Arnold Schwarzenegger has released a new self-help book and memoir titled Be Helpful: Seven Tools for Life and in that book he shares some of the crazy things he had to do for some of the film projects he worked on. One of the wildest films she worked on was Conan the Barbarianand reveals some of the director’s crazy stuff Giovanni Milius forced him to do “terrible shit,” like biting into a real dead vulture! He said:
“I learned to ride horses, camels and elephants. I learned to jump from large rocks, how to climb and swing on long ropes, how to fall from heights. I basically went to another trade school, this one for aspiring action heroes.”
He then spoke about the darker side of the experience, saying:
“And then on top of that, Milius made me do all kinds of terrible things. I crawled among the rocks, take after take, until my forearms bled. I ran away from the wild dogs who managed to catch me and drag me into a thorny bush. I bit a real dead vulture which forced me to wash my mouth out with alcohol after every take. (PETA would have a lot of fun with that.). On one of the first days of filming I got a gash on my back that required forty stitches.”
So, it sounds like it would be fun! Despite the suffering she had to endure, she wasn’t afraid to do it all over again and jumped at the opportunity to make the sequel, Conan the destroyer. That first Conan movie really launched his career, so I guess all those sacrifices paid off.
He also talked about James Cameron’S The Terminator and how he was forced to perform every stunt with a gun blindfolded. He explained:
“In ‘Terminator,’ I was becoming a machine: I blindfolded myself until I could do every gun stunt with my eyes closed, and I fired so many shots from distance that I no longer blinked when my gun went off. In “Terminator 2,” I practiced cocking the shotgun so many times that my knuckles bled for what amounted to two seconds of screen time. I didn’t complain.”
I love those old Arnold Schwarzenegger movies! He has certainly made some fantastic films over the course of his epic career.
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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