Actors Who Never Recovered From Their Most Distressing Roles

Poor Sally (Marilyn Burns) had no idea what was coming at the dinner table. Hooper confirmed that the dinner scene was ultimately the most intense segment of the film, and the cast and crew had all gone "slightly insane by then."

"The whole dinner scene is burned into my memory," Hooper said. "I just think because of the misery of it. At that point, we were really just on the verge of mental collapse. And Marilyn told me how awful it was for her because she was terrified—just being tied to a chair and then having these men looming over her constantly, she said it was really unnerving."

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