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Coldmoon @sh.itjust.works

2d ago

TIL Danny Trejo has a clause in his movie contracts that requires his villainous characters to die by the end of the film. He wants children to learn that crime doesn't pay.

toofab.com 11 Unexpected Clauses That Ended Up In Actor's Contracts

From mandatory golf sessions to 3 mobile phones to number of punches the star can be seen taking -- these demands range from understandable to wild.

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A bit out of context without considering that every character he plays is a bad guy. He was one.
And the point is to scare children (his children), so they avoid commiting the same mistakes he did. Any normal adult would notice this, right?
- I believe their is an anecdote about his character robbing somewhere and the actor stopping to give the director notes about how to actually do it.
  
  Reminds me a bit of when Christopher Lee told Peter Jackson how people actually react to being stabbed in the back.
- Not a film, but he was a playable character (as himself) in the "Call of the Dead" map for Call of Duty Zombies. But even as a good guy, that mode is endless survival, so he inevitability dies in the end.
  Edit: I guess he technically doesn't die if you survive long enough that the game resets at the ~70 hour 'killscreen'.

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