The latest season of Monster may well be the anthology show’s bloodiest to date – but that’s not the reason it made for an especially stomach-churning shoot for some of its lead actors.
As those who’ve watched the most recent episodes will already know, before the show’s depiction of Lizzie Borden takes an axe to her father and stepmother, she first tries to kill them in a different way.
In episode two, she and the family’s maid, “Maggie”, serve the heads of the household a dinner of spoiled oysters, which leads to an especially gruesome sequence involving sickness and diarrhoea.
Unfortunately, cast member Rebecca Hall – who plays Abby Borden in Monster – suffers from emetophobia, an intense fear of vomiting, which made the shoot especi...
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