The Princess Bride is one of my all time favorite movies. I can not even tell you how many times I have seen the movie, read the book the movie is based on, and I even read the Cary Elwes book about his memories of making the movie (which is so good, btw. There are so many wonderful Andre the Giant stories). I wish I could remember where I first heard this story, but either way I was so excited to see this video last night confirming the story I had heard. This is a video from Mandy Patinkin’s twitter. Mandy played Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride who says the very famous lines “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” A young woman posted a video on snapchat who lost her father earlier this year to cancer who had heard the same story that I did that Mandy had lost his own father to cancer a few years before starting to film The Princess Bride and that when he is finally getting to say the lines to Count Rugen it was his own way of killing the cancer that took his father and getting him back if only for a few minutes. You can watch the video for Mandy (and his wife’s) full response (yes, I bawled).
To Alaska (aka Amanda – we figured it out!) Thread – Thank you for sharing this with us. My dad died of cancer when I was 18. Kathryn’s parents died within a year of each other when she was 25, her dad of a heart attack while her mom was sick with cancer…. pic.twitter.com/xbjC7pVI3p
— Mandy Patinkin (@PatinkinMandy) August 25, 2021