Wall has explained time and time again that he and Lee were friends and that Lee never wanted to actively hurt him. Wall, for his part, vehemently denied the incident. The director of the film, Robert Clouse, has said that Lee wanted to kill Wall for the injury and thus, their epic fight later on was filmed with Lee actively trying to hurt Wall, to get revenge.Ĭlouse passed away in 1997. Well, as the story goes, Lee was enraged at the incident.

So everything he did was very realistically oriented. And once I fell on the glass, we couldn’t re-use it. I went through four uniform tops - cut the back. But the reality is, you’re using real glass, and I’ve got to fall on that stuff. It was unfortunate mistiming, and both of us felt bad because we were good friends. But each time, I was getting faster in trying to stab him, he caught me, so the bottle didn’t go anywhere and he jammed his fist into it. in the battle scene, for example, he said, “I want you to take the in your right hand and try to stab me in my right pec,” and so I seriously tried to stab him in the right pec, and that was the one scene where he got cut, because he had to hit me between the wrist and the elbow, and the bottle flew away. Here's Wall describing the accident to CBR's Todd Gilchrist back in 2013: It all started when Lee was injured during the filming of a scene. The fight has been the focus of a notable urban legend involved in the film. One of the most famous fights was between Lee and O'Hara, where Lee kills the other man, avenging his sister.

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