The Witcher: Blood Origin Star Shares the Gross Scene That Made Her Lose Her Lunch
Sometimes even the most professional actors just can't handle it.
Name a food combination which didn't go down well for you? Was it milk with melons or bananas with ham or maybe burgers filled with spaghetti? How about cold fish with marzipan? This is the kind of "lunch" Sophia Brown had while filming one of the scenes of The Witcher: Blood Origin, which will be released on December 25.
In her exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com, the bard warrior Eile actress had to chew on a fish eye, which in reality was an eye made of marzipan coated with sugar. Sounds fine but it followed cold fish.
"It started out by having to eat this cold, wet fish – I can't even remember what type of fish it was – but it was horrendous," Brown said. "It wasn't [real fish eye], thank god. They made several sort-of marzipan eyes and put sugar coating over them as a sort of effect. But when you're eating cold fish and then marzipan together… it's a combination that shouldn't ever be," the actress recalls.
She also said that when she could not bear it any longer the team had mercy and replaced marzipan eyes with grapes, which paired with fish better. However, the actress admitted she did throw up afterwards because cold fish, sugar-coated marzipan eyes and grapes do not mix well.
But sometimes it is delicious food that can make you nauseous. Jonah Hill shared a hilarious moment which occurred during filming The Wolf of Wall Street when he made fun of Leonardo DiCaprio. In one of the final scenes, their characters eat sushi. According to the script, DiCaprio asks his friend if he's going to eat the last piece of raw yellowtail and this is when Hill improvised.
"I was supposed to say 'yes' and then eat it. But then I said, 'No, buddy, it's all yours,' and then he had to eat it. So he had to match that take for the rest of the night and had to eat about 70 pieces of raw yellowtail and was throwing up into a trash can," Hill recalled (via).
So, taking part in filming is certainly fun just like posing on the red carpet but sometimes it is more than that – and sometimes sacrifice is what actors need to do for art.