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It sounds like filming The Shallows was just as scary as the movie itself, at least for the horror-thriller’s lead star, Blake Lively.
The actress has revealed that much of the fear she portrayed in the film, which sees her character try to survive being stalked by a great white shark, was real.
“I cracked my nose on a buoy so the bloody nose that’s in the movie is actually a real thing that happened to me,” she told News.com.au. “And also, I was held under the water while I was kicking and screaming for my life, to imitate what a shark’s weight would be like. So there were moments when I had no way to communicate, ‘I am done acting now. I am actually out of breath.’”
“So there were a lot of true panic moments during the shoot. It was tough.”
While the film was mostly ravaged by critics, some applauded the 28-year-old’s convincing performance and argued that Blake did the best she could with the tools at hand. As Richard Brody from The New Yorker put it: “Lively’s melodramatic power remains untapped.”
It was worth it, Blake – bloody nose and all.
