The good news for Alison Lohman is that she got the leading role in Sam Raimi’s return to the horror genre, Drag Me To Hell.

The bad news for Lohman was that starring in the new film was going to feel like she really was in hell, thanks to Raimi’s devilish determination to pull out all the stops. Parade.com’s Jeanne Wolf discovered that, despite the grueling task, Lohman hasn’t lost her sense of humor.

How Sam Raimi made her suffer.
“I think it hit me, when we started doing wild stunts, that he was showing us no mercy. One of the toughest was a fight scene in my car with this lovely older actress, Lorna Raver, who becomes demonic and attacks me. Sam wouldn’t stand for any fake acting so we were really going at it. Lorna is pretty strong and she was actually strangling me at one point while I’m pulling her hair. She says I clocked her with a stapler, but if I did, it wasn’t metal. Afterward, we were comparing bruises.”…Read more…

Filed under: Parade by admin | 05.25.2009
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