“Bob was right next to me and it’s like, ‘S–t’, and he’s screaming in my face and I’m looking down, ‘What do we do? Should we drop - there’s rocks and s–t down there,'” John recalls.

Amazingly, Chris, who is an athlete and a dancer, pulled himself up and into the helicopter, which flew up leaving Bobby and I hanging from the sliced cable in an absolute panic knowing this could be the end of our lives.” John says: “We knew we were in trouble when the cables got cut. Many of them saw us as a way of making a quick buck.” While Michael hired armed guards for the cast, it was actually a scene where John, Robert, and Christopher find themselves dangling from a bridge that was the real danger when their metal safety cables were accidentally sliced by a helicopter. We almost got killed,” John says, adding, “Back then that country was far from stable, and armed refugees and military groups were running wild. But John knows the cast was lucky to finish the movie unscathed. “Bob, Chris, and I are lucky to be alive. “Bobby was our leader, he and the director made sure this film would become special,” John continues.

The deer hunter cast