Actor Zac Efron was banned from crying until the last day of filming on \u2018The Iron Claw.\u2019 The actor stars in the film alongside Jeremy Allen White, playing real-life wrestlers Kevin and Kerry Von Erich who were raised by strict father Fritz Von Erich who taught them to withhold their emotions. Director Sean Durkin made sure Efron didn\u2019t break down until he filmed an emotional final scene at the end of the shoot.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was all leading up to that (final scene) for Zac because there were so many moments in the film where his character just wants to cry,\u201d Durkin told The Hollywood Reporter. \u201cHis character just wants to break, and I just kept saying to him, \u2018No, not now, not here.\u2019 And so he was keeping it all in, and when we finally got to that final day, he was just full of tears. We did seven takes of that shot with the boys. He just kept going, and it was really amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n
The movie also features Harris Dickinson, Stanley Simons, Holt McCallany, Maura Tierney, and Lily James. It tells the story of the pair of WWE Hall of Famers who came from a family of professional wrestlers led by patriarch Fritz, with five of his six sons all following him into the sport, reports aceshowbiz.com. The brothers \u2013 including David, Mike and Kris \u2013 rose to fame throughout the 1980s but their story was marred by personal tragedies which came to be known as the Von Erich curse.<\/p>\n
Durkin went on to explain he doesn\u2019t actually believe in the curse, but he\u2019s convinced the family members did and it became a self-fufilling prophecy. He added: \u201cI do not believe in curses, at least not in the mythical sense. I do believe in the psychology of a curse, and when you\u2019re in a family where a lot of bad things have happened and happened to you, it\u2019s very easy to believe that you are going to get sucked into that pattern.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd sometimes, that can almost become self-fulfilling, but that psychology certainly can take a toll and almost act as much as the idea of a mythical course could act. So, no, I don\u2019t believe in it, but yes, I think the results of it can be the same.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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