20 Things You Somehow Missed In Die Hard
17. Bruce Willis's Bare Feet
Fans will remember the sequence in which John McClane is cornered by Gruber and his goons in the offices of Nakatomi Plaza and they shoot out the interior glass windows in an effort to force him out into the open.
McClane keeps on the move through the broken glass, but only at the cost of tearing his bare feet to pieces.
Even though Bruce Willis admitted to flinching whenever he watches the subsequent scene in which his character is seen pulling shards of broken glass out of his feet in a bathroom with blood pouring all over the place, the filmmakers actually arranged for him to have rubber "shoes" placed over his feet to keep his own feet from being cut to pieces. These rubber feet were made up to include realistic details, including his toenails, and can briefly be seen in a sequence in which Willis is on the floor, with his trouser leg pulled high above his ankle.