Why This Apocalypse Now Stunt Was Pure Insanity 🤯

Ajouté : 2026-06-07

[00:00:00]And uh >> Remember how they were baiting the tiger, though?

[00:00:02]>> With the little pig.

[00:00:03]>> The guy, that crazy stuntman.

[00:00:06]>> The crew was terrified of a wild tiger on set, but the handler only cared if the tiger got hurt.

[00:00:12]That crazy stuntman baiting the beast with a pig was Terry Leonard.

[00:00:16]>> Terry Leonard was holding a pig.

[00:00:18]>> Yeah.

[00:00:19]>> And trying to get the tiger all And then if the tiger jumped with the pig, he threw the pig in a wooden box and closed the door so the tiger Could you remember that?

[00:00:28]>> Yeah, but then the tiger got the pig.

[00:00:30]>> It got him >> [laughter] >> and dragged Terry Leonard through the bushes as well.

[00:00:33]>> The tiger got the pig and ran off to eat it, I assume.

[00:00:37]And and that that was a very dangerous tiger.

[00:00:39]>> The crew on Apocalypse Now was dodging a real man-eating tiger, a brutal category five typhoon, and Martin Sheen's actual near-fatal heart attack.

[00:00:50]>> And I remember Freddy Forrest is in the front cuz he was He was there with you, but he was a little ahead of you. And I kept saying, "Freddy, get closer. Get closer."

[00:00:59]I'm getting closer.

[00:01:01]And that was it. That tiger did kill someone in subsequent years.

[00:01:05]>> I know it.