The Truth Behind Juggler – Labyrinth
David Bowie was a magical dude in Labyrinth. Don’t believe me? Check out how sweet he juggles those crystal orbs and then tell me he’s not. While it is within the realm of possibility that Bowie could do all things, he actually couldn’t perform this trick of contact juggling. So, the filmmaker mastermind, Jim Henson, hired Michael Moshen, one of the world’s premier contact jugglers, to come in and do the tricks for Bowie. In order to do this, Moshen would stand behind Bowie and put his arm through the Goblin King’s sleeve and do the trick as if it were actually Bowie’s arm and hand. The issue here is that Moshen couldn’t see what he was doing. You know what’s more impressive than Bowie juggling those orbs himself? A guy hiding behind him juggling those balls without even looking at them.