sci-fi classic, “RoboCop,” and Moore’s story about him took place right when they were filming the legendary movie. He served as the head of the property department, and during preparations for a scene, he had a minor disagreement with the leading actor, who behaved like a pampered child.
As Moore reminisced in an interview (via Far Out Magazine), “While we were filming in the steel mill, Peter was upstairs; I went up with around eight Oreos stacked. I handed him his weapon. ‘Safety’s off’. He refused to take the gun and said, ‘Robo wants an Oreo’. I replied, ‘No, Robo doesn’t get an Oreo, if Peter wants an Oreo, then Peter can have one’.”
Weller was not pleased with the pushback he encountered while attempting to secure his cookie, and, it seems, he walked over to the railing and yelled, “Robo wants an Oreo!” to have his request fulfilled. Nevertheless, Moore was not the type to yield or succumb to such childish antics, and he stuffed all eight Oreos into his mouth as he observed Weller grow increasingly frustrated. He remarked, “Robo got upset.” When Weller was questioned about the encounter, he asserted that he had no memory of it, stating, “I don’t know what the hell he’s talking about.” However, according to Moore, he did manage to get an Oreo from a crew member so the scene could proceed.
