#Full metal jacket drill sergeant full

#Full metal jacket drill sergeant full

“It will never end.”Ĭolceri’s Full Metal Jacket journey began in 1982 when a friend saw a casting call in THR - then a daily newspaper - asking for taped submissions for a Stanley Kubrick military drama. “I’m still suffering from it,” Colceri tells The Hollywood Reporter with hesitation, as he doesn’t like to complain. For Colceri, his experiences with Full Metal Jacket would also come to define his life, in a very different way. The actor, who died in 2018, became so enmeshed in the pop culture consciousness that he played a sendup of his Full Metal Jacket character in three Toy Story movies. Lee Ermey convinced Kubrick to give him the part, with the filmmaker moving Colceri to the small, yet still memorable, role of the helicopter door gunner who famously shouted “Get some!” as he murdered Vietnamese civilians.įor Ermey, the drill sergeant would be a career-defining part that earned him a Golden Globe nomination. After some behind-the-scenes maneuvering, technical adviser R. Thirty two years after the film opened, Colceri remains best known for his work in Full Metal Jacket, though in a twist that’s become part of the film’s lore, he spent months preparing for a role he never got to play. He was going to make Stanley Kubrick proud.