Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in The Abyss.
The scene is famous as a result of it brought on her to storm off set and threaten to not end the movie if James Cameron pressured her to do any extra takes.
Spoilers
Within the scene, Mastrantonio’s character, Lindsey, has simply drowned and been hauled again to the oil rig, and her husband Bud (Ed Harris), together with their crew mates, try to revive her. Mastrantonio was soaking moist and freezing chilly, mendacity on a metallic grate. Her shirt was torn and her breasts uncovered, and Harris needed to shake her, scream at her, and repeatedly slap her throughout the face (to which she, in fact, couldn’t react, and needed to play useless).
Two or three takes would have been uncomfortable. However Cameron, ever the perfectionist, insisted on doing it over, and over, and over once more, by some accounts for so long as eight hours. Simply when he thought he lastly had the take he wished, it was found that the digital camera had run out of movie, and he wished her to movie it but once more.
That is when Mastrantonio snapped, and broke down utterly. She screamed at Cameron, “we aren’t animals!”, then stormed off the set, saying she would give up the movie if he did not wrap the scene.
Mastrantonio refused to advertise the movie and even focus on it. She didn’t participate in any interviews or making-of documentaries, and in addition vowed that she would by no means work with Cameron once more.
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