Illeana Douglas has been a Hollywood fixture since the mid-'80s, but it was through her then-boyfriend, Martin Scorsese, that the actress had a moment she'll never forget with the legendary actor Marlon Brando.
Douglas was meeting Brando for the first time at a restaurant, and the actress was so nervous, she "couldn't look at him," she told HuffPost Live in a Monday conversation. "I was sort of darting out of the corner of my eye, looking at him."
"When I finally did lock eyes [with] him, I literally just burst out crying," she continued. "This flood of emotion came out."
Douglas, who recently published the memoir I Blame Dennis Hopper, went on to profess her admiration to the "Godfather" actor, telling him "everything I am and want to be is because of you." From there, "it was like the earth started to move," she recounted.
"We just got tuned into each other and then he started crying," she recalled. "Suddenly, we were just on this wave of emotion where we really connected on a human level."
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