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Justin Long reveals ‘Barbarian’ scene too ‘gross’ to make final cut

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box office slasher “Barbarian” that was just too “gross” to make the final cut. The actor said director Zach Cregger decided to leave a sequence on the cutting room floor in which one of the characters bites off the head of a rat — then does something so gross even veteran horror film makers couldn’t stomach it.

The scene involved the already disturbing premise of actor Matthew Patrick Davis’ character, the Mother, breastfeeding Long’s character in a dungeon. “There was a moment after that, where Mother, because I wouldn’t latch to her breast, she takes a rat – it’s scurrying by – and bites its head off and masticates it and baby-birds it into my mouth,” he recalled, in an interview with Vulture.“Which was in the script, and I knew it was gonna happen.

And we shot it right after we shot the breastfeeding scene,” he said. “Zach cut that out. He felt like it was a bridge too far gross-wise.”He added, “I wouldn’t say I’m a method actor — but it was not the kind of thing I could come in and out of that easily.”The horror flick tells the story of two strangers played by Georgina Campbell and Bill Skarsgård who double-booked an Airbnb.

Campell’s character agrees to stay in the house with the man, but things take an unprecedented turn when she discovers the home’s creepy basement.

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