Chapter 93

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In the narrow and confined passage, a girl wearing a hood seemed like a drowning person in the vast ocean, struggling desperately forward. With every step forward, she let out a painful cry, and tears streamed uncontrollably down her face.

On her exposed arms and calves, some places were pierced with needles, while others only had the needle tips left. Murphy controlled a camera, gradually zooming in to capture the swollen blood spots near the needle tips.

Finally, the girl burst out from the countless needles, but her arms, legs, and body, filled with needle tips and tubes, looked like a porcupine.

"Cut!" Murphy raised one hand. "This take is good."

Kerry Mulligan, relieved to move on to the next scene, had her hair standing on end. Shooting such a scene was completely different from playing Little Red Riding Hood. Back then, it felt fun and interesting, but now it was bone-chilling, and struggling in a pile of needles was extremely exhausting. She really wanted to find a place to sit down and rest.

But Kerry Mulligan knew she couldn't. She couldn't let Murphy down and had to complete her scenes with quality and speed.

"Jack," Murphy called to his makeup artist, "touch up Kerry's makeup!"

Jack Watson walked over, and Kerry Mulligan stood still, allowing the makeup artist to apply makeup on her face exposed by the hood.

In addition, the prop master, Beck Kleibert, came over to check the prop needles on her body.

Of course, these rubber needle tips were not really inserted into Kerry Mulligan's body.

Beck Kleibert had planned this in advance and conducted thorough experiments. Before shooting, he fixed the needle tips on special skin-colored thin silicone sheets, which were then attached to Kerry Mulligan's skin, making it look as if the needles were inserted into her body.

The silicone discs were not large and were quite thin, but they still appeared slightly swollen on camera, which was exactly what was needed. When sharp needles pierce the skin, the surrounding area usually swells slightly.

To create the effect of blood swelling under the skin after being pierced by needles, Beck Kleibert used a spray pen to carefully apply red paint around the needle tips.

With everything ready, Murphy called Paul Wilson to enter the set and lie on the floor of the "secret room" used for shooting.

"Jonah!" Murphy waved his hand. "Bring it over!"

"Coming! Coming!" Jonah Hill carried a basin into the set and placed it next to Paul Wilson. The basin was filled with a bloody mess that looked like intestines.

This was not a prop but real intestines. To achieve the desired effect, Murphy used pig intestines.

When Kerry Mulligan took the prop scalpel from Beck Kleibert, she glanced over and felt a wave of nausea.

*Fruitfly* also had a large scale, but she had never faced such a scene. At that time, the most she faced was being sprayed with special tomato sauce on her face, which she found interesting and fun...

She swallowed hard, forcing down the urge to vomit.

With so many people watching her, she couldn't act in a way that was unprofessional, and she couldn't let Murphy down.

The shooting began quickly. Under the circling camera, Kerry Mulligan approached Paul Wilson step by step. The originally innocent and cute doll face instantly showed a surge of emotions.

Murphy stood behind the monitor and nodded lightly.

He could see Kerry Mulligan's efforts. According to Bill Rosi, she had been learning from veteran actors like Julian Fellowes. Although her acting skills couldn't improve dramatically in a short time, her attitude was undoubtedly positive.

Fear, reluctance, terror...

Kerry Mulligan portrayed all the emotions required for the scene perfectly. When she picked up the scalpel and "cut" Paul Wilson frantically, grabbing the intestines to find the key, she seemed to have completely broken down. Her hands trembled as she flipped through the intestines, and she let out unconscious cries, with tears streaming down her face like a flood...

The camera had switched to close-ups. Murphy watched the monitor, one hand on his chest, the other rubbing his chin, his brows slightly furrowed. He couldn't tell if Kerry Mulligan was really acting or not?

Her emotions were too real, as if she had truly broken down.

Second by second, the girl on screen trembled, picked up a bloody key, and unlocked the headgear, tossing it aside. She glanced at the pile of intestines and could no longer bear it. The pig intestines seemed to carry a plague, making Kerry Mulligan feel disgusted. She crawled away on all fours, rolling away from the scene.

Even though he knew it was just a scene, Murphy felt his heart tighten when he saw Kerry Mulligan's state.

"Cut! That's a wrap!" Murphy shouted to Kerry Mulligan. "Very good!"

In the past, whenever he said this, Kerry Mulligan would always lift her head and show an innocent and cute smile.

But this time, she didn't. After moving away from the bloody pig intestines, she knelt and slumped to one side, her hands on the ground. Her beautiful and cute doll face had completely fallen, and the tears continued to flow, large drops rolling down her cheeks.

Most actors' emotions are external, and Bill Rosi had already walked over. James Franco stood at the periphery, his feet moving and then stopping.

Murphy also noticed that the pig intestines had likely exceeded Kerry Mulligan's psychological tolerance, especially since she had fully immersed herself in the role of Amanda, causing her emotions to truly break down.

He walked over quickly, ignoring the others' gazes, and squatted in front of Kerry Mulligan. He knew it was best to say nothing, just looking at her blackened short hair and the tears streaming down her doll face.

Kerry Mulligan sobbed uncontrollably. Although she had been raised in a strict and affluent environment, leading a sheltered life, she had never encountered such a realistic and bloody scene. Grabbing the pig intestines with her hands was particularly overwhelming.

The moment she touched the pig intestines, she felt as if she had really grabbed human intestines, and the world seemed to collapse. If not for the unspoken belief in her heart, she wouldn't have been able to complete the scene.

Her whole body trembled, and when she saw a familiar figure appear in front of her, she couldn't hold on any longer. She released her hands and fell forward.

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