Allan Cole, continuing his stories of writing for The Incredible Hulk TV series, reveals a fact I never knew about the show…
After all, it was Lou Ferrigno who played the Hulk, right?
Right.
But Lou didn’t do his own stunts. The guy who actually crashed through buildings, jumped off cliffs, and generally beat the hell out of the bad guys, was Manny Perry, one of the premier body builders and stunt men of his era. He was also black.
It seems they cast seventy or eighty guys to stand in for Lou, but only Manny was big enough to double Ferrigno and athletic enough to do the stunts. As Manny once told an interviewer, “They figured green is green and who could tell the difference?”
via My Hollywood Misadventures: Lou Ferrigno And The Harley Hulkout.
After all, it was Lou Ferrigno who played the Hulk, right?
Right.
But Lou didn’t do his own stunts. The guy who actually crashed through buildings, jumped off cliffs, and generally beat the hell out of the bad guys, was Manny Perry, one of the premier body builders and stunt men of his era. He was also black.
It seems they cast seventy or eighty guys to stand in for Lou, but only Manny was big enough to double Ferrigno and athletic enough to do the stunts. As Manny once told an interviewer, “They figured green is green and who could tell the difference?”
via My Hollywood Misadventures: Lou Ferrigno And The Harley Hulkout.
- 11/10/2011
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
MPAA bowing 2nd PSA Fri. to combat piracy
In a much more innocuous effort to curb the spread of piracy than the controversial screener ban, the MPAA said Wednesday that it will release a second public service announcement trailer to 5,000 U.S. theaters Friday as part of the organization's "Respect Copyrights" campaign against piracy. The second trailer, underwritten by Fuji Photo Film USA Inc., Deluxe Entertainment Services Inc. and Technicolor, continues the campaign of profiling men and women who work behind the scenes in the movie industry in an effort to educate consumers on the growing threat of digital piracy. The campaign, titled "Movies. They're Worth It", is being produced by 20th Century Fox. The second trailer features stuntman Manny Perry. The first one, launched in July, centered on set painter David Goldstein.
- 10/23/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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