“My stomach was very badly burned when we filmed the shot of a truck exploding underneath Varan.”

— Haruo Nakajima

As quoted by David Milner, "Haruo Nakajima Interview" http://www.davmil.org/www.kaijuconversations.com/nakajima.htm, Kaiju Conversations (March 1995)

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