This is how Hollywood has changed: The star of The Neverending Story reveals that filming the movie almost killed him

There are many occasions when it is clear how cinema has changed over time. Although film buffs tend to agree that some films are eternal, the tone, the language, the visual style… everything tends to change. In addition, and although it is generally not given as much importance, Nor is the way of rolling the same today as before..

At least that is what the protagonist of one of the most popular fantasy films from the 80s has claimed: The neverending story.

A classic that will soon will have a remakebut which continues to be talked about even today. Many of her fans have not forgotten her and, apparently, neither have her performers. And not necessarily for the better.

The tortuous filming of The Neverending Story

If we tell you the name Noah Hathaway, it probably won’t mean much to you. However, we changed it because it was him who played Atreyu in The neverending storythings will surely change. After all, it is a film that was a huge success at the time, although it has also been surrounded by some controversy since its inception.

To begin with, although it was a box office success, It never had the full approval of the novel’s author, Michael Ende.. Well, actually it would be more accurate to say that he never liked it in the slightest, something that the novelist did not hide until the day of his death. It should also be remembered that the original children’s novel was extremely complex, and the cinema “simplified” it.

However, it seems that now the discussions about the 1984 film go beyond the final result that the director managed to achieve. Wolfgang Petersen. He has spoken precisely about this topic Noah “Atreyu” Hathaway, who has recalled how torturous the filming of the movie was for himand also how differently things were done in the world of cinema before.

“I joke about how they were always trying to kill me in that movie,” the actor told the outlet. IndieWire“But a couple of times they got pretty close to it,” he says. According to him: “Before we started filming, I was training on a horse. It got scared, ran away and jumped a fence. I did a somersault and he fell on top of me, breaking my back.He spent two months in the hospital.

The original “Atreyu”

It cannot be said that Hathaway generally has fond memories of his work on the film, which he considers to be the worst of all those he had participated in (despite being only a 12-year-old boy, he had already worked on some previous films).Wolfgang was a maniac. We did 30 or 40 takes, sometimes of scenes like falling out of a tree. I kept getting hurt.”, the actor recalls.

As if all this were not enough, those who have read Ende’s book will remember that the Atreyu in the pages had green skin. Although in the film it was not like that because apparently “the result was disastrous”, Hathaway said that they tried it several times and a couple of times a week he had to go to bed “tanned”.

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