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Ultimate Warrior:  RATS!

Q:  This has to be one of the more horrific "bad ends" you've come to as a villain.  I don't suppose the rats were animatronic?
Bill:  Oh they were real.  They were from that rat movie, what was it called?  Willard. They were very gentle, even when one of them poked me in the eye.  They put a peanut butter mix in my beard so they'd nibble on me.
Q:  Still it looks like something you'd want to do in one take.
Bill:  It took several.  When one of the rats shit in my mouth, I told them that would be the last one.

Bill's Errol Flynn look Actually a sweatshirt

The steel-ball-on-a-cable fight

The cable winds around Yul's wrist  Bill backs toward the subway shaft

Q:  Joanne told us you aren't so crazy about heights.  Was that fall down the shaft a special effect?
Bill:  No.  It was only about 18 feet deep.  And there was padding at the bottom.  The hard part wasn't the fall, it was hanging onto that cable for all that time.  Must have been twenty minutes at a time..
Q:  How did they make it look like Yul was holding you up all that time?
Bill:  There was a cable running under his arm.
Q:  Couldn't they have rigged up a harness to hold you up?
Bill:  Wouldn't have looked as good.

Bill hanging onto the cable

Yul trying to get free

Yul cuts off his hand.

Bill drops to the bottom

Q:  One of the earlier scenes from Warrior doesn't have any blood but it does have horrific overtones.  You're kind of playing with that baby and the audience knows you're going to kill it.  But the baby seems to be the only one not afraid of you.
Bill:  Oh, he loved me.  He especially liked my ring.  [Pointing to the guy behind him in the baby scene.]  That guy's a real karate expert.  Great to work with.   [Mel Novak as Lippert]  He'd just done a karate movie with Bob Clouse before this.  [Black Belt Jones]

Above: The innocent baby Left:  Bill & karate expert Mel Novak don't bode well for the baby's  future.

The baby plays with Bill's ring while Bill decides how to use the baby as bait.

A little sartorial aside:

Q:  You had a real Errol Flynn look in this movie.  You really looked more like the ultimate warrior.  We have a studio shot  that appears to be from this film where you're in a mesh shirt, but we never see you in it in the movie.
Bill:  That might have been one of the shirts I wore under the vest.  I wasn't allowed to wear the vest sleeveless.
Q:  What was the reason for that?  It was a great look in your biker movies.  And Carrot was basically a post-apocalypse gang leader.
Bill:  They never told me.

After this interview, the NiteOwls took a guess at why Bill wasn't allowed to sport his sleeveless look.  A comparison of Bill's bare-armed look in his biker movies with Yul Brynner's skinny arms when he went bare-chested suggests someone didn't want a comparison made.

The look we did see. Not bad

The mesh shirt we never saw

Yul sleeveless

Bill's  sleeveless look from Angels Die Hard