Actors Shot to Death While Filming a Bank Robbery Scene for Movie

Getting tired of hearing actors complain about the long hours and hard work involved in being movie stars? Maybe this true story will make you take a second look. Two actors were shot to death by police in Angola as they were filming a bank robbery scene complete with real, but unarmed, weapons. The incident took place in Angola's capital city, Luanda. According to the film's director, Radical Robeiro, he was filming the scene when real police cars came whizzing up with sirens blaring. The police jumped out of the car and immediately began shooting. Robeiro says he was stunned to see the two actors fall down dead, but even more astonished to see the police continue shooting. Robeiro also claims that permits had been obtained and the police had been notified.

A little known fact about early Hollywood history is that real bullets were routinely used in movies. In fact, James Cagney was the first actor who complained and said he would no longer film a scene in which real bullets were used, introducing the age of blanks into the world of filmmaking. Of course, those real bullets were being fired by professionals who were not looking to make a kill. If this story of Angolan actors being killed by police sounds a little fishy to you, you are not alone. It has the smack of either a PR stunt, which in theory is distasteful enough to make audiences recoil in horror from entertaining any ideas about actually viewing the resulting film, or that those police cars may not have been actual police, but rather a well-designed terrorist opportunity. For now, we'll just have to take the word of those involved.

Stay tuned, however.