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Nora hit her head in the salon

posted 7 years ago by kodakjones
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The scene where Nora---Jamie Lee Curtis hits her head on the tanning bed, it bleeds but something like that is really hard to choregraph/rehearse---let's just say pull of and look realistic without injury. My question:
Did Jamie Lee actually cut herself on that?
Does anyone know? Was the blood real?

One more thing---the timeline where Luthor is informed of Nora's injury makes no sense. He came out half naked to see Father Z staring at her, but his tan is finished even though Nora just got that cut meaning he couldn't have been in there for more than a few seconds---but his tan color was complete and he stayed that way for the rest of the movie. How did he get that brown and toasted that fast?

[–] FlushingCaps 7 years ago

All she had to do was raise her head into, I am sure, a padded area we couldn't see, with the proper sound effect to make it appear she hit something hard. Fake blood on actors has been used since before movies, with it appearing in various ways, sometimes with the actor popping a blood capsule, unseen by the audience, so when he turns back toward the audience they see blood.

As to Luther having, obviously, spent far more time in the tanning chamber than Nora, perhaps after they checked in, she had to spend a lot of time in the restroom, and then took longer to change into her bathing suit. Could Luther have also turned his tanning machine up higher? Just a couple of possibilities.

Why don't we just shoot 'em down and be through with it?

[–] MallorySunshine 7 years ago

Nora in the book only goes once or twice to the tanning salon. Luther goes as often as he can.