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Janet Leigh

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154 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Fresh Air
A Look Back At Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’

Right.

Fresh Air
A Look Back At Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’

Because in the full shots where you wanted the body outline, right, I wore moleskin over, you know, where I should.

Fresh Air
A Look Back At Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’

And that was, I think...

Fresh Air
A Look Back At Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’

The roughest, well, one of the roughest things about that sequence because it's, as you know, it's a nude-colored, almost soft suede-like or something on the outside.

Fresh Air
A Look Back At Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’

And then it's adhesive, obviously, on the inside.

Fresh Air
A Look Back At Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’

And, you know, taking it on and off was very, on tender skin, it was painful.

Fresh Air
A Look Back At Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’

Well, I think you use everything, every tool available for whatever you're trying to portray.

Fresh Air
A Look Back At Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’

Certainly, I always noticed that during this shower sequence that everybody seemed to have a lot of assistance.

Fresh Air
A Look Back At Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’

It was...

Fresh Air
A Look Back At Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’

It was a closed set, but there were more people than I remember being on that set.

Fresh Air
A Look Back At Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’

And one time, one of the most difficult scenes technically and also for me was at the end when she falls forward and grabs the shower curtain and goes over the tub.

Fresh Air
A Look Back At Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’

Her head is kind of against that tub.

Fresh Air
A Look Back At Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’

And he starts on a close-up of the eye.

Fresh Air
A Look Back At Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’

and pulls back into a long shot.

Fresh Air
A Look Back At Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’

Now, we did it several times.

Fresh Air
A Look Back At Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’

We were in the 20 takes.

Fresh Air
A Look Back At Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’

I don't know which one, 24, 5, something.

Fresh Air
A Look Back At Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’

And because it wasn't automatic focus, it was hand focus, it was a very difficult technical shot for the camera operator who had to do the focusing as we pulled back.

Fresh Air
A Look Back At Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’

And it was hard for me because of...

Fresh Air
A Look Back At Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’

trying to just...