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Steven Seagal Nearly Starred in ‘Predator 2’; Here’s the Crazy Story!

Before Glover was brought in for the role, Australian director Stephen Hopkins (A Nightmare on Elm Street 5) had planned to cast another action star in the lead: Steven Seagal.

Hopkins recounts his crazy day with Seagal to Howard Gorman, who interviewed the director in celebration of the film’s 30th anniversary.

“Seagal was on board, and I had to go have a meeting with him at his house, which was one of the craziest afternoons I've had, sort of to talk him out of doing it. It was a bizarre -- he's a very unusual, slightly twisted kind of guy, and in the end I couldn't see myself doing it with him. It didn't feel right. He wasn't the kind of hero... I thought it would just turn into a cheesy -- you know, it's got plenty of cheese now, but it's a kind of cool cheese, I think, as opposed to uncool cheese.

He was desperate to do it. I went up to his house, he crushed my hand and he took me into a room where all the walls were covered with guns. He told me he wanted to play a CIA psychiatrist who is also a martial arts expert and carried a gun. I listened to him for a long time, and he was clearly a little crazy at the time. I said, 'Oh, this is different from the way we were going, so I guess we shouldn't do it.' Then he became really keen to do it, and he threw his arm around me on the way out and he said, 'I want you to come to my ranch in Santa Barbara because I've got a grenade launching range there, so we can go and launch grenades together.' I said, 'Yeah, great, we'll do that.' But that didn't happen. Sorry, I'm not a fan of his, so..."

The South African Advertising Regulatory Board (ARB) has banned the advert on the basis that it entrenches ‘toxic masculinity’ in suggesting that real men drink real beer. In fact, the ARB went as far as to not only call the advert ‘dangerous’, but ‘particularly dangerous’.

‘The reality is that it is exactly the unspoken nature of the communication that makes it particularly dangerous – the gender stereotype portrayed as so normal that it does not even require explanation’, said the ARB.

It took issue with both ‘the entrenchment of the role of men as having to behave in a certain way’ and ‘the entrenchment of male behaviour that is bullying, and what has come to be labelled as ‘toxic masculinity’.

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19.02.2021, 16:28

Interessant in dem Zusammenhang finde ich ja, dass die letztjährige Theorie um einen Laborunfall als Ursache, vielerorts mit rechter Schwurbelei abgetan wurde, derweil nun die Uni Hamburg gestern das veröffentlichte:
https://www.uni-hamburg.de/newsroom/pre ... 1/pm8.html