Marlon Brando's claims s-x drive was so high it made him a beast in Listen To Me Marlon
Marlon Brando reveals his s-x drive was so high it made him 'a beast' with 'women coming in the door, women climbing out of the window' in searing taped confessions
The On The Waterfront actor had confessed to his personal demons, his hatred for his father and how acting in A Streetcar Named Desire led him to the brink of a breakdown, in a startlingly intim-te documentary.
In the 90-minute film, Listen To Me Marlon, which has been made from 200 hours of the publicity-shy star's personal tapes, he says his s-x drive was so high he was like a 'beast'.
The film directed by Stevan Riley, is made entirely from private audio tapes the actor recorded at home, in business meetings, during hypnosis, in therapy, and during press interviews, which have only been released now, 11 years after his death at the age of 80.
In his searingly honest reminiscences, The Method actor reveals the extent of his voracious appetite for women, in the film which is released in the UK on Friday.
Known for his brooding good looks, as well as his intense performing style in classic films such as On The Waterfront and The Wild One, Marlon is heard confessing that he was a 'beast' who had 'women coming in the door, going out the window', in the recordings heard by The Sun.
The double Oscar winner also admitted his loathing for the acting profession, which he described as 'lying for a living.'
The trappings of fame that went with a stage and screen career made him just more unhappy.
He said in the documentary: 'Most actors want their name in the paper. They like all that attention.
'To have people staring at you, like an animal in the zoo, what it does is remove you from reality. I can't stand it. I hate it.'
In the documentary he explains his womanising ways, which led to the actor fathering 16 children from three marriages and countless affairs.
He explained: 'I was young and destined to spread my seed far and wide.'
Marlon was married to actress Anna Kashfi in 1957, they divorced after two years then he tied the knot to Movita Castonada in 1960.
After they divorced two years later, he married the Bora Bora-born actress Tarita Teriipaia, his co-star in Mutiny On The Bounty, when she was just 20 and he was 48.
Marlon also claimed he had an affair with Marilyn Monroe after meeting at a party, and the pair kept in touch intermittently.
He said she called him just days before her death in 1962.
Listen To Me Marlon includes audio recorded on press junkets where the charisma that made him a star is evident.
But it is the searching actor, examining his own life and motivation that is at the heart of the film.
At one point he even finds a place in a tribe on Tahiti while filming Mutiny On The Bounty in 1962, and he thinks to himself: 'I never was in a place that told me to quit running the way that this place does, or these people do.
'If I'd come close to a sense of peace, it would be there.'
Yet it becomes clear that the he was left struggling with demons by his violent father and his alcoholic mother.
'My old man was tough,' he muses. 'He was a firefighter. He was a man with not much love in him. He used to slap me around and for no good reason. And I was truly intimidated by him at that time.'
Yet he drew on his father's behaviour as he was preparing to play Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire, and again with the feared but frail Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather.
Between reminiscing, he drops into the voices of the characters that made him so famous.
The results are played: a 20-something Brando screeching 'Stella!', or later mumbling 'I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.'
Regardless of his success, however, he is searing self-critical.
Although Brando is widely revered as one of the acting greats, he also revealed he didn't feel worthy of the two Oscars he won.
'How do you do that to yourself?' he rages as he thinks about the disastrous movie Candy and the equally-unsuccessful farce A Countess From Hong Kong with Charlie Chaplin and Sophia Loren.
'You're losing the audience.'
The film also reveals how he turned to self-hypnosis techniques which he learned from the revered acting teacher Stella Adler.
It is these moments that explain the film's title.
'Listen to me, Marlon,' he mutters - b-rely audible - as the tape crackles. 'Marlon, just let go.'
Brando's legacy was marred by intensely public coverage of his weight-gain and distress in the late 1990s.
As Manohla Dargis observes in the New York Times review of the documentary: 'Those who dismissed Brando reviewed his life as if it were some kind of movie, one with a strong opening act, a bewildering middle and a disappointing conclusion deserving of a collective thumbs down.'
Despite their disagreements, Francis Ford Coppola gave an incisive statement following Brando's death.
'Marlon would hate the idea of people chiming in to give their comments about his death,' he told The Guardian's Lawrence Donegan.
Now Brando can settle the commenters' musings himself, once and for all.
'Acting is just making stuff up, but that's okay. Life is a rehearsal,' he tells his dictaphone.
'Life is an improvisation. I'm going to have a special microphone placed in my coffin so that when I wake up in there, six feet under the ground, I'm going to say: 'do it differently.''
