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FLASHBACK
VERONICA CARTWRIGHTIt took fi ve days to shoot that scene. It was
a tube that went up my dress and into my
hand. That was actually the fi rst take because
after the second take they had to redress
everything, which took an hour. They were
real cherries with pips that were in huge tanks
and then it shot up into my hand and looked
like I was spewing it up. But the second time
we did it nothing came out so I tried again...
somebody turned the valve all the way up and
it got to be so strong I had no control of my
arm! It hit me in the face, my arm fl ew up, it
fl ew up over the top of the set, it was hysterical
and there was nothing I could do about it. I
couldn’t control my arm! More recently you had a cameo role in
the fourth Body Snatchers movie The
Invasion. Can you tell us how you
came to be cast?
The director, Oliver Hirschbiegel, requested
meeting me because I had been in the other
one. He discussed how [my character] could’ve
survived and taken on a whole new identity
and here it was happening all over again. There were reportedly some problems
during production with reshoots...
Oliver had directed it originally and then they
ended up reshooting stuff over a year later. It
was James McTeigue that ended up doing the
reshoot so they reshot that whole thing again. I
don’t know what happened, it was kind of odd. So the ‘my husband isn’t my
husband’ scene was reshot. What was
different about it originally?
I was more paranoid about things that were
happening and it made it seem more like I’d
been through this before and knew something
really wasn’t good. I thought Oliver was doing
a great job. He was bringing great eeriness
to the whole thing and really added a sort
of grunginess to it which made it much more
interesting. Then James McTeigue came in, who
was a very nice man, but it just looks like an
entirely different movie. The Birds, Alien, Invasion Of The Body
Snatchers and The Witches Of Eastwick are
available on Blu-ray.“I WAS TOLD I’D GET A LITTLE BLOOD ON ME
BUT THE BLOOD JET WAS POINTED DIRECTLY
AT MY FACE!”
VERONICA CARTWRIGHTHer Eastwick role is
a comedy highlight.
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FLASHBACK
VERONICA CARTWRIGHTIt took fi ve days to shoot that scene. It was
a tube that went up my dress and into my
hand. That was actually the fi rst take because
after the second take they had to redress
everything, which took an hour. They were
real cherries with pips that were in huge tanks
and then it shot up into my hand and looked
like I was spewing it up. But the second time
we did it nothing came out so I tried again...
somebody turned the valve all the way up and
it got to be so strong I had no control of my
arm! It hit me in the face, my arm fl ew up, it
fl ew up over the top of the set, it was hysterical
and there was nothing I could do about it. I
couldn’t control my arm! More recently you had a cameo role in
the fourth Body Snatchers Body Snatchers Body Snatchers movie movie The
Invasion.Invasion.Invasion. Can you tell us how you Can you tell us how you
came to be cast?
The director, Oliver Hirschbiegel, requested
meeting me because I had been in the other
one. He discussed how [my character] could’ve
survived and taken on a whole new identity
and here it was happening all over again. There were reportedly some problems
during production with reshoots...
Oliver had directed it originally and then they
ended up reshooting stuff over a year later. It
was James McTeigue that ended up doing the
reshoot so they reshot that whole thing again. I
don’t know what happened, it was kind of odd. So the ‘my husband isn’t my
husband’ scene was reshot. What was
different about it originally?
I was more paranoid about things that were
happening and it made it seem more like I’d
been through this before and knew something
really wasn’t good. I thought Oliver was doing
a great job. He was bringing great eeriness
to the whole thing and really added a sort
of grunginess to it which made it much more
interesting. Then James McTeigue came in, who
was a very nice man, but it just looks like an
entirely different movie. The Birds, Alien, Invasion Of The Body
SnatchersSnatchersSnatchers and and The Witches Of EastwickThe Witches Of EastwickThe Witches Of Eastwick are are
available on Blu-ray.“I WAS TOLD I’D GET A LITTLE BLOOD ON ME
BUT THE BLOOD JET WAS POINTED DIRECTLY
AT MY FACE!”
VERONICA CARTWRIGHTHer EastwickEastwickEastwick role is role is
a comedy highlight.