20 Iconic Movie Scenes That Nearly Killed Their Stars
18. Omar Doom and Eli Roth: Inglourious Basterds
His breakthrough film, “Reservoir Dogs”, was filmed on a shoestring budget in an abandoned warehouse, keeping the dozen respected actors in the film’s core cast at each other’s throats for the duration.
“Kill Bill” was similarly brutal. Uma Thurman studied for over a year in martial arts, Japanese, Chinese, and physical conditioning to become Tarantino’s vision of a spurned Bride left for dead and out for revenge.
2009’s “Inglourious Basterds” was the movie that almost took it too far. The film’s climax revolves around a burning movie theater filled with dozens of high-ranking Nazis, all being gunned down in typical gory fashion by actors Omar Doom and Eli Roth.
The scene was filmed with very few special effects. The flames used in the theater set were far hotter than anyone anticipated, causing a steel rod holding up a swastika flag to snap from the heat.
Several of the extras in the scene reported being terrified that the whole set would burn down, and both Doom and Roth were forced to stand very close to the barely-controlled blaze holding machine guns for hours at a time.
