[UPI News] – NEW YORK, July 30 (UPI) — Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg agree being hung upside-down and dangled in front of a bull in Mexico was the toughest part about filming their new action picture “2 Guns.”Washington and Wahlberg play undercover operatives from different U.S. government agencies who discover each other’s real identities and team up to thwart a drug cartel and go after corrupt officers in their respective departments. The film shows the actors running, fighting and driving at high speeds — all in what appears to be sweltering heat.
Asked about how physically punishing their roles were in the movie, Washington told United Press International in New York Sunday: “That bull scene.”Because it was funky in there. It was like where they sold cows or something; like the auction room and it was hot and we were upside-down, so that [was difficult.]“”I think that was the day Edward James Olmos was intentionally forgetting his lines. He really loved us being up in that position,” Wahlberg added, referring to a scene in which drug dealers torture him and his partner to get information. “He had that big grin on. Because the first scene we did together, we had him tied up and we’re slapping him around, so then we’re tied up and upside-down … .”
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