking a shit while reading a newly released biography of oliver stone

[@mummyjohn]

The way he casually slipped that in was such a perfect distillation of his sharp mind's MO: he could look at the whole scene from above and summarize it totally in a single line.

[@kpec3]

Thanks Nick!

[@andrewsteiner1304]

Charlie rose to the occasion and made love to Don's father.

[@blakeharvey2570]

Charlie looks even more strung out than Don

[@TomMyersComedy]

Hell yeah dude

[@visionairetv149]

RIP Don Simpson.

[@LondonPride25]

Simpson was a genius. A flawed one, for sure, but a movie-making genius nonetheless. Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, BHC2, Bad Boys, Crimson Tide, The Rock - dude fucking rocked.

[@b.w.22]

7:01 - It’s interesting how well spoken, compelling, and intelligent Simpson is, given how many stories have been told of his proclivities. I understand that he and Bruckheimer’s working relationship was under strain at this time, but man - he’s so much more charismatic and conversationally nimble than I expected.

[@paulorufalco]

I watched these days The Rock (1996), the last movie from Don and Jerry. 1995, when this interview occurred, The Rock was in production, being the last collaboration for separated careers. Wikipedia says this was choice of Jerry, because of high Don's addiction with cocaine and hookers (gooood life!). Don died in January/1996 with The Rock dedicated to him.

[@ENigma-um8zw]

The 90s rocked

[@jamesl.anderson1384]

On January 19, 1996, Simpson was found dead in the bathroom of his Bel Air, Los Angeles home. His death was initially attributed to "natural causes." An autopsy and toxicology report later determined that Simpson had died of heart failure caused by combined drug intoxication (cocaine and prescription medications) while going to the bathroom. At the time of his death, there were 21 different drugs in his system including antidepressants, stimulants, sedatives, and tranquilizers. In August 1996, investigative reporter Chuck Philips of The Los Angeles Times revealed that Simpson had been obtaining large quantities of prescription drugs from 15 different doctors, and that police found 2,200 prescription pills lined up in alphabetical order in his bedroom closet. A 1998 book by journalist Charles Fleming reported that Simpson's prescription drug expenses totaled more than $60,000 a month at the time of his death. He also referred to Don Simpson as "a supercharged simple-minded creature, an Aesop's fable on crystal meth."

[@jimmypadilla3441]

That last line makes him sound like the doctor from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

[@filippocorti6760]

I wish I could go back to the 90s.

[@defiverr4697]

for Baywatch, I am sure.

[@filippocorti6760]

@@defiverr4697 No.

[@defiverr4697]

@@filippocorti6760 for X-Files then!

[@defiverr4697]

@@filippocorti6760 better yet, for Silk Stalkings and Picket Fences.

[@filippocorti6760]

@@defiverr4697 Nope, none of that stuff.

[@yourfamilydocter]

I love how when I first watched this interview I didn't understand the comments. Now after watching TAFS ep. 155 I get the references to my good friend Nick Mullen$

[@gordoncole2242]

Are these fellas botherin’ you?

[@maneeshahooja]

Amazing producers!

[@kanagawa2008]

Why does Charlie Rose continuously cut off Bruckheimer after asking him a question? He never let the poor man finish a sentence.

[@RoodeMenon]

Typical ego issues.

[@jacobhyattproductionsvgcp6627]

I'm gonna say goodbye to Don Simpson, I'll Make a Company called "Jerry Bruckheimer Films"

[@siege2218]

Mainly he's a terrible interviewer

[@JeffreySmith84]

He does this in just about every interview I've ever seen him do.

[@Ballaholic0]

It’s so annoying when he does that

[@jacobrichardson1952]

I think to me Don Simpson & Jerry Bruckheimer are the best 2 producers in action movies

[@popularunderground786]

Jacob Richardson Joel Silver

[@samir6047]

fuck yeah! nick million$ sent me here.

[@Leman.Russ.6thLegion]

HOLY SHIT I GET IT. THESE GUYS WERE SO INSANE!!! XD

[@bridder83]

R.I. P don Simpson

[@adammarsh622]

22:40 - you can see the crash pad that Martin Lawrence's stunt double lands on in the clip

[@indigo0086]

Anyone else notice in bad boys the pads show on camera when he jumps off the car?

