Vegetarian Director Paul McGuigan Pushed Blowing Up Fish
Written by Vegetarian Star on February 4th, 2009 in Directors and Producers, Not So Vegetarian.
Paul McGuigan is the director of Push, a sci-fi thriller about young American ex-Pats with telekinetic powers running from the U.S. Government. Some have compared the film to the NBC television show “Heroes.”
One scene of Push involves an explosion in a market where water and fish are thrown everywhere. McGuigan described how he and the crew discussed creating the scene to Movies Online.
“So we have a fish tank here and it’s going to blow up and then the fish is going to fly in the air or something and then I want you to come around here and then you go around that way and then, see this bit here?” he said.
One problem. There are live fish in the tank. One possibly bigger problem. McGuigan is vegetarian, had no problem blowing up live fish for the movie and only stopped because the actors (who were probably non vegetarian) protested.
“Oh no, we couldn’t blow up [the fish]. I wanted to do it. Did you hear that story? I’m a vegetarian and I had fish in the tank and all the actors came over and went, “Why are the fish still here?” and I went, “I’m just going to blow them up.” And they went, “What?!” I went, “Well, we’re in Hong Kong. Have you seen the markets on the corners?” Because you know all the fish are fresh and so they just take them out and go “Boom, boom.””
“So it never dawned on me and then suddenly when it dawned on me, I thought actually these guys are right. So we took all the fish out and we had no fish. So the only people harmed during this movie were the actors, not the fish. There’s actually no fish there if you look at the sequence, there’s no fish flying about. I actually wanted fish to be flying about but I was told no.”
Good to know the omnivores are watching the animals’ backs when us vegetarians suddenly develop moral schizophrenia and rationalize making fish bombs even though we don’t eat them.
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