• FoxyFerengi@startrek.website
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    19 hours ago

    He was cast because he was in the mad max movie a couple years before, and the director thought he could hold his own ground opposite Schwarzenegger

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      19 hours ago

      Thanks for the info! So he did kind of let himself go after being in mad Max, because yeah, that character would have been a decent bad guy.

      I’m just surprised they were like,'fuck it, we already bought a chainmail shirt his size, and I’m not watching anymore casting VHS’s

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        What’s wonderful is that isn’t even a chainmail shirt. It’s loose-knit sweater vest. I’m not sure if they were hoping no one would notice, or if most of us watched it on 480p VHS.

        I like to think that his grandma knitted it for him.

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          Was it maybe supposed to be chainmail?

          They sometimes use (or at least used to) knittings like this as chainmail stand-ins during stunts or for background extras. LoTR is full of it