Rob Zombie Reveals CSI: Miami Star David Caruso Is “Not Great With” Driving, Doors, Sitting

Rob Zombie directed an episode of CSI: Miami recently – but he probably won’t be directing a second one.

Last night on Fox News’ Red Eye, Zombie seemed like he really wanted to vent about the “longest three weeks of my life,” directing David Caruso on the hit CBS show.

Zombie says he started out “enthusiastic,” but by the last day, “I wouldn’t even get up from the chair, I was sitting behind the monitor, he’d be like ‘how was I?’ and I go, ‘I don’t give a shit.'”

So what was the deal with Caruso, who is famous for basically this? Zombie said he set up a scene for Caruso to drive into, when he was told, “‘David’s not great with driving.”

I was like, ‘okay, we won’t have him driving car, he’ll already be parked, and he’ll step out,’ they go, ‘he’s not good with doors.’

Apparently he’s also not so great with sitting either.

Zombie hired his friend Malcolm McDowell to play the bad guy in the episode, and McDowell “purposely came in with the idea he was going to drive David Caruso up a wall.” Zombie said McDowell would make him wait to do his close-up shots and, the greatest sin of all, would step on Caruso’s famous button line at the end of each scene. “Mission accomplished,” he said. (And cue Who scream.)

Here’s the full interview:

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