When it comes to stories of being saved from potential death, there are some that are more memorable than others.Emilio Estevezrecalled one such moment happening to him when he visited the set of Apocalypse Now, which starred his father Martin Sheen, and ended up almost sinking in “quicksand mud”. Who came to his rescue?Laurence Fishburne.
Estevez appeared onThe Jennifer Hudson Showwith his dad and among the many things discussed by the pair was Estevez’s trip to the Philippines-based set of the Vietnam war epic. He told Hudson that he fell into the mud while attempting to push a little boat out to sea when he suddenly felt that something wasn’t right. He said:
“I was just sinking, oh my god, and I just saw Fishburne just looking at me going, ‘Quick grab my hand!’ And he pulled me back up onto the boat, and we were bonded ever since.”
According to the actor, the incident was one that he managed to keep secret from his dad until he pair began working on a memoir together. In collaborating on the book, entitled ‘Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son’, Estevez finally relayed the story to Sheen, who said he later personally contacted Laurence Fishburne to thank him for saving Estevez from a possibly tragic outcome.
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Emilio Estevez Recently Revived Hope In A Possible Young Guns sequel.
Having been saved from a less than appealing demise back in 1979, Estevez has made the most of his time, having followed his father into Hollywood to star in movies likeThe Breakfast Club, St. Elmo’s Fire, andYoung Guns. In the cast of the latter, there has been talk previously of the western movie getting a third movie, with Estevez and many of the other cast members seemingly on board with returning to the franchise. In a recent interview, Estevez suggested that there is an idea thatcould bringYoung Gunsback for multiple sequels. He said:
“There is a potential for “Young Guns 3”. We’ve been obviously dropping the word “Young,” and we’ve been talking about that. And again, that’s been a bit of a copyright, uh, rights nightmare. But I think we’ve finally figured out a way to make that happen with whomever is still alive. And what I mean by that, the characters, not the actual actors, but, there’s a strong, um, obviously westerns are back in fashion. And certainly this is a piece of IP that needs to be reexamined.
And I don’t know how well you remember part two, but I played a character named Brushy Bill Roberts, which who claimed in real life to be the actual Billy of the Kid in 1950, and said that he was not killed by Pat Garrett in 1881.That he was, that he went on to actually have a very Forrest Gump type life. He was, you know, he rode with Teddy Roosevelt with the Rough Riders and sat and was at the Battle of San Juan Hill. He was with Pancho Villa in the Mexican Revolution and fought alongside him. There was, uh, evidence that Arkansas’ Dave Rudabaugh was not killed, that he fought alongside Billy in that Mexican revolution. So here’s a guy that we can follow, not across, just, you know, one more movie, but actually there could be a part three, a part four, a part five, take him all the way to 1950.”
