Eric Dane Memoir Reveals Fight With Josh Duhamel — SkimNews
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- My Book of Days, Eric Dane's posthumous memoir now available for purchase, reveals that he and Josh Duhamel had a physical confrontation during a fight scene on NBC's 'Las Vegas,' where Dane guest-starred in two Season 2 episodes in 2004.
- Dane was filming with a herniated disc in his neck and asked Duhamel to please not grab his tie; Duhamel promised, then pulled the tie on the first two takes, prompting a third take.
- Duhamel apologized after Dane warned a producer, 'You better rein in your boy,' saying he 'got caught up in the moment.'
- Dane whipped off his suit coat, called Duhamel a 'pussy ass actor,' and came at him with fists, but nobody called 'Cut' and the camera kept rolling, so the footage shows him as the aggressor.
- Dane later took responsibility in the memoir, writing, 'I was wrong. I should have walked away. I'm sorry, dude,' while noting that he and Duhamel have seen each other since and are cool.
- Duhamel told 'In Depth with Graham Bensinger' earlier this year that he went to 'pretty extreme places in my head' to play 'Las Vegas' protagonist Danny McCoy, and that people avoided him on set — it 'scared people a little bit, including me.'
- Grey's Anatomy gave Dane his breakthrough as Dr. Mark Sloan in its second season in 2006, two years after his 'Las Vegas' guest turns, following earlier credits on 'Roseanne,' 'Married... with Children,' 'Charmed' and 'Gideon's Crossing.'
Why it matters: Dane's own admission reframes the 2004 dust-up: because no one called 'Cut' and the camera kept rolling, the footage shows the guest actor charging the lead — and he now says 'I was wrong.' The memoir also supplies context for Duhamel's own account of going to 'pretty extreme places in my head' to play Danny McCoy.
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