Steven Seagal has an awful reputation for treating co-stars and stuntmen like trash, like kicking stuntmen in the genital area just to see if they’re wearing cups or not, and other “incidents” similar to that.
But, if you thought he stopped at actors who were professionally trained to fight, you are so wrong.
John Leguizamo recalled in 2010 how the karate master let out his insecurities when filming Executive Decision: “I’m playing his Master Sergeant, and we come in for rehearsals and he says, ‘I’m in command. Everything I say is law. Anybody doesn’t agree?’”
After Leguizamo started laughing, came up and he “Taekwondo’ed his ass” against the brick and he hit him with his elbow.
“He’s six-foot-five and he caught me off guard and knocked all of the air out of me and I was like, ‘Why?! Why?!’ I really wanted to say how big and fat he was and that he runs like a girl, but I didn’t because all I could say was, ‘Why?!’ Why’d he slam me against the wall? We were rehearsing.”