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TIL that while filming "Fitzcarraldo" in the Amazon Rainforest, director Werner Herzog and actor Klaus Kinski feuded so much that the chief of the Machiguenga tribe, whose members were used as extras, asked if they should kill Kinski, though Herzog declined, as he needed the actor to finish the film

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