A Most Difficult Challenge

Try not to think of Taggert and a bunch of cowboys after viewing this image:

“I am the first person in motion [picture] history to fart. … Mel says I’m going to make you famous today. I knew what we were doing but I didn’t know I was going to be the first,” Gilliam said.

“If Mel was sitting here right now he’d say, ‘Warner Brothers gave me 3 million dollars and told me to have fun and that’s what we did, we had no idea of what it was going to become,” Gilliam said.

Gilliam was a fireman in Dallas, Texas when he got the call from Brooks to do the movie.

“We did that scene probably 35 times from different directions. We probably did it a hundred times. The first couple of times we did it, naturally we were doing our very very best, but after a few times unless you’re absolutely super human, we had to bring in the extras and let them do some scenes from off camera or something.”

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