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Why on earth did John Wayne need a stunt double?!

posted 10 years ago by croak-1
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All he did was stand there at the end of the movie dressed in Roman garb and holding a spear - and saying one sentence! He didn't even move.

A stunt double? Did they mean, instead, a stand-in?

[–] bastasch8647 10 years ago

His god-awful reading of the biblical text was, after all, quite a stunt!

[–] cwente2 10 years ago

Well . . . I don't believe it was his "reading of the line" at all. Rather, the fact that everybody from here to Timbuktu knew it was JOHN WAYNE. In Wayne's own words in True Grit -- "Too much gun."

[–] lightkeeper-1 9 years ago

I didn't recognize him.