Adding more about the veteran actor’s near-death experience, he reportedly died for a few seconds while he was filming the comedy war film Kelly’s Heroes.
In another conversation with The Guardian, he shared that he “died in Yugoslavia in 1968 for a few seconds.”
He later discussed his experience with death during a chat with Smithsonian Magazine.
He shared, “Standing behind my right shoulder, I’d watched my comatose body slide peacefully down a blue tunnel. That same blue tunnel the near-dead always talk about.”
“Such a tempting journey. So serene. No barking Cerberus to wake me. Everything was going to be alright,” he went on to remember.
He also said that when he was seconds away from succumbing to the glowing white light, which appeared to be the bottom of it to him, he felt some primal force fiercely grabbing his feet and compelling them to dig his heels in.
Moreover, he went into a coma at the time and was flown from the filing location to Charing Cross Hospital in England, where he recovered for six weeks.
That said, the actor loves his life and does not want to give up living, according to his statement for GQ.
Due to that reason, he also finds it “ludicrous” that actors retire at 65 when the average life span extends for much longer.
