Beatty was Dustin’s guru when it came to commercial success of a movie.”Īdds Schlondorff with a laugh: “Of course, they were prepping Ishtarat the time.” People will say, “Dustin got a beating,” ‘ ” Schlondorff remembers. “Dustin showed it to Warren Beatty, who said, ‘It will do well on the arthouse market, but how much will you make: $15 million, $20 million? Your last film was Tootsie, which made $150 million.
There was some controversy over the inclusion of Salesman in the festival lineup because the film was not getting a theatrical release in the U.S. “But he was always our cheerleader, always a positive presence on set, telling funny stories about where the play came from, of his childhood growing up in Brooklyn.” “He only had one condition: Don’t change a single comma in the play,” says Schlondorff. Miller, 70 when the film premiered in Toronto, was closely involved in the adaptation.
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