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Star Trek veteran William Shatner, 93, names his 'toughest' acting job ever (hint: it involves bugs)


William Shatner has named his hardest job in his 70-year acting career. Early in his career he had to work with bugs which bit him and made him itch, he revealed on a podcast.

The 93-year-old Hollywood legend starred as veterinarian Dr. Robert 'Rack' Hansen in the science-fiction horror flick set in rural Verde Valley, Arizona, overrun by killer tarantulas. Shatner's co-stars Woody Strode and Tiffany Bolling played local farmer Walter Colby and archaeologist Diane Ashley, respectively. Shatner has recalled that working with the tarantulas was as horrific as the scenes seen on screen because the eight-legged beasts would shed their urticating hairs leaving him and his castmates itching all over.

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