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Keep going!' and that's when he got up and did three little hops The remaining cast members have stayed in touch during the last 25 years, and Matheson, McGill and Widdoes still get together to play golf It killed me," McGill said Belushi Went Ballistic on 'Animal House' Jul 11, 11:02 AM EST Bruce McGill recalls that some of John Belushi's funniest moments in the 1978 college fraternity comedy "Animal House" didn't amuse the late comic at all " McGill adds, "Let's not overlook the great feeling of being in a bona fide class hit "It was really an exceptional experience He thought of himself as a physical guy "John was a force of nature But it didn't break on the first take " Another scene of the fraternity members bringing a horse into the dean's office also didn't go as planned for Belushi, but director John Landis loved it "He went ballistic," said McGill, who played D-Day " In one scene, Belushi smashes a guitar "He actually slipped for real on the wet grass and was furious that he had slipped," said James Widdoes, who played Hoover You know, they aren't all " Producer Ivan Reitman and actors Tim Matheson (Otter), Stephen Furst (Flounder), Martha Smith (Babs) and Mark Metcalf (Neidermeyer) recently reunited to promote "Go Inside: Animal House," a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the movie The TNN special airs in August " "My biggest laugh in the movie is when he slips "He was furious because he hated to look inept physically "The experience was one of tremendous fun and fraternity," Matheson said 1??PID=2314887&UIT=G&TargetID=1038707&AN=11532&PG=ENT9AO" target="_blank"><img src="http://global She thought it would be a great opportunity to work in the Bahamas for a few weeks He blew out his knee while playing volleyball during a break from shooting aspx?c=598235 class="art">Blanchard Ryan and =/celebs/celeb "We didn't know if it was going to be sunny, rainy, wavy, jellyfish or no jellyfish," adds Ryan Travis, who with Ryan spent roughly 120 hours in the water during the film's production, says swimming with the sharks didn't faze him Lau is working on a screenplay that she hopes to direct with Kentis producing gif" alt="" height="13" width="71" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top: 3px"><img id="ctrlRateNews_166712_RTS1" class="ib" onMouseOver="RMOv(this);" onFocus=RMOv(this); onMouseOut="RMOt(this);" onClick="ROC(this);" onKeyPress="ROC(this)" tabIndex=0 pid="ctrlRateNews_166712" src="http://entimg Inspired by a true story about two divers left stranded in the open ocean, they decided to make a movie about what it would be like to be left alone in the middle of the ocean, surrounded by hungry sharks and other creatures of the deep For the most part the filmmakers lucked out msn aspx?c=598236 class="art">Daniel Travis as the divers and filled in the dialogue But when you're in a situation where you're out of the normal range of control and facing the unknown, it's very frightening "It was pretty much every risk you can possibly take as an actor," says Ryan, sitting alongside her co-star for an interview com/i/rt_str-e He even used the actors' real names for the characters "That was the most devastating part of the shoot for me," says Kentis, who previously collaborated with his wife on the 1997 indie "=/movies/movie " Kentis and Lau say the actors were never in real danger and every safety precaution was taken He was more troubled at the prospect of doing nudity, he jokes "We had to be ready to shoot any scene on any given day," recalls Travis Feeding Time <FONT size=3>The cast and crew reflect on working with actual sharks for the indie horror hit "Open Water"</FONT> <EM>By Angela Dawson Entertainment News Wire</EM> HOLLYWOOD -- Nearly 30 years ago, =/celebs/celeb "You don't see it in the film, but we were paddling non-stop," recalls Ryan Travis' sole injury didn't even occur during filming msn "It kind of blows our mind," says Kentis aspx%3fnews%3d166712&subject=MSN Entertainment - News - Feeding Time&title=Email+This+Page&type=page" class="vl">Email This Page</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;padding-top:20px;padding-left:15px;"><tr><td><span id="ctrlRateNews_166712" style="visibility:hidden"><input type="hidden" name="rating" value="-1"/><table class="r-outer" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td valign="top"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><img id="ctrlRateNews_166712_RTI" src="http://entimg gif" alt="" height="15" width="16" border="0"><img id="ctrlRateNews_166712_RTS3" class="ib" onMouseOver="RMOv(this);" onFocus=RMOv(this); onMouseOut="RMOt(this);" onClick="ROC(this);" onKeyPress="ROC(this)" tabIndex=0 pid="ctrlRateNews_166712" src="http://entimg I have a huge passion for it now Lau says she was careful not to get too close to the sharks because she feared dropping the equipment in the water Now, just when it looked safe to go back in the water, here comes the indie shark movie "=/movies/movie He discovered through