[@maxmax-yt5uy]

Don repose en paix ❤

[@pjom4191]

Hell yea dude

[@kolst8406]

This is months before Bruckheimer broke up their partnership, and Simpson overdosed and died.

[@dzanier]

Both are/were very intelligent people. I've seem some documentaries on Don Simpson and I have to say his level of addiction was quite scary. Actually the way he lived his life was quite scary. In some ways it's remarkable he lived as long as he did, and he wasn't even 53.

[@wareproduction8779]

Simpson was so passionate with his work but yet so troubled by his own demons behind closed doors

[@dstein111]

Any word why Bruckheimer ended the relationship?

[@nsls8223]

@@jaguar-yv2hq wow thanks for the link. im reading it now. don was wild.

[@psychedelicfright85]

Say what you will about Hollywood, but they made pretty awesome, to just decent movies back in the day. Now, politics have poisoned everything. Nothing can just be a fun action romp anymore.

[@violetnop4345]

19:32 my man Don trippin hard for a moment there lmao

[@justinweaver68]

Nick told me to see dis

[@filippocorti6760]

Its odd to think Don died less than a year after this interview.

[@blason56]

Don was famously coked up in this interview.

[@alexbaum2204]

@@blason56 seriously, it’s not that odd.

[@thomaszampino6369]

Adams gay

[@ThatFilmisGnarly]

Don seems normal, then again, my dad was a coke-head

[@MUFFINHEAD1985]

pahahahhahahaha

[@dzanier]

Don was anything but normal.

[@MUFFINHEAD1985]

Came back to this comment to laugh at it again pahahhahaa

[@jacobhyattproductionsvgcp6627]

What About Don Simpson's Sex and Drugs in Died in 1996...?

[@filippocorti6760]

Really? Did he beat the habit? I guess he's from CA. Do a lot of people use that stuff there?

[@whipit2404]

This was filmed a few days before May 12, 1995.

[@roberttauzer7042]

Coked up Nick Mullen sent me here and I'm not even gay.

[@justinmacmillan1966]

You are now.

[@Natedawg38]

I dont see cocaine. He actually looks really normal

[@chanty2192]

"We saw a submarine on the television and said.... we should make a movie about a submarine😏 then we paid someone else to make the entire movie down to the script" "Everyone listening here tonight is inspired by your creativity. Go ahead and just name drop celebrities for 25 minutes." Pure insanity.

[@mummyjohn]

lmao

[@alexbaum2204]

Being uniquely and exceptionally gay brought me here.

[@Sweence]

Simpson was dead from drugs a year after this interview.

[@peckerdecker]

WHY does the interviewer keep interupting the guests? Let the guests speak! ! And allow the person to answer

[@brandoncole2639]

All 3 men at the table were ENERGIZED AF SOOOOO for the likely answer to your question "Cocaine is a Hell of a drug!" - Rick James (Biiitch)

[@kevinrichards3288]

RIP Don Simpson

[@seineic]

Simpson looks like Razor Ramon

[@R.J.MacReady1982]

Read my mind. Look at my eyes.

[@rockstarmanboss]

how can two men look so evil but be so wholesome?

[@galebh9715]

lotsa coke

[@filippocorti6760]

Bruckheimer is wholesome. Simpson less so.

[@filippocorti6760]

@@galebh9715 Not all.

[@Myrdoc]

Simpson was worse than Harvey Weinstein.

[@carsoccerpain]

One of my only friends named nick brought me here

[@flexcrazyfun5109]

Zoom zoom zoom zoom Bet DSI

[@byronwylder]

Of these 3 it's kinda crazy to think Charlie Rose had the sex scandal that derailed their career.

[@SpencerLemay]

Charlie Rose is multiple people?

[@filippocorti6760]

I never heard that. He strikes me as classy here.

[@WMsandKFCisBackMOFOs]

Here via Cumtown

[@Rusty-q3b]

Watching this on the 28th anniversary of Simpson's death.

[@mummyjohn]

🥃

[@BarbaraBoronda]

don Simpson was my mom's cousin rip DON

[@3dheadcreeps87]

Barbara Boronda - any stories?

