“I got up one morning and turned on the television, and I swear to god they said, ‘The Flynt house is surrounded,'” he told Venice Street in 1992. “It’s all over the news media that we’re surrounded by the feds. There are helicopters everywhere.” Being the accommodating fellow that he was, Hopper wondered if there was anything he could do to assist.
“I went downstairs and found one of Flynt’s bodyguards, a guy who’d been a Green Beret in Vietnam, a killer, a stone fucking killer,” he explained. “I said to him, ‘Is there anything I can do?’ ‘Yeah. Put this grenade in your mouth and run the wall. Or go back to your room.” Wisely, he chose the room.
With over a dozen federal agents outside, Hopper was understandably on edge. “I went to the room, tried to calm myself down, did some more cocaine,” as one does when something like that happens. In the end, Flynt went to prison, and the actor remained in his house until he was cast in the mystery thriller The Inside Man, which necessitated a relocation to Sweden for the production.
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