When McG was on set directing his 2006 football drama We Are Marshall, starring Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox and Anthony Mackie, an Italian Steadicam operator would routinely lean on a popular phrase from his home country and shout it out to amp up the crew’s energy in between takes.

“He would always say ‘spacca tutto,’ meaning break a leg, go out there, kick ass, do your thing,” the veteran filmmaker and entrepreneur recalled to The Hollywood Reporter. “It would fire everybody up to go play football and do our thing. We found it very exciting.”

When McG was on set directing his 2006 football drama We Are Marshall, starring Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox and Anthony Mackie, an Italian Steadicam operator would routinely lean on a popular phrase from his home country and sh

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