Actors Who Were Traumatized By Their Most Intense Roles

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Langenkamp was in a "chamber of horrors" when she was filming the bathtub scene. A modified tub allowed a man in a scuba suit to lay underneath Langenkamp and make it seem like Krueger's hand was coming out from between Nancy's legs. "So Jim [Doyle, VFX engineer] is blindly plunging that thing between my legs," Langenkamp retold. "One time it's too far to the right, next time it's too far to the left, then it's way too fast—and Wes just patiently waited until he got the take that he wanted."

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The More You Know

  • "Dracula" was filmed in English during the day, and in Spanish at night.
  • Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who played the character of ‘Fogell/McLovin’ in the coming-of-age indie flick ‘Superbad,’ was only 17 when filming took place. Being a minor at the time, his mother was required to be on the set during the filming of his sex scene.
  • While shooting 'Batman Begins' (2005) in Chicago, a drunk driver panicked and crashed into the Batmobile because he thought it was an invading alien.spacecraft
  • Viggo Mortensen had no intention of working on The Lord of the Rings until his son begged him to do it.
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