Megan Lawless is opening up about a pivotal scene that Obsession fans will surely never forget.
The actress, who plays Sarah in the hit indie horror movie, recently spoke out about one scene in particular from the film that nearly caused it to get a NC-17 rating. (Warning: spoilers ahead!)
Megan Lawless Reveals Sarah’s Death Scene Was Even More Violent
“That was my favorite day on set. It was just a little ridiculous, if you take a step back and you see everything that’s going on behind the scenes, because Inde [Navarrette] was wearing this crazy wig that had a helmet underneath it, basically something to protect her head when she bashed into the glass,” she explained.
“She looked so funny, it was just hilarious. She had to commit to running into the glass as fast as she could and charging at me. We had to play out this thing that felt a little silly, but with 100 percent commitment, as actors do.”
“And we didn’t have many tries. We had two takes to get it right. They were like, ‘Don’t actually hold her head hard or push her head in. We can’t do that for safety reasons,; so she was holding her hand gently on the back of my head, and then I was miming, slamming my head into the brick, and that whole sequence is just funny. There was a doll version of myself that they placed in, and they bashed the head in next. It’s peak actors acting, that feels silly, but you need to commit,” she laughed.
Megan then acknowledged that there was a more violent version of the scene that nearly landed the movie a NC-17 rating after premiering at TIFF last year, and her response to the reaction to that scene.
“It’s so funny you asked that, because the reaction was completely unexpected to me. I’m sitting here like, ‘Aw, poor Sarah gets brutally killed.’ The whole theater at TIFF erupted into cheering at that moment. I was like, ‘Why is everyone cheering? Ouch!’” she laughed.
“I did not expect everyone to be cheering. I thought people would be crying, maybe. (Laughs.) But I think it’s because the moment is so iconic. These horror fans, that’s their bread and butter. They just go bananas for something like that. And that version had me in ADR originally. Curry [Barker] wanted me to make gurgling noises that he would add into that scene, after my head is actually kicked in. So, you’d hear Sarah gurgling, like she’s still alive, and they took that out when they edited it to not be NC-17, but it was brutal.”
She Also Reflected on Nikki Dressing Up Like Sarah
Megan also addressed the final scenes in the film, where her character’s dead body is seen without clothes as Nikki continues to try and dress up as Sarah.
“That was always written in the script, so it was Curry’s idea. It’s crazy because you see my dead body there naked and it’s because Nikki’s wearing my clothes,” she explained.
“She’s even smoking the joint. I think that is such an eerie touch, and it continues to add to the theme of this unhealthy obsession that was against Nikki’s own agency, but also an unhealthy obsession in romantic situations: You will change yourself to appease the person you want and that’s not healthy either. So, adding in that layer to be like, ‘Don’t do this! Don’t try to become someone else. Don’t try to become whatever they want to be.’ I think that is a nice touch at the end.”
Megan also recently shared a behind-the-scenes clip of her and Inde preparing for the scene and goofing around together, which you can watch above.
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