LL Cool J was nearly killed by an animatronic shark while making the 1999 movie Deep Blue Sea. The rapper played a chef in the horror film — about a group of scientists at a remote underwater ...

and the trio of hot-tempered actors have day after day of downtime on set in Martha’s Vineyard because the animatronic shark (nicknamed Bruce) keeps malfunctioning. All of that really happened ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Ian Shaw plays his father, Robert Shaw, in “The Shark Is Broken,” a comedy based on the troubled production of the 1975 film “Jaws.” “You still have to have the ...

For most of the shark scenes, Steven Spielberg either filmed around the creature or used a famously temperamental animatronic fish who was nicknamed Bruce after the director’s lawyer.