“I had to leave”: the 2004 movie that left Peter O’Toole in a state of “quiet despair”Occasionally, a film will be so successful that it has a knock-on effect for other movies of the same type, and we’re seeing that at the moment with the jaw-dropping Christopher Nolan blockbuster The Odyssey. But there were also some problems between the many stars on board, not least O’Toole, who, according to Kruger, was often drunk and full of himself, as she recalled some time later, “You know who wasn’t very pleasant, was Peter O’Toole. It kind of sucked… He’s dead, so I can say that, but he wasn’t the most pleasant person.” O’Toole, for his part, didn’t enjoy the experience either and enjoyed the finished film even less. He was another of the actors who criticised the director, comparing Petersen unfavourably to David Fincher, with whom he made Seven a decade earlier.