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The cast of the Anthony Bourdain biopic "Tony" reveals the hilarious and painful story behind one of the film's best gags. Find out why getting buckets of water dumped on him repeatedly was like "prison torture" for one of the actors.
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00:00What's harder, shucking an oyster or getting like a million buckets of water dumped on your dog?
00:05Great question.
00:09I mean, the water sucked.
00:12It wasn't salt water, though, even though the movie implies it was.
00:15Yeah, it was just like, it was irritating.
00:18What made it so painful and the reason that Antonio was so hesitant to do it is because Dom needed
00:24to be not asleep,
00:26but he needed to not see it coming.
00:28And so Dom is lying there, and he has to be totally relaxed to the point of unconsciousness.
00:33And he had to do that 30 times in a row.
00:36So it was like a kind of prison torture.
00:40Go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep, relax, go to sleep.
00:44But the worst part about it was it wasn't all in one day.
00:48It was like one day a week.
00:50It was like, all right, we're doing more bucket splashes.
00:54There's some of the best moments in the movie.
00:55Do you remember when you stand up there like, why?
00:58Why?

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