Did Bruce Willis try to sabotage an episode of ‘Game of Thrones’?
Let’s start off by saying that by all accounts, Bruce Willis is one of the nicest A-listers to have made it big in Hollywood and stayed there for a very long time. Pretty much every internet recounting of a meeting with the Die Hard legend ends up with someone saying “and he couldn’t have done more for us”, which is not something you can say about every celebrity.
It kind of makes it harder that he now is in such a state, suffering with irreversible dementia, added to the fact that in his prime, he was a proper, proper action star – perhaps not as muscle-bound or as trigger-happy as Schwarzenegger or Stallone, but probably cooler and definitely armed with better wisecracks.
His reputation makes the apocryphal tale we’ll look at today even more suspect, but given it involves one of the best TV shows in living memory, and Pedro Pascal suffering a particularly gruesome, unaliving, then we’ll examine it a bit more closely.
As the Game of Thrones crew were in Croatia filming Pascal’s character Oberyn Martell’s particularly head-exploding death at the hands of literal man mountain ‘The Mountain’ during season four, episode 8 of the Westeros drama, there were apparently some ‘issues’ with the fact that some particularly rich folk had parked their very modern yachts in the background.
Now much as some fairly simple people think Game of Thrones was simply set a long time ago (despite the fact it is full of magic and literal dragons) it doesn’t really fit to have sword fights and tunics meshing with hundred-million-dollar ocean-going celebrity vessels in the way.
According to a book called ‘Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon’ about the making of George R.R. Martin’s creation, one of those yachts happened to belong to Bruce Willis himself, who didn’t take too kindly to being asked to move the thing, and instead decided to do circles of the harbour in order to make life as hard as possible for the crew, who responded by pointing their cameras in a completely different direction.
The book goes on to say that all the other celebrities were happy to shift their boats, and that it was only Willis who got the hump about it. Now, as we said, you will go a long way to find anyone who has a bad word to say about Willis, so take this with a considerable pinch, if not a whole fistful of salt.
Plus, according to the GOT executive producer, nobody actually saw Bruce at any point during this event, let alone did anyone have a conversation with him, which, combined with his nice fellow reputation, leads one to believe he was probably many miles away with his feet up, a bandage on his head, a dirty white vest on and lighting a cigar.
Meanwhile, anyone gagging for another taste of Westeros will be excited to know that filming has now wrapped on Season 3 of House of Dragons, and a release date is expected to be around mid-2026. It will cover events from the Fire and Blood book and the cast will include the likes of James Norton, Tom Cullen and the return of Matt Smith as Prince Daemon Targaryan.
