William Shatner Details Skin-Crawling Experience On Movie Set

William Shatner has been in the acting industry for over 70 years, but there's one specific job that he said is still bugging him.

While recently appearing on The Drew Lane Show, the Emmy-winning actor opened up about an "ugly" acting experience he had back in the '70s, when he was forced to get up close and personal with some creepy crawlers.

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While talking about his prolific career in Hollywood, Shatner, 93, was asked about the 1977 film Kingdom of the Spiders—and boy, did he have some stories to tell.

"The thing about Kingdom of the Spiders, in that, the spiders, they were tarantulas, were real!" Shatner revealed on the podcast episode. "They didn't have little flippy floppers."

The Kingdom of the Spiders, directed by John "Bud" Cardos, is a science fiction horror film that follows Shatner's character, town vet Robert "Rack" Hansen, as he investigates and attempts to fight off an invasion of killer tarantulas.

But apparently, the experience behind the scenes was just as spine-chilling as what the audience saw on camera.

"From time to time, on screen, they would dump a big bag of tarantulas over my head," Shatner explained. "And not only are there little sharp claws, which allows them to scramble up everything, but the hairs on their bodies are used for itching powder. So the debris they would dump on my head was ugly."

According to the Daily Mail, Cardos spent nearly 10 percent of the film's $500,000 budget on the live tarantulas.

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