It has been more than 20 years since he's been forced to defuse a bomb with a paperclip, but in a Perth hotel room yesterday, the 80s action hero the world knew as MacGyver accepted the familiar piece of stationery when it was offered to him.
Richard Dean Anderson, better known as Angus MacGyver, laughed and unconsciously started bending the mundane metal.
"The one thing that I have got a little tired of is somebody coming up and saying, 'Can you use this (paperclip) and a gum wrapper, can you make a bomb of out those'," he said. "I'm too nice to say, 'Are you cracked? Where's your sense of reality? No one can do that'."
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