A Good Day To Die Hard: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Die Hard

8. Alan Rickman & His Gun Issues

AlanRickman Bad guys in cinema are supposed to be fearless, steadfast in their deluded beliefs that their actions are right and "for the greater good". Shooting someone shouldn't be a problem for such a villainous character as Hans Gruber then, right? Wrong. Alan Rickman, who portrayed Gruber, had an uncontrollable habit of flinching and wincing whenever he fired a gun in Die Hard, to the point that Director John McTiernan had to "smash cut" away from his face whenever he fired a gun. If you look at Rickman's face after he has just shot Takagi, you can see him wincing.
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Joseph is an accredited football journalist and has interviewed nearly all of the current 20 Barclay's Premier League managers. He is also a correspondent for Bleacher Report and has written for Caught Offside and Give Me Football.