If you cringed in Gone Girl during Rosamund Pike (Amy Dunne) and Neil Patrick Harris’ (Desi Collings) disturbingly violent sex scene, just imagine what it was like filming the bloody thing!
Director David Fincher tells Vanity Fair’s February issue that Pike and Harris had to shoot that particular scene 36 times. “I told them to rehearse it for three days,” he explains, “as we’re pumping five gallons of blood out of Desi’s throat.” They finally filmed the gruesome R-rated interchange with “36 sheets, 450 gallons of blood and 36 pairs of underpants” on hand, says Fincher.
Pike admits, too, that filming for Gone Girl was tough. “I spent more time in front of the camera on that film than in my entire career to date,” the 35-year-old actress tells Vanity Fair, “because he’s [Fincher] shooting five to six hours of footage a day, and over a hundred days shooting–that mounts up.”
