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Idris Elba thought he got shot in the head filming ‘American Gangster’
late actor John Erik Hexum, who died after discharging a blank pistol against his temple as a gag in 1984.“I said to Idris, ‘Listen, when he puts the gun to your head, lean on the gun,'” the Oscar-winning “Alien” director told the Daily Mail. “Because, by the way, this is a gun with a solid barrel, there is no aperture, I would never risk it — but when you pull the trigger, there’s no blank, nothing.”Elba heeded Scott’s direction, and Washington “pulled the trigger and it goes bang.
