Dan Aykroyd and John Landis: how we made The Blues Brothers | Film | The Guardian
I remember coming into the diner with Aretha Franklin s backup dancers when we were shooting her number, Think. My legs, stomach and solar plexus turned to jelly when she started to sing. Honestly, I didn t know how I was going to get up from the stool and do the moves.
We lost John one night. But it wasn t because he was high, it was because he was hungry and didn t like what was available to eat on set. I couldn t find him anywhere. Finally, I saw this path going through a parking lot and into a nearby neighbourhood so I followed it. The neighbourhood was dark except for one house. I knock on the door and say, Excuse me, we re shooting a movie and missing one of our actors. The guy goes, Oh, Belushi? He came in about an hour ago, raided my fridge and crashed on my couch.
At the time, cocaine was a currency. For some of the crew working nights, it was almost like coffee. I never liked it myself but I wasn t going to police others behaviour. We drove John Landis crazy. Sometimes he didn t know whether we were going to show up for work after the parties, but Belushi was a professional and there was no way he wouldn t come through.