By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Bringing the American Wild West to life was no easy task, just ask the cast of “The Magnificent Seven,” who endured scorching heat and torrential rain in wool costumes in the Louisiana summer. “We had a lot of lightning, thunder issues where we had to shut (production) down, but the heat was just constant,” Denzel Washington, who plays bounty hunter Sam Chisholm, told Reuters. “The Magnificent Seven,” a remake of the 1960 classic, is directed by Antoine Fuqua and opens in theaters on Friday.
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