Elisha Cuthbert Talks Captivity

Posted on July 18, 2007

Ryan Stewart of Cinematical talks to Elisha Cuthbert about her controversial new horror film, Captivity.

The film has been criticized for glorifying torture and for having a gruesome marketing campaign. Elisha talks about doing torture scenes.

RS: When you're doing torture scenes in a film like 'Captivity,' do you need to come to the set every day in a bad mood?
EC: I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time. I like to have a good atmosphere on the set, especially when you're doing something as intense as this. If you saw the stuff that goes into making the movie, you wouldn't help but laugh either. I mean, there's a moment in the movie where I had two grips above me throwing red food coloring mixed with cottage cheese on my face. We're joking and we're laughing about it. But then there's moments where ... we did the whole sand sequence, where I was really getting buried alive in this sand and that was really intense. I kind of pull in and out of it. I find that it's not so much of a process. If anything, I think that the romantic comedies are harder for me.

We're thinking that the drowning in sand thing would be a huge bummer. That Elisha, she's tough.

You can see the billboard that got so many complaints here. You can see the trailer and some 17 and older only videos here.

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