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Steve McQueen’s deathbed confession to Magnificent Seven co-star and outrageous response

The feud on set between Magnificent Seven stars Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen is legendary and fantastically childish. Another famous co-star blamed McQueen's behaviour on the fact he "couldn't act" although Brynner was also notoriously difficult to work with.

Brynner was the main star and the driving force behind the movie being made in the first place. In a cast filled with alpha males like Charles Bronson, Brynner was also notoriously difficult and his pride was easily provoked. He liked it to be known that he prepared breakfast in a silk kimono, other stars commented how he was “never far from a mirror” and his on-set demands and dramas were legendary. He even kept his head shaved because he enjoyed the attention and demanded that he was never photographed with another bald man. He met his match on The Magnificent Seven in McQueen. The young actor actually owed his presence on set to Brynner – something The King and I star would quickly and bitterly regret. They only found a reconciliation, of sorts, decades later when McQueen was dying.

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