This almost resulted in a serious accident when individual strands of Weston’s sole cable broke under his weight. An Angry Stuntman Chased Kubrick off the Setĭuring production, Kubrick at first refused to let spacewalking stuntman Bill Weston wear a second cable for safety, although he was 30 feet above a hard concrete studio floor. (Credit: Mary Evans/MGM/Ronald Grant/Everett) 3.
A behind-the-scenes shot of Stanley Kubrick on set.