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In Candyman, the scene where Tony Todd had bees flying out of his mouth were REAL BEES. Todd only agreed to do the scene if they pay him $1000 for every bee sting. He earned $27,000 for that scene (files.catbox.moe)

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 133 points 3 months ago

$27,000 does not seem like enough money to endure 27 bee stings simultaneously.

[-] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 37 points 3 months ago

Seems a bit stingy.

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[-] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 3 months ago

Movie is from 1992, so it would be 60k today. Still not enough considering what famous movie actors make.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 months ago

I'd do it every day this week

[-] rubicon@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago

They signed him a blank cheque. I bet he was doing everything he could to get stung.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Dude should have asked for at least 10k/sting could have walked out with a cool $270,000 instead

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

For $270,000 I will let 27 American honeybees sting me. No Africanized bees allowed!

[-] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 months ago

Dude I’d do this for 10% of that fee. Sure stings hurt, but not that much and it passes.

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[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 52 points 3 months ago

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 29 points 3 months ago

Seems like they coulda used drones (not those drones, these drones) and no one would ever have known - and he wouldn't have been stung.

[-] sramder@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

IDK it kinda sounds like they just fired the animal handler and gave him their $27K.

Maybe it was over a few takes or something…

[-] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 10 points 3 months ago

Without knowing anything about it, I'd wager that it's generally not a good idea to mess around too much with a hive.

And picking out a bunch of drones in the amount used in film would no doubt rile up the swarm.

The way they do it is likely the best, safest and least invasive way of using live bees in a film setting.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago

You could be right, but they literally shove the drones out to die when winter comes so I don't think they value them all that highly compared to the workers which are the stinging ones.

[-] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

maybe he was still in character as Kurn and took the challenge as yet another pointless Klingon pain ritual.

[-] addictedtochaos@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

kurn was the best. his outing in deep space nine was a let down, i love kurn.

[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

They paid him "a one thousand dollars" for every sting? Pretty good deal.

[-] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Why did they sting him?

[-] rhandyrhoads@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Have you ever put a large amount of bees in your mouth? I haven't personally, but I can't imagine the bees wouldn't take too kindly to it.

[-] MadBob@feddit.nl 5 points 3 months ago

To earn him $1000, of course.

[-] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Because it was in their nature :(

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

when reached for comment, one source close to one of the bees said "you knew he was a bee when you put him in your mouth". they asked to remain anonymous in this grieving time.

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[-] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 months ago

Imagining those stings has me wheezing.

[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Holy shit is that Pure Luck? Haven't seen that shit in 30+ years

[-] Bloodyhog@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Got stung by about 20 bees once (amateur beekeeping incident, taught us to wear proper clothing). Had a fever for a couple days after and did not enjoy it a single bit. $20k though...