Kubrick's Longtime Assistant Comes In From The Cold In 'Filmworker'
In this revealing documentary, a devoted assistant to the late Stanley Kubrick details the many sacrifices he made to become a small part of the demanding filmmaker's legacy.
Leon Vitali was a young and talented British actor on the rise when he signed his soul away to Stanley Kubrick. He'd just given a magnetic performance as the spoiled, seething yet sensitive Lord Bullingdon in the director's droll period epic (1975), and offers were pouring in. Instead of acting on them, Vitali decided he'd rather become Kubrick's devoted assistant. He had been lucky enough to earn the good graces of a true master, he reasoned, and you don't let true masters out of your life. Instead, Vitali allowed Kubrick to subsume him into his.
