Yes, he probably did. Did you?
Bolding added.
Only slightly related but Depp did a similar scene in 21 Jump Street (of which I was a major fan growing up). For those with the poor judgement to have never seen the show, Depp plays an uncover police officer who uses his young appearance to fit in among the younger crowd (high schoolers, etc).
In one episode, he snorts cocaine while out on assignment. This was done in full view of the other drug users and you are convinced in the shots afterwards he was really high and had given in to the temptation to try it. At the end of the episode you realize he is not and the moral lesson is something along the lines of “See? You can be high on life and its just as cool and way safer than drugs”.
I distinctly remember trying to figure out how he’d managed (as a cop) to make it look so real without actually doing it, especially while they were watching him so closely. When questioned he simply tells the addicts something along the lines of “I am a cop… you think I don’t know how to fake taking a hit?”.
My Hollywood friend says they use powdered sugar.
It would have the right consistency, would be harmless, and probably wouldn’t cause too much burn.
Right. Travolta. My bad !!
Confectioner’s sugar? Eeeeech. Imagine? “Diabetic coma result of snorting sugar. Medical personnel mystified”.
Hey, Q.E.D., did you read this line?
(emphasis mine)
The director explained it as “powdered milk” because it’s a powder and a milk derivative and he probably didn’t know the difference, or at least didn’t count on the people around him to know. But the reporter described it as lactose, not powdered milk, which has a wide variety of other things in it along with the lactose. Note that the reporter himself did not describe it that way and clearly hedged it by claiming only that the director said they were snorting milk, not that they actually were.
Lactose would dissolve pretty quickly. Snorting powdered milk seems like a bad idea as it would leave, you know, milk solids in your sinuses. Would you want that? I’m sure they could do better for the purposes of a movie.
Whoosh!
What’s the difference between a quote and an article? Which one did you mean again?
I just hope it’s not a kitten. The orange ones’ll fuck you up.
I assumed that was powdered sugar all over Al Pacino’s scarred face, but am open to being corrected.
What the hell are you talking about? And why do people say “whoosh” after saying something that simply doesn’t make sense? A whoosh is a joke or a sarcastic remark that goes over someone’s head. Do you feel that you’ve made a joke here? Simply saying something bizarre or misstating facts is not the same as “whooshing” someone. Or are you just coming up with a really, really lame excuse for getting yet another thing wrong?
And I didn’t read the article. I read the quoted portion. Or is this another “whoosh”?
Maybe by “whoosh” he onomatopoeically referred to the sound of powder being sucked up a tube.
OK, regardless of whether it was lactose or powdered milk, the Hollywood consensus, from what I gather from those quotes, is that it doesn’t cause unpleasant effects, whereas the manitol does. And presumably, the lactose looks enough like the real thing that some movies have found it perfectly acceptable. So why would they use manitol instead, which the actors all said did have unpleasant side effects?
Also note that I’m not interested in what street dealers use to cut their product, or why. I have no difficulty believing that an unscrupulous dealer might use any old white powder, without regards to what effects it might have on the user. I’m personally only curious about what actors would use to look like they’re snorting coke, in a movie or play, and it looks like that’s what the OP is after, too.