Elizabeth Olsen And Makers Of ‘Love & Death’ Recall The Horrifying Experience Filming Axe Murder Scene: ‘I Thought My Heart Was Going To Explode’
etcanada.comElizabeth Olsen has spoken candidly about the challenges of filming the grisly axe murder scene in her true-crime series “Love & Death.” READ MORE: Elizabeth Olsen Explains How MCU Actors Can Have ‘More Creative Control’ “Lily was six months pregnant.
It was awful. She had a double. And they also could erase [her belly] in post. But she was in a little shirt with a six-month belly!
It was crazy. And she really wanted to do everything,” Olsen said. Recalling directing one of the most harrowing tasks, director Lesli Linka Glatter said: “This is a story about the kind of hole in one’s heart and psyche and spirit that many women of that time experienced,” Glatter explained. “They did everything right.
They got married young. They had the kids. They lived in the nice community. Why do you feel so empty inside?” The director even extended the ability to call “cut” to anyone in the room, “whether it was the cameraman, whether it was Lily or Lizzie, anyone who was in that space as part of this scene.
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