Don't show me this message again✕ “I wish I’d have said yes a little bit more often:’ Matthew Modine on the film he regrets turning down (Getty Images) Full Metal Jacket that he felt like killing him. His words, not mine. “I really wanted to! In all those boot-camp scenes where I’m teaching him how to do up his top button, make his bed, lace his shoelaces…” Modine says. “He just got weirder and weirder as he went into the world his character was entering into.” Things started going south when the pair were filming a marching sequence for director Stanley Kubrick in east London. D’Onofrio – a method actor who was deep into his role as the tormented Private “Pyle” – was wound up to see Modine having a laugh between takes. “You should stop messing around,” he instructed Modine, who played Private Joker. Modine is anti-method and believes performers should “use their imagination” when bringing characters to life.