Arnold Schwarzenegger has recalled having to bite a dead vulture while filming action movie Conan the Barbarian.
Schwarzenegger, 76, played the titular character in the 1982 John Milius-directed flick and performed a number of his own stunts.
The Austria-born actor and former California governor reflects on this experience in his upcoming book, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life, which sets out the seven rules he claims that have helped him gain international success.
“I learned to ride horses and camels and elephants. I learned how to jump from large rocks, how to climb and swing from long ropes, how to fall from a height,” he writes in the book.
“I basically went to another vocational school, this one for aspiring action heroes.
“Then on top of that, Milius had me doing all kinds of terrible s***. I crawled through rocks, take after take, until my forearms bled. I ran from wild dogs that managed to catch me and pull me into a thorn bush.”
He then goes on to detail having to bite a dead vulture several times for a scene in which Conan is tied to a tree.
“I bit a real, dead vulture that required I wash my mouth out with alcohol after each take. (Peta [the animal rights organisation] would have a field day with that one.),” he jokes.
Elsewhere, Schwarzenegger recently told how he once threw his daughter’s shoes in the fire to “teach her a life lesson”.
The Terminator star has four children with ex-wife Maria Shriver including Katherine, 33, Christina, 31, Patrick, 30, and Christopher, 26.
He is also dad to Joseph Baena, 25, from his affair with housekeeper Mildred Baena.
In a new interview he told People magazine how his “bossy and tough” approach has worked wonders in raising well-rounded kids.
He explained that he took drastic action after daughter Katherine failed to put her shoes away multiple times, saying: “As a matter of fact, Katherine comes over with [her three-year-old daughter] Lyla and she says, ‘Lyla, I told you already not to put the shoes there.
‘Keep your shoes on or you put them away, but you don’t leave them there by the stand in front of the fireplace because you know what Daddy did? When I left my shoes there twice? The third time, he burned them in front of me and I cried.’”
Claiming that his daughter now uses the same methods she “cried and complained over”.
