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David Milch and Michael Mann are not BFFs, according to Nick Nolte

“There was a day that David was going to kill Michael,” Nolte said during a recent interview. “I guess I shouldn’t talk about this, but I’ve heard it going around so I guess it’s not a secret. It’s absolutely true. Michael hadn’t turned the film in [for an episode] and David was livid. He said to John [Ortiz], who plays the other trainer on the show, ‘I’m going to go down to the editing room and I’m going to kill Michael Mann.’”

Nolte continued: “The look on Milch’s face was intense, and John was pretty upset and he says, ‘David, you really don’t want to do that. You don’t have a gun, do you?’ And Milch tells him, ‘No, I don’t have a gun but I have a baseball bat and I’m going to kill him. If I’m not back in a few hours, get my lawyers on the phone.’ John was beside himself.”

What happened next?

“An hour and a half later, Milch comes back and John asks him what happened,” Nolte said. “Milch says something like, ‘I went down there and kicked in the door and Mann was there hunched over the Avid [editing console] and he looked back at me and then he just kept working.’ Milch stood there for something like 15 minutes and Mann kept looking back every minute or two but he also kept working. And finally I guess Milch realized that Mann was working as fast as he could.”

—Nick Nolte tells the LA Times about the bad blood between David Milch and Michael Mann on the set of HBO’s “Luck.” (Via Vulture)

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OMG. I really hope this photo is a sign that Breaking Dawn has a scene where Edward and Bella randomly jet off in their speedboat to Havana for mojitos in homage to that super cheesy moment in Michael Mann’s Miami Vice film.

“I’m a fiend for mojitos, Bella.”