Brody gave up everything in his life for the part. He sold his belongings and home, disconnected from friends and technology, and moved across the globe. While the solitude was difficult, Brody said that the emotional effect of starvation was the biggest difficulty for him.
"I was depressed for a year after The Pianist. And I don't suffer from that, generally. It wasn't just a depression; it was mourning," Brody told IndieWire.
Heather Langenkamp, A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street is a Wes Craven film that introduced one of the most iconic antagonists in cinema history, but Craven once had struggled to get the flick off the ground. Craven told one magazine that many studios were "afraid of making a film that had blood in it." Thankfully for him, New Line Cinema took a chance on the idea, and the beautiful Heather Langenkamp was cast as Nancy Thompson.
Langenkamp was led into a "chamber of horrors" on set. Craven modified the bathtub scene so that a man in a scuba suit was able to sit under Langenkamp and make it look like Krueger's arm was emerging from between Nancy's legs. "So Jim [Doyle, VFX engineer] is blindly plunging that thing between my legs," Langenkamp remembered. "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."
Bill Skarsgård, It
It's not simple to capture the unique vibe of Pennywise, the scary clown who massacred children in the 2017 film adaptation of Stephen King's It. Skarsgård had a difficult time living inside the clown suit and was relieved when production finally ended. He told Entertainment Weekly that he had a "destructive relationship" with the villain, finding it burdensome to enter the headspace of a killer. It deeply affected his psyche...
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