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Headline: James Cameron recalls low-budget cocaine shock
Caption: The Avatar director shared his surprise at being handed illicit drugs on the set of his 1980 sci-fi movie, Battle Beyond the Stars. James, 71, had been promoted into the role of production designer on the B-movie after the previous employee was sacked. "He wasn't designing and building sets in time," the Titanic filmmaker told the In Depth with Graham Bensinger podcast. "They had no idea that I had any management skills whatsoever.” On his first day in the new role, James said, he was immediately given amphetamine capsules and cocaine by the movie's production manager.
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