Lucas, then, turned every offer down—but it wasn’t easy. “That was a very dark period for me,” he said later.33 “We were in dire financial straits.… I turned that down [Lady Ice] at my bleakest point, when I was in debt to my parents, in debt to Francis Coppola, in debt to my agent; I was so far in debt I thought I’d never get out.”34 It took