[@bridder83]

Your mum cousin is a legend

[@filippocorti6760]

We'd love to hear stories like 3D says.

[@itsacorporatething]

Here for the Harvey Weinstein call out at the end.

[@AcresOfMovies]

Don Simpson might have done lines right on that table

[@piedramultiaristas8573]

Manufacturer thanks Jesus bless You Acts 2:38 take care and receive the blessings from the most hight

[@themanwithnoname8548]

These guys are moguls.... Films and producers like this dont exist anymore....

[@jayt7178]

The Man With no name because they all got popped for raping actresses.

[@psychedelicfright85]

@@jayt7178 look what complete garbage we have now though. Nothing is just fun to watch anymore. Just a bunch of hollow and tedious "messages", that people are sick to death of.

[@mi39471]

Well, one of them doesn’t.

[@filippocorti6760]

Don Simpson makes a good impression. It's odd to think of the things he was accused of.

[@JV220]

What was he accused of???

[@thedudebneasy4928]

@@JV220 i jus read his wiki, its a lot

[@defiverr4697]

@@JV220 Not accused of, really lived it.

[@defiverr4697]

@@thedudebneasy4928 Let's just say that what he was and doing is longer than the sequels he ever made! Art/life, life/art!

[@defiverr4697]

@@JV220 On January 19, 1996, Simpson was found dead in the bathroom of his Bel Air, Los Angeles home.[21] His death was initially attributed to "natural causes." An autopsy and toxicology report later determined that Simpson had died of heart failure caused by combined drug intoxication (cocaine and prescription medications) while going to the bathroom.[22] At the time of his death, there were 21 different drugs in his system including antidepressants, stimulants, sedatives, and tranquilizers.[11] In August 1996, investigative reporter Chuck Philips of The Los Angeles Times revealed that Simpson had been obtaining large quantities of prescription drugs from 15 different doctors, and that police found 2,200 prescription pills lined up in alphabetical order in his bedroom closet.[16][23][24] A 1998 book by journalist Charles Fleming reported that Simpson's prescription drug expenses totaled more than $60,000 a month at the time of his death. He also referred to Don Simpson as "a supercharged simple-minded creature, an Aesop's fable on crystal meth." (from another post)

[@marcwarren4393]

I wish that Charlie Rose would stop interrupting. So disrespectful.

[@DJKinney]

How about...Charlie HOSE!

[@geofox9484]

Nick musta been high when he watched this. It’s not really that big of a deal.

[@that_ginger_kidd0156]

Nick definitely overhyped it but you can tell dons definitely on something, or a couple of things.

[@deeznutz8320]

@@that_ginger_kidd0156 Maybe some tranquilizers def no coke

[@avairal5936]

Charlie Rose is trippin

[@filippocorti6760]

If Don had good reason to believe he would die soon if he didn't change his ways, would have have changed?

[@erichaynes7502]

No, almost all his friends had expected him to die for a long time. He couldn't control himself at all.

[@filippocorti6760]

@@erichaynes7502 Damn. It's unfortunate his friends or family didn't try to have him committed to save his life.

[@erichaynes7502]

@@filippocorti6760You're right it's unfortunate..he'd go to al the super expensive rehabs, he'd get better for awhile but absolutely had no self control for long. Imagine being a kid and being told "you're going to hell if you don't stop RIGHT NOW thinking about girls!"

[@mummyjohn]

he was often worried about his own drug usage and eating habits, and fluctuated between bouts of sobriety & dieting and the more well-known binging. In quite literally his final days he was seeing numerous doctors and psychiatrists, and talking to an old friend who was then at Universal about finding a new home there. The guy (Casey?) called him hours after he'd died (obv before anyone knew) and a message was found on Don's home phone about setting up a meeting to talk terms.

[@filippocorti6760]

@@mummyjohn Thanks.

[@JoJoJoker]

The three evil horseman of Hollywood: Simpson. Weinstein. Epstein.

[@danielyoung6778]

I like how Epstein and Weinstein are now the Waluigi and Wario of rape.

[@deeznutz8320]

Why Simpson?

[@justinnardine8564]

Wow don is coked to the gills and out of his mind looking like Razor Ramon

[@filippocorti6760]

If someone didn't state that, I would never know it.

[@mykal.7424]

Days of Thunder didn't work as well because it's not as good as Top Gun and at that time Studios were coming into Summer of '90 trying to throw everything into the new decade . Movies were cancelling each other out ...with a few exceptions . Back to the Future 3, Bird on a wire, Dick Tracy, Robocop 2 , Another 48hrs, Total Recall, Die Hard 2 ...later Ghost. ...it was the highest grossing movie released that summer , by summers end Total Recall & Die Hard 2, Dick Tracy were the only 3 movies to gross over $100m at the box office. Ghost passed those number during the early part of fall. Days of Thunder was well made and had solid box office numbers, but asking it to be Top Gun was too much of a tall order

[@alexbaum2204]

I was 9 at the time. I remember even then thinking, ‘this is a bad time’. It really was. The music was mostly terrible. The fashion was god awful. The comics sucked. And the movies, as you clearly listed above, we outrageously bad. The reason Ghost must have done so well that summer is because it actually had heart. Everything at that time just seemed like a money grab. Not disguised anything, just an overt and unabashed money grab. Plus everyone was coked the fuck out. And then something happened. There was a kind of renaissance. In almost all things. Hip hop had acts like Tribe Called Quest and Organized Konfusion and the likes being things in a new direction. Hair metal gave way to Grunge. Robocop 2 and Die Hard 2 (truly one of the worst ever action movies) gave way to Terminator 2. I say all of this because it seems like we’ve been living in a prolonged version of ‘89-‘91 for some time now. I’m hopeful that these things are cyclical and we’re on the precipice of something really noteworthy.

[@filippocorti6760]

@@alexbaum2204 Everyone in general was coked out or everyone involved in the movie business? What happened in/after '91 that made subsequent years better other than getting out of the economic recession of that time?

[@alexbaum2204]

@@filippocorti6760 couldn’t tell ya, toots. I’m just mayor Micky Macaroni over here.

[@Jacksirrom]

They better bring back Sebastian. His lust must be requited one way or another.

[@AcresOfMovies]

Who would u cast as Simpson and Bruckheimer?

[@luciferdzhugashvili]

Kerry kinda looks like Joel Cohen.

[@beinhorn]

These guys are all running on 2.0 playback speed 😂

[@MacTavish37]

Some nationalist, character simmilar to Zhirinovsky. 12:00

[@alexclark4968]

I’m gay

[@robinhosleftfoot]

Razor Ramon vibes from Don

[@jayvalentine2046]

Simpson looks like razor Ramone here

[@rb3706]

15:29

[@donsimpinero]

Nick oversold this interview so much lol. Guy doesn’t seem coked up at all.

[@blason56]

This interview was provided to you by cocaine

[@ChillyWilly09]

Yo but y'all see his sneakers?

[@Wouysnxzlagfbr]

Cumtown brought me here

[@beaupeterson188]

Stop bogarting the drugs, Don. How do you expect me to match your intensity and ponytail?

[@Niftygizmoz]

Why would he tell all those horrible things about Noir to Don Simpson

[@wosop6667]

Macklemore

[@badgrand]

Completely random: Don Simpson reminds me of Joe Rogan.

[@deeznutz8320]

Hè does have that same head shape. It could be his older brother

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

You talk about guys who knew what the fuck they were doing making movies...

[@filippocorti6760]

What is Don Simpson's ethnic background?

[@chumleyk]

Real-life foreshadowing in here. Can you spot it? Don didn't.

[@nialwestwood]

Simpson looks coked up

[@jayt7178]

Nial Westwood he is

[@jayt7178]

Nial Westwood fucking mountains of cocaine and fat stacks of morphine.

[@danielyoung6778]

He was coked up from about 1972 to the second he died.

[@jacobhyattproductionsvgcp6627]

I've No Idea about Don Simpson & Jerry Bruckheimer in 2 producers since 1980s and 1990s

[@jumperhighpd]

the butt factor. lol

[@weever98]

Triage al el rapè

[@goodsprings5271]

oddjobian essence

[@007thematrix007]

#highconcept