Overview
- Jelinek shares the account in a new Entertainment Weekly interview published Monday, corroborating Katz’s 2022 admission that he used marijuana during filming.
- He says Katz persuaded him to take a few puffs at lunch before a Kenny Ortega-led rehearsal for the outdoor pumpkin-smashing sequence that featured Thora Birch.
- Jelinek recalls, “I was a mess,” saying he struggled to run the scene, felt embarrassed by his red eyes, and heard Ortega ask what was going on.
- He adds that Katz smoked throughout the shoot and knew how to handle it, leading Jelinek to tell him, “Never again.”
- Jelinek also remembers Katz buying a Volkswagen bus during production and driving Ortega to a Grateful Dead concert during a break.