This is how the legendary couple, Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, formed their friendship
Already working independently, Mario Girotti (83) grew in popularity in the film industry, but he gained international fame when he adopted the stage name Terence Hill and began working with Carlo Pedersoli (†86), ie Bud Spencer.
This is how the legendary couple, Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, formed their friendship
Like most relationships and friendships, they don’t start off easy. They knew each other since the early 1950s, because both played in the club Lazio in Rome, but they did not become friends because of the ten year age difference. The two appeared in the 1959 historical film Hannibal but did not have a scene together. They had to wait until 1967, when they became the main characters in a work called God Forgives, I Don’t.
“When I was introduced to Carlo Pedersoli as my teammate, I couldn’t believe my eyes. I thought: what does this amateur want to talk about, he certainly can’t say two reasonable sentences.”
Terence Hill recalls in his biography.
“As it turned out, I had never made a bigger mistake. I quickly realized that he is an extremely educated, versatile, emotional person that I really like and the viewers love too.”
The chemistry worked, Terence Hill was a handsome gentleman, and Bud Spencer was a good-natured but gullible, strong-willed giant and they always win together. Thanks to that, this humorous duo has had a great career, together acting in a total of 18 films. Among them are comedies that have become classics such as Külerbenben wen dühém, Kincs emy nielda and Nyomás afte. In the mid-eighties, they went their separate ways, but in 1994 they reunited and filmed the western “Wrestling Until Christmas,” Spencer-Hill’s last film.