Updated On: 27 December, 2023 06:55 AM IST | Washington | ANI
Veteran actor Arnold Schwarzenegger recalls the incident of bitting a dead vulture while fiming for the film `Conan the Barbarian`. He shares this anecdote from his recently released book `Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life`

Arnold Schwarzenegger. Pic/AFP
Veteran actor Arnold Schwarzenegger shared a few anecdotes from his long career as an action movie star in his new book, `Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life`," reported Deadline. He spoke about the time he bit a dead vulture. It all happened when he was filming `Conan the Barbarian`. Schwarzenegger recollects having to repeatedly bite a dead vulture during the scene where Conan is tied to a tree.
For the sequence in which Conan is bound to a tree, Schwarzenegger remembers having to repeatedly bite a dead vulture. "I bit a real, dead vulture that required I wash my mouth out with alcohol after each take," he writes. According to Deadline, that wasn`t the only hardship. "On one of the first days of filming, I tore a gash on my back that required forty stitches. Schwarzenegger was pushed to do his stunts because of the lack of suitable doubles.