Bud Spencer not only plays the tough guy, he also shoots all his scenes
Bud Spencer is not only difficult in movies but also in life. Bud Spencer (Carlo Pedersoli, 1929-2016) is a prominent figure in many people’s childhoods, as his own films or those made with Terence Hill are mostly works classics and has a real following at home. The star, who worked as a swimmer, water polo player, and later an actor, is known for his intense slaps and kicks.
However, Levente Király’s book: Following Piedone reveals that he not only played a tough guy, but filmed all of his scenes, and in those scenes, other people received a few slaps. actually, causing some serious injuries. His former colleague, Riccardo Pizzuti, for example, was brutally beaten by him in 19 films, which he recalls as follows:
Bud Spencer’s fists are heavy. I got a lot from him. Stuntman Sergio Smacchi was hit so hard he almost went deaf because Bud hit his ear instead of his shoulder and punctured his eardrum. So it wasn’t easy at first, but over time we got used to it very clearly: in the movie “Mercenary” I got two or three of these blows to the head when pressed. in the sand that I still remember day.
Of course, I just told him “Go on, I’m fine!”, and he kept hitting me. In the movie, I didn’t pull out my teeth, but beans. We paint the real teeth black on the front, to make it look like I don’t have any teeth left, and we use beans for extraction, usually white beans. On the set of And We Get Angry Again, in one move that wasn’t Bud’s fault, I flew so hard that I broke two ribs.
And from that, it turns out that a skit that’s fun for viewers is a serious, dangerous business for some actors, not just about spitting white beans out of their mouths at just the right time to look like them. spitting out. their teeth, but they also watch so they don’t get hurt and still make the scene beautiful.