Arnold Schwarzenegger Says ‘Conan’ Director ‘Had Me Doing Terrible S—‘ on Set Like Biting a ‘Real, Dead Vulture’: ‘PETA Would Have a Field Day With That One’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s new self-help book and memoir “Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life” recalls the crazy things he had to do to pull off his most iconic film roles.
Most wildly, he reveals that he bit into a real, deal vulture while filming takes for 1982’s “Conan the Barbarian.” Schwarzenegger writes that the film’s director, John Milius, forced him to do “terrible shit” during the making of the film. “I learned to ride horses and camels and elephants.
I learned how to jump from large rocks, how to climb and swing from long ropes, how to fall from a height,” Schwarzenegger writes (via Insider). “I basically went to another vocational school, this one for aspiring action heroes.” “Then on top of that, Milius had me doing all kinds of terrible shit.
I crawled through rocks, take after take, until my forearms bled. I ran from wild dogs that managed to catch me and pull me into a thorn bush,” Schwarzenegger continues. “I bit a real, dead vulture that required I wash my mouth out with alcohol after each take. (PETA would have a field day with that one.).
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