{"id":47828,"date":"2022-06-12T22:54:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T22:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/sarah-polleys-trauma-from-terry-gilliams-baron-munchausen\/"},"modified":"2022-06-12T22:54:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T22:54:40","slug":"sarah-polleys-trauma-from-terry-gilliams-baron-munchausen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/sarah-polleys-trauma-from-terry-gilliams-baron-munchausen\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Polley’s trauma from Terry Gilliam’s Baron Munchausen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Actor Sarah Polley got the chance of a lifetime when she was cast in Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen<\/em>. Then a 9-year-old Monty Python<\/span> fan best known for her performance of the group‘s song \u201cSit On My Face\u201d at her Toronto kindergarten classroom, Polley and her Python-loving parents were ecstatic to work closely not just with Gilliam but the film’s star Eric Idle. Things didn’t go according to plan. <\/p>\n

In an excerpt from her recent memoir, Run Toward The Danger<\/em>published by The Guardian<\/em><\/span>Polley details the traumatizing shoot she endured at the hands of a “mad genius” director, who was notorious for demanding dangerous stunts and effects at the last minute. She recounts her childhood memories running through controlled blasts that left her trembling as the director laughed and called for another take. <\/p>\n

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Blasts of debris exploded on the ground around me, accompanied by deafening booms that made me feel as if I myself had exploded. A log I was to run under was partially on fire. The gigantic blasts continued and shook everything around me. I ran, terrified, straight into the camera, tripping over the dolly tracks.<\/em><\/p>\n

Terry laughed and looked perplexed. “What happened?” he asked, as though I had just run screaming from a slow-moving merry-go-round.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In later correspondence with the director (also published in The Guardian<\/em> excerpt), Gilliam conceded that some stunts did not go to plan. For example, one water-based stunt spooked a horse, which surfaced an underwater explosion that detonated next to Polley. The stunt terrified co-star Eric Idle and nearly hospitalized the young star. Nevertheless, Polley was back to work the next day. <\/p>\n