10 Things You Didn't Know About Candyman

7. He Got Real With The Bees

For a slasher movie, Candyman is surprisingly real. He occupies a real place and time, his story deals with real, entirely natural horrors, and his mouth is absolutely full of real bees.

Wait. What?

Lil bit, y’all. Long before Nic Cage flipped the Hell out with a basket of bees on his head – real talk, we would also flip out with a basket of bees on our head – Tony Todd actually grabbed a mouthful of stingers just to make a scene work. If you take nothing else from this article, take this: Tony Todd is a badass.

So was his agent, by the way. Todd had a special clause in his contract: one thousand dollars per bee sting.

He made $23,000.

There’s your Would You Rather? for the day, constant reader: would you take $23,000 for 23 bee stings on the inside of your mouth and throat?

Seriously. Bad. Ass.