Radha Mitchell

Film The Crazies

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455407/

Capone: The scene where you are strapped to the gurney looked really stressful. It’s an intense scene to begin with, but what do you remember about that scene in particular?

RM: I just remember reading it thinking, “Wow, this is like JACOB’S LADDER.” I don’t know if you’ve seen JACOB’S LADDER, but yeah it was kind of homage to that sort of sequence in that film. On that day, it was just really interesting to see what the set had become, because there were HAZMAT suits and helicopters. It was a big day with a lot going on, so it was just kind of easy to imagine what we were going through, because physically we had just been through the tent and ripped apart and all of the stuff that was happening in the story, but other than that I was just lying on my back you know.

Capone: There's another scene where you get tied to a chair by some of the crazies…

RM: I kept getting tied up. Yeah, there’s a scene in the nursery where she goes into the baby’s bedroom, and she’s pregnant and she sees the little cot and it reminds her of what their life might have been and then suddenly she’s attacked by this crazy woman behind the door. The next time we see her she’s tied to the chair and that wasn’t in the script and suddenly I'm tied to a chair. They had to truncate that scene, because there was actually a whole lot going on in the scene, and there wasn’t that much time to shoot it, so that was one where we simplified.