"I'm in the process of stopping filming," said the portly star of films such as Cyrano de Bergerac, Green Card and Jean de Florette.
Wal-Mart Stores came to Manhattan for a peak at a movie about itself.
But before it got the chance, a Wal-Mart consultant was told to leave the theater after the director accused him of trying to secretly record the film.
Minutes into the premier of the film, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, the director, Robert Greenwald, said he spotted the consultant pointing his open cell-phone toward the screen. A
confrontation ensued in the lobby. "Get out of here," Greenwald
yelled, according to the director and a Wal-Mart spokeswoman. "This is a disgrace."
The spokeswoman, Mia Masten, said she and two consultants had bought tickets to the screening "to find out what they were saying so we can correct it." Masten said the consultant who was asked to leave, John Marino, was trying to call her because she was running late.
"Why would we record it?" she said, "We bought tickets."
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