Dennis Quaid Was Addicted To Coke Because of Jerry Lee Lewis | Howie Mandel Does Stuff

I learned how to leave it at home a long way back actually with Jerry Lee Lewis that's when I learned to maybe not take because that's how I wound up in cocaine school was uh that movie really yeah so the movie's Great Balls of Fire yes you're playing Jerry Lee Lewis yes you hadn't done cocaine oh no I I had a year to prepare for the role and I was on cocaine so you know playing piano you know just sat at the piano for 12 hours so uh but uh it just he his lifestyle was like out there man and I guess I got really far into it I realized I needed to kind of like take care of me wow after that wow so that's that kind of answers your question about the ability to leave a character