Christopher Lee refuses to scream in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | ( #Shorts)
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You ought to see me with a .357 Magnum. I'm awesome.
When Wormtongue rises up and comes up behind Saruman to stab him...
...of course, it was my job as director to talk to Christopher Lee...
...and to explain to him what I wanted.
So I started to go into this long explanation...
...about what sort of sound he should make when he got stabbed.
I seem to recall that I did say to Peter, have you any idea...
...what kind of noise happens when somebody's stabbed in the back?
And I said, well, because I do.
You see, it's not, ah, like that.
It's, oh, because the breath's driven out of your body.
He proceeded to sort of talk about some very clandestine part of World War II.
He used to be in the British Secret Service, whatever they were called, the OSS.
He seemed to have expert knowledge of exactly the sort of noise that they make.
And so I just sort of didn't push the subject any further.

