Actors Who Were Traumatized By Their Most Intense Roles

The Strangers

Tyler was terrified while filming. "That's what is so real about The Strangers," she recalled. "Like, you'd be in bed at night trying to relax, and all of a sudden you hear a noise and you go, 'What was that!' And you wonder, are you brave enough to go check or not? Imagine if you went to look, and there's a person in a mask standing in your living room with a butcher knife!"

Laura Margolis, who played the "Pin-Up Girl" hostage-taker, revealed that she had been specifically instructed not to let Tyler see her maskless prior to shooting: "She didn't want to have to fake it, and so it was my responsibility to really scare her."

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