Lee Ermey said he felt Vincent D'Onofrio's performance
was the best in the film.
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According to R. Lee Ermey, who worked with Kubrick on Full Metal Jacket,
Kubrick was adamant that the film was awful.
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Kubrick had hired him as a technical adviser, but Ermey wanted to play Hartman, the Parris Island
drill sergeant who dominates the first half of the movie.
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Modine also wrote that he and the other actors playing Marines underwent realistic boot camp training,
which included being yelled at by Ermey for up to 10 hours a day.