 Warhol superstar Joe Dallesandro was originally cast as "Danny," Stanley's older, more experienced counterculture friend, but clashed with the assistant director and was fired from the film after only one day.Michael Greer, Johnson's real-life friend who had appeared with him in "Fortune and Men's Eyes" as his cellmate "Queenie," was then cast in the role.As reported by "The New York Times" and other newspapers in October 1969, MGM announced that Andy Warhol would make his commercial film debut in the movie, in his first-ever speaking role as a "freaked-out psychiatrist" in a hallucination orgy scene.