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The fruitbusting stunt that made history

EMPIRE REPORTS FROM THE SET OF FOLKLOREINSPIRED EPIC WILLIAM TELL WORDS NEIL SMITH
William Tell (Claes Bang) takes aim;
A long-shot of son Walter (Tobias Jowett);

A FULL-SCALE facsimile of a 14th-century Swiss village is not where Empire expected to end up an hour on from landing at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport. Yet here we are, amid gatehouses, battlements and market stalls groaning with fabricated victuals, on the set of action-heavy saga William Tell. The film stars Claes Bang as the Swiss folk hero, who, according to legend, shot an apple off his son’s head with a crossbow, a stunt that will be the focus of today’s shoot. Bang and director Nick Hamm tell us about pulling off the legacy-defining act.

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