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Keitel arrived in the Philippines in March 1976. He shaved his head. He lost 15 pounds. He slept with a .45 caliber pistol under his pillow. And… he was wrong. Coppola watched dailies for two weeks and had a nervous revelation: Keitel was playing a soldier who already knew he was in hell. Willard needed to be a man who discovers hell.

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Coppola famously cast Martin Sheen after seeing him sit in a dark room looking like a man who had already lost the war. He cast Dennis Hopper because he was genuinely insane. Keitel arrived in the Philippines in March 1976