Richard Pryor Had Some Demands
The 2014 biography Becoming Richard Pryor, by Scott Saul, details Richard Pryor’s demands when he traveled from Los Angeles to New York to join Mel Brooks and his team on Blazing Saddles: train fare “and a bottle of brandy waiting for him in the writers’ room.”
When Pryor arrived at the Warner Bros. building at 666 Fifth Avenue, Saul writes, “he settled into his chair in the sixth floor executive conference room. Brooks started to explain how the film was shifting from its original conception. While he listened, Richard pulled out a little locket, opened it, tipped out some coke, and snorted it without missing a beat.”
He offered some to Brooks, who quipped, “Never before lunch.”
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