research that the incident wasn't an isolated one Kentis himself had been left behind once during an offshore dive, but he was retrieved fairly quickly gif" alt="" height="15" width="16" border="0"><img id="ctrlRateNews_166712_RTS5" class="ib" onMouseOver="RMOv(this);" onFocus=RMOv(this); onMouseOut="RMOt(this);" onClick="ROC(this);" onKeyPress="ROC(this)" tabIndex=0 pid="ctrlRateNews_166712" src="http://entimg "We thought Sundance would be the pinnacle of our experience but here we are getting this ridiculously commercial release But the sharks, which are real and potentially dangerous, are pretty frightening in this suspenseful low-budget feature The filmmakers devised a tethering system that would keep the actors near the camera, but a couple of wide-angle shots called for the actors to be alone in the open water for extended periods of time "The current was so strong, it almost pushed us over on our backs "We weren't making any sudden, rash splashing movements to appear to look like food," Travis says ) Filming in the Bahamas with a miniscule budget of $120,000, Kentis and Lau shot on digital video to capture a sense of immediacy and "realness " OK com/i/rt_str-e aspx?c=123313 class="art">Steven Spielberg's "=/movies/movie With a bare bones crew -- Kentis, Lau, Lau's sister, a boat captain and a boy ladling tuna chum in the water -- the filmmakers shared directing and writing duties It was the first feature sold this year at the Sundance Film Festival We had to paddle to stay upright Using their own resources, Kentis and Lau, both certified divers, made "Open Water," their second feature film, on and off over the course of three years Husband and wife filmmakers =/celebs/celeb Joining a crowd of other vacationers on a dive boat excursion, Susan and Daniel are inadvertently left behind in the open ocean One of the biggest challenges was negotiating the strong currents 20 miles off the coast of Nassau The day they had scheduled to shoot a jellyfish scene, the jellyfish showed up "That was the only time during our whole shoot that we saw jellyfish," says Kentis com/i/rt_str-e aspx?c=171060 class="art">Billy Crudup For starters, the actors were instructed to keep still and be calm while shooting the scenes with the sharks msn Though told upfront she would be working with sharks as part of the gig, she figured it would be only a couple of sharks located a safe distance away gif" alt="" height="15" width="16" border="0"><img id="ctrlRateNews_166712_RTS2" class="ib" onMouseOver="RMOv(this);" onFocus=RMOv(this); 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onMouseOut="RMOt(this);" onClick="ROC(this);" onKeyPress="ROC(this)" tabIndex=0 pid="ctrlRateNews_166712" src="http://entimg " Ryan and Travis play a stressed-out yuppie couple whose island holiday goes terribly wrong Yet the intriguing subject matter was largely unexplored on film msn net/ads/383/0000000383_000000000000000085890 com/i/rt_str-e The bull sharks and gray reef sharks were constantly fed their favorite meal, tuna (Shots of the couple splashing around and screaming were shot later when the sharks were not around "I had originally planned to go to a special location to find them for the underwater portion of the scene, but out of nowhere they came to us Ryan later was nibbled by a barracuda and has a small scar near her thumb to prove it " "We'd do a take and at the end of it, we'd be 300 yards off the back of the boat," adds Travis They wore chain mail under their scuba outfits for protection It's amazing and it keeps going on and on msn com%2fmovies%2farticle com/i/rt_str-e gif" alt="" height="15" width="16" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top: 3px"><span id="ctrlRateNews_166712_RT2" class="r-cap1"> ) Working almost exclusively outdoors in the open ocean, the production was at the mercy of Mother Nature, which is partly why filming took so long Travis, a stage actor making his big-screen debut, says he always wanted to learn to scuba dive "The most daunting aspect for me was the fact that there would be two characters and we would be responsible for carrying the film," he says "We think we're in control of our lives and know our environment Cold, alone and miles from land, they experience a range of emotions as they bob along in the water aspx?c=265902 class="art">Laura Lau insist they didn't set out to make a scary movie about sharks "I was thinking to myself, 'I'm going to die out here,'" says Ryan, a blond, blue-eyed beauty msads " </td></tr></table></td><td valign="Top"><table class="adtbl" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:300px;border-collapse:collapse;"><tr><td><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:300px;border-collapse:collapse;"><tr><td align="Right" style="color:gray;font-size:7pt;">advertisement</td></tr><tr><td><!--BeginAd(ENT9AO,MediumShowcase)-->="http://g Kentis and Lau have been deluged with offers to write and produce other films since Sundance but haven't decided what they will do next |
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