For a full year prior to shooting this scene Chuck Norris was denied sleep. Instead of training he forced himself to watch Golden Girls at least 8 hours a day, in order to slow his reaction time. The day of the fight came and Chuck Norris still almost accidentally killed Bruce a total of fifteen times. At one point Bruce was dead for a full twenty minutes. There paramedics were about to call it when Chuck grabbed Bruce and breathed life into him. Bruce jumped out of Chuck Norris’s hands and still wanted to do the scene. Chuck agreed, but this time took thirteen horse tranquilizers, five grams of opium, and a bottle of Vicodin. When offered marijuana, he told the director that he doesn’t smoke that “pussy liberal shit.” The scene was finally shot successfully, although mid fight Chuck did have to readminister the drugs.