An inattentive crew member on the set of the holiday classic “A Christmas Story” nearly sent the movie’s young star to the ER — and it had nothing to do with anybody’s eye getting shot out with a Red Ryder BB gun.
In an interview with IMDb’s “That Scene with Dan Patrick” podcast (as reported by Entertainment Weekly), Billingsley revealed a bizarre screwup left him severely sickened while he was filming a dream sequence in which his character, Ralphie, is fantasizing about saving his family with the BB gun he so desperately wants for Christmas. “The scene says he’s dressed as a sheriff… and the script says he’s chewing tobacco,” Billingsley explained. “So the prop man comes up to me, he’s got this pouch, and it says ‘Red Man’ on it, and he
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