Janet Leigh
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Well, because in shooting it, don't forget, you wait maybe two hours while they're setting up the shot, and of course the emotion is there when you're doing the scene, but then you relax again for another hour while they do the next setup.
In the actual scene of it, you saw this staccato.
You saw the beat of the scene.
the mounting tenseness and the mounting, you know, desperation.
And that's where it hits you.
And the music, seeing that all together, that was what made it emphatic, is putting all the editing together and the music.
Because otherwise, you know, it was spread out over seven days.
This way I saw it in, what, 45 seconds.
And it was terrifying to me.
It's the truth that I've never realized in my life before how vulnerable one is in a shower.
Because you are completely defenseless.
I mean, one, you can't hear because the water's running.
Two, unless you have different kind of curtains, which I'm sure afterwards I know they did.
But at that time, you couldn't see out because of the curtain.
And you're naked, you're defenseless.