00:00The breakup of the hottest indie director duo, brothers Josh and Benny Safdie, has mystified
00:05Hollywood.
00:06Rumors swirled that one brother went full MAGA, creating tensions, while the other brother
00:10was in the background.
00:10The duo vaguely blamed the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike in conversation with colleagues.
00:15Speculation only intensified when Josh nabbed four Oscar nominations for his solo
00:20effort, Marty Supreme, while Benny came up empty-handed for his The Smashing Machine.
00:25But now, Page Six Hollywood can reveal that the root of the quarrel stems from a much more
00:30darker incident that occurred on the set of their 2017 breakout, Good Time.
00:35With Benny cutting ties with his brother in 2023, after he learned the full scope of the event,
00:40According to Good Time sources, a 17-year-old girl was cast to play a prostitute
00:45in the crime thriller.
00:46Once on set, the teenager was thrust into a scene that
00:50involved nudity and simulated sex with actor Buddy Duress during production in
00:55New York.
00:56As part of their verite style, the Saptis were known for using a mix of perfect
01:00professional stars like the film's lead, Robert Pattinson, as well as non-actors like Duress.
01:05Who had just been released from prison.
01:07While Josh watched the action unfold on his monitor.
01:10and Benny stood in the corner holding the boom, Duress, who was high at the time,
01:15exp-
01:15and exposed himself to the 17-year-old as the cameras continued to roll.
01:19Multiple sources tell
01:20Page Six Hollywood.
01:21An on-set source who noted that Josh, and not Benny, was the-
01:25defacto commander on set, said quote,
01:27Any director who had seen that should have yet
01:30yelled cut and stopped the scene, but Josh let it continue.
01:34Three sources say
01:35Billy Josh, who is now vying for this year's Best Director Oscar, became aware of the
01:39girls' age
01:40stage on the day of production, shortly after the scene shot, as the traumatized girl
01:45world.
01:46However, Josh declined to comment.
01:48Those familiar with the chain of events say Josh-
01:50Josh's recklessness was beyond the pale.
01:52The Safdies removed the scene sometime before they-
01:55the A24 film made its splashy world premiere at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
02:00Sources close to them insist that the scene was excised for creative reasons.
02:05But the repercussions of that incident didn't surface until 2022, when their former-
02:10producing partner, Sebastian Cebo Behr-McClard, became locked in a bitter devour-
02:15divorce with actress Emily Ratajkowski, threatening to expose the good time dirty laundry.
02:20Sources also said Behr-McClard had deliances on the set of the Safdies uncut-
02:25gems, including an extramarital fling with a cast member, a rep for the siblings-
02:30at the time, said they were, quote, made aware of McClard's behavior in July 2022.
02:35It was also the moment Benny was made aware of the good time actress' age, creating a
02:40way-
02:40edge between the brothers, as one friend of theirs described it.
02:43Josh blamed Behr-McClard for-
02:45After hiring a minor, Behr-McClard push-backed and noted that he wasn't the producer responsible
02:50for-
02:50for ensuring her age.
02:51Sources also noted that Behr-McClard wasn't in the room when-
02:55Duress tried to have on-camera sex with the teen.
02:58The brothers cut ties with Behr-McClard-
03:00and began private mediation to unravel the company the trio founded.
03:05Quote-
03:05You don't all of a sudden develop a moral conscious six years later.
03:08Like, that's not how it works.
03:10A source familiar with the drama said.
03:12Still, the Safdies continued to work with one another-
03:15for another nine months amid mounting tensions.
03:18In early 2023, they were in-
03:20pre-production on yet another red-hot property that would reunite them with their uncut gem
03:25star-
03:25director, Adam Sandler, at Netflix.
03:27Then, in March of 2023, a report revealed-
03:30the behind-the-scenes drama of Ratajkowski's split from Behr-McClard, which included some
03:34of the-
03:35details from the Good Time incident, including the girl's age.
03:39It was the final straw for Behr-
03:40Benny, who swiftly ended his creative partnership with his brother, Insider Say.
03:44As a result, they're-
03:45the Sandler project for Netflix was suddenly dead.
03:47The brothers then went their separate ways, with Josh-
03:50tackling Marty Supreme with Timothee Chalamet, and Benny pivoting to The Smashing Machine
03:54with Dwayne the-
03:55Rock Johnson.
03:56As the town pondered the Safdie breakup, it turns out the sibling rivalry-
04:00in this year's Oscar race is merely a secondary drama.
04:04Now that the dust has settled-
04:05on this year's Oscar nominations, it's clear that Josh prevailed, with Marty Supreme landing
04:109-
04:10nominations overall, while The Smashing Machine earned just one in a minor category.
04:15The description is for each other.
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