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Bas Rutten: Vancouver mayor threatened to ban me from Canada for throwing a wicked party

Bas Rutten admits he likes to party and one party in Vancouver nearly got him banned from the country of Canada.

Rutten reflected on the epic party when speaking to Kajan Johnson and Shakiel Mahjouri on the Pull No Punches podcast. He travelled to Vancouver with “Mindhunter” actor Holt McCallany to shoot the 2000 television sci-fi series “Freedom.” Rutten was tasked with choreographing McCallany’s fight scenes.

“The shoot wraps and he [one of the show’s producers] has this penthouse. On the roof of the penthouse is a pool, there is a DJ there.