With his little cult thing he has, I’ve always figured execs just fawn all over him as being the coolest kid in school. I think it’s some gross combination of that and what you said. It sounds like all of his ‘method acting’ stunts make him unbearable to work with too, so it just makes no sense. I can’t remember what he actually said but whenever this was getting filmed I saw something jeff bridges said about him and it amounted to the Dude’s version of bless his heart. Nothing bad, but his entire description of working with him was like ‘he’s out there man’ or something.