The 'Final Destination: Bloodlines' scene where a guy is dragged by his nose ring took 5 days to shoot, the actor said
The actor Richard Harmon said the ambitious stunt involved real fire and took five days to shoot.
He also told BI he had freedom to get weird with his character, and asked to lick a garbage truck.
"Final Destination: Bloodlines" is the sixth chapter in the franchise, which has made over $600 million worldwide since in launched in 2000, according to The Numbers.
The new film follows a student Stefani (Kaitlyn Santa Juana), who has a disturbing dream of her grandmother dying in an accident on a skyscraper in 1968, despite the fact that the older woman survived the incident.
Richard Harmon plays Erik, Stefani's cousin, who works in a tattoo parlor and is covered in piercings. In a standout scene in the film, he's working late when he gets his septum ring caught on a chain attached to a ceiling fan, and cleaning fluid accidentally catches fire below him.
He told BI that no computer-generated effects were used to film the scene.
"That was all legitimate. I just had wires on behind me, so if the wire broke, I wouldn't have my nose ripped off. But yeah, they did all that practical. The fire was real, the chain is real," he said.
Explaining how the crew kept him safe while filming the stunt, he said: "The chain had a bit of a breakaway weight, so if the wires were to give out and I got a little bit of pressure on it, the chain would break. It wouldn't hold me up, but it was a ton of fun.
"We shot that sequence actually over five days, which is a lot of time to shoot one thing."
Erik is foul-mouthed, impulsive, and reckless throughout the film. He even provokes Death to murder him while pretending to have sex with a garbage truck.
Asked how much freedom he had with the character, particularly with the garbage truck scene, Harmon said: "The making love to the garbage truck, coitus, so to speak, the beast with two backs, that was in the script, actually!" he recalled, adding that he chose to take the scene a step further.
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