Please be aware. This podcast may contain discussions of drugs, which some may find offensive.

Hello, Chris Evans here. Thank you so much for downloading this special edition of the Best of the Breakfast Show podcast with Sky from Virgin Radio.

Now, this really is one to behold. Academy Award-winning writer and director Oliver Stone's fascinating memoir, Chasing the Light, is out now.

And he spoke to us live from his home in

LA a few weeks ago before we started our show at 6.30 in the morning. He was incredibly candid and

talked about his drug addiction, his influences and his failure. So get ready. Buckle up. I'll

throw you a rope because you are going in for the unedited version, full and exclusive.

Here we go.

Our chat with the one and only Oliver Stone.

Oliver, your book is a ride.

I couldn't put it down.

I didn't ask my wife, ask my kids.

It was unbelievable.

Essentially, it's your story via three of your movies, Midnight Express, Salvador and Platoon.

Looking back now, which was hardest to make the film Platoon in the jungle about Vietnam or to actually fight in the jungle in the Vietnam War. Different,

different journeys, you know, completely different. But unfortunately, you left out,

you mentioned successful films, you left

out the failures and you have to realize that a lot of the book is about failure and not getting

to your dream. And the inverse of success is sometimes bitterness and hardship. So there's a lot

of that in the book.

Did you notice when you read it, Chris?

Well, I did, but the point is I'm a very positive person and also I faced adversity,

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