Laurence Fishburne saved Emilio Estevez from drowning in quicksand when they were both 14 years old.
The actors were on location in the Philippines for Apocalypse Now. Estevez was not in the film, but his father, Martin Sheen, was. At the time, Sheen would travel with his family on long shoots in faraway places, so that they could remain close — physically and emotionally.
“We’d only known each other a couple of days,” Estevez said of Fishburne on